Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

Mike,
My sentiments exactly!
Pete

tony1 wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> I don't know that piece, but your playing and production is in a word
> "brilliant".
> Well done my friend and I am eager to hear more!
>
> Best,
> Tony
> Tampa
> U.S.A.
> #510
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> ∗From:∗ Mike Dickson <mailto:mike.dickson@gmail.com>
> ∗To:∗ newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> ∗Sent:∗ Monday, September 29, 2008 4:59 PM
> ∗Subject:∗ [newmellotrongroup] mellotronworks
>
> It'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.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/Barbers%20Adagio.mp3
>
> Comments welcomed.
>
>