Charles Xavier | Xmas Vibe | Christmas Music

Happy Note Records recording artist, Charles Xavier, aka The XMan, is proud to announce the availability of his holiday music "Xmas Vibe" on CD and 5.1 surround-sound DVD.

Defying convention, Xavier's Xmas Vibe is captivatingly jazzy, New Age and trance-like with delicate vocals, electric guitar, piano, vibes, chimes and sampling technology. Xmas Vibe takes the listener on a creatively harmonious and melodious musical journey through a magical winter landscape of style and unusual flair.

Called a "Rara Avis" by the legendary Down Beat Magazine, and a "project is deserving of a wider audience," by JazzTimes.com, Xmas Vibe is an enchanting, avant-garde, mystical, eclectic and original approach to festive, traditional and contemporary Christmas classics.

"Xavier fills his wassail bowl with electronic sounds, samplings, Gary Burton-like abstractions, elements of world-music, quirky allusions to, maybe Gong's vibes player Pierre Moerlen. A dozen carols and holiday favorites drift together as one trippy soundscape. Recommended".

- Frank-John Hadley
Longtime Downbeat critic

"It was a total sensory experience immersing audience members in layers of textured sound, allowing the mind to escape to new realms of serenity".

- Ed Jennings
Music of our Heart Blog

"The moody parts are more about evoking a ruminative state of mind for the tunes, which have pangs of nostalgia and sadness-perhaps not what we like to think of at Christmas, but what more often than not we do think of".

- Michael J. West
Washington City Paper

"Hey, there's bizarro and then there's beautiful bizarre. Charles Xavier's Xmas Vibe (Happy Note) is in the latter category".

- Lamentforastraightline