CHRIS CATENA - FREAK OUT! (IMR Records IMRC0008)
Produced by
Chris Catena for the IMR Productions Worldwide / The
Shelter Productions
Mixed & Mastered at "aRe
U Recordings" (Holland) by Renè Ubachs
Preproduction Engineering at "27 Street Studios"
(Rome, Italy) by Davide Spurio
Recorded at "27 Street Studios" (Rome, Italy) and all over the world
between April 2002 and June 2003.
Art directors & Arrangers: Davide Spurio, Chris Catena, Max Spurio
Photography: Maria Debora Farina
Artwork: Derek Riggs
Digital Effects: Vitamin
We are next to the release date of the long awaited album by Chris Catena. Glennhughesitalia.com is really proud to present to the whole internet audience, the result of two years of intense work, a chemistry of Seventies & Eighties, Funk & Metal. Everything's more precious when names of such talent and fame helped Chris Catena to make this album really unique.
This is the tracklist of Freak Out! (you can listen some mp3 clips by clicking on the relative song):
01.
Crazy Man (mp3)
02. Freak Out Tonight (mp3)
(duet with Glenn Hughes)
03. Hey Man (Freedom Calls) (mp3)
04. Lady Starlight
05. Desire (mp3)
06. Take Me Away
07. To A Friend (mp3)
08. What You Gonna Do (mp3)
09. Sweet Talker (mp3)
10. Don't Stop Runnin'
11. Follow Me
12. Gimme Your Love (mp3)
13. Getting Tighter (mp3)
14. The Stronger You Are, The Harder You Fall
(mp3)
15. It's A Long Way To Go (mp3)
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Here are all the artists that performed in this album:
Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze), Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake, Ringo Starr), Mickey Moody (Whitesnake), John Taylor (Duran Duran), Stephen Ferrone (Duran Duran, Michael Jackson), Doug Wimbish (Living Colour), Stevie Salas (Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones), Eric Singer (Kiss, Alice Cooper), Bruce Kulick (Kiss), Myron Dove (Carlos Santana), Johnny Ohlin (Nation), Tony Franklin (Whitesnake), Tommy Aldridge (Whitesnake), Jeff Scott Soto (Talisman), Frank de Groot, Vitalij Kuprji (Ring Of Fire, Artension), Virgil Donati (Ring Of Fire), Al Cooper (Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix), Chuck White (Al Cooper), John Lawton (Uriah Heep), Chester Thompson (Genesis), Dave Meniketti (Meniketti, Yesterday & Today), Vivien Lalu, Kelly Simonz (Blindfaith), Marko Pavic, Davide Spurio, Max Spurio, Daniel Flores, Enrico Cosimi, Yuri Roveri, Stefano Baldasseroni, Gianni Francesconi, Hakan Granat, Nobby, Mauro Munzi, Marco Capasso, Aleks Ferrara, Paolo Patrizi, Andrea Cicco Martino, Katia Salemi, Marco Quagliozzi, and The Slaves & The Funky Pranksters.
Chris Catena has shot the videoclip of the songs "The Highway King", "I've found a woman" and "Desire". The postproduction of those videoclips has been made by Maria Debora Farina in NY.
"Freak Out" is distributed in Europe by Frontiers Records.
Click here to read the interview that Chris made for the Funk-Lab!
Click on the thumbnails for enlarge photos.
"Freak Out", has been preceded by an EP called "All the Freak horses, all the Freak men...". This EP has been released in limited editions first in Japan and then in the rest of the world. The different issues have different covers and different playlist.
The Japanese release contains these songs:
FREAK OUT TONIGHT
I FOUND A WOMAN
TURN TURN
MICKEY'S MONKEY*
TIME AND AGAIN**
THE HIGHWAY KING
*song from the sixties by Holland/Dozier, covered up 10 years later by Mother's Finest. Chris sings accompanied by X-Saviour, Swedish band.
** song by David Coverdale, from his second solo album, Northwinds.
The European release instead has this tracklist:
FREAK OUT TONIGHT
I FOUND A WOMAN
TURN, TURN
The June issue of Hard Rock Magazine, a French magazine, contained the song "The Highway King" in its sampler CD. This sampler is also featured on the June issue of Rock it, German magazine, and Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, distributed in USA and Canada. We already told you about the Italian magazine Psycho, in which "The Highway King" is featured.
In the next months will be on-line the new site www.chriscatena.com.
Chris Catena will sing on a track for the upcoming album of the great keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij, and he will act as Richard in the Metal Opera "Shadrane" of the huge talented French keyboardist Vivien Lalu.
