Artist: Fruupp
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Seven Secrets
Year: 1974
Tracks: 6
Future Legends
Year: 1972
Tracks: 7
One of the hardest-working progressive bands to end up languishing in relative abstruseness, Fruupp was begun in 1971 by guitar player Vince McCusker. After a brief melodic apprenticeship in London, McCusker returned to Belfast and speedily pulled together a group of mostly classically trained musicians; the lineup was unusual in that keyboardist Stephen Houston doubled on the hautboy. (The strange band name was taken from a Lectreset sheet.) The band's resulting sound is non unlike Spring or early Genesis, with primary composers McCusker and Houston playing as foils for each early: Houston's violoncello, hautboy, and violin typically lend dark common people textures at a lower place McCusker's aggressive guitar parts and Peter Farelly's Celtic-influenced vocals. After 2 age of gigging, they shopped their demonstration tapeline approximately and were picked up by Pye Records for their Dawn label. Between 1973 and 1975, Fruupp released quaternion albums, the last of which was produced by King Crimson ammonium alum Ian McDonald; the band as well toured in funding of Crimson. Despite playing hundreds of gigs per year throughout the U.K. and Europe during this period, their record gross sales never quite took off, and the band closed in up patronise after a last London gig at the Roundhouse in 1976.
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