Mellotronists

At 07:29 PM 6/3/2004 +0000, jonesalley wrote:
>Huh?  Clarification requested - is that "we" as an RMI person?

Duncan Goddard, Gary Houghton, and Steve Dinsdale are part of Radio 
Massacre International, an electronic music trio out of the UK.  Loads of 
'tron and old synths, sequencers, plus guitar.  Recently they have added 
drums just for something different!

http://www.rmi.dircon.co.uk/

I will have a review on my web site of their recent concert in Philadelphia 
soon.

RMI have several "official" releases plus many many home-grown releases of 
studio and live material.

The sound?  Well, I'll avoid using the obvious Tangerine Dream 
reference.  RMI's sound is a bit more raw than that.  But you have mostly 
long tunes with sequencers, the occasional noise maker synths, some lead 
bits, and some spicy guitar work thrown over the top (NOTHING like Edgar 
Froese's guitar, thankfully---much more fitting to the rest of the 
music).  RMI's stuff is pretty much improvised, too--"six hands making 
music" I think someone said (and I think that was Duncan).

They're a good group of lads, btw.  It was great meeting them in Philly, 
and I enjoyed their concert.  I won't forget them warming up in the church 
during the afternoon on 2 'trons (Ian M. flute + 'tron flute) along with 
the church's organ...one of those hair standing up on the back of the neck 
moments...

...kl...
M400 #805 - yeah, like there's any hair left to stand up
M400 #1037 - i have no haaaiiiirrrr

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