"Bernard Xolotl is a meticulous craftsman, with a firm belief in the power of art and music. It's funny to speak of hand-made synthesizer music, but in these days of quick-fix perfect beat loop collages, the real work behind these rich synthesizer-violin pieces, created on multi-track tape and not computer memory, projects warmth all the way into your heart. This is not kitsch New Age, either. If anything it's of the Berlin Synth School, drawing a respectful inspiration from the 19th century masters, weaving a rhythmic and harmonic tapestry in subtle colors, totally rejecting the 20th century "dentist chair experience" music of dodecaphonists and electronic noise advocates, while also avoiding the over polished facile arpeggios of the New Age bin. If you like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, and wish Jean-Michel Jarre wasn't so slick, you should explore this and also search for Xolotl's other albums, which are sadly not easy to find. A critic put it very well once, that Xolotl's best work is "achingly beautiful." Finding these passages is its own reward." User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.