Fresh Aire IV

Infobox Album | Name = Fresh Aire 4
Type = Album
Artist = Mannheim Steamroller


Released = 1981
Recorded =
Genre = New Age
Length = 33:38
Label = American Gramaphone
Producer = Chip Davis and Don Sears
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dqkvikx6bb79 link]
Last album = "Fresh Aire III"
(1979)
This album = "Fresh Aire 4"
(1981)
Next album = "Fresh Aire V"
(1983) |

"Fresh Aire 4" was the fourth album in new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller's "Fresh Aire" series. The album was originally released in 1981. Each of the first four "Fresh Aire" albums is based on a season; "Fresh Aire 4"'s theme is Winter.

"Red Wine," a Greensleeves style track, is a sign of the group's successful Christmas albums to come. The track "Embers" is a slower, reflective reworking of the spritely "Saras Band" from the first "Fresh Aire".

Track listing

#"G Major Toccata" – 5:06
#"Crystal" – 4:21
#"Interlude 7" – 3:04
#"Four Rows of Jacks" – 3:13
#"Red Wine" – 4:20
#"Dancing Flames" – 6:56
#"The Dream" – 3:11
#"Embers" – 3:23
* All tracks composed by Chip Davis

Personnel

*Chip Davis - drums, percussion, recorders, synthesizer
*Jackson Berkey - Davis harpsichord, Baldwin SD-10 piano, Yamaha electric grand, celeste, pipe organ (109 rank Aeolian-Skinner), Fender Rhodes, synthesizer
*Eric Hansen - lute, bass
*Steve Shipps, Hugh Brown, Dorothy Brown, Joe Landes, Merton Shatzkin, James Hammond, Sue Robinson, Mort Alpert, Chris Farber, Lou Newman, Miriam Duffelmeyer, Beth McCollum, Charles W. Cronkhite - strings
*Bob Jenkins - oboe
*John Boden - horn