Mellotronists

Hi Jeff,

Yes, I have been listening to it for several weeks now. I dunno, most of 
the string sounds are too real to be Tron or Chamberlin. There is 
something very tronny on Better Version of Me. That's the drawback of 
downloading music - no liner notes. I usually buy stuff just to get the 
notes. With this one there's nothing to buy :-( Great album though.

She's used an M1 on her previous albums, especially the first. I saw her 
in concert when she toured for her first album, and she had Patrick 
Warren on keys, including an M1.

An interesting bit of trivia: On the video to Shadow Boxer (off her 
first album), which is shot in a studio, there is an M300 in the 
background. There are a couple of shots where you can see it clearly. 
And even one closeup of the controls and the nameplate "Mellotron". 
Unfortunately the whole video is shot to look like a very slow frame 
rate, sort of herky jerky.

Bob S.


Jeff Coulter wrote:

>after reading up on the controversy [real or imagined] regarding
>fiona's unreleased album "extraordinary machine" i decided to
>download it [via bittorrent].
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>[ more on the story here: http://www.fionaapple.org/ ]
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>i just started playing the first track, and on my crappy office
>pc speakers, it sure sounds redolent with mellotron. hard to
>say with these POS speakers though...
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>anybody else have a listen to it yet?
>some of the parts sounds far too articulated to be a tron, but
>the timbre sounds right... maybe it's samples?
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