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Fresh Aire IV

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Released
  
December 15, 1981

Length
  
33:38

Artist
  
Mannheim Steamroller

Producer
  
Chip Davis

Genre
  
New-age music

Recorded
  
1981

Fresh Aire 4 (1981)
  
Fresh Aire V (1983)

Release date
  
15 December 1981

Label
  
American Gramaphone

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Similar
  
Mannheim Steamroller albums, New-age music albums

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Fresh Aire 4 was the fourth album in new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller's Fresh Aire series. The album was originally released in 1981. Each of the first four Fresh Aire albums is based on a season; Fresh Aire 4's theme is Winter. The entire album was mixed and recorded digitally and was also one of the first CDs released.

Contents

"Red Wine," a re-arrangement of the traditional folk song, "Greensleeves", is a sign of the group's successful Christmas albums to come. The track "Embers" is a slower, reflective reworking of the spritely "Saras Band" from the first Fresh Aire.

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Track listing

  1. "G Major Toccata" – 5:06
  2. "Crystal" – 4:21
  3. "Interlude 7" – 3:04
  4. "Four Rows of Jacks" – 3:13
  5. "Red Wine" (traditional) – 4:20
  6. "Dancing Flames" – 6:56
  7. "The Dream" – 3:11
  8. "Embers" – 3:22
  • All tracks composed by Chip Davis except where noted.

    • Personnel

  • Chip Davis – drums, percussion, recorders, synthesizer
  • Jackson Berkey – Davis harpsichord, Baldwin SD-10 piano, Yamaha electric grand, celeste, pipe organ (109 rank Aeolian-Skinner), Fender Rhodes, synthesizer
  • Eric Hansen – lute, bass guitar
  • Steve Shipps, Hugh Brown, Dorothy Brown, Joe Landes, Merton Shatzkin, James Hammond, Sue Robinson, Mort Alpert, Chris Farber, Lou Newman, Miriam Duffelmeyer, Beth McCollum, Charles W. Cronkhite – strings
  • Bob Jenkins – oboe
  • John Boden – horn

    • Songs

    1G Major Toccata5:07
    2Crystal4:22
    3Interlude 73:05

    References

    Fresh Aire IV Wikipedia
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