(Progressive-Rock) [LP] [24/96] Frumpy - 2 LP - 1971 (Issue: 1976), 1972, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

1) LP.- 2) Turntable.- 3) Receiver.- 4) ADC.- 5) iZotope RX4.- 6) Two WAV Files
Post-Process
Normalization and then splitting in tracks, finally manual declick in iZotope RX4.
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Analyzed folder: /Frumpy - Attention! Frumpy 2 (LP)
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DR12 -0.12 dB -14.10 dB 01 Frumpy - LADO 1- Good Winds.wav
DR12 -0.12 dB -13.67 dB 02 Frumpy - How The Gipsy Was Born.wav
DR12 -0.73 dB -13.69 dB 03 Frumpy - LADO 2- Take Care Of Illusion.wav
DR12 -0.11 dB -13.12 dB 04 Frumpy - Duty.wav
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Number of files: 4
Official DR value: DR12

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With this second album, Frumpy strikes big and even bigger. Already, the debut album having sold in respectable amounts (partly due to their superb gimmix cover, this fully unfoldable round plastic artwork was even more impressive, but here the music on the wax slice was altogether more satisfying than on their previous effort. One must say that now Frumpy is a quintet , and Key-man JJ Kravetz gets a very helpful hand from newcoming guitarist Rainer Baumann. The sound is much more even and fuller, allows more less repetition and the solos are thankfully shorter.
Only four tracks on here ranging from 7:30 to 12 min+ and a more dramatic feel with Rumpf's impressive (but not always very feminine - in a positive way) vocals, a still dominating organ (Kravetz was not give room that easy) and a lyrical guitar, the whole thing underlined by Carsten Bohn' excellent drumming. In early 70's Germany, Frumpy were close to the top in every musician polls with Kraan. With a relative basic (compared to what's coming up) riff, Good Winds is an annunciation of things to come, but clearly a poor (but relative, giving the quality of the whole album) start to an otherwise excellent album. Sometimes sounding like Uriah Heep (Kravetz's play is similar to Hensley in many ways, but he gets more freedom than Ken), this track is interrupted by a quiet church organ-like atmosphere before building slow crescendo returning to the energetic riffing from the start, but it is damn well taking a lot of meanders. The sometimes Spanish-sounding Gypsy Was Born is a full-blown track, that could be considered an epic if it was slightly longer. With passages sometimes reminding of Beatles's Walrus track, Rumpf's vocals sounding like a primal-screaming Lennon.

Opening the second side, is the shorter Illusions, here Rumpf and the band sounds more like Affinity's only album, meaning that the track has also a bluesier and psychier feel. The c entral section is simply a pure joy. The album closes on a real killer-track, the lenghty Duty, where all five shine on a cloudless day, burning holes through your eardrums and frying your mind with their delightfully energetic prog rock.

Kravetz will then leave the group for obscure reasons, but will be back in time halfway in the recording of their third album which is called BTW and has a double KB attack - Erwin Kania, the leader of now defunct but superb Murphy Blend) and somehow destroying the balance of this album. This was to be their last studio album (a posthumous live release will be released), but part of the group will form the more mainstream Atlantis. As far as this album is concerned, this is Frumpy's peak and in this album, they are not to be outdone by any other powerful band.
Review by Sean Trane, progarchives.com

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Phonogram GmbH
Producer – Rainer Goltermann
Notes
This release is a special-price reissue of the original 1971 album 'Frumpy 2'.
Title on center labels: ATTENTION FRUMPY 2

1971 PHONOGRAM GmbH
Printed in Netherlands
Made in Holland
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (A-side runout area): 10 AA 320 6434 304 1Y
Matrix / Runout (B-side runout area): 10 AA 320 6434 304 2Y
Label Code: LC 0211
Rights Society: GEMA

1) LP.- 2) Turntable.- 3) Receiver.- 4) ADC.- 5) iZotope RX4.- 6) Two WAV Files
Post-Process
Normalization and then splitting in tracks, finally manual declick in iZotope RX4.
Nothing more

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Analyzed folder: /Frumpy - By The Way (LP)
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DR14 -0.12 dB -15.97 dB 01 Frumpy - LADO 1- Goin' To The Country.wav
DR13 -0.33 dB -16.75 dB 02 Frumpy - By The Way.wav
DR13 -0.15 dB -16.92 dB 03 Frumpy - Singing Songs.wav
DR14 -1.10 dB -16.38 dB 04 Frumpy - LADO 2- I'm Afraid, Big Moon.wav
DR15 -0.08 dB -17.55 dB 05 Frumpy - Release.wav
DR14 -2.54 dB -20.24 dB 06 Frumpy - Keep On Going.wav
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Number of files: 6
Official DR value: DR14

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Arranged By – Frumpy
Bass – Karl-Heinz Schott
Drums, Percussion – Carsten Bohn
Engineer, Co-producer – Thomas Kukuck
Guitar, Steel Guitar – Rainer Baumann
Keyboards – Erwin Kania, Jean-Jacques Kravetz
Producer – Frumpy
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Inga Rumpf

Recorded at Windrose-Dumont-Time-Studio, Hamburg in March 1972.
Not Vertigo Swirl, but with UFO-labels

Another band that colored my childhood, Frumpy, is now included here. Well, I never considered that this would be featured here even though I really enjoyed this album. The key driving force was Inga Rumpf with the powerful vocal and stunning guitar work. Inga also the driving force that characterized the music of Atlantis.
"Singing Song" was once a big hit in my country with some radios broadcasted the song on regular basis. The song has a very nice combination of blues and rock music and a touch of pop as well. The opening part which comprises acoustic guitar rhythm with vocal moves in crescendo into heavier part with stunning guitar work and Kravetz pulsating keyboards. Bass guitar plays important role as well. The title track "By The Way" is a rocker with blues touch, performede energetically by the band, with high energy. Again, Inga's unique vocal has added key musical characteristic of this album. I always treat that this is a classic rock outfit that was successful at its period. You might find this album nothing intensive about prog elements, but for sure this CD is one of my favorite classic rock albums, including Bloodrock 1,2,3 and Typstich. It's pity if Frumpy is included here while Bloodrock and Atlantis are not. Keep on proggin' ..!
Review by Gatot, progarchives.com