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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, Oct 17, 2009 3:03 am
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Court






















    

                  




There is a market in this....



http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/private/Court%20Reworked.mp3



As interpreted on Tibetian Signing Bowls. 





markpringnz wrote:


 

  

  
That is brilliant Mike even better than NIWS!

  

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com,
Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...> wrote:

>

> http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/private/Epitaph-Reworked.mp3

> 

> markpringnz wrote:

> > 

> >

> > Apparently in the 50th anniversary edition the mellotron will
be 

> > replaced with a kazoo.

> >

> > --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
  

> > <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
Mike Dickson 

> > <mike.dickson@> wrote:

> > >

> > > This may sound like heresy....

> > >

> > > Does anyone else have the new 40th anniversary edition
of 'In The Court

> > > of the Crimson King'? I do (as you may expect) and
believe it or not,

> > > what has been done to it in terms of sonic quality is
astounding. It's

> > > even better than the 30th anniversary edition (which I
thought was

> > > outstanding) and comes with some really good extras too.

> > >

> > > But.

> > >

> > > To me, the biggie on this album was always 'Epitaph'. It
was really 

> > this

> > > track that showed me the way and pointed me at a style
of music I don't

> > > think anyone else in the genre has come /close /to
equalling. And it 

> > was

> > > always the Mellotron that did it. Everything else in the
track was

> > > great, but the piercing shreik of the Mellotron
propelled it from being

> > > a /fairly/ standard minor key tune into something really
magical.

> > >

> > > Which begs the question: /what the shiny blue fuck has
happened 

> > here? /I

> > > was listening to the track again today having had a
feeling of loss 

> > in a

> > > couple of previous listens, and have suddenly found out
where it was

> > > coming from. Or not. At the close of the first chorus
the Mellotron

> > > climbs to the top E as well all know...and never gets
there. The 

> > note is

> > > /not there/. One note. Big deal, you may say, but it is
a /sublime

> > > /note. As Fripp himself has droned, you '/can play any
note they like

> > > provided it's the right one/'. And this is the right
one. It's sweet 

> > and

> > > perfect and rounds off the chorus perfectly. So why is
it omitted. It's

> > > even in tune!

> > >

> > > Worse is to come. /That pitch bend. /My 14 year old jaw
dropped on

> > > hearing it for the first time. I think I destroyed my
first copy by

> > > dropping the needle onto at point again and again and
again. It is a

> > > fantastic, blood-curdling hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck
experience. And

> > > on the 40th anniversary set it is /sludged out/. The
crescendo 

> > behind it

> > > absolutely overwhelms it to the extent that you can hear
the trick; one

> > > Mellotron plays a crescendo climbing 'flat' to E-minor
whilst the other

> > > one bends up to it. Expert fading on the original
ensured that the

> > > /effect /was heard but that the squeak of strings
ratcheted up like 

> > that

> > > /was not/. It's a superb moment. And you can barely hear
it on the new

> > > release.

> > >

> > > Has anyone else noticed this or any other weirdness/
It's the only 

> > track

> > > I have listened to in such detail so far, which makes me
a tad scared

> > > for the rest now. Actually, I'm playing it now and the
clarity of the

> > > piece now makes it sound like Mike Giles banging on
timpani in a 

> > studio,

> > > not the far-off and distant /sound of doom /that I know
so well. Maybe

> > > less is nore. Perhaps Fripp has /tinkered beyond.
/Perhaps I'll ask him.

> > >

> > > Musical choices aside, the sound quality is to be heard
and 

> > disbelieved.

> > > A friend with a good 5:1 system says that 21CSM is like
having the band

> > > play in your front room. It's that good.

> > >

> > > --

> > > Mike Dickson, Edinburgh

> > >

> > > Free Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/
  

> > <http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/>

> > > Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
  

> > <http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson>

> > > Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson
<http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson>

> > > Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson
  

> > <http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson>

> > >

> >

> > 

> 

> -- 

> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh

> 

> Free Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/
  

> Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson

> Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson

> Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson

>

  

  

  

 




-- 
Mike Dickson, Edinburgh

Free Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/ 
Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson
Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson
Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson