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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Fabulous work, but I honestly don't think it fits here. Lach'n Jonsson plays all manner of instruments on it, and sings to boot. A widly eclectic collection of impeccably eccentric and original songs, but not 'electronic' as such.
    Fair enough.I thought it might be a stretch;i'll substitute Syrinx-Tumblers From The Vault(1970-1972).I don't recall hearing any vocals on it(haven't played it in a while).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    If ELP would fit the bill, if they wouldn't have vocals, I think SFF fits the bill.
    Ok.

    Kenny Rogers too, if he was essentially a hardworkin' instrumental keyboard guru. And Oswald Spengler, Ronald Reagan, Martha Stewart etc.
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    All good choices mentioned so far. I'll add:

    Zero Time - T.O.N.T.O.'s Expanding Head Band (not counting the synthesized vocals on side 1)
    Cosmic Furnace - Roger Powell (been so long, don't think it has vocals)

    Then there's a bunch by older jazz guys doing Moog demo-type albums like Dick Hyman, Raymond Scott, etc.
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    Synergy: Electronic Realizations For Rock Orchestra (already mentioned)
    Jan Hammer- The First Seven Days
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    Rather than repeat I'll just add a couple that I personally love:

    Klaus Schulze - Timewind
    Ash Ra - New Age of Earth

    ... and a couple of relatively obscure dark horses I like:

    Galactic Explorers - Epitaph for Venus
    Didier Bocquet - Voyage Cerebral

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Ok.

    Kenny Rogers too, if he was essentially a hardworkin' instrumental keyboard guru. And Oswald Spengler, Ronald Reagan, Martha Stewart etc.
    Don't forget Alexander Lukashenko - probably the best synth lead man of any of the current crop of ruthless corrupt dictators today!

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    Quote Originally Posted by battema View Post
    (even if it is frustratingly devoid of mellotrons so it can't be real true prog)
    Has anyone ever done an album of Mellotron and nothing but Mellotron???

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    No particular order, and I had a tough time making it up to five.



    Flamen Dialis - Symptome Dei
    Tomita - Snowflakes are dancing
    Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
    Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
    Besombes/Rizet - Pôle
    Igor Wakhevitch - Hathor
    Popol Vuh - Im den Gärten Pharaos
    Silver Apples - début
    White Noise - Electric Storm
    Roger Powell - Cosmic Furnace
    Wendy Carlos - Sonic Seasonings
    Galactic Explorers - Epitaph for Venus
    Didier Bocquet - Voyage Cerebral (or Eclipse)
    TD - Phaedra
    Moondog - New sound of an Old Instrument. (not sure this qualifies, but close enough)
    Klaus Schulze - Timewind
    Heldon- Electronic Guerrilla


    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Has anyone ever done an album of Mellotron and nothing but Mellotron???
    Flamen Dialis comes really close, methink
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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Has anyone ever done an album of Mellotron and nothing but Mellotron???
    That is an excellent question. The most prog of any prog album that was ever progged into being, that would be...
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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Has anyone ever done an album of Mellotron and nothing but Mellotron???
    Jasun Martz' The Pillory comes dangerously close, although there's an additional orchestra and a choir as well. Absolutely one of the albums which clearly displays the obvious limitations of the mellotron, as it wears extremely thin only few minutes in. Far better is Lars Pedersen's (again: When) Gynt, on which he plays intendedly havoc and deconstructs Grieg's Peer Gynt through samples, cutups and colossal amounts of mellotron - the latter utilized in a most unconventional/untraditional fashion.
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    https://www.musicbrut.com/the-pillory-reviews

    Jason will be happy to send you an autographed copy. I got one, but much as SS has indicated it fails to live up to the hype IMO.

    ... but there's so much hype I might have to re-visit. Haven't listened in years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    Schicke Führs Fröhling - Symphonic pictures
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    Amin Bhatia - The Interstellar Suite
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    Roger Powell - Cosmic Furnace
    More winners. My fave of the Cinema lot was Michael Hoenig's Xcept One. That one and Miracle Mile are two of my favorite "all digital synths" albums.

    Quote Originally Posted by rickmoraz View Post
    Surprised Zombi hasn't made an appearance yet: Surface to Air, Escape Velocity, Shape Shift are all listenable to.
    I was trying to be respectful of LP and not type up a yuge post. But I'd just as soon throw Shape Shift or Surface To Air in there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    clearly displays the obvious limitations of the mellotron, as it wears extremely thin only few minutes in.
    With the many Mellotron tapes that nobody ever uses, and the possibility of overdubbing and cutting and editing in the studio, it surprises me that “Mellotron solo” albums aren’t a thing. I mean, look at what Francis Monkman did with an ARP Odyssey on Darryl Way’s “Concerto for Electric Violin”!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buddhabreath View Post
    I got one, but much as SS has indicated it fails to live up to the hype IMO.
    The funny thing is that it'd might have worked were it not for the massive use of that mechanical old box. The more 'expressionist' passages with the choir are sometimes outrageously powerful and evoke the likes of David Bedford (his timbral compositions like Star's End) or even Sam Hayden.

    I need to revisit Martz as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    Flamen Dialis comes really close, methink
    I listened to samples online. I don't think so.

    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor
    Jasun Martz' The Pillory comes dangerously close, although there's an additional orchestra and a choir as well.
    Yeah, LOTS of orchestra & choir if memory serves. I'm relistening to it right now. It never struck me as a "Mellotron solo" album. Still doesn't. It always reminded me more of Centipede's "Septober Energy."

    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor
    Far better is Lars Pedersen's (again: When) Gynt, on which he plays intendedly havoc and deconstructs Grieg's Peer Gynt through samples, cutups and colossal amounts of mellotron - the latter utilized in a most unconventional/untraditional fashion.
    Is there even Mellotron anywhere on this? I'm listening to the YT video and not hearing any.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Is there even Mellotron anywhere on this? I'm listening to the YT video and not hearing any.
    There are isolated parts where several mellotrons are dubbed and make out the only instrument present, albeit later on in the piece. But there are also digital samples of mellotrons in several places throughout, and the mellotron applied as soundsource for timbres and noises not normally heard from the instrument at all. But you're right in that it's hardly anything near a 'tron solo' record as such.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Has anyone ever done an album of Mellotron and nothing but Mellotron???
    Don't know of it's 'prog' as such but Mike Dickson has done a couple of classical reworking on Mellotron.

    http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Halmyre View Post
    Don't know of it's 'prog' as such but Mike Dickson has done a couple of classical reworking on Mellotron.

    http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/
    Now THAT is more what I was hoping for. Thanks!

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    Limiting to one per artist, otherwise Bo would get 3 selections:

    Bo Hansson - Sagan Om Ringen
    Anthony Phillips - 1984
    Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
    Kit & Coco - In Time
    Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing

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    I almost always go for guitar dominated instrumental prog so it's hard to come up with five. So I'll give you two from PE members that get a lot of play in the Johnson house.

    Fred Schendel's Do Not See Me Rabbit is a fine and almost pastoral album

    https://trurl.bandcamp.com/album/do-not-see-me-rabbit

    John Battema's In This Hour is yet another descent into darkness by that sad bastard. I've played the hell out of this.

    https://battema.bandcamp.com/
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    Lalle Larsson is worth checking out.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerjo View Post
    John Battema's In This Hour is that yes another descent into darkness by that sad bastard. I've played the hell out of this.

    https://battema.bandcamp.com/
    You have?!? Jesus, that explains sooooo much.

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    Franck Balestracci - good stuff




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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerjo View Post
    John Battema's In This Hour is that yes another descent into darkness by that sad bastard. I've played the hell out of this.

    https://battema.bandcamp.com/
    JFC. How could I not have heard this 'til now??? It's freaking BRILLIANT!

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Has anyone ever done an album of Mellotron and nothing but Mellotron???
    Probably not, or I'm not aware of. Edgar Froese's Epsylon In Malaysian Pale would be the closest you may find but it's not 100% Mellotron.

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