While we're on the subject,
If nobody's heard this one, a band called The
Wedding Present, the new album "Take Fountain". Loads
of beautifully placed Mellotron. It's a new fave.
-Jack Younger
E103S "Bananacapstana-fo-fanna...capstan!"
--- mellotrongirl <
mellotrongirl@...> wrote:
> Just to touch on Sino/Anglo/American rigamarole for
> an instant...first
> of all, I thought it was only the Japanese who seem
> to be famous for
> exchanging the "R" sound for the "L" sound, and not
> the Chinese,
> Koreans, and others in the area.
>
> "If you spin someone around and around from the Far
> East, do they
> become disOriented?"
>
> When I think of China these days, I think of the
> upward urban
> skyscraper explosion taking place over there.
> Incredible modern
> skylines, and peppered with nice parks, riparian
> zones, green areas,
> and many times bumped up against farmland with
> minimal suburban areas
> as buffers. It seems they have come to grips with
> its burgeoning
> population and land use issues. They must. What ever
> happened to the
> one child per family birth control ruling? The
> internal problem now is
> their appetite for petroleum.
>
> And as for the bit about the Chinese wanting Hong
> Kong to drive on the
> right side of the road like the rest of the country
> (Okinawa did it
> overnight when the U.S. turned it back over to
> Japan, but it's a bit
> different when instead of 70,000 people, you're
> dealing with a
> population of fifteen million.
>
> I suggest to be less of a shock to the Hong Kong
> driving public, the
> switchover should be implemented in stages. Week
> One=bicycles, motor
> scooters, moped, motorcycles...Week Two=trucks and
> buses...Week
> Three=passenger cars, vans--well, you get the idea.
>
> I came across a CD today, a teaser for an upcoming
> release on
> 4AD/Beggars (US) August 9th by Minotaur Shock titled
> "Maritime".
> Minotaur Shock is a one man effort by David Edwards,
> who also front a
> band I have not heard before, Bronze Age Fox.
>
> It's all cerebral instrumental music, cleverly
> crafted, layered, and
> woven together into something the bio sheet claims
> has a nod to Boards
> of Canada, but I think it's overall more along the
> lines of if Phillip
> Glass played with Capitol K with just a dash of
> Steve Fisk or
> Supercollider (the Emigre band, and not the newer
> band on some other
> label). Three of the eleven cuts have nice up-front
> doses of
> Mellotron...icey strings, bassoon, woodwinds, flute,
> and several male
> and female choir mixes. One song "Somebody Once Told
> Me..." has an
> intro that hints of both Simon & Garfunkel's "El
> Condor Pasa" and
> Strange Advance's "Worlds Away" kicking off at the
> same time. Catchy
> as all get-out. Something David Edwards did in his
> living room, and
> the kind of stuff I wish I could do with the array
> of analog gear I
> have and a Zoom MRS-1608CD digital recorder...
>
> I'll have to hunt down material by the Bronze Age
> Fox...
>
> www.minotaurshock.com
>
>
>
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