Fresh Aire

Infobox Album | Name = Fresh Aire
Type = Album
Artist = Mannheim Steamroller


Released = 1975
Recorded =
Genre = New Age
Length = 33:30
Label = American Gramaphone
Producer = Chip Davis
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:31rx288c051a link]
Last album =
This album = "Fresh Aire"
(1975)
Next album = "Fresh Aire II"
(1977) |

"Fresh Aire" was the first album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album was originally released in 1975. It is also the title of one track on the album. It 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.)

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

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