Fresh Aire

Not to be confused with Fresh Air.
Fresh Aire
Studio album by Mannheim Steamroller
Released January 01 1975
Genre New-age
Length 33:30
Label American Gramaphone
Producer Chip Davis, Don Sears
Mannheim Steamroller chronology

Fresh Aire
(1975)		 Fresh Aire II
(1977)
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Fresh Aire is the first album by new-age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. It was originally released in 1975.

Background

The record was followed by seven additional albums in the Fresh Aire series. Each of the first four Fresh Aire albums is based on a season; Fresh Aire's theme is Spring. (There is some evidence that this theme may have been imposed upon the album after the fact, as the rest of the series progressed, since the liner notes for this album clearly link each of the 12 tracks to the 12 months of the year.)

Besides the eponymous seventh tune, several of the track names are plays on musical terms denoting the form of that song. The title track "Fresh Aire" is an air, "Saras Band" is a sarabande, and perhaps most cleverly, "Pass the Keg (Lia)" is a passacaglia.

Track listing

  1. "Prelude" – 1:33
  2. "Chocolate Fudge" – 2:54
  3. "Interlude I" – 2:55
  4. "Sonata" – 2:32
  5. "Interlude II" – 2:33
  6. "Saras Band" – 3:37
  7. "Fresh Aire" – 5:30
  8. "Rondo" – 2:36
  9. "Interlude III" – 2:36
  10. "Pass the Keg (Lia)" – 2:33
  11. "Interlude IV" – 2:11
  12. "Mist" – 1:47

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review

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