Mannheim Steamroller - 25 Year Celebration of Mannheim Steamroller
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Artist: Mannheim SteamrollerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-08-24
Music Label: American Gramaphone
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Fresh Aire 8: The Steamroller
- Fresh Aire III: Morning
- Classical Gas: Baroque-A-Nova
- Christmas In The Aire: Christmas Lullaby
- Fresh Aire IV: Four Rows Of Jacks
- Sunday Morning Coffee II: Chocolate Coffee
- Impressions: A Wint'ers Day
- Sunday Morning Coffee: Morning Blend
- Interludes: Interlude I
- Party: Reggae Manana Mon
- Fresh Aire I: Prelude/Chocolate Fudge
- Romance II: Slo Dancin' In The Living Room
- Yellowstone: The Music Of Nature: The Pines Of Rome
- Fresh Aire VI: Twilight At Rhodes
- Mannheim Steamroller Meets The Mouse: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
- Fresh Aire 7: The 7 Metals Of Alchemy
- Fresh Aire V: Dancin' In The Stars
- Mannheim Steamroller Christmas: Wassail, Wassail
- Fresh Aire II: The Fourth Door
- Dinner: Sonata Bach's Lunch
- A Fresh Aire Christmas: The Holly & The Ivy
- Party 2: Eclectic Blue
- Saving The Wildlife: Harp Seals
- Romance: Kanbai
- To Russia With Love: Ruslan And Ludmilla
Music reviews of 25 Year Celebration of Mannheim Steamroller
Music Review: A fun retrospective of Chip Davis' seminal work
Rating: 4 Stars
Before the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Enigma, Estampie and the Medieval Baebes started making old music new again, and at the very beginning of that nebulous and ever-changing genre of music now known as "New Age," there was Mannheim Steamroller. During the last quarter of the 20th century, the cheerfully original music of Mannheim Steamroller explored the use synthesizer voices and textures, both in popularly-styled pieces and also in a delightful form of rock/classical fusion sometimes described as "classical gas" or "eighteenth century rock `n' roll." Originally created to test the capabilities of speaker systems, and groundbreaking for their time, Chip Davis's compositions were so hard for the music industry to categorize that he had to set up his own company, American Gramaphone, to produce and market it--to the tune of over 22 million albums sold to date! This two-disc retrospective features one selection, chosen through fan voting, from each of Davis' 25 previous releases, including numbers 1 through eight of the "Fresh Aire" series, three of the Christmas albums, "Classical Gas," "Sunday Morning Coffee" 1 & 2, "Romance" 1 & 2, "Impressions," "Interludes," "Dinner," "Party," "Yellowstone," "Saving the Wildlife," "Mannheim Stemaroller Meets the Mouse" (as in Mickey)," and "To Russia With Love." There's a little bit of everything mixed into Davis' music, and while it is often, these days, labeled as "New Age," it really doesn't seem to fit into that category, save for the facts that it includes some dreamy, reflective numbers, and it utilizes synthesizers (though not exclusively, by any means). It ranges from straight pop and light jazz to bona fide classical, and electronic to acoustic, often mixing the extremes in whimsical flights of imagination. Sometimes lively, sometimes mysterious, at times brilliant, at others generically pop-like and derivative, often exciting, and occasionally downright silly, the one thing that all of Davis' compositions have in common are their bright sense of playfulness. This is music for the inner child in all of us. My personal favorites in this set are the fusion numbers, featuring harpsichords, strings and recorders in modernized interpretations of classical idioms: "Baroque-A-Nova," "Four Rows of Jacks," "Sonata Bach's Lunch" and the Christmas carols. But many of the more synthetic and space-music pieces are cool, too, and the raunchy "Chocolate Fudge" is just downright fun. The two-album set comes with an actual hardbound book, not just flimsy liner notes, and in the book are citations of the track sources and anecdotes about the recordings. So you can read through the book and decide which of Mannheim Steamroller's albums you might like to hear more of. Pick one or more, put aside your preconceived stylistic boundaries, and just have fun!
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