大ヒットナンバー「I.O.U.」が収録されているアルバム
「Gonna Get You」がリマスター盤として発売されたが、
まさかこちらのファーストまで発売されるとは!
USではリリースさえされていなかったけど、
本国ではセカンドよりもこちらのファーストのほうが
もっとヒットしていることはあまり知られていないのでは。
2曲目の「Caribbean Winter」こそ、Freeezサウンドの形そのもの!
さらにうれしいことに、CD2には、
1980年のデビューシングル3曲をはじめ、
1984年のリミックスアルバム「Anti-Freeez」を丸ごと収録していて、
Freeezサウンドが余すことなく堪能できる。
個人的には、2011年発売された80sリマスター盤の中では、
迷うことなく、1位!
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曲目リスト
ディスク: 1
1 | Mariposa (Butterfly) (Original Album + Remixes) |
2 | Caribbean Winter (Original Album + Remixes) |
3 | Easy On The Onions (Original Album + Remixes) |
4 | Sunset (Original Album + Remixes) |
5 | Flying High (Original Album + Remixes) |
6 | Southern Freeez (Original Album + Remixes) |
7 | Roller Chase (Original Album + Remixes) |
8 | First Love (Original Album + Remixes) |
9 | Finale (Original Album + Remixes) |
10 | Anti-Freeez (Set Me Free) -Disco Version (Original Album + Remixes) (Bonus Tracks) |
11 | Mountain Man (Original Album + Remixes) (Bonus Tracks) |
12 | Fly By Night (Original Album + Remixes) (Bonus Tracks) |
13 | One To One (12” Remix) (Original Album + Remixes) (Bonus Tracks) |
14 | Alone (Remix) (Original Album + Remixes) (Bonus Tracks) |
15 | Southern Freeez (12” Version) (Original Album + Remixes) (Bonus Tracks) |
16 | Flying High (12” Remix) (Original Album + Remixes) (Bonus Tracks) |
ディスク: 2
1 | Keep In Touch -The Early Singles |
2 | Stay -The Early Singles |
3 | Hot Footing It -The Early Singles |
4 | Flying High (1984 Remix) |
5 | Anti-Freeez (1984 Remix) |
6 | Alone (1984 Remix) |
7 | Southern Freeez (1984 Remix) |
8 | One To One (1984 Remix) |
9 | Fly By Night (1984 Remix) |
10 | Roller Chase (1984 Remix) |
11 | Caribbean Winter (1984 Remix) |
12 | One To One (Instrumental) |
13 | Having Fun (Previously Unreleased Demo) |
14 | Say You Will Be My Lover (Previously Unreleased Demo) |
商品の説明
UKニューウェーブ・ジャズファンク・グループ、FREEEZの81年発表 デビューアルバムがCD2枚組拡大リイシュー。
他の国からのトップレビュー

James Stegall
5つ星のうち5.0
jazz/funk of the highest order...
2013年4月30日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
it was great being able to finally buy this cd, because i've always considered Freeez to be one of the best UK jazzfunk groups ever...their sound obviously is influenced by american jazz and r&b/funk groups of the 70's, and this release truely shows it! i was already familiar with the title track, i recorded the song from a weekend dance music show back in the early 80's..and the track 'flying high', is a groundbreaking, earth shaking piece of instrumental jazzy funk that never stops moving and never stops grooving, coming at you with sounds from every direction....the bonus cd with extra tracks and remixed tunes from a few years later is also a musical treasure....seeing that i just got this a couple weeks ago, i know this summer will feel a huge 'freeez' of funk from my stereo!

Fred H.
5つ星のうち5.0
Sounds Great!
2018年3月30日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I Really Liked Most Of These Songs And The Remastered CD Sounded Great!

andy
5つ星のうち5.0
Chilled out freeezin'
2011年11月8日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
It was with deep deep joy that i found this Cd listed on Amazon recently. I had been wanting this album on Cd for the past 25 years. In fact a few years ago i purchased digital remastering software and recorded the vinyl plus all the singles i had onto Cd so i could listen to them in the car....
Anyway, here is the real thing at last and playing this instantly creates a feel good vibe.
What amazes me about this album, (the original 9 tracks) is that it still sounds as fresh as the day it was released. The band unknowingly created a set that is timeless, although very much of its time. The instrumentation is flawless and highlights the skills of the musicians. Every track is played to perfection.
Freeez can be likened to Level 42 in that both groups had amazingly talented bassists, amazngly talented keyboard players and drummers and great songs that transmitted the 'sound' or identity of that group. Both recorded a critically acclaimed first album and toured it, both were British Jazz-funk groups with real credentials and both recorded a great deal of instrumental stuff.
Level 42 took the jazz-funk baton and ran with it, developing their sound, and eventually took it to greater success, in the process building a solid fan base and having at least one hit single off each of their first few early albums.
But Freeez stalled with a series of jazz funk follow ups that they tried to repeat the success of Southern Freeez the single with; they tried to focus on vocal hit singles and went away from instrumental jazz funk which was in hindsight, a mistake.
It would have been better if they has concentrated on being an album band like Level 42 and had developed their sound over several albums. I am sure hit singles would have emerged and cemented their success. I like to imagine a Freeez on say their 6th album in 1985, with a solid back catalogue of polished jazz funk behind them, a la level 42, but it was not to be.
With no huge smash follow up to their singles Southern Freeez and Flying High happening, what resulted was a dispirited band going to the USA and letting Arthur Baker turn this jazz funk band into an electro pop outfit. Despite a huge hit with I.O.U, Freeez were, effectively dead, their musicians credentials blown out of the water and never did anything much afterwards. See my review of Gonna Get You.
Here though, their talent shines through and what still amazes me is how polished and mature it all sounds, yet still with a raw thrusting edge. This is jazz funk and indeed music of the highest order. Check out Peter Maas' incredible and in-your-face slap bass playing. Andy Stennetts arpeggio piano solo playing and the dynamic drumming of Paul Morgan.
The original LP is on disc one and also, are their follow up singles Anti-Freeez, One to One and Alone, with the 12" versions of Southern Freeez and Flying High there two.
Disc two has the complete Anti Freeez remix album there. The remixes are a bit pants and mostly ruin the orginals, trying to make them a bit more electro.
There ar also the early singles, notably Keep In Touch, and a couple of unreleased demos.
I would have preferred the track order to be dfferent, with the early singles on disc one and the follow up stuff on disc two, as i feel it would have made more sense, but its a minor quibble.
What is a surprise is that there is stuff here i had never heard.
Mountain Man is a sublime piece of jazz funk, very reminiscent of Azymuth or Incognito. What a pity Freeez didn;'t follow this direction!
Also, the singles Stay and Hot Footing it are similarly awesome.
The other stuff like Anti-freeez, and Alone isn't so pleasing as its forcing itself to be more commercial to try to get that all important hit single and as a result, loses something.
The earlier stuff is the best.
Of the previously unreleased demos. the final track Say You Will be my Lover is very very good and should have been a single. I wonder if this was originally intended for Gonna Get You?
Its great to have this album released at long last. Treasure it; i will
Anyway, here is the real thing at last and playing this instantly creates a feel good vibe.
What amazes me about this album, (the original 9 tracks) is that it still sounds as fresh as the day it was released. The band unknowingly created a set that is timeless, although very much of its time. The instrumentation is flawless and highlights the skills of the musicians. Every track is played to perfection.
Freeez can be likened to Level 42 in that both groups had amazingly talented bassists, amazngly talented keyboard players and drummers and great songs that transmitted the 'sound' or identity of that group. Both recorded a critically acclaimed first album and toured it, both were British Jazz-funk groups with real credentials and both recorded a great deal of instrumental stuff.
Level 42 took the jazz-funk baton and ran with it, developing their sound, and eventually took it to greater success, in the process building a solid fan base and having at least one hit single off each of their first few early albums.
But Freeez stalled with a series of jazz funk follow ups that they tried to repeat the success of Southern Freeez the single with; they tried to focus on vocal hit singles and went away from instrumental jazz funk which was in hindsight, a mistake.
It would have been better if they has concentrated on being an album band like Level 42 and had developed their sound over several albums. I am sure hit singles would have emerged and cemented their success. I like to imagine a Freeez on say their 6th album in 1985, with a solid back catalogue of polished jazz funk behind them, a la level 42, but it was not to be.
With no huge smash follow up to their singles Southern Freeez and Flying High happening, what resulted was a dispirited band going to the USA and letting Arthur Baker turn this jazz funk band into an electro pop outfit. Despite a huge hit with I.O.U, Freeez were, effectively dead, their musicians credentials blown out of the water and never did anything much afterwards. See my review of Gonna Get You.
Here though, their talent shines through and what still amazes me is how polished and mature it all sounds, yet still with a raw thrusting edge. This is jazz funk and indeed music of the highest order. Check out Peter Maas' incredible and in-your-face slap bass playing. Andy Stennetts arpeggio piano solo playing and the dynamic drumming of Paul Morgan.
The original LP is on disc one and also, are their follow up singles Anti-Freeez, One to One and Alone, with the 12" versions of Southern Freeez and Flying High there two.
Disc two has the complete Anti Freeez remix album there. The remixes are a bit pants and mostly ruin the orginals, trying to make them a bit more electro.
There ar also the early singles, notably Keep In Touch, and a couple of unreleased demos.
I would have preferred the track order to be dfferent, with the early singles on disc one and the follow up stuff on disc two, as i feel it would have made more sense, but its a minor quibble.
What is a surprise is that there is stuff here i had never heard.
Mountain Man is a sublime piece of jazz funk, very reminiscent of Azymuth or Incognito. What a pity Freeez didn;'t follow this direction!
Also, the singles Stay and Hot Footing it are similarly awesome.
The other stuff like Anti-freeez, and Alone isn't so pleasing as its forcing itself to be more commercial to try to get that all important hit single and as a result, loses something.
The earlier stuff is the best.
Of the previously unreleased demos. the final track Say You Will be my Lover is very very good and should have been a single. I wonder if this was originally intended for Gonna Get You?
Its great to have this album released at long last. Treasure it; i will

Thomas M
5つ星のうち5.0
Buy it whilst you can!
2011年11月16日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
If you are a fan of freeez, then best not wait to buy this CD; copies shall not be around for ever ;-)! Freeez's first album on CD, fantastic, and no doubt soon to be a collectors item! The original recording has been remastered to the highest quality and it sounds great. The package is complete with the original album artwork plus a complete overview from John Rocca on how this album was conceived and produced. Peter Maas also provides a few paragraphs covering his memories (It is a shame not to have additional points of view from Peter imo...). Listening to this CD is frustrating 30 years on; there was so much potential in this young London band that would seem to have completely gone to the dogs during 4 years; my guess is primarily due to people ego's (John Rocca puts it down to excessive Testosterone in his linear notes ;-)!! The ideal line up? In my opinion they found it early on and gave it up too easily. John Rocca and Ingrid Mansfield Allman on vocals, Peter Maas on bass, Gordon Sullivan on Guitar, Andy Stennett on Keyboards and Paul Morgan on the drums. Add a good flute and sax player and a solid producer and they had it made. It wasn't to be! Two last points i'd like to mention. Firstly, Peter Maas on the bass, great sounds, great feel, great ideas, from a fellow bass player and fan; Peter you were cookin! Secondly, I just dig the photo of the band on a 3 up 2 down suburban street! It may have been taken on the street in front of one of their homes, and for me I just identify with it. At the time we were probably thousands of young teenagers that watched Grange Hill then did our homework in our bedrooms in such houses all across the country ;-)! Great memories, thanks for the CD reissue

JG
5つ星のうち5.0
Southern Fredez CD
2020年10月23日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This was bought as a present for somebody so I haven't actually heard it, but it arrived promptly.