The concept for the release was kept simple, the music was to be recorded on three instruments and by one artist who intuitively arranged the somewhat sparse music and produced a very soothing, organic, soulful, sustaining, emotionally intriguing vibe throughout while encompassing a chill-out / ambient / meditative / music for healing / new age / landscape.  The music is available to license for TV, film and the web.

15_Walking With JS CLIP

“They Say” you’re life’s not long, Don’T Hesitate too loNG, cAuse LiFe goEs bYe, byE, Bye, bYe byE! Originally called The Procrastinator and then morphed into the story of an everyday hustler street con who walks the line, that dangerous line we all know as Hollywood and Heaven.  The groove is laid down by my brother Jim Xavier and his musical colleague Liberty from the rock ensemble SPIRIT. Lead Vocals performed by Anejia Shockley. 

They Say

Pandemic Piano

Ying Yang II

Morning

Sexual Vibration Chakra

I Sat Outside There

You Know

Ying Yang I

Ascended Masters

Evening

Africa

Mary’s Pond

“Ambient Standard Jazz” implies a tapestry of harmonies that jazz fans are familiar with.  Using enhanced instruments coupled through an intelligent computer network, Xavier creates new music that is a total sensory experience that immerse audience members in layers of textured sound resulting in surprising complexity to new realms of serenity using touch control activated media fusing interactive audio, as well as acoustic sources for interplay and layering.  These musical beds enable the Xman to perform as a soloist with his assortment of acoustic and electronic gadgets or with human interaction through dance, strings, wind or brass.

Ambient Jazz Standards

The Happy Note Sampler covers six releases on Happy Note starting in 2005 with the out of print "Hollywood & Heaven". 

Bay Area Composer/Producer/Percussionist "The Xman" seeks funding for his Unconventional Music Label.   Happy Note just launched its first Kickstarter Fund Raising Campaign.  Happy Note Records is a Bay Area Music Label that has released five CD's and will release two new CD's in 2016 with your funding!

Support independent music by backing my project.  A pledge of $1-$1,000 will help establish Happy Note Records as a Full Time music label based out of the Bay Area.   

Unconventional music for unconventional minds! 

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Happy Fundraiser

Little Portugal live at the San Mateo County Fair

We Talk was written during my Steely Dan period and featured my musical friends from Los Angeles featuring Jackie Bertone, Vinnie Colauita, Glenn Feit, and Sam Riney recording on the West Coast and John Harrison III on the East Coast.. We recorded two songs with this ensemble  "A Year's Past" and this song "They Say".  The sessions were mainly recorded at the infamous Control Center on Western Ave. in Koreatown LA where I lived for a period of time.  

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Music Matters. 
Artists should be paid!
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We Talk

Satori 1977: Rick Britto-Sax, Jim Harwood-Piano, Dean Cassell or Dave Gallant -Bass, Charles Xavier-Drums

Satori was a BOSTON based Jazz/Creative Music ensemble that performed original and contemporary music in the early 70's. 

Jewels Edit

Bionic Blunder Edit

After Hours

Future's Past

Two Intertwine

Perfect Mold

Windows

Merceditos

Ralph's Piano Waltz

Stefano's Song_HNR_CX_Edit

CHARLES XAVIER: THE XMAN COMETH EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

American Refugees

Crazy People

Gonna Change America

XAVIER AND THE MESSENGERS: THE KING HAS COME

Happy Note Records Sampler 2016

The King Has Come

XBOOM is our next release and will be a double CD. 
Side One, AMBIENT MUSIC will include music created on a Yamaha motif keyboard, avid falcon synth, drums and vibraphone. 

 “XBOOM” is a new creative music project architected for improvisation, quintessential in both jazz and experimental electronica. The sound cycles can be repetitive or improvised with live looping and digital effects to alter the original compositions by each jazz player, one example of  an influence is Brad Mehldau’s electronic album Taming of the Dragon.

Each sound cycle is deliberately scored to allow for the live performances of acoustic jazz instruments. Each player extends the creative breadth of the tradition of jazz improvisation through the use of modern apps that enable them to play against their own instrument’s solo lines.

The Unknown XBA1 Mx1 G Major

Namaste XBA3 C Major 2 Vibes - END

HavingAGoodTime XBA4 END A Major 2 Vibes

Build No Walls XBA2 Mx1 F Major END

The Unknown XBA1 Mx1 G Major 1

XBOOM is a living project.  The music will be released via many playlists, data options, and downloadable files.  One cue can be released ten times as various mixes or never developed for distribution just licensing options.   Today I'm excited to post Soundcloud tracks that combine my poetry written in the eighties with my ambient sound cycles composed in 2019.

The next stage of this living project will feature variations of my poetry by actors and singers.  I just add Vocal Synth 2 from Izotope to produce artists with.  Very exciting new ground we'll be breaking here!!!!!

more info at:  www.charlesxavier.com.

XBA4 Vocal Mx B2 Having A Good Time A Major LessDR - EDIT

XBA11 Vocal Mx B I Do Believe SUNRISE EDIT

This new music project - “RECOVERY” - is architected and inspired by two genres known for improvisation: ambient and electronica. “RECOVERY” is pure San Francisco, a city known for its electronic roots and tech device lifestyle. 

RECOVERY is a creative music project that brings in electronic artistry to ambient and jazz improvisation. The music consists of five layers of synthersizers channeling sonic exploration with sound cycles triggered by keyboards or mallet controllers executing melody, harmony and counterpoint, with percussive interplay.   Ultimately, the audience experiences a new vanguard sound that extends the possibilities of sound manipulation. Sometimes ambient and expansive, other times cinematic or percussive in nature.  A modern day cacaphone of experimental sound exploration, RECOVERY.  Fire up your ears, breathe the oscillating tones in and then relax your mind!

RECOVERY

I Told Her Not To Pick Him_3A_

“BOSCO” is the next release planned in support of Charles Xavier’s upcoming series of a live club dates being scheduled in the US during Fall/Winter 2013.  New stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes soon to be available thru Happy Note Records on iTunes, Amazon, and others. In this release, Xavier performs his original compositions as a solo artist with accompaniment from his Digidesign Pro Tools system and also with special guest musicians.  The music, influenced by such artists as Keith Jarrett, Fred Hersch, George Winston, AIR, Imogen Heap, Oregon, Gary Burton and other world music/new age artists is a departure from Xavier’s vocal driven funk/rock/alternative music releases in 2006/2007 and a return to his eclectic jazz roots.

CX The DreamerCD Collage 1 2 3 6 10

Portuguese American composer/producer/percussionist Charles Xavier and San Francisco resident is working hard reaching out to venues and festivals about his label’s two new releases.   The Xman is reaching out to curators for the creative arts that book Jazz, Creative Music or Percussive Arts performers in the USA.  I’m available to educate musicians in the business of music/audio/production and perform as a SOLO Electronic/Acoustic artist at festivals, art centers and venues across America.    
 
From SIRI to BOSCO TOUR 2016!
With our 6th release coming out in the Fall and a major promotional campaign in the works, the Xman will be performing in several targeted states this year!  

Unconventional music for unconventional minds! 

Xavier’s music is “a total sensory experience that immerse audience members in layers of textured sound, allowing the mind to escape to new realms of serenity.” written by Edward David Jennings   

In 1982, Xavier co-produced an EP with Glenn Feit (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gary Numan, David Byrne, Bobby Womack), The King Has Come, with Xavier and the Messengers. The album, which features a caricature of Ronald Reagan, is a blend of New Wave, reggae, rock and jazz. It received the Editor's Choice award from Downbeat Magazine. In the mid-'70s, Xavier created an audience and a following on the East Coast with his avant-garde jazz band Satori, appearing in clubs, colleges, festivals, TV and radio.

A jazz drummer since he was sixteen, Xavier was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where the East Coast jazz scene shaped his musical tastes. He studied arranging and composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York, he studied drumming with Jack DeJohnette, Bobby Moses, Stu Martin and Jumma Santos, and creative ensemble performance under the guidance of Karl Berger, Dave Holland, Kalaparusha, and John Ambercrombie.


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