Visualia I [5:50] Visualia II [3:20] Visualia III [6:05] Visualia IV [7:35] Visualia V [8:50] Visualia VI [7:33] Visualia VII [10:44] Visualia VIII [5:51] Visualia IX [3:47]

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The new album Visualia. It is an intimate piece of work where each composition correspond with one of the American artist Janet Parke’s images. Since becoming acquainted with each other's works, we noticed similarities in our use of artistic elements such as form, colour, texture and light. We both perceive the connection between each song and the corresponding image and Visualia is nurtured by his comprehension. We invite you to join us in our exploration of this inward and timeless dimension of fantasy 2004. Janet Parke & Bruno Sanfilippo

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All in all, Visualia is well produced recording, there’s sure something for any general ambient-fan to be found. 2004. Bert-Strolenberg

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Bruno Sanfilippo offers us, with Visualia, a magnificient work full of personal ideas. Sanfilippo succeeds in creating an impressive music, which captures the attention of the listener from the very beginning. 2004. Jorge Munnshe / Amazing Sounds

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What’s new of Bruno Sanfilippo in Visualia shows it is a much brighter and ambient than his previous works. There are brilliant creations in Visualia. We are actually facing a visual, touchable and descriptive music. 2003. Rafa Dorado / Margen Magazine

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On the album Visualia (59'39"), Bruno Sanfilippo shows us that Ambient Music can offer the listener more than just the pleasant passing of time. Working in a genre steeped in neutrality, Sanfilippo has realized a distinctive work at the upper edge of attention yet unbound in time. Visualia exists as a series of nine tracks - moments of sensation which the listener links together to construct a cohesive, however dreamy, mindscape. The album drifts along gradually between frames. His pieces are in constant motion, wandering amongst dark and light tones and moods. Low synth pads purr deeply beneath gently plucked metal strings while intriguing samples and field recordings tease the analytical side of our senses. Reverberant voices sing as layers of synth patches build alongside mad ethnic drumming. Out of a windswept dream rises an evocative piano solo, ever so bright against the dense drone. Themes are repeated and rephrased just as an old memory is revisited and again considered. Behind the experience is the composer's intelligent, human design. Visualia roams and strays like a dreaming mind. The territory covered is dramatic and beautiful. With its majestic harmonies and heavenly voices, this album explores the more elegant side of Electronic Music. 2004. Chuck van Zyl / STAR'S END

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Well, in the main, it's cosmic synth music, but it's no so much soft or dark, more funereal and spiritual. A bit like a cross between Peter Mergener's 'Nox Mystica', Constance Demby's 'Faces of The Christ' and any one of Michel Huygen's epic space synth works, this starts off quite dark and dense, but then the rivers of textures start to flow as, over the 9-part title track that takes up the entire album, the mood lightens a little a more layers, textures and delicate rhythmic backdrops are added and the whole scenario begins to take on a more structured shape. With choirs and choral backdrops appearing from time to time, to add a more celestial dimension to the endless deep synth music layers, the overall effect is both mesmerizing and spiritual but always anchored to earth as the darkness in the music is never very far away. Mostly space/cosmic music with rhythmic undercurrents and slow-motion melodic overtones, this is one of the more listenable varieties of "dark cosmic electronic music' around and, if you like this sort of thing, is varied enough in its composition and delivery, to hold your attention throughout. Dead Earnest