OFF: Mantric Muse

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

don't know it Keith - as curious to know more as yuo are I think -
someone?????
Andy G.
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From: "K Henderson" <henderson.120 at OSU.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:25 AM
Subject: OFF: Mantric Muse


> Hey...
>
> What can you folks tell me about Mantric Muse?  I've just heard a couple
of
> their tracks from Jerry's show on the upcoming Copenhagen SpaceRock Fest
> (which looks to be a real, what you call it?, corker?), and was quite
> impressed.  Very Ozric-y, Delerium-label type stuff - impressive swirly
> effects and lovely 'circular' guitar licks.  I won't bring up the 'what's
> the point if they sound so much like Band X' (or should I say Group X?).
:)
>
> I like them, and they do sound like they have some point to being.
>
> So...the usual questions....what's available, what label, where from, LP
or
> CD, out-of-print or not, who has it (AG?).
>
> That's all....Grakkl (FAA)
>
> P.S.  Is anybody here planning to go see the Nektar reunion at NEARFest
> (Trenton, NJ) last weekend of June?  All original members, plus Larry Fast
> and lighting guy Mick Brockett.  The new album (which only featured Roye
and
> Taff, but still considered "Nektar") leaves a little to be desired (though
> it's not horrible), but I guess they'll be pretty much doing a retro
> dinosaur show there, with a big RtF spiel and (I'm hoping) some stuff from
> the first album.
>
> P.P.S.  I was listening to Genesis' 'Saving England by the Pound' the
other
> day (just to remind myself how average this band was), and noticing that
> there are several mentions of a 'Liquid Len' in the lyrics.  So is that
> coincidence, and if not, who came first?  This is a 1973 album I think, so
> probably a 1972 recording.