Everything was originally conceived as a project , as it is still today but found that they were a band on and off. It started back in 1999 when Patrick Fransson recorded his demo songs under the project Frays who made two album, but when they took the project to a new level the project change their name to Fraise. Patrick has previously played in Alingsås band Cathedral, Blue Orange, Hawk, Velvet Crash and punkrockers Räserbajs. Fraise productions are produced, recorded, mixed by Patrick Fransson, which also stands for the most part by letting the writing and is the engine of the band. 2004 released self-produced album " Hellicornia " , with the hope attracted members from different bands. The album received overwhelming critical acclaim and they were planning to put together a more permanent band, everyone involved said yes without Simon Lindholm, who was replaced by Svante Widerström (Cathedral, Fatal Tabasco, Stingrayone) on bass. The singer Jesper Max was with at first but not present for longer periods when they tried a handful number of singers with no results. Jesper appeared to finish up and finalized " Hellicornia " . The band performed a handful of gigs in Sweden and a German tour company showed interest in a small European tour and a Swedish record label. But again could Jesper absent from rehearsals and they booked the gigs, so the band had to cancel sometimes resulting in both negotiations fizzled out. Guitarist Anders Karlsson went back to his old band Haze and was replaced by Christian Doyle. It was a long time without singer between 2005 & 2006 when they received a tip about Jimmie Nielsson, who temporarily stepped in and performed a gig but soon thereafter was replaced permanently by Ola Hedman. The recording of the second album, "A new beginning" started and was released in the fall of 2007, and it also did this a handful of gigs including Trägårn in Gothenburg. The band had then kicked keyboardist Håkan Ivarsson. The release of the album was made by CD Baby (U.S.A.) Two years later, the recording of the third album "Siamese Conspiracy" where even Ola and Christian were involved in the songwriting that previously had been left to Patrick. After all guitars were recorded Christian declared that he was forced to drop out because of their eczema. To then bring in a new guitarist and deliberate on all guitars would take too long. And Christian had done a great guitar work as well. It was then decided to keep Christians comp guitars and solos were played by Gunnar Hard af Segerstad (Disdain) as new prospective guitarist. Svante Widerström who placed the base of the two songs had increasingly begun to engage with his own band Arbogast, so Svante had to jump off and the base was about Ola himself who also plays acoustic guitar and keyboards on the record. Then, when Simon Lindholm was available for Fraise choice was obvious, Simon who played on the debut album "Hellicornia". The band was now full strength when Gunnar felt that the music was not quite in line with what he wanted to play guitar so the search started again ... They invited several guitarists but no one seemed to scratch enough. The album "Siamese Conspiracy" had now been finished for a while and in 2014 it was decided to release it on digital distrubition only. When the process has been so protracted, Ola Hedman lost motivation which came with a drop off. Fraise made a big distribution deal with Distrosong AB. The project lives on and what happens in the future will be very interesting.
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