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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: mellotronworks

From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
Date: 2008-10-29

Yes, you're right.

Listening to my CDs might slow you down from two years to three. :-)

Mike 'The Theorist' Dickson

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:

Mike Dickson wrote:
>
> Hmmm. Richard Wagner? Tell me more. I like Twisted Rick.
>
> The RVW was scored for strings, so choirs would have been a bit out
> of place really. See /Spem In Alium/ on /In Excelsis/ for a choir
> fix. ;-)

Not yet! If I start listening to your new solo albums I will only get
sidetracked from working on "overfulnoisecascad e" for The Theory.

> The one thing I left out of the /Tallis Fantasia /(and which I may
> add in at a later date) is something I had first heard when I was
> first played the piece many moons ago chez Smith. To me it is the
> perfect evocation of rolling english fields, sunny days and all
> things /idyllic and pastoral/. I had an inclination to meet the
> fade off with the sound of birds singing, sheep bleating and
> distant church bells recorded in some leafy part of
> Buckinghamshire. Kind of /Granchester Meadows /meets /Fat Old Sun/
> meets /Sheep/.

Three of my favourite PF tunes.
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