What Sanfilippo specializes in on this album is infusing the various and sundry electronic music stylings he creates with a real sense of the humanity behind them.
Maybe that¹s what I liked most about the CD, i.e. I started getting to know the artist and who he was.
This is not just a haphazard collection of tone poems or ambient noodlings.
Sanfilippo means something on every one of these tracks - I'm convinced of it.
He's just leaving it up to you and me to figure it out. Whether it's the Vangelis-like beauty of Visualia IV with its slow pace and stately melodies, the more abstract ambient/tribal subterranean textures and solemn chorales of Visualia V, the nature-sound enhanced
(falling rain) soft but sad drifting ambience of Visualia VI that morphs into an almost spiritual celebration amidst bells and quavering synths,
or the Danna/Clement-ish Visualia VII, this is an album that requires a substantial investment from the listener, both in terms of time and attention in order to really appreciate what it going on within its sixty-minutes.

I haven' t even mentioned every song (by a long shot) and that will be part of the fun when you hear this (as you should).
Unlike so many recordings, which are unrelentingly unexciting, Visualia at least tries (and frequently succeeds) in doing something different,
i.e. engaging you, the listener, in participating and not just sitting there letting it wash over you.
While the music is not challenging in and of itself, the album taken as a whole is, since it stubbornly refuses to be placed in a nice neat compartment.Personally, I'm glad artists like Sanfilippo are still stretching the boundaries of this genre and I hope he continues to do so.

by Phil Derby- Editor & Publisher Electroambient Space - USA
Visualia is filled with bright swirls of sound, brimming with optimism, full of sonic imagery.
Simply titled “Visualia I,” “Visualia II,” and so forth, the listener is able to project their own interpretation into the music and what it represents.
Ambient background noise serves as a marker for transitions between tracks – water, people milling about, unidentifiable textured sounds,
and so on.
After two lighter tracks, the mood turns darker with “III,” as rich drones and soft shakers turn to nature sounds, female choirs,
rattling metallic sounds from an unknown source, and strings. Simply beautiful.
The disc blurs the lines between dark ambient, world, and new age music.
I can’t really compare Sanfilippo to other artists that I listen to regularly, though there are hints of everything from Vangelis to Phillip Glass, Robert Rich, Rudy Adrian and more.
“Visualia V” has great spatial effects, as water seems to drip from every corner.
After floating abstractly for over five minutes, primitive drums take to the fore in convincing fashion. Water themes continue on “VI,”
a delicate atmospheric number. “VIII” even has sleigh bells, but they fit perfectly with the rest.
Visualia is all about imagination, music that puts images in your head and then carries you there

But to me, the music leans too much in the soft and bland new age direction, rather than serious ambient music.
There are cute little melodies / sequences, passages of rain, thunderstorms, flutes, windchimes etc, sounds I associate with fluffy and "beautiful" new age music that unfortunately fails to connect on a deeper level. Good production values can't compensate for a somewhat
"easy listening" collection of soothing tracks, but by all means, if you need an hour of good non-intrusive electronic(ish) new age music,
give Visualia a try.