Freeze Frame (Godley & Creme album)

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Freeze Frame
Freeze Frame cover
Studio album by Godley & Creme
Released 1979
Genre Rock
Label Polydor
Producer Kevin Godley, Lol Creme, except "Random Brainwave" and "Clues" produced by Godley, Creme and Phil Manzanera
Professional reviews
Godley & Creme chronology
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(1978)		 Freeze Frame
(1979)		 Ismism
(1981)

Freeze Frame is a 1979 album by Godley & Creme. The album was recorded at Surrey Sound Studios, Leatherhead, Surrey and featured cover art designed by Hipgnosis.

This album featured a couple of technical innovations which gave it a unique sound. "I Pity Inanimate Objects" featured a distinctive vocal treatment in which the notes are seemingly obtained by altering the pitch of pre-recorded voices. A contributor on one website speculates: "To achieve that result, they'd have had to record the vocal melody several times in different keys (and tempos!) into a sampler ... don't forget the Fairlight was around since about '78 ... then use the keyboard to transpose each one back independently to the original key, then paste it (or rather splice tape!) all together syllable by syllable."

Some tracks also featured the gizmo, which was a mechanical device invented by Godley, Creme, and John McConnell (professor of physics at the University of Manchester) to give a guitar a bowed effect like a violin. The device used keys which, when pressed, allowed rotating wheels to touch the guitar strings [1].

[edit] Track listing

(all tracks by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme)

  1. "An Englishman in New York" – 5:37
  2. "Random Brainwave" – 2:38
  3. "I Pity Inanimate Objects" – 5:24
  4. "Freeze Frame" – 4:47
  5. "Clues" – 5:24
  6. "Brazilia (Wish You Were Here)" – 6:11
  7. "Mugshots" – 3:55
  8. "Get Well Soon" – 4:38

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mr Blint's Attic: the Gizmo