Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Mellotron and Yes (You and I - Close to the Edge)

Yes, being one of my dad's favorite bands, is something I had a pretty large exposure to growing up, so I thought it would be fun to revisit them again to look at their use of mellotron in their music (and there's quite a lot of use of the instrument - Rick Wakeman was quite the fan). I decided to focus on the song You and I from the album Close to the Edge, where you can hear a mellotron used to emulate the sounds of strings, brass, and flutes.

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