Fruit Australia
Harmony driven, horn laden roots pop.
“...powered by dramatic harmonies
and charismatic shifts of style.”
-- Wall Street Journal
As if flying across the pacific was a regular bus commute, Australian power trio Fruit bounce between hemispheres bringing their soulful, harmony-driven, horn-laden sounds to a seriously devoted and seriously growing fan base.
During the summer of 2005, Fruit squeezed 8 festivals and some 20 concerts into a 2 month North American tour in such fine voice these harmony divas took the record for highest CD sales at every festival they played. As an independent band Fruit have now sold in excess of 75,000 CDs.
Fruit’s music is powered by the distinctive vocal harmonies of the three frontline women -- Mel Watson, Sam Lohs, and Susie Keynes: all lead vocalists, 2 wielding guitars whilst the other commands an arsenal of horns. With their exquisite harmonies hinting at a musical bloodline that embraces everyone from Dave Matthews to Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco to George Harrison, Prince and Stevie Wonder, Fruit’s music has been described as “sensitive, embracing and disarming.”
2006 saw the release of Fruit’s most anticipated album to date: Burn; a brilliant collaboration with Philly based producer/engineer David Ivory. Ivory is most noted for his Grammy nominated work on The Roots’ Things Fall Apart and Erykah Badu’s Baduizm, and more recently, his production of Kindred’s Far Away (Sony/Hidden Beach), Patti Labelle’s Two Steps Away (Island/DefJam) and the first release from the rock group Silvertide on J Records.
Ivory’s and Fruit’s vision for the album has been to harness and build a signature sound that is Fruit; to rein in the complementary writing styles of the 3 lead vocalists and to “sting” the listener with their seamless sense of harmony and dynamic musicality.
print-quality photos
music
- Wait On (from Burn)
- music page
links
- www.fruitmusic.com.au
- video clip at SonicBids
- print bio
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