Freeze Frame (Godley & Creme album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Freeze Frame
Type = studio
Artist = Godley & Creme


Released = 1979
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Polydor
Producer = Kevin Godley, Lol Creme, except "Random Brainwave" and "Clues" produced by Godley, Creme and Phil Manzanera
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:hifexqu5ldke link]
Last album = "L"
(1978)
This album = "Freeze Frame"
(1979)
Next album = "Ismism"
(1981)

"Freeze Frame" is a 1979 album by Godley & Creme. The album was recorded at Surrey Sound Studios, Leatherhead, Surrey and featured cover art designed by Hipgnosis.

This album featured a couple of technical innovations which gave it a unique sound. "I Pity Inanimate Objects" featured a distinctive vocal treatment in which the notes are seemingly obtained by altering the pitch of pre-recorded voices. It has been suggested they recorded the vocal melody several times in different keys and tempos into a sampler, then used the keyboard to transpose each one back independently to the original key, then pasted it, or spliced tape together, syllable by syllable. [ [http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/archive/sonic_reality_esoundz/2004-05/42962.php KVR Audio website forum.] ]

Some tracks also featured the gizmo, which was a mechanical device invented by Godley, Creme, and John McConnell (professor of physics at the University of Manchester) to give a guitar a bowed effect like a violin. The device used keys which, when pressed, allowed rotating wheels to touch the guitar strings [ [http://www.othermachines.org/blint/gizmo.shtml Mr Blint's Attic: the Gizmo ] ] .

Track listing

All tracks composed by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme

# "An Englishman in New York" – 5:37
# "Random Brainwave" – 2:38
# "I Pity Inanimate Objects" – 5:24
# "Freeze Frame" – 4:47
# "Clues" – 5:24
# "Brazilia (Wish You Were Here)" – 6:11
# "Mugshots" – 3:55
#"Get Well Soon" – 4:38

Personnel

* Kevin Godley – vocals, drums, percussion
* Lol Creme – vocals, guitars, bass, xylophone, vibes, gizmo, bass pedals, acoustic guitars, piano, percussion, harmonica, moog, electric piano
* Phil Manzanera – electric and acoutic guitar
* Paul McCartney – backing vocals

References