Mellotronists

Tony Mansfield's mid 70's band "Reeman Zeegus" had a Mellotronist 
(Paul Tattersall).  Tony went on to produce some unique material...
(New Musik, Naked Eyes, Captain Sensible).  

New Musik - From A to B was probably one of the first recordings that 
showed off the Prophet 5.  Tony and keyboardist Clive Gates did some 
outrageous things in the studio.  (Recall the thick synth string / 
brass bits, the Korg sonar bleeps and the Eventide Harmoniser vocal 
effects).

Quoting Fritz "You are never as outrageous as you think you are.  
When going for an effect, make yourself nervous". 

http://home.tiscali.se/musicworld/mansfield.html
See Clive Gates interview for an explanation of "World of Water" 
vocal effect.

Clay

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:19:53PM -0000, ceccles_ca wrote:
> 
> 
> Tony Mansfield's mid 70's band "Reeman Zeegus" had a Mellotronist 
> (Paul Tattersall).  Tony went on to produce some unique material...
> (New Musik, Naked Eyes, Captain Sensible).  
> 
> New Musik - From A to B was probably one of the first recordings that 
> showed off the Prophet 5.  Tony and keyboardist Clive Gates did some 
> outrageous things in the studio.  (Recall the thick synth string / 
> brass bits, the Korg sonar bleeps and the Eventide Harmoniser vocal 
> effects).
> 

Damn, I thought I was one of the few that actually heard of (and own)
the New Musik discs (From A to B, Anywhere, Warp)

Great early synth pop stuff.

thanks for the link

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Tom Moravansky <tom@s...> wrote:
Damn, I thought I was one of the few that actually heard of (and own)
the New Musik discs (From A to B, Anywhere, Warp)
Great early synth pop stuff.

The "Anywhere" recording is good pop material and good for testing a 
sub-woofer.  (Lots of low frequency synth).

"Warp" is __________ ?  Hard to describe.  Too wierd for me!

Clay

----- Original Message -----

From: MSB

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Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:10 PM

Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: tron trivia time

NOW to go and check out good ol' Reeman Zeegus........Thank YOU!!!

After a quick Google search, I strongly suspect they never recorded. I have, though, found an equipment hire company, originally based in south London, as were New Musik, co-run by one Paul Tattersall. Plenty of vintage kit, but no 'Tron. Actually, several odd 'misses', with no Hammonds or MiniMoog either.

Andy T.

On 10 Nov 2004, at 15:19, ceccles_ca wrote:

>
> New Musik - From A to B was probably one of the first recordings that
> showed off the Prophet 5.  Tony and keyboardist Clive Gates did some
> outrageous things in the studio.  (Recall the thick synth string /
> brass bits, the Korg sonar bleeps and the Eventide Harmoniser vocal
> effects).

What a great album that was!
innovative, and very much 'of its time' but splendid nonetheless



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On 10 Nov 2004, at 16:42, ceccles_ca wrote:
>
>
> The "Anywhere" recording is good pop material and good for testing a
> sub-woofer.  (Lots of low frequency synth).
>
> "Warp" is __________ ?  Hard to describe.  Too wierd for me!
>

Doesn't do it for me either!

New Musik were on GTO records and were signed by Safta Jaffery, who 
publishes our stuff now...... I think he probably did a better job for 
them.

Cx

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