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ANADIAN QUASI-A There wasn't really a time when

we said we want to be !ike the
CAPPELLA quartet Stones or we want to be the next

Led Zeppelin.
Capriccioso Moxy Fruvous. “The start of it was saying:
.. Zippy harmoniousness for ‘Let’s busk on the street and
thinking young things.

we'll do it a cappella because we
The Torontonians are a Cana-

don’t want to carry any instru-
dian music scene success story of

reeting Conds.

ments,’
the moment.

Like Bare Naked Ladies, Moxy
Fruvous (named after two pigs met
by the members in Flesherton, On-
tario} have zoomed from tke street
to major label success in short
order.

High school pals Mike Ford,
Murray Foster, Jean Ghomeshi and

David Matheson were busking the
burnished streets of Hogtown just
three years ago. A six-song
cassette, independently released in
1992, went gold in Canada with
50,000 units sold.

Warner Music Canada heard a
good thing and negotiated a five-
disc deal.

Bargainville, just out of the box,
is the debut.

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RECORD REVIEW

Moxy Fruvous plays Vancouver
on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at the
Vogue theatre.

Music Now spoke with Murray
Foster, bass and guitar player and
one quarter of the prismatic vocal
sound that is Moxy Fruvous.
Music Now: Have any particular
vocal harmony groups inspired
you?

Foster: ‘‘For us it's a bit of a
strange question. We've always
done things as a lark. We've walk-
ed down quite a few musical
avenues because we wanted to.

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“We've had to go back ana
learn some technique as we've
gone along. We started as ana
cappella band that couldn't sing a
cappella, basically. It is a musical
style that you have to learn the
Parameters of just like anything
else.

“So we listened to some Take 6
and our arrangements come a bit
from the Beatles and CSNY anda
bit of the doo-wop stuff.”

Music Now: This concept of
Bargainville, are most Canadians
living in that place?

Foster: “‘E think so. It’s sort of a
symbol! for the time — a bit down
at the heel, things are a bit

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