No Words

Performer: Jim Brickman
Distributor: Bayside Record Dist.

Notes: Solo performer: Jim Brickman (piano). Recorded at Kingsound Studios, North Hollywood, California. NO WORDS is a collection of richly emotive solo compositions by noted new age pianist Jim Brickman. It's the kind of music that gives life to mind's eye montages of black and white Super-8 movies of family vacations, pre-game baseball tributes, and Fourth of July parades in small Midwestern towns dappled in red, white, and blue. "Rocket to the Moon" is streaked by gently rising and falling piano melodies. The spare and beautiful "Shaker Lakes" yearns for the emotional core of the interplay between sound and silence, as Brickman's elegant piano lines cast out over pools of silence like shimmering bands of sunlight over the surface of a crystalline lake. "I Said, You Said" reveals an aural and thematic bifurcation, as two piano melodies played in different keys engage in a plangent call-and-response. "Wanderlust," "Heartland," and "American Dream" gently tug at a listener's heartstrings with piquant, painterly strokes of right-hand melodicism cast over a confident lower-register backwash. Calming, familiar, and nostalgic, NO WORDS is a sure bet.

Straddling the line between pop and new age, Jim Brickman's mellow piano compositions evoke romance, hope, and quiet inspiration. Brickman first made his name in the mid-1990s as a Windham Hill artist--one of the few solo instrumentalists to have scored a Billboard hit--and branched out from there with some pop and country collaborations, Christmas recordings, and an album of classic Disney covers. By 2000 he had adopted the musical persona of the suave but menschy romantic that, coupled with his clean-cut good looks, earned him an adoring female audience. Brickman split with Windham Hill in 2005, but continues to own the Adult Contemporary charts.

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