Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

1. Kinks

quixotic-records, another newsgroup here at yahoo! (which spotlights
psyche and obscure Sixties music) just today uploaded a handful of
Kinks tunes into their audio files, including one with lots of nice
cello (I suspect) 'tron. The Kinks "Lavender Hill" from their 1973
album "The Great Lost Kinks Album".

2. Mortality Rate of Mellotrons

I wonder if the band that took the spill off the embankment could
have been Spirit Of Christmas. I just found a used copy of
their "Lies To Live By" LP and I guess this (I believe) British
Columbia band was active around that time. Some nice Mellotron pops
up from the thick and lofty conceptual arrangements from time to
time.

3. Mio Records sent me a package of their initial handful of new
releases. They seem to specialise in reissuing very obscure and
localised indie recordings from central/east Europe and the Middle
East from mostly the 1970's. One from 1977 by Flamen Dialis
titled "Symptomi Dei" has to be heard to be believed. Lots of
dramatic and noodling Mellotron amidst other early synth
sounds...reminds me of Adrian Wagner meets Beaver & Krause at times,
but a bit craftier--so it cannot be easily related to other projects
out there. One short track features Dialis hammering away at a M-
400, playing it like a typewriter (not highly recommended for you
people at home without safety goggles). Lots of mp3's at the
Miorecords.com website.