Mellotron

PORCUPINE TREE TAKES NEW APPROACH FOR 'THE INCIDENT'
Goldmine; 12/18/2009; 1119 words; ...I don't really fulfill the traditional role in the group," says Barbieri. "Sometimes Steven has already written some mellotron or organ part or something like that, and it's more in a basic traditional sense. And sometimes, at some stage, you...

The music to my year
The Independent - London; 12/11/2009; 1436 words; ...and the kind of bracing rustic psychedelia that once emanated from Traffic's country cottage, full of spangly guitars, Mellotron and backward tape effects - but also '80s disco-funk, Krautrock motorik and widescreen Morricone soundtrack stylings for...

NEW RELEASES
The Independent - London; 11/20/2009; 1737 words; ...funkier as it proceeds; and in the way that Spanish guitar and clarinet waltz with some weird keyboard - optigan, perhaps, or mellotron - as Tom confides how "the kiss don't know what the lips will say" in "The Part You Throw Away". In some cases, as...

POP
The Independent - London; 10/26/2009; 584 words; ...collaborator from Africa Express, pulls his baseball cap down hard and is unrecognised by anyone around me, as he plays his mellotron-like film-noir harmonica in a long guest spot. He finds a context for his English psychedelia here, just as Kouyate...

PREMATURE EVALUATION
The Press; 10/23/2009; 947 words; ...Were Aborted, first single Cheat On Me, and the title track are all among the band's best work. Unexpected cello and mellotron prove that The Cribs are willing to push their sound forward, but they do so without sacrificing their punk roots. Ignore...