FRUMPY - 2 GERMAN PROG HARD ROCK w/ BLUES 1971 INGA RUMPF vocls 180g GFC SLD LP

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FRUMPY – Frumpy 2. Lost Century 71020. UK release. FACTORY SEALED VINYL RECORD ALBUM. Originally issued in 1971 on Philips ( Germany). This edition issued in 2014. Pressed on 180g vinyl and comes in a heavy board stock gatefold cover with the original artwork. MEMBERS:  Inga Rumpf, Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Karl-Heinz Schott, Carsten Bohn, and, new to the lineup for this album, Rainer Baumann. TRACKS:  Good Winds, How The Gipsy Was Born, Take Care Of Illusion, and Duty. DESCRIPTION:  Born out of the 60's folk-pop band The City Preachers (that also featured vocalist Dagmar Krause, later of Slapp Happy), and inspired by the burgeoning progressive scene, Germany’s Frumpy was formed in March 1970 with the idea of creating a fusion of rock, blues, classical, folk, and psychedelic. As such, Frumpy was a unique combination. Though they debuted at the 1970 Pop & Blues festival, they were much too progressive and experimental to appeal to pop audiences, Frumpy was much more than that. The classical elements were endowed by French keyboard player Jean-Jacques Kravetz, a most imaginative organist rivaling Keith Emerson, Dave Stewart, or Marián Varga easily, who had worked with Michel Polnareff during the 60's. The blues and folk elements were courtesy of Inga Rumpf's often remarkably unfeminine vocals and her poignantly observant lyrics. After numerous concerts and festival appearances, Frumpy's debut LP was a guaranteed success, and to assure everyone that Frumpy was nothing like The City Preachers an apt title was chosen:  All Will Be Changed. Frumpy's greatest triumph however was this album, Frumpy 2, which saw the addition of former Sphinx Tush guitarist Rainer Baumann. Having just two tracks per side, this was the definitive Frumpy style to savor, there was lots of room for extensive instrumental work, guitar and keyboard duets, with classical and blues diversions, all wrapped up by excellent songs from Inga. It hinted at, and previewed the excellent vastly extended works as found on the posthumously released double live album. Hereafter numerous personnel changes occurred and, though still a very good album, as a result By The Way suffered somewhat. During this period Kravetz went on to work with Udo Lindenberg and also record a solo album, Rainer Baumann also established a solo career, and subsequently Frumpy transmutated into Atlantis.  

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Limited vinyl reissue of this classic German progressive band’s second album. Frumpy released four albums between 1970–1973 and achieved considerable commercial success—the German press hailed them as the best German rock band of their time and their vocalist Inga Rumpf as the "greatest individual vocal talent" of the contemporary German rock scene. Initially the band played without a guitarist, which was unusual in the rock genre; the band instead made great use of "spacey [Hammond] organ excursions" and a powerful Leslie Rotating Speaker System. "In the beginning we were happy enough as a quartet,” said Rumpf. “I played and composed exclusively on an acoustic guitar. It was only later that we began to write songs that called for a guitar." In 1971, just before the band started recording their second album, called simply 2, they recruited former Sphinx Tush guitarist Rainer Baumann to the line-up. The album, heavier and more mature progressive rock with classical overtones in Kravetz's organ (and occasionally Mellotron) work, repeated the success of the first, and gave the band a hit single with How The Gipsy Was Born, which would become their signature tune. The German music magazine Musikexpress dubbed Frumpy as the best German rock act of the year, while Inga Rumpf, variously described as ‘smoky,’ ‘demonic’ and ‘roaring,’ (I would add ‘seductive’) was declared by national newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to be the "greatest individual vocal talent" of the German rock scene so far.

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