Freedom Calls

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RedGold Records, 1989
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MUSICIANS FEATURED

- Aneel Soomary (England) trumpet, timpani
- Chris Biscoe (England) soprano & alto saxophone, piccolo
- Claude Deppa (South Africa) trumpet, timpani, bass drum
- Dave Barry (Wales) drums, glockenspiel
- David Clarke (USA) voice, bass guitar
- Gerry Hunt (England) guitar, sopranino & baritone saxophone, E flat clarinet
- Jeff Gordon (Guyana) soprano & alto saxophone, flute
- Joan Dillon (Scotland) voice
- Josefina Cupido (Spain) voice, timbales, surdo
- Keith Morris (Wales) bass guitar, bass clarinet, tanpura
- Ken Johnson (Trinidad) steel drums, bongos
- Louise Elliott (Australia) tenor saxophone, flute
- Rick Taylor (England) trombone
- Ros Davies (England) trombone, flute, voice
- Sarah Laryea (Ghana) voice, percussion
- Shanti Jayasinha (Sri Lanka) trumpet, cello
- Tony Haynes (England) piano, trombone, vibraphone, tubular bells
- Vladimir Vega (Chile) voice, charango, cuatro, tiple, panpipes

Music by Tony Haynes

Lyrics by Valerie Bloom, John Matshikiza, Vladimir Vega and Gavin Richards
Design by Tom Spencer and Ian Sternfeldt
Photography by Strat Mastoris
Sound by Paul Sparrow

Freedom Calls is the third of Tony Haynes's compositions for Grand Union Orchestra. Set to lyrics commissioned from writers from Jamaica, South Africa and Chile, Freedom Calls is about the struggle for liberty in different parts of the world, throughout history, with particular reference to South Africa under apartheid.

Freedom Calls was first performed at Queen's Hall for the Edinburgh Festival in August 1988. This recording was made at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells in February 1989, and was released on CD in July 1989 to coincide with the bicentennial of the French Revolution.