Get Us Out of Here
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Get Us out of Here is the second and final studio album
by Freur
and was released in the Netherlands
and Germany
in 1986. The cassette
version of the album included five extra tracks.
until 2009 when Cherry Red Records
released Get Us out of Here/Doot-Doot, which includes both Freur albums on one CD.
Unfortunately, in order to fit both albums onto one CD over two minutes of music has been removed from Get Us out of Here; with the tracks "Emeralds and Pearls", "The Devil and Darkness", "The Piano Song", "Happiness" and "Endless Groove" all being faded out prematurely.
CBS Records LP
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by Freur
Freur
Freur was a band featuring Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, who went on to found the successful electronic act Underworld. It was their second band, following their art school collaboration, The Screen Gemz.-History:...
and was released in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
in 1986. The cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
version of the album included five extra tracks.
CD release
The album was unavailable on CDCompact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
until 2009 when Cherry Red Records
Cherry Red
Cherry Red is a London-based independent record label formed in 1978.-History:Cherry Red grew from the rock promotion company founded in 1971 to promote rock concerts at the Malvern Winter Gardens...
released Get Us out of Here/Doot-Doot, which includes both Freur albums on one CD.
Unfortunately, in order to fit both albums onto one CD over two minutes of music has been removed from Get Us out of Here; with the tracks "Emeralds and Pearls", "The Devil and Darkness", "The Piano Song", "Happiness" and "Endless Groove" all being faded out prematurely.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Karl Hyde, Rick Smith and Alfie Thomas, except where noted. CBS Records LPLP recordThe LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
: CBS 26328
CBS Records Cassette: 40-26328
2009 - Cherry Red Records CD: CDM RED 419*
* Tracks 11-20 taken from the album Doot-DootDoot-Doot
Doot-Doot is the debut studio album by Freur and was released in 1983. The cassette version of the album included four extra tracks.- CD release :The album was unavailable on CD until the 1993 reissue by Oglio Records in the United States...
Musicians
- Karl Hyde - VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Bryn Burrows - DrumsDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
- Rick Smith - KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Alfie Thomas - BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, Keyboards - John Warwicker - Keyboards
Additional musicians
- Mr. Bowie - Fretless bassFretless guitarA fretless guitar is a guitar without frets. It operates in the same manner as most other stringed instruments and traditional guitars, but does not have any frets to act as the lower end point of the vibrating string...
- Andy SheppardAndy SheppardAndy Sheppard is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz, including Gil Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell and Steve Swallow.-Biography:Sheppard was born in Warminster,...
- Tenor saxophoneTenor saxophoneThe tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
and soprano saxophoneSoprano saxophoneThe soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
Production
- Produced by Freur and John Hudson
- "Jazz Is King?", "Major Motion", "This Is the Way" and "Get Us Out Of Here" produced by Freur