With a classic contemporary jazz vibe focused around his alternately heartfelt and free-flowing, high energy melodies, Rei Narita is not only Asia's top Smooth Jazz pioneer, but also one of the genre's most prolific composers and artists. Having released over 25 singles this decade alone, he's releasing at an incredible pace of about one per month, all of which bear a thought-provoking theme to ponder as we listen. His intoxicating latest, insightfully titled track "Creation Rises from Destruction" is an epic flight of grooving melodic and hard/fast thumping symphonic fancy whose modulations in mood and rhythm are Narita's way to reflect on the way art is constantly evolving through a cycle of creation and destruction and creation. He offers some splendid improvisational passages amidst all the high-octane excitement.
