3486: Mass for Mellotron - a podcast by Cities and Memory
from 2020-11-02T18:55:55
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Tempio Canoviano in Possagno reimagined by Nick St. George.
"When I was a Prog Rock-loving teenager, I had a thing about Mellotrons. I used to buy albums just because they had a Mellotron on them! Imagine my delight then, when I recently discovered some virtual Mellotron software - its choral sounds seeming appropriate for this setting, though they turned out to be rather more demonic than angelic!
"There's even a hint of distant choral singing in the field recording as a cue. It is almost as if some arcane and somewhat unsettling ritual is being performed in the church, while daily life continues all around it. And this is interrupted occasionally by a mad and somewhat limited organist, performing upon an instrument that has seen better days!"
"When I was a Prog Rock-loving teenager, I had a thing about Mellotrons. I used to buy albums just because they had a Mellotron on them! Imagine my delight then, when I recently discovered some virtual Mellotron software - its choral sounds seeming appropriate for this setting, though they turned out to be rather more demonic than angelic!
"There's even a hint of distant choral singing in the field recording as a cue. It is almost as if some arcane and somewhat unsettling ritual is being performed in the church, while daily life continues all around it. And this is interrupted occasionally by a mad and somewhat limited organist, performing upon an instrument that has seen better days!"
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