Mellotronists

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From: "mellotrongirl" <mellotrongirl@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 6:37 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Bizarre/Fractured Mellotron CD of the week


> Thanks to those keeping the sounds alive/available...it seems most of
> the newer recordings utilising 'Trons are indie pop bands, and not so
> much psyche, ambient and prog bands.

That's pretty much my experience gathering info for my site - lots of US
acts using Chamberlin instead of Mellotron, too. There are some honourable
exceptions, but many current prog bands use samples, whereas the indie crowd
are far more authentic. Huh?

> Yet alongs comes CD that is so mutant, it's downright unsettling. In
> the mail last Friday came the latest from Mat Maneri,
> titled "Pentagon" (Thirsty Ear THI-57163-2). Cacophonious far flung
> free form jazz--ten guys going in ten different directions. I don't
> even know why I kept this thing on in my CD player, but along comes
> the title track near the end...and there's choir Mellotron played
> recklessly. The player (Jamie Soft) without reservation tweaks the
> pitch knob, adjusts the track selector to purposefully bleed adjacent
> sounds, and lets the tapes warble out to the eight second mark.
> Emotional unstability flexed on a stable machine.

Sounds extremely cool! Makes Sleepytime Gorilla Museum sound normal?

Andy T.