Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

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.