Nick Drake - Fruit Tree HNBX 5302 4LP Box + Booklet NM

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Album Information

Artist Nick Drake       Title Fruit Tree Record Label Hannibal Cat. number HNBX 5302 Mono/Stereo? S

Country

UK Released 1986 Matrix no. HNBX 5302 A
HNBX 5302 B
HNBX 5302 C
HNBX 5302 D HNBX 5302 E 
HNBX 5302 F
HNBX 5302 G
HNBX 5302 H  Please enquire if you need the matrix numbers

 

Condition

Please Note: - comments will only be present below if there are any problems to describe 

Disc

Marks

All Sides

EX

Small mark on Tk 4 on Side 8 - not audible

Surface
Hairlines

All Sides

EX

 Most sides have several light surface hairlines/paper scuffs - not audible

Scratches

All Sides

EX   Other Info. Discs in Excellent Condition

Sound

Surface Noise

All Sides

EX

 

Pops/Clicks

All Sides

EX  

Scratches

All Sides

EX   Other Info.  

Box

Ring / Surface Wear

Front

EX   Back EX    Inside EX  

Card Creases

Front

EX   Back EX   Inside EX  

Shelf Wear

Edge

EX Light storage wear on top edge Spine EX   Corner EX   Other Info. Box in excellent condition. 
3 of the inner sleeves have a small piece of sellotape on one edge.  

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Background Information

  Click on the link to find the original source of this information: - Fruit Tree When Fruit Tree, the box set containing the three LPs songwriter Nick Drake issued during his lifetime, first appeared in 1979, five years after his death, it was one of the first box set retrospectives — if not the first — released on a contemporary artist. His three albums, Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, and Pink Moon, were completely ignored by the marketplace at the time of their respective releases. Joe Boyd, Drake's friend, producer, A&R man, and patron, felt that word about Drake had spread in the ensuing years after his death from the folk community to a new group of punters who were picking up the LPs in bigger numbers. (When Boyd sold his Witchseason Productions imprint to Island in 1972, one of the conditions was that Drake's recordings never be allowed to go out of print.) The set came with a beautiful book with great notes and the complete lyrics. 

Fruit Tree underwent a previous reissue on compact disc, with a bonus disc of rarities called Time of No Reply that included four more songs Drake recorded after 1972's Pink Moon for a new album — according to Boyd — and other rarities. In 2000, after the release of a Volkswagen commercial that featured the song "Pink Moon," Drake was discovered again by an entirely new generation of kids hungry for that lean and lonely sound. Universal, which owned Island by this time, remastered and re-released all three studio recordings. In 2004, Made to Love Magic, a single-disc set that was full of remixes and rarities such as the four cuts from Time of No Reply, hit the streets with one bonus. A new song, "Too Low," from the very same recording sessions that produced the other four, had been discovered by engineer John Wood on the original master tape. Made to Love Magic was thus a bittersweet purchase for Drake collectors who had virtually everything else here except that one song.

But there is a troubling thing about this Fruit Tree: it contains none of the bonus material — the five known later studio recordings are absent here. It's easy enough to argue for leaving off the demos and remixes, but to leave off these five cuts is strange and controversial, if not unforgivable. Economics may be the reason — in other words, those who already bought Made to Love Magic shouldn't be made to buy it again. OK, fair enough, but what about all those who had bought the three original albums on CD either before or after their original remaster in 2000? Boyd himself — well known to be quite protective about the quality of material that gets released by his artists (he's been this way regarding the legacy of the late Sandy Denny as well) — acknowledges the quality of this material (while Wood apparently disagrees), so what gives? 

One thing that is universally agreed upon is that the box should exist in some kind of definitive way, and it has been lovingly assembled with everything getting the grand treatment, aside from the glaring omission of those five cuts. No matter which of his three albums is a personal favorite, the quality of the music is the one thing that cannot be argued here — it will simply continue to endure and grow in terms of its legend and importance, enlightening and engaging new listeners as they encounter it in the 21st century.         

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