CD Baby, Baby/Pdx Pop NOW

All sorts of big news in Fruitionland this week!!

First off, we're proud to announce that Fruition will be featured on this years PDX Pop Now! Compilation. This annual two-disc set is a showcase of the some of the finest tunes that our beloved stumptown has to offer.

We sent "Never Again" from the new album in to be considered amongst over 650 other submissions. And we made it! Disc 1, track 10. Here's this years tracklisting:

Disc 1

1. The Basics – Tope & Epp ft. Illmaculate
2. No Nostalgia – AgesandAges**
3. Oooh Kill Ooooh – Nucular Aminals
4. Tange Rine – Deelay Ceelay**
5. City Morgue – Kelli Schaefer
6. Five Little Rooms – Menomena**
7. El Ranchero Tejano – paper/upper/cuts**
8. The Letters – Light for Fire**
9. The Upheaval on Titan – JonnyX & the Groadies
10. Never Again – Fruition
11. My Hip Hop Is Breathing – Beyoung, Empire, Lost Poet, Mr. Flea
12. Starting Over (Bad Habits) – Typhoon
13. bodyblood – the angry orts**
14. Bombast – Trio Subtonic
15. Let This Body Go – Death Songs
16. Steve Don’t Party No More – Mean Jeans
17. Flatlands – Mike Coykendall
18. Bad Buzz – The Mint Chicks
19. Wet & Dripping – Aan
20. Patient Heart – Sean Flinn & the Royal We

Disc 2

1. Mercenary Days – Hockey
2. Boxcar Children – ioa
3. Dalvik Tide – Ocean Age
4. Hoop & Wire – Boy Eats Drum Machine
5. Tramm – Breakfast Mountain**
6. Sleep, Child – Nick Jaina
7. Marianne – Strength**
8. Only A Quality Lime for Eric Gruber – Andrew Oliver Sextet
9. Look My Way – Blitzen Trapper**
10. Don’t Look Down on Me – MY-G
11. Pythia Misunderstood – Transient
12. Battling Giants – Brainstorm
13. Too Many Days Gone – Dharma Bums**
14. Wide-Eyed, Legless – Laura Veirs
15. Midcentury Motion – Talkdemonic**
16. Pulling Weeds – The Great Mundane**
17. Juniper – Y La Bamba**
18. Peacock Dreams – Peacock Dreams
19. See Waves – Nice Nice
20. Giant Stairs – A Weather

**Previously Unreleased Tracks

To check out past comps, get information about the PDX Pop Now Festival and more, head over here...

But wait! Theres more!

Yesterday marked the first official day of CD sales through Portland's worldwide distribution company, CD Baby. As of May 3rd you can now purchase "Fruition" as an actual physical package, or as a digital download. Yay!!!

Check it out, tell your friends, and have them tell their friends.

Also thanks to CD Baby, our tunes will soon be up on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody, Last.fm, Pandora, and over 20 more digital outlets. It will be hard for you to NOT find this cd.

Big things on the horizon! Thank you for your continued support of our ever evolving dream!

love, k

Flattering Fruition write-up in PSU's Daily Vanguard

Well I did a phone interview the other night for the PSU newspaper.  It was delightfully less frightening than I thought it would be, thanks to writer Leah Bodenhamer's grace and easy-going attitude as an interviewer.

It hit the streets and the internet this morning, just in time to promote tonights show at the Goodfoot with Jackstraw.  With any luck it will get into the hands and computer screens of hella hella hella portland music lovers!  Leah's writing is articulate, colorful and well researched.  Big big ups to her for deciding to cover Fruition! 

Here's some of the article...enjoy!

Finding a groovier side

Fruition String Band will folk the soul right out of you tonight at Goodfoot

By Leah Bodenhamer

Vanguard staff

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Published: Thursday, April 15, 2010

Updated: Thursday, April 15, 2010

Photo courtesy of Fatty Sound Waves

Fruition String Band
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St
Tonight, 9 p.m.
$7, 21+

Perhaps you’ve seen them—charming passers-by with their juxtaposing presentation of grimy appearances and nearly perfected musicianship. Maybe you’ve heard their home-grown harmonies echoing down late night streets that dwell in the rainy afterglow of local celebrations like Last Thursday or Saturday Market. Indeed it is possible that their live performance has stolen your heart in an old west kind of way and tucked it back into yourself, deeper, freer and more inspired. 

Is it those two handsome guitarists down by Pioneer Square crooning old Beatles tunes? Is it that old ragtime trio down by the Farmers Market with the washboard and tub bass? No and no. It is that swinging bluegrass quartet, Fruition—oozing with devilishly tasteful soul and redefining the idea of how to play a “show” by standing on street corners with an open guitar case.

This band helps define a movement of music that is as old as the folk songs of the Kentucky Mountains and as honest as a soldier on his deathbed. It’s about community and truth. 

It’s sometimes referred to as the “school of life” and is frequently described as a sort of medicinal countercultural revolution—leading back into the roots of music and into the very humanity that created it. 
Fruition sweeps away societal labels and walls that come with being a member of such an individualistic culture, and they do it by appealing to and bringing together a limitless audience. People from all walks of life find enjoyment in their performances. 

As guitarist Kellen Asebroek puts it, “it’s a show and a party and just a chance to be yourself.” The satisfaction of the audience is a direct result of the chemistry of the performers, who describe themselves as family.

“The first time we played together was live, out in the street, for a moving audience, which was a pretty raw experience,” Asebroek said. “We noticed that when we all sang together, that was when people really stopped and listened.”

In fact, one reason Fruition stands out in the buoyant sea of Portland bluegrass is because of their masterfully unpolished harmonies. Don’t be misguided though—their harmonies are tight, but in a loose, very organic, very human fashion. Solos and vocals are indulged by all four members, which in addition to Asebroek include Mimi Naja, Keith Simon and Jay Cobb Anderson. 

As far as influences go, Gillian Welch is the most widely agreed-upon source of influence by all band mates, though inspiration is anything but finite. 

“We are inspired,” said Asebroek, “by everything that happens in a day, in a month, in a lifetime. We all vibe to the groovier side of music, like old funk and...." (CONTINUE READING HERE)