COMPOSER CHARLES XAVIER – PANDEMIC PIANO
On this episode of Big Blend Radio, San Francisco composer and recording artist the Xman, aka Charles Xavier, discusses his music, and new ambient/melodic/neo-jazz album “Piano Pandemic.” The music speaks for itself… It’s new age ambient piano music that Charles will perform as he crosses the country and live streams the tour. Watch here in the YouTube player or download the podcast on PodBean.
Says Charles, “I was creating out of my comfort zone. I improvised each morning after I had awakened from my unconscious dark shadow and I recorded endless loops of anguish & despair. I was capturing the moment until I was able to release my darkness with loving light through this piano. Isn’t that what every artist strives for? To capture our souls on fire, so that we can present to our audience the true essence of our art, engage our listeners in our battles, our conflicts with egos that are present in every man. There’s a magic in our madness as human creatures that the superior beings that control the universe cannot predict or prescribe into…. DIG.”
Encouraging meditation, relaxation, and mindfulness, these songs are a perfect introduction to Charles Xavier!
Says Charles, “I present this new set of songs recorded during the pandemic and throughout its current state of osmosis, separation, disruption, disdain and frustration from our being separated from our commutative, tribal, creative souls. This living project began as the last six albums have but quickly took shape into a life changing force all-encompassing into oneself. I exist now as a solo human being drifting across America…”
Ambient solo piano music by composer/percussionist/sound designer Charles Xavier. “Pandemic Piano” is sometimes spontaneous, then magically serene, dipping into quadrants of clarity then unspoken shifting moods, pain then dreams, dreams then gain. Different pianist, different speed. It’s worth a listen.
What’s next for Charles….
The show “ELLA ACROSS AMERICA” is a real-time docudrama about a Composer/musician/post-production director who separates from his wife after 30 years, he leaves a thriving Silicon Valley Suburbia named San Bruno with his dog Ella, a spiritual breed of a dog Great Pyrenees, then he travels cross country in a specially equipped RV van for capturing streaming media.
The short synopsis: “One man, one dog, one piano. He decides to leave California after his marriage ends, so he buys an RV, then sets out to explore 5,000 miles while busking & performing ACROSS AMERICA…
In closing Charles has this to say, “Live in the present! A year ago I never would have predicted this tour to happen.”
More: https://happynoterecords.com/
