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Broadcast in 1981 on the Old Grey Whistle Test - Mariposa was a single from the album "Southern Freeez".
Check out the re-issue of Southern Freeez
Beggars Arkive is excited to announce our remastered 40th anniversary reissue of the classic FREEEZ debut album SOUTHERN FREEEZ. It will be available digitally on June 19th, and as a colored double LP on August 21st. The second LP ‘VARIATIONS ON A THEEEM’ features six tracks by Freeez founding member and creator John Rocca. Alongside five new Rocca original songs is John’s new version, with his vocals for the very first time, of the band’s 1981 UK Top Ten hit ‘Southern Freeez’
Freeez were a legendary group from London, known as one of the UK's main jazz-funk bands of the early 1980s…aka Brit funk. While they may not be a household name, if you know, you know. Freeez went on to be sampled many times, by artists including Jamie xx, Coolio, Brandy, Madlib, and more.
Their debut album Southern Freeez was initially released in late 1980 on John Rocca's own label Pink Rythm, but within weeks, they were signed by Beggars Banquet, who re-released it in 1981. The album contains the UK Top Ten hit “Southern Freeez” which included guest vocals by Ingrid Mansfield Allman described as ‘The Ultimate Brit Funk tune!’ by
GILLES PETERSON
"The melancholic suburban soul of ‘Southern Freeez’ never gets tired for me....an album that has remained at the top of my Brit Funk pile!" - GILLES PETERSON
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