Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

For your entertainment pleasure (despite weather, authorities, and
pressure from third-world governments), I present to you the past
week's Mel/Cham aural piques: Just a couple this time:

1. SPOON "Don't Let It Get You Down"-- a previously unreleased tune
dated 2002 that appears on the latest Merge Records compilation,
titled "Survive and Advance, Vol. 2". Light M-400 strings
(unconfirmed)in the middle towards the end.

2. PINEFOREST CRUNCH "Panama Renko" (Shangri La ST-5) This one
probably has been out awhile (2001), but just came across my desk
Monday in a package with no return address mailed direct from
Stockholm, Sweden with two other nifty CD's (Nanook Of The North &
Geller), and has light strings and flutes here and there
(confirmed...even shout out kudos to Dave Kean and Pea Hicks among
many others in the liner notes... And speaking of Hicks, a nice
Optigan track titled "Romantic Strings" using the disc (you guessed
it) Romantic Strings...sounds a bit like the Optiganally Yours' track
"Nighters" from Spotlight On, but a bit more chopped up/sampled,
higher pitch...maybe a full octave, and actually boasts GREAT Optigan
fidelity (imagine that).

(This update, along with other reviews and submissions to progressive
music message boards and publications are in compliance with terms of
my probation as outlined in a court of law. I figured that since I'm
such a slow typist, I just worked off two hours of my community
service on this posting alone.)