TORTOISE

The idea for this muscial project came from FLAMBOROUGH HEAD's keyboard player Edo Spanninga and was by accident when he tested some recording equipment in order to record Seventies styled music as a fun-project. Eventually Edo was so excited about the results that he recruited other FLAMBOROUGH HEAD member Eddie Mulder (guitars and bass) and ODYSSICE drummer Menno Boomsma to make an album. The name TRION is a contraction of the words 'trio' and '(Mello)tron', simply because the band is a trio and because Edo only used Mellotron samples (flute, oboe, strings, organ, cello, vibe and choir) for his keyboard sound on this album. The music on TRION's debut-CD "Tortoise" is simply structured but it sounds very warm and melodic. It ranges from classical and folk to symphonic rock and has hints from early IQ, mid-GENESIS and YES and bands from the EARLY BRITISH PROGRESSIVE ROCK MOVEMENT like GRACIOUS and SPRING.

The music contains lots of fine guitarwork and moving Mellotron sounds (from a flute like "Strawberry field forever" to a choir like "Afterglow"). Eddie Mulder does a good job with his varied guitarplay (from mellow twanging acoustic guitars to howling electric guitar solos) and Menno Boomsma delivers a solid but subtle background. Some will complain that this album sounds a bit tame or too laidback but others will describe it as warm and compelling music. In my opinion we have to be grateful that TRION got the chance to make wonderful this music, far beyond the emotionless, predictable and multinational sponsored commercial crap from the charts. TRION maniac's alert, this is a Mellotron fan's wet dream!