Epsilon In New Orleans Pale (4:06)

Emdot’s earlier song, Cryogenic Froese, had begun as an exploration of Tangerine Dream’s use of Mellotron strings, choir and flute in their 1970s space music. That song, however, transformed itself into something quite different, so here Emdot picked up the Mellotron again (GForce’s M-Tron, actually), focusing this time solely on strings and flute. The intent was to recreate the sonic imprint of Edgar Froese’s solo album Epsilon In Malaysian Pale and apply it to a totally new musical composition. As the work was coming to completion, however, hurricane Katrina ripped into the Gulf states of America. Emdot, therefore, changed the working title to reference New Orleans and offered this song to a double CD put together by members of the KVRaudio forums titled Chrysalid: Musicians for Katrina Relief, all the proceeds of which went to charity related to that disaster.

Epsilon In New Orleans Pale combines three layers of Mellotron strings, liberally processed with filters, delay and reverb, and a Mellotron flute solo to produce a lush sonic landscape that is at once sorrowful and optomistically hopeful.