Long renowned as Asia's top Smooth Jazz pioneer, pianist/composer Rei Narita is one of the genre's most prolific artists, with over 25 singles this decade. Remarkably, all of his compositions - from "Phantom Sense" to "Whistling Sand" - have a compelling, often metaphysical thematic concept behind them, a rare happening in an instrumental dominated realm. "Break Out of the Orbit," his fourth release of 2025, continues this aesthetic brilliantly. An elegant, dreamily melodic, gracefully flowing mid-tempo delight with dashes of synth whimsy, the song expresses the desire to break from the path others have chosen for us and move forward freely on our own.
