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----- Original Message -----From: Mike DicksonSent: Monday, September 29, 2008 4:59 PMSubject: [newmellotrongroup] mellotronworksIt's a fairly open secret among a few people here that I'm workng on a fifth and (if planning is right, final) album which I hope to have released some time soon.
The album will be my take on a number of well-known classical works, recorded by me over the preceding five months or so. I don't read music and so it has been a slow and painful process at times, with me invariably surrounded by musical charts of my own creation as well as coloured scores, annotated manuscripts and post-it notes everywhere in sight. However, I have pressed on despite all the difficulties as I think the end result is going to be extremely worthwhile and comes with a bit of a twist.
The one major difference between this and other attempts to record these pieces is that everything on the album will be played on the Mellotron.
The album is to be called mellotronworks and I've taken the bold step of giving the good readers of this mailing list a preview. You can download my version of Samuel Barber's 1936 masterpiece Adagio for Strings from the following link: http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/ mellotronworks/ Barbers%20Adagio .mp3
Comments welcomed.-- Mike Dickson, EdinburghFree Music Project: http://www.last. fm/music/ Mike+DicksonOr http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/