Mellotronists

Andy Thompson wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Anderson" <jimanderson@...>
> To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 7:32 AM
> Subject: [Mellotronists] trion
> 
> 
> 
>>Has anyone ever heard this band?  I thought i'd TOFTT & ordered it 
>>today...
>>http://home.hetnet.nl/~spanninga120360/Trion/home.htm
>>
>>-jim/m400#680
> 
> 
> This one's all samples - dunno if the music's any good.

Yes it's all samples, used extremely well too, lest anyone is going to 
turn their nose up at without hearing it.  It ranges from quite good to 
very good musically, with an obvious "quiet genesis" feel to a lot of the 
tracks.  It takes a few tracks before it hits its stride, but after a 
couple of listens it hangs together well.  (I'd have rearranged the 
running-order).  It's been described elsewhere as elevator prog.  I think 
that suggests "Trion" is muzaky and lightweight, but it's really more 
ambient-prog / dreamy-pastoral prog / Camel-with-a-tron prog than elevator 
/ phone-on-hold prog, IMO.

An even better bet if you're looking for something to spend your money on 
(and my front-runner for best album of 2003) is "Le Notti Difficili" by La 
Zona.  They are another Finisterre side-project, though instead of the 
lush Italian symphonic-prog that might suggest, this one comes at you from 
the Porcupine Tree does ambient-prog meets dreamy 2am trumpet-jazz via 
"Islands" meets post-rock end of things.  45 minutes (4 tracks) that needs 
to be digested as a single entity, growing from stark minimalism to a huge 
roar back into calm and then silence.  I can't praise this too highly.

> Andy T.
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Cheers,
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