Fresh Aire IV
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Fresh Aire IV | ||
Studio album by Mannheim Steamroller | ||
Released | 1981 | |
Recorded | ? | |
Genre | New Age | |
Length | 33:38 | |
Label | American Gramaphone | |
Producer(s) | Chip Davis and Don Sears | |
Professional reviews | ||
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Mannheim Steamroller chronology | ||
Fresh Aire III (1979) |
Fresh Aire IV (1981) |
Fresh Aire V (1983) |
Fresh Aire IV 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 IV's theme is Winter.
"Red Wine," a Greensleeves style track, 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.
[edit] Track listing
- "G Major Toccata" – 5:06
- "Crystal" – 4:21
- "Interlude 7" – 3:04
- "Four Rows of Jacks" – 3:13
- "Red Wine" – 4:20
- "Dancing Flames" – 6:56
- "The Dream" – 3:11
- "Embers" – 3:23
[edit] 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
- 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