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Old material repackaged

William Merrill | San Antonio, TX United States | 01/21/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This set does live up to the title, with some lush and romantic themes. However it is merely a collection of previously released tracks, not new material. The songs come from the Fresh Aire CDs, other Steamroller discs, and the Day Parts series. (Technically speaking the Day Parts cuts are NOT Steamroller music, since Chip Davis put those CDs out under his own name and not M.S. But since Davis is the guy behind MS, that's a fairly meaningless distinction.) Anyhow, the selections here are romantic, especially the beautiful "Nepenthe" from FA6. The song sequence was also thoughtfully laid out so that the songs flow from one to the next pretty seamlessly. Still, the lack of new material makes this not much better than a "mix tape" you could have assembled yourself. As a curiosity point I counted all of the M.S. collections of re-packaged material. There are now nearly as many of those (6) as there are Fresh Aire albums (8)."

Romantic Musical Adventure with Chip and The 'Roller

rodboomboom | Dearborn, Michigan United States | 12/11/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is collection of Davis' romantic melodies from other CD's and some added for this.Especially fond of the beautiful oboe on "Bittersweet," "The Sign of Love," and "Nephenthe."There is variety here, from some big-band type in "Slo Dancin' in the Living Room" for Chip's mom to nature inspired pieces of "Moonlight at Cove Castle" and "The Seven Stars of the Big Dipper."Good mood music to set tone or just for enjoyable backdrop. These also make great special occasion pieces, as notes suggest some have even used at weddings, etc."

Good "best of..."

H. Pons | Nowhereland | 07/14/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Chp Davis don't have any new complete record, from FA8 (it doesn't include the summer song and bird song records, most ambient than music. This one is onlya a compilation, if you have a FA and Chip collection, don't buy it. If you don't have any, buy it, is good.



1. Serenity: Impressions

2. Sunday Morning Breeze: Sunday Morning Coffe II

3. Bittersweet: Summer song

4. Slo Dancin' in the Living Room: Romance II

5. Kanbai: Romance I



6. The Sign of Love: Impressions

7. Teardrops, Raindrops: Summer song

8. Chakra 4: FA7

9. Amber: FA3

10. The Seven Stars of the Big Dipper: FA7

11. Moonlight at Cove Castle: Romance II

12. Nepenthe: FA6"