Fresh Aire (Remaster) (CD)

Mannheim Steamroller is the creation of former jingle composer Chip Davis, a Midwestern musician who first achieved success as the co-writer of the 1975 pop hit "Convoy." Davis used his royalties from that song to set up his own studio and launch the Steamroller, a project that fused instrumental pop with classical and jazz influences and a rock beat. Mannheim Steamroller's albums became wildly successful and set the stage for much of the "adult contemporary" and new age instrumental music of subsequent decades. Davis achieved perhaps his greatest popularity with a series of Christmas albums that have become perennial staples of the holiday season.

• Category:  Music  »  New Age  »  General/New Age
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: August 29, 2005
• Label: American Gramaphone Records
• UPC: 012805500128
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106620264
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #23107 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #258 in New Age (See Top 100 New Age Bestsellers)
• #215 in General/New Age (See Top 100 General/New Age Bestsellers)

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Mannheim Steamroller: Chip Davis (recorder, drums); Denny Schneider (trumpet); Bill Buntain (trombone); Jackson Berkey (keyboards); Eric Hansen (bass).

Engineers: Don Sears, Ron Ubel, Jeff Schiller.

Recorded at Sound Recorders Studios, Omaha, Nebraska & Kansas City, Missouri.

All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology.

New Age pioneers Mannheim Steamroller--a vehicle for composer Chip Davis--have been criticized for being derivative and worse, but no-one has ever said they lack ambition. FRESH AIRE I is the first in an eight-album series, four of which deal with the seasons of the year, the other four with mankind's curiosities.

These 12 instrumental selections tell the story of Spring from its own perspective. Musically, Davis set out to make the series as eclectic as possible. Tracks such as "Chocolate Fudge" and "Rondo" recall progressive rockers Emerson, Lake & Palmer, while other selections evoke the Baroque era, and, in the case of "Saras Band," medieval England.

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