Name: Fresh Aire II [Remaster]
Brand: American Gramaphone Records
SKU: 32474
Availability: OutOfStock

Performer Notes

Mannheim Steamroller includes: Chip Davis (vocals, dulcimer, reocrder, drums, percussion, programming); Jackson Berkey (vocals, acoustic & Fender Rhodes pianos, synthesizer, programming); Milt Bailey (vocals); Eric Hansen (classical guitar, lute, bass); Walt Meskell (guitar); Melody Malek (harp); Bob Jenkins (oboe); Dave Cappy (French horn).
Engineers include: Don Sears, Ron Ubel, John Boyd.
Recorded at Studio One, Kansas City, Missouri & Sound Recorders, Omaha, Nebraska.
All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology.
Personnel: Milt Bailey (vocals, chant); Chip Davis (chant, dulcimer, recorder, drums, percussion, programming); Jackson Berkey (chant, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, harpsichord, synthesizer, bells, programming); Eric Hansen (guitar, classical guitar, lute); Melody Malec (harp); Mortimer Alpert, Ginni Eldred, Dorothy Brown, Hugh Brown , Merton Shatzkin, Joe Landes (violin); Lucinda Gladics, James Hammond, Alex Sokol (viola); Miriam Duffelmeyer, Beth McCollum, Jean Hassel (cello); Bob Jenkins (oboe); Gene Badgett (trumpet); David Kappy (French horn); Don Sears (synthesizer, programming).
Audio Mixer: Don Sears.
Recording information: Kansas City, MO; Kansas City, Studio 1; Sound Recorders, Inc., Studio A, Omaha, NE; Sound Recorders, Omaha, NE; Studio 1, Kansas City, MO; Studio A.
Photographer: Steve Kline.
Arranger: Chip Davis.
Although the neo-classical instrumentals that Chip Davis produced as Mannheim Steamroller wouldn't really take off--commercially speaking, at least--until the early 1980s, his first efforts under that name were released several years earlier. FRESH AIRE II, the artist's sophomore release, came out in 1977, a sequel to his 1975 debut FRESH AIRE.
FRESH AIRE II is divided into two sections. The first offers treatments of medieval musical themes, which are varied via non-traditional instrumentation. The second focuses on moody, romantic piano compositions. There is more than a touch of prog-rock influence underlying all of this, but the textures, flights of fancy, and high-end sonic landscaping that later Mannheim fans know and love is present and accounted for.

Album: Fresh Aire II [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Chorale
2)	First Door, The
3)	Second Door, The
4)	Third Door, The
5)	Fourth Door, The
6)	Fifth Door, The
7)	Sixth Door, The
8)	Door Seven
9)	Fantasy
10)	Interlude V
11)	Velvet Tear
12)	Shade Tree, A
13)	Toota Lute
14)	Going to Another Place

Album: Fresh Aire II [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Chorale
2)	First Door, The
3)	Second Door, The
4)	Third Door, The
5)	Fourth Door, The
6)	Fifth Door, The
7)	Sixth Door, The
8)	Door Seven
9)	Fantasy
10)	Interlude V
11)	Velvet Tear
12)	Shade Tree, A
13)	Toota Lute
14)	Going to Another Place