Aristocrats
Freeze! Live In Europe 2020
The rowdy instrumental rock/fusion power trio The Aristocrats (Guthrie Govan/gtr, Bryan Beller/bs, Marco Minnemann/dr) loudly and proudly showcase their renowned electric onstage chemistry on FREEZE! Live In Europe 2020. Featuring performances from across Spain in February 2020, just weeks before live music went on extended hiatus, the album leans heavily on debut live-recorded renditions of material from their most recent album, the critically acclaimed You Know What...?, which debuted at #2 on the Billboard Jazz Charts (U.S.) "FREEZE! documents a particularly memorable period for the band so I think it's really fortunate that we were able to capture this musical 'snapshot'", says Govan. "After months of relentless gigging, the material from our latest studio recording had started to feel really natural for us and yet... somehow, there was still an unmistakable element of excitement and musical risk-taking every night." It also contains an epic version of the band's classic "Get It Like That", with a Minnemann drum solo dedicated to Rush's Neil Peart.