I am a music lover. To me music is more than entertainment, it is even moret han an art form. Music like nature is a food for the soul. If I am feeling down, music can lift my spirit; when boredom strikes, music will get me excited about life again; and on those grand occaisions when I have been in love, music has encouraged me to repect and expressthe fullness of my emotions. If that all sounds a bit like magic, well - music is magical! The luckiest people are those who are quite capable of falling under ist spell!

That's exactly what happened to me when I first heard "Like a Breeze" I fell under ist delightful spell. This is a truly superior collection of instrumental modern-pop masterpieces. Typically a worthwhile music purchase means buying a CD that has at least three or four cuts that are really exceptional. As I believe you will discover, Like a breeze is all gold, all 22 selections compiled from the German BRILLIANT-MUSIK vaults are winners. The company was established in 1964 by the composers Werner Tautz and Heinz Kiessling, and the publisher Hans Gerig. Their label specialised in the production and distribution of instrumental light music (Easy Listening, Mood Music, String Orchestras, Big Bands and Combos) for use in Radio, television, film and advertising.

Syd Dale sets a typical BRILLIANT-MUSIK mood with "The Winslow Boy", a bright and energetic splash of sunshine and youthful enthusiasm, and Mr Dales bracing tone of "live life to the fullest" is maintained by everyorchestra and every performance, which follows. The cuts on this disc are typical of the best instrumental music of the 60`s and 70`s. The Big Band Sound of the 30`s and 40`s didn`t die, it rather temporarily withdrew into a cocoon in order that it may emerge again in the guise of "Easy Listening". Great band-leaders like Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller drew their insperation from the urban enviroment as manifest in the time between the two World Wars. Their signature style, called Swing, acknowledged Dixieland and Jazz, but was smother and possessed of a more expansivesound. The international musicians of the LIKE A BREEZE anthology slid American Swing into the futureby using pop-cultural elements of their time.

Pieces such as "Jumbo Jet","The Days with Jane","Roadrunner" and "Poppy" harbour in their
structure references to such diverse elements as Rock-and-Roll, the Bossa Nova , modern European Club-Jazz and probably the most importantly , Film Music. Just as with any fine film score, the impressionistic LIKE A BREEZE themes generate images and sensations in a listener`s mind. This vivid music wouldn`t exist if not for John Barry, Roy Budd, Jerry Goldsmith, Burt Bacharach, Ennio Morricone, Neslon Riddle, Armando Trovaioli, Lalo Schifrin and many others. Thes artists had to invent music appropriate for the many thrills and love scenes enjoyed by the top fictional characters of the space age, cool guys with names like James Bond, Derek Flint, Perry Rhodan, Diabolik, Batmann and Jerry Cotton. I`m sure many like myself will listen to the LIKE A BREEZE arrangements and suddenly find themselves imagining an invigorating sea-side drive in a sleek fast sports car (like Diabolik) or perhaps whisking off to romance and intrigue in some exotic locale (like
Bond).

Indicative of the heavy talent employed by BRILLIANT-MUSIK, our 22 "Groove Classics" offer a stimulating range of imaginative experiences. Even though the overall climate here promotes a kind of high-tech la dolce vita for the modern man, a number of cuts move into more complex territory. Johnny Pearsons "Always the Good Times" has a slight edge to it, as if the composition is touching upon some of the dangersof night life in the Metropolis. "Am bassadeur" by the Heinz Kiessling Orchestra, paints a picture of high powered dealings within the marbled halls of government, and this is certainly in keeping with the track title. So quickly pop this brilliant (pun intended) gathering of orchestral gems into your player - nothing but fun and adventure await you!