Mellotronists

For your entertainment pleasure (despite weather, authorities, and 
pressure from third-world governments), I present to you the past 
week's Mel/Cham aural piques: Just a couple this time:

1. SPOON "Don't Let It Get You Down"-- a previously unreleased tune 
dated 2002 that appears on the latest Merge Records compilation, 
titled "Survive and Advance, Vol. 2". Light M-400 strings 
(unconfirmed)in the middle towards the end. 

2. PINEFOREST CRUNCH "Panama Renko" (Shangri La ST-5) This one 
probably has been out awhile (2001), but just came across my desk 
Monday in a package with no return address mailed direct from 
Stockholm, Sweden with two other nifty CD's (Nanook Of The North & 
Geller), and has light strings and flutes here and there 
(confirmed...even shout out kudos to Dave Kean and Pea Hicks among 
many others in the liner notes... And speaking of Hicks, a nice 
Optigan track titled "Romantic Strings" using the disc (you guessed 
it) Romantic Strings...sounds a bit like the Optiganally Yours' track
"Nighters" from Spotlight On, but a bit more chopped up/sampled, 
higher pitch...maybe a full octave, and actually boasts GREAT Optigan 
fidelity (imagine that). 

(This update, along with other reviews and submissions to progressive 
music message boards and publications are in compliance with terms of 
my probation as outlined in a court of law. I figured that since I'm 
such a slow typist, I just worked off two hours of my community 
service on this posting alone.)

Kind of a dry week despite the flood of new music crossing my desk:

SUPERGRASS "Life On Other Planets" (Island 440 063 685-2 [U.S.])Track 
#7 "Never Done Nothing Like That Before" has a mere five seconds of 
flute 'tron beginning at the 30 second mark. It's a weird split bit--
one note ascending, the other descending--and drops in out of nowhere 
on this frantic tune. Part of the CD was recorded at Rockfield 
Studios, so I'm willing to bet it was the in-house Mellotron, as I've 
never heard Mellotron on any of their recordings before.

np: Lonely Bears "Running"