UnSpoken
© Copyright-Fractured Persona
(801082027028)
Record Label: Petrified Records
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Fractured Persona, more than a Band name or title,
depicts not only a state of mind but also a way of life.
Fractured Persona is the Brain-child of Richard Banbury (AKA: Fritz O'Skennick) (singer/songwriter & poet). Having written and performed many of his own songs in various guises over the years, Banbury has finally found the time to record them. From ‘Phantasm’ to ‘Psycho-Dad’, people have enjoyed the sound and anticipated the album that has finally come to fruition.
On meeting and befriending Matt Evans (talented producer/session musician), the pair set about recording this long over due project and peaked the interest of Emma Ross and James McHardy at Petrified Records. They in turn took the project on, with Emma designing the Art work for the album, producing the 1st promo video (Why are we why?) and creating the Enhanced CD section on the album. The 2nd video (Fractured Persona) was shot at the Doves Centre, Penarth, S. Wales (MIND in the Vale) and stars many staff, volunteers, and service users of the charity organisation. It was then edited and produced by Post-Graduate, Angela Thomas.
With a new Band for a live line-up, Fractured Persona now consists of Fritz O'Skennick, James McHardy & Ross Stephen and have been gigging at various venues throughout S. Wales, including ‘the St. David’s Hall’ and ‘Clwb Ifor Bach’.
The Album is on release now, and all profits from the venture will be donated to Ashgrove School, Penarth, S. Wales (the only School in all Wales that caters exclusively to the educational needs of autistic children). Fractured Persona also hope to use the album as a vehicle to raise awareness of all mental illness.
As well as gigging, receiving Radio airplay, releasing mp3 downloads on various sites, and podcasting they are presently in pre-production of their 3rd music video (All I’m asking).
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An excellent cd and worth every penny.
author: Karen Burrell
My son Ieuan attends the school that this cd is raising money for and it is worth every penny not only because it is for the school but because it is such an excellent, punchy, raw sound that puts it's message across so well.
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Impressive debut Album.........full-bodied and punchy
author: James Mclaren - BBC.co.uk
Impressive Debut Album by pop-prog Magpies.
It's unusual, quirky, affecting and fun to listen to, with lilting, folky segments, followed by electronic tweakery and rock-out sections. Acoustic guitars and the vocals of mainman Richard Banbury ring out clear and true with a good production throughout - it simply doesn't sound like a shoestring release: it's full-bodied and punchy.
The first track and lead single, Why Are We Why?, is a fun, rollicking, fast-paced track placed halfway between Blur's lawks-ain't-everyfing-English? tracks and American punk - just a little hint of Nirvana creeps into a few of these songs.
Fractured Persona itself sounds like Cardiff's own Soft Hearted Scientists with its close-harmony vocals and tinkly acoustic guitar, but there's some more discernable early seventies prog and rock influence to come.
Barrier has something of Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson about the vocals, then End Of The Line leaps from Meddle-era Pink Floyd in the verses to a big rockist chorus with satisfying power chords. Fractured Persona are a musical soup - The Kinks and The Beatles join the party too.
The strangest song here is Just A Man, with its epic solo guitar work and stadium-style rock production. They sound like they're live at Cleveland Enormodome effortlessly. You feel slightly dirty, but it's a definite cheap rock thrill.
Catch Me (I'm Falling) is a lilting, string-laden tear-jerker, and Unspoken ends with Banbury welding gravelly vocals to deliciously chugging riffs and shredding guitar solos.
Given that this album is designed by the band as 'a vehicle to raise awareness of all mental illness', it's probably politically incorrect to call it 'schizophrenic', but it's a stylistically-varied piece of work that just about fits together. It's certainly head and shoulders above most charidee releases.
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