Mellotronists

From: <jeffc@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Solo trons


> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Doug Berg wrote:
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>> > Hi Mark   Need to mention this is just one person's opinion so for
>> what it's worth:
>>    Solos, yes, ,and off the top of my head King Crimson's Lizard Lp
>> is packed with tron leads, most of the Tron work of Passport,
>> Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express, come to think of it Neptunes which
>> I believe also uses the M-tron.
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> not to pick nits, but kraftwerk's TEE is actually an orchestron, and
> not a mellotron. see:
> http://www.optigan.com/tidbits.html#6
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> it's an easy one to mistake for a mellotron, and for years that's
> what i thought it was also. another is popol vuh's "Aguirre". it
> sounds like a mellotron choir, but it's some oddity called a
> "choir organ" or something like that [or WAS it?]:
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> The music sets the tone. It is haunting, ecclesiastical, human and yet
> something else. It is by Florian Fricke, whose band Popol Vuh (named for
> the Mayan creation myth) has contributed the soundtracks to many Herzog
> films. For this opening sequence, Herzog told me, We used a strange
> instrument, which we called a 'choir-organ.' It has inside it three dozen
> different tapes running parallel to each other in loops. ... All these
> tapes are running at the same time, and there is a keyboard on which you
> can play them like an organ so that [it will] sound just like a human
> choir but yet, at the same time, very artificial and really quite eerie.''
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> this same sound seems to turn up on a number of german prog albums. makes
> me wonder if it was in a studio that a bunch of these bands recorded at.
> conny plank had a mellotron in his studio, and that turns up time and
> time again on different records.
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> sorry... drifting off-topic for this thread...
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> ...jeff
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