Mellotronists

In a message dated 2/11/2005 5:58:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
kornowicz@... writes:

> Fritz, if you're listening, I just got your CD, The Feeling of Far 
> in the mail today and am listening to it as I write. Nice sounds and 
> great variety! Apparently your family and friends are pretty 
> talented folks, as well as yourself.
> 
> As a fan of traditional Chinese musical instruments, I especially 
> appreciated the erhu on The Lonely Path. I think some Chinese 
> instruments like the erhu, dizi, yangqin and guzheng would make nice 
> Tron sounds. Would you agree?
> 
> Best of luck with the CD!
> 
> 

I'll second that.  This CD has been stuck in my CD player and my head ever 
since I got it two weeks ago.  Plenty of tasty Mellotron parts throughout, very 
well recorded too.  There's much more than Mellotron here, this CD has it all 
- interesting vocals (including family members, Ian LLoyd, and Chinese 
people), thoughtful lyrics, a variety of instruments (some I've never heard of), 
music that is well written and played.  About what we'd expect from Fritz after 
hearing some of his "Teaser" songs, portions of which were on the old Tronsounds 
website.  The new tunes on this CD are at least as strong as those, IMHO.    

Last night I also discovered Fritz's new website, which is a blast.  I knew 
that there was a website in the works, and it appears to be up and running.  
There's a very thorough review by Ken Leonard of "The Feeling of Far" on the 
website.  The link is www.fritzdoddy.com.  See if you can spot the mullet ;-).

Thanks, Fritz.
(You too, KL, for the review).

Ken M.