Fruupp - A Twilight Adventure CD + DVD + book box set (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
23-BPBOX 001
“The ultimate presentation of Fruupp in a bespoke boxed edition containing DVD, a live CD, book, six postcards, badge, & poster.
With a title that betrays exactly what resides in the box it refers to, this lavish presentation is the perfect tribute to, and celebration of, Northern Ireland's symphonic prog legends 'Fruupp' who split in 1976 without recording their projected fifth album 'Doctor Wilde's Twilight Adventure'.
Their reputation has grown in recent years via the discovery of a cassette of their live album, the masters of which were lost in a house fire in London that almost cost their manager Paul Charles his life.
This was lovingly restored and released via the Fruupp Facebook group in 2022 as 'Masquerading With Dawn', a live double album. No live footage of the band exists, but respected artist and video maker Richard Hall has taken four tracks from 'Masquerading With Dawn' and created a striking visual compliment that's the nearest to recreating a band who just missed out on the video age. It is lavishly presented in a digipak with an accompanying lyric book ,and is entitled 'On A Clear Day'.
'A Twilight Adventure' is a new live CD sourced from an ancient cassette that holds no other information on the label bar the biro-scribbled words 'Fruupp Live', but we must be thankful that it has travelled down the years. It is their late and last hurrah, one that brilliantly preserves their verve for the twenty-first century.
Assiduously restored by Alan Lowles in his studio in Italy, it is beautifully presented and is the perfect wish granted for their devoted admirers.
These splendid artifacts are housed within a delightful box that also contains a newly discovered shot of the band from the 'Modern Masquerades' sessions by rock photographer Martyn Goddard, who has kindly gifted its use by the project. A rare full colour image that is now a high quality postcard, it accompanies five portrait postcards of the individual band members, a new Fruupp badge, and a high quality reprint of one of their early tour posters. This really is an adventure, a true gift to the senses.”
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