Mellotron/Chamberlin Discoveries For The Week
2003-03-07 by mellotrongirl
A couple this time--and I barely caught them both. With impending warmer weather, I may be sidetracked to my seasonal employment and as a result, I might miss a few new recordings in my reviewings...so if I fade from posting for long periods, it's just because I'm outdoors more often away from state-of-the-art component prerecorded semiquadrophonic audio reproduction equipment. "...and remember, I use ten words where perhaps one would suffice" - The Firesign Theatre First is from a band in the Bay Area who have been around awhile doing adventurous light pop along with multi-media shows, and now have a debut CD out. ViV "ViV" (self-released) Has confirmed Mellotron strings way in the background throughout the song "Say Goodbye", and for an instant on "Smiles Like A Maniac". Although there is no mention of Mellotron used on the CD, it was confirmed by the band's leader Matt Ostrander in an e-mail returned to me today after I brought it up. I forgot who asked him who the player was. Another ViV member, Matt Lucich, was in a prog outfit called Delusion for awhile. www.vivtheband.com Secondly is another new CD from Budapest "Too Blind To Hear" (Republic/Universal 440 067 160-2) in which the last song "Nothing New" has some icey lo-pitch strings (unconfirmed) beginning halfway through the song. Chris Pemberton is noted in the line-up playing "keyboard". www.budapestuk.com Another non-prog CD--mostly of indie med-tempo pop and ballads.