Fruitcake

Area of the contingent of Scandinavian groupings that fronted the progressive rock and roll revival from the 1990s, Fruitcake offers nevertheless played a function. While its neighbours Landmark, Anglagard and Anekdoten had been busy defining a fresh, darker, even more saturated prog rock and roll audio, Pål Søvik and his close friends stuck to some format nearer to neo-prog or at least greatly informed from the mellow mid-tempos of Red Floyd circa Want You Were Right here and Camel circa Moonmadness. Fruitcake’s long term didn’t look shiny initially. From 1990 to 1997, the group’s background includes a succession of departures and break-ups. Drummer Pål Søvik and bassist-keyboardist Tore Bø created the quintet The Stinking Abundant with 1990. Several month later another drummer came up to speed, motivating a name switch to The Fool. With about 40 moments of compositions at hand, the group came into the studio room for the very first time, however, not before dropping its extra drummer on the way and loosing its feminine vocalist through the classes. The group considered Søvik, who includes a smooth voice not really unlike that of Red Floyd’s David Gilmour. After that he would become the group’s business lead singer, singing from your drum feces. With this fresh line-up (Søvik, Bø, guitarist Steffen Holthe, and keyboardist Siri M. Seland) the machine was rechristened Fruitcake as well as the 1st album entitled The Fool Tapes (a nod with their past) arrived on the tiny Norwegian imprint Briskeby in 1992, in a restricted release of 500 copies (right now near impossible to get). Holthe remaining for his armed service service and dropped desire for the music group while away. In the mean time, the British neo-prog label Cyclops was extremely impressed with Fruitcake’s debut and authorized them as its 1st non-UK artist. STEPS TO MAKE It was documented by using two program guitarists and arrived in 1994, of which stage Bø also remaining. Aboard arrived bassist Gunnar Bergersen and guitarist Jens G. Sverdrup for the classes that yielded Space for Shock. Upon its launch in 1996 Seland stop. Helge Skaarseth was asked to consider the keyboardist work however the group disintegrated in early 1997. At that time Fruitcake hadn’t released two albums using the same line-up. The nature from the music acquired remained surprisingly continuous, because of Søvik’s command and songwriting responsibilities. He shortly reconstructed the music group with Skaarseth on keyboards, bassist Olav Nygard, and guitarist Robert Hauge who acquired currently performed live with the music group on several events. This line-up would persuade remain stable, documenting One More Cut (1997), Power Framework (1998) along with a Battle per day (2001).