FF – Führs & Fröhling

The Complete Recordings

  • 3CD
  • Date : 26.04.2024
  • Package : CD Digisleeve
  • Running Time CD 1 : 79:25
  • Running Time CD 2 : 66:13
  • Running Time CD 3 : 37:27

FF – Führs & Fröhling – The Complete Recordings

In the 1970s, the trio SFF (Eduard Schicke, Gerd Führs and Heinz Fröhling) was regarded as the German answer to Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Dieter Dierks produced their debut album “Symphonic Pictures”, the Brain label signed SFF and the trio soon gained a reputation throughout Germany as an excellent live band. “It was a bit like magic and an overwhelming intensity that took the audience and the band into another world together,” recalls Heinz Fröhling.

In 1977 and 1978, SFF recorded two more albums with Dieter Dierks – “Sunburst” and “Ticket To Everywhere”. After the recording of the last album, musical and ideological differences arose and the trio disbanded.

Drummer Eduard Schicke joined Hoelderlin, Gerd Führs and Heinz Fröhling dropped the S from the band abbreviation and from then on traded under FF (Führs Fröhling).

Between 1978 and 1981, the duo released three albums of concertante, progressive instrumental music on the Brain label: “Ammerland” (1978), “Strings” (1979) and “Diary” (1981). In 2001, Heinz Fröhling released a concert recording of FF from 1980. Gerd Führs died in November 1992 at the age of 36. Heinz Fröhling opened a music school in Oldenburg and founded his own label, Nordsee Records.

 

CD 1 ‘’Ammerland’’ & ’’Strings’’
  1. Ammerland 03:11
  2. Gentle Breeze 05:35
  3. Dance Of The Leaves 02:20
  4. Street Dance 02:34
  5. Sarabande 02:32
  6. Circles Of Live 04:08
  7. Every Land Tells A Story 13:53
  8. Ammernoon 05:08
  9. Roundabout 03:29
  10. Morning Bird 04:59
  11. Dancing Colours 05:24
  12. Artificial Force 06:18
  13. Strings 03:29
  14. Happiness 03:25
  15. Open Valley 08:04
  16. Sassa 04:56
CD1 total: 79:25 min.   CD 2 ‘’Live 80 - Live At Essener Grugahalle - Brain Festival 1978
  1. Allemande 03:07
  2. Ammerland 03:41
  3. Morning Bird 04:53
  4. Dowland 2 02:22
  5. Every Land Tells A Story 04:37
  6. Circles Of Live 04:19
  7. Dance Of The Leaves 03:24
  8. Strings 02:34
  9. Open Valley 06:59
  10. Stormy Sun 06:02
  11. Streetdance 03:36
  12. Medita 02:42
  13. Roundabout 03:04
  14. Leise Rieselt Der Schnee 02:12
  15. Happiness 03:28
  16. Radio Performance 04:58
Bonus track:
  1. Every Land Tells A Story 04:15
CD2total: 66:13 min.   CD 3 ‘’Diary’’
  1. Late In The Evening 02:48
  2. All Hallow's Eve Dream 05:13
  3. On My Pillow 03:26
  4. Prelude 04:19
  5. Back And Again 03:00
  6. Argo 05:33
  7. China Puppet 04:17
  8. Green Island 04:18
  9. Mind Games 04:33
CD3 total: 37:27 min. CD1+CD2+CD3 total: 183:05 min.