From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) how to download realaudio files Date: 01 Feb 2001 11:57:35 +0100 nytab@pipeline.com schrieb: > http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=112214&article=2251&date_query=980441274 > > There was a small discussion recently about the technical possibility of downloading RealAudio files for later listening/CDR burning. > > WFMU's Station Manager Ken offers some tips on how to do this at the above URL. > extremely interesting. thanks, Dr. Death! Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de exotica@web.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mr. Fodder" Subject: (exotica) =?Windows-1252?Q?The_Bran_Flakes_-_I_Don=92t_Have_a_Friend_-_CD_Release?= Date: 31 Jan 2001 06:47:14 -0800 The Bran Flakes – I Don’t Have a Friend CD Release - Now available from Lomo Records - http://www.lomorecords.com ============================================ A SIMPLE INTRODUCTION: Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes, No, Yes, No, YES! Sometimes it is difficult to make the right choice in this world full of never ending questions. We often get frustrated when others tell us how to live our lives. At times, we get confused and perplexed by their illogical suggestions and are unable to decide what they really want us to do. So, what does this have to do with the Bran Flakes? Not much. Does it really matter? The Bran Flakes can help you. So, who are the Bran Flakes? The Bran Flakes are a happy, stuffed animal loving sound collage band from Seattle. Our music making process is this: we go to thrift stores, buy abandoned records, and carefully scour them for audio bits. Yes, sometimes listening to these records can be painful, but we believe that every record has at least ONE redeeming quality (much like humans, however, humans are likely to have at least two redeeming qualities). We take these quality gems – maybe a snare drum or a man yelling "buttermilk," a bird chirping or a crispy bit of record crackle – and mix them into a very musical type of sound collage. This we find pleasing, as many people do. ============================================ A BRIEF BACKGROUND: The Bran Flakes have been making music since 1990 with over 20 studio releases (on cassette and cd-r, this being their first debut CD release on a label) and have been featured on numerous compilations. The team consists of Mr. Otis F. Odder and Sir Mildred Pit, based in Seattle, Washington USA. Combining sound-collage with live instrumentation the result is a beat oriented blend of exotica, ez-listening, childrens music and experimentation, often with a humorous effect. ============================================ REVIEWS/PRESS (from past releases): “The Bran Flakes take a lot of old, strange records and merrily feed them into their tape-editing-mad minds. Add in some rhythm tracks and you get an amazing result: interesting track after interesting track.” - Cool & Strange Music Mag “Collages cleverly assembled to stimulate the autonomic nervous system into a more receptive state.” - EYE Magazine “Adventurous and always entertaining, utilizing loopy breaks and samples from kids/exercise/sex-ed/general instructional records.” - WFMU radio ============================================ Take a chance on something new, something we hope you make you happy. Fun Bran Flakes music. You can Order online at Lomo Records, http://www.lomorecords.com If you just want to get in touch feel free to contact us. Thank you, Mr. Otis F. Odder & Sir Mildred Pit http://www.thebranflakes.com ============================================ This is a one-time mailing and you are not on a list of any sort. This email was sent out to those whom we have been in touch with before in the past. Thanks. Love - Otis & Mildred ============================================ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) jazz (a satire) Date: 01 Feb 2001 22:17:52 -0500 What!! 20 hours of the history of jazz, and they leave some of the biggest names of jazz out?? No mention of New Orlean's Al Hirt at all ..... with all of his records that me and my buddies had, you know that he had to be a very popular and influential artist. Why, his hit version of Java was being played on the radio here one whole month before Armstrong's 'Hello Dolly', but you don't see Hirt being hailed as no trailblazer. Heck, he was a lot bigger than Armstrong too, so you know he could play the trumpet real louder. Not a mention of Pete Fountain either, even after all of his appearances on the Johnny Carson show. Now theres a jazz artist that I was looking forward to seeing on tv again. It would have been nice to see a few of those older faces from that Preservation Jam Jazz Hall or whatever its called, instead of that same old young chubby face again and again making doodling noises. Jeez, these were some of the biggest names of New Orleans jazz, totally ignored. I'm kind of a jazz expert myself .... why me and the wife have made the trip down to New Orlean's Bourbon street several times, so I know what I'm talking about. Every time we go there we but some fancy mardi gras beads and then make it to that fancy Pat O'Brian's place to have some authentic Hurricane drinks, and talk about how good it is to get away from the farm and be in an authentic jazz setting. No Spyra-Gyro either ..... that was the last jazz record I bought too - it was marked real low at the Woolworth store right before they shut it down. Went in just to buy some new work socks, and dang if I didn't buy myself a record!! I thought the tv show might have mentioned more of that Spyra Gyro modern jazz stuff. I don't understand it all that much myself, but I did see that Spyra Gyro played at some jazz festival in the big city a while back, and I've always wanted to see what those newer musicians in that group looked like. Probably had some long hippie hair. Yep ... I was mighty disappointed with that Jazz tv show. Good thing though that they're still showing the Hee Haw re-runs in these parts. The Hagger Brothers ... now thats what I call real musical talent!! Alfred # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Clifford Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Ken Burns jazz, Ken cremates jazz (fwd) Date: 02 Feb 2001 03:14:13 -0800 (PST) Well, it's finally over, but here's one more humorous take on Jazz. Not sure who the original author is, can't take the credit/ blame myself. Enjoy. Mike > Presenting Ken Burns' 144-hour Extremely Important > documentary, Jazz." Fade up on a grainy old photograph of a man in a three-piece suit, holding a > cornet. Or a bicycle horn, it's hard to tell. > > Narrator: Skunkbucket LeFunke was born in 1876 and > died in 1901. No one who heard him is alive today. The grandchildren of the people who heard him are > not alive today. The great-grandchildren of the > people who heard him are not alive today. He was never recorded. > > Wynton Marsalis: I'll tell you what Skunkbucket > LeFunke sounded like. He had this big rippling sound, and he always phrased off the beat, and he slurred his notes. And when the Creole bands were still playing De-bah-de-bah-ta-da-tah, he was already playing Bo-dap-da-lete-do-do-do-bah! > He was just like gumbo, ahead of his time. > > Announcer: LeFunke was a cornet player, gambler, > card shark, pool hustler, pimp, male prostitute, Kelly Girl, computer programmer, brain surgeon and he > invented the internet. > > Stanley Crouch: When people listened to Skunkbucket > LeFunke, they heard Do-do-dee-bwap-da-dee-dee-de-da-da-doop-doop-dap. > And they knew even then how deeply profound that was. > > Announcer: It didn't take LeFunke long to advance > the art of jazz past its humble beginnings in New Orleans whoredom with the addition of a bold and > sassy beat. > > Wynton: Let me tell you about the Big Four. Before > the Big Four, jazz drumming sounded like BOOM-chick-BOOM-chick-BOOM-chick. But now they had the Big Four, which was so powerful some said it felt like a Six. A few visiting musicians even swore they were in an Eight. > > Stanley: It was smooth and responsive, and there was > no knocking and pinging, even on 87 octane. > > Wynton: Even on gumbo. > > Announcer: When any musician in the world heard > Louis Armstrong for the first time, they gnawed their arm off with envy, then said the angels probably > wanted to sound like Louis. When you consider a > bunch of angels talking in gruff voices and singing "Hello Dolly," you realize what a stupid aspiration that is. > > Gary Giddy: Louis changed jazz because he was the > only cat going Do-da-dep-do-wah-be-be, while everyone else was doing Do-de-dap-dit-dit-dee. > > Stanley: And that was very profound. > > Marsalis: Like gumbo. > > Stanley: Uh-huh. > > Matt Glaser: I always have this fantasy that when > Louis performed in Belgium, Heisenberg was in the audience and he was blown away and that's where he got > the idea for his Uncertainty Principle. > > Marsalis: Because the Uncertainty Principle, applied > to jazz, means you never know if a cat is going to go Dap-da-de-do-ba-ta-bah or Dap-da-de-do-bip-de-beep. > > Wynton: Louis was the first one to realize that. > > Stanley: And that can be very profound. > > Stanley: I thought it was a box of chocolates... > > Announcer: The Savoy Ballroom brought people of all > races colors and political persuasions together to get sweaty as Europe moved closer and closer to the brink of World War II. > > Savoy Dancer: We didn't care what color you were at > the Savoy. We only cared if you were wearing deodorant. > > Stanley: Wynton always wears deodorant. > > Glaser: I'll bet Arthur Murray was on the dance > floor and he was thinking about Louis and that's where he got the idea to open a bunch of dance schools. > > Stanley: And that was very profound. > > Giddy: Let's talk about Louis some more. We've > wasted three minutes of this 57-part documentary not talking about Louis. > > Wynton: He was an angel, a genius, much better than > Cats. > > Stanley: He invented the word "Cats." > > Wynton: He invented swing, he invented jazz, he > invented the telephone, the automobile and the polio vaccine. > > Stanley: And the internet. > > Wynton: Very profound. > > Announcer: Louis Armstrong turned commercial in the > 1930s and didn't make any more breakthrough contributions to jazz. But it's not PC to point that out, so we'll be showing him in every segment of this > series to come, even if he's just doing the same things as the last time you saw him. > > Glaser: I'll bet Chuck Yeager was in the audience > when Louis was hitting those high Cs at the Earle Theater in Philadelphia, and that's what made him > decide to break the sound barrier. > > Stanley: And from there go to Pluto. > > Wynton: I'm going to make some gumbo- > > Stanley: BOOM-chick-BOOM-chick-BOOM-chick.. > > Giddy: > Do-yap-do-wee-bah-scoot-scoot-dap-dap...That's what > all the cats were saying back then. > > Announcer: In 1964, John Coltrane was at his peak, > Eric Dolphy was in Europe, where he would eventually die, the Modern Jazz Quartet was making breakthrough recordings in the field of Third Stream Music, Miles Davis was breaking new barrier with his second great quintet, and Charlie Mingus was extending jazz composition to new levels of complexity. But we're going to talk about Louis singing "Hello Dolly" instead. > > Stanley: Louis went, Ba-ba-yaba-do-do-dee-da-bebin-doo-wap-deet-deet-do-da-da. > > Wynton: Sweets went, Scoop-doop-shalaba-yaba-mokey-hokey-bwap-bwap-tee-tee-dee. > > Giddy: I go, Da-da-shoobie-doobie-det-det-det-bap-bap-baaaaa... > > Announcer: The rest of the history of jazz will be > shown in fast forward and will occupy exactly seven seconds. --There, that was it. Now here are some > scenes from Ken Burns' next documentary, a 97-part > epic about the Empire State Building, titled "The Empire State Building." > "It is tall and majestic. It is America's building. It is the Empire State Building. > Dozens of workers gave their lives in the construction of this building." > > Matt Glaser: I'll bet that they were thinking of > Louis as they were falling to their deaths. I have this fantasy that his high notes inspired the > immenseness of the Empire State Building. > > Wynton Marsalis: I'll bet most people who'd fall off > the Empire State Building would go "Aaaaaahhhh!" But these cats went "Dee-dee-daba-da-da-bop-bop-de-dop-shewap-splat!" > > "That's next time on PBS." > > > __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Clifford Subject: (exotica) Jazz a satire, Ken Burns Jazz, Ken Cremates Jazz Date: 02 Feb 2001 03:36:38 -0800 (PST) Just wanted to apoligize for posting the Jazz satire after it had already been posted. I get the digest, and I hadn't got the one with the first post yet. Again, sorry for cluttering the ether and your mailboxes, Mike __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Orlando FLA info? Date: 02 Feb 2001 11:47:39 -0000 Fess up! Who knows anything or everything there is to know about Orlando's locality? Record shops and flea markets in Orlando and nearby towns and cities appreciated. Bars? Clubs? Monster Truck festivals? What's cool and what's not in central Florida? Thanks all, Charlie Editor C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street London N1 8JD Tel: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 (direct) +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 (switchboard) Fax: +44 (0) 207 226 8586 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) Ken Burns' Jazz (trademark pending) Date: 02 Feb 2001 08:50:21 -0600 It was almost worth sitting through 20 hours of stuff to see Duke Ellington kiss Richard Nixon. Well, I lie about the sitting through part. *Every* episode literally put me to sleep. Wish I'd taped the series as an insomnia cure. Mimi ** Support Ken Burns' Cottage Industries (TM)! Buy the book, the CDs, the DVDs, the videos! You'll get a happy feeling when you help an earnest guy! ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Raga Round the Clock... Date: 02 Feb 2001 10:28:46 -0500 >** Support Ken Burns' Cottage Industries (TM)! Buy the book, the CDs, the >DVDs, the videos! You'll get a happy feeling when you help an earnest guy! >** Well, I'm earnest, my wife's maiden name is Guy and my book is much cheap...I mean, I'm not selling a danged thing...yet. Here is the other longstanding mystery. On the "Raga" soundtrack, there is a track called "Frenzy and Distortion". It excerpts two songs that are certainly not Ravi Shankar's doing (well, at least one isn't). Please go to ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/hagar/incoming and the two mystery sounds are Raga sound one and Raga sound two. Two is very short, but who is singing that "Guitar Man" song? I was told that it might be Henk the Knife and the Jets, but I have my doubts now. Neither track sounds like Yma Sumac, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] David Heneker Date: 02 Feb 2001 12:11:33 -0500 February 2, 2001 David Heneker, Lyricist for Catchy Musical Comedies, Dies at 94 By MEL GUSSOW David Heneker, who wrote the score for the musical "Half a Sixpence" and collaborated on the English adaptation of the book and lyrics for "Irma la Douce," died on Tuesday in a residential home in Wales. He was 94. "Irma la Douce" and "Half a Sixpence" were major successes in London and New York, a rare double- header for a British songwriter in the 1950's and 60's. Each ran on Broadway for more than 500 performances. Mr. Heneker and his collaborators Julian More and Monty Norman found ways to Anglicize the French musical "Irma la Douce" (by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort) without losing the original Parisian atmosphere. Under the direction of Peter Brook, the London cast members (Elizabeth Seal, Clive Revill and Keith Michell) turned it into a Broadway hit in 1960. Three years later the show was filmed by Billy Wilder with a cast headed by Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon. In 1965 "Half a Sixpence" followed the same profitable path from London to Broadway. Based on H. G. Wells's novel "Kipps," the musical introduced Tommy Steele to American theatergoers. Mr. Steele played a draper's assistant who comes into a large inheritance. Strumming a banjo, he sang Mr. Heneker's "Money to Burn," among other sprightly songs. He also starred in the film version. Although "Irma" and "Half a Sixpence" were Mr. Heneker's only Broadway musicals, he collaborated on many other shows in London, beginning in 1958 with Wolf Mankowitz's "Expresso Bongo," which starred Paul Scofield as a small-time music agent. "Expresso Bongo" became a film in 1960. His other shows included "Jorrocks," "Make Me an Offer," "Charlie Girl" and "The Biograph Girl." Jude Kelly recently directed a revival of "Half a Sixpence" in Leeds. Mr. Heneker attended Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. From 1925 to 1948 he was an officer in the British army. Just before World War II, while recovering from a riding accident, he read Noël Coward's "Bittersweet," and, he said, that inspired him to write songs. After leaving the army, he sang and played the piano in London clubs. As his songs were published and recorded, he was soon swept into a successful musical career. He always preferred to consider himself a songwriter, rather than a composer, a word he considered pretentious. He is survived by a son, Peter, of Cardigan, Wales; five grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael D. Toth" Subject: (exotica) Feb.4 Beyondo Mondo Record Party Date: 02 Feb 2001 12:41:43 -0400 Hey there everybody... FYI, I was reasonably self-amused with the installment of my "Beyondo Record Party" radio show that I pre-recorded to air this Sunday night. If you'd like to check it out, there's no better time than this Sunday, and, ideally, you'd also find yourself reasonably amused. It's just me this Sunday night Feb. 4 (I share the show with 3 other DJs). In the unlikely event that you live in the greater Akron, Ohio area, you can hear it at 91.3 FM from 11:00-midnight EST. Everybody else, if you can handle streaming audio media, you can hear it simulcast on the Net at www.wapsfm.com Anyway, if you tune in, here's what you'll be rewarded with. PLAYLIST ALERT! * Negativland - "My Favorite Things" (True/False Live in Chicago) * New Albanian Riots - "Cheerful" (The Cream of the Stars) * The Three Suns - "Russian Sleigh Song" (A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas) * The Millionaire - reflections on his youth in 19th Century Austria (Sub Pop Holiday Spectacular) * The First Team - "When the Wrong Thing Happens" (Chevrolet Sings of Safe Driving and You) * Enoch Light's Action - "Working in a Coal Mine" (It's Happening, So Let's Dance!) * 1971-72 Tallmadge High School Stage Band - "Move Out/Bogus" (Music Unlimited!) * Lord Sitar - "Daydream Believer" (Lord Sitar) * Louis Prima - "Beep Beep" (VA/Brain in a Box) * Chemical Brothers - "Music: Response" (Surrender) * Silver Apples - "Oscillations" (Silver Apples) * Joy Electric - "Synthesized I Want You Synthesized" (ChristianSongs) * Man or Astroman? - "Desination Venus" (Destroy All Astromen!) * Voices of Walter Schumann - "Arrival At Venus: New Sensations" (Exploring the Unknown) * The Ventures - "Love Goddess of Venus" (Ventures In Space) * Tom Jones - "Venus" (Tom) * Rob Crow - "Fake Skin" (mp3it.com) * April Stevens - "Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?" (A Nino Tempo/April Stevens Program) * Combustible Edison - "Tickled To Death" (The Impossible World) "Tickled To Death" admittedly got cut short, but a guy can only fit so much in an hour!! Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.com mtoth@neo.rr.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) De Phazz Date: 02 Feb 2001 20:08:19 +0100 band: De Phazz album: Death By Chocolate pretty cool intelligent new lounge album. the band is from Heidelberg, but that's about all I know about them. They have a homepage: http://www.de-phazz.com Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de exotica@web.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: (exotica) Playlists?? Date: 02 Feb 2001 20:30:07 Like, do you people mind when playlists are posted? I seem to recall some dissent about this, but I would like to start posting my playlists, too. I realize this is somewhat self-aggrandizing but I think my show falls nicely under "exotica". Also, I'm trying to drum up an audience for our little radio station, which is now internet-only since that foul-smelling giant, the FCC, shut us down. -Dan Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Raga Round the Clock... Date: 02 Feb 2001 16:00:06 -0500 At 10:28 AM 2/2/01 -0500, Brian Phillips wrote: > >Here is the other longstanding mystery. On the "Raga" soundtrack, there is >a track called "Frenzy and Distortion". It excerpts two songs that are >certainly not Ravi Shankar's doing (well, at least one isn't). What is "Raga" and why does it have a soundtrack? I listened to the mpeg files and they sound like "classic" electric sitar noodling. And the guy singing, sounded like a biker film song. What are you asking? I can't help you. I can't identify it. But I liked it. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) Jazz info--real stuff Date: 02 Feb 2001 17:10:28 -0600 _The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz_ -- xrefer http://www.xrefer.com/books/grojazz/about.jsp xrefer.com http://www.xrefer.com/ Since it was originally reviewed in the June 2, 2000 _Scout Report_, reference engine xrefer has expanded to include fifty texts. The most recent addition is the _The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz_, self-described as "the largest, most comprehensive and most accurate reference work on jazz ever published." The dictionary contains over 4,500 articles on a wide variety of jazz-related topics, including detailed biographies, jazz groups, musical instruments, terms and styles, record companies and labels, and more. The dictionary also offers 1,800 discographies and numerous reading lists. Visitors can not search the _New Grove Dictionary_ exclusively, but they can limit their search to the music reference works, which also include the _Oxford Dictionary of Music_, _Penguin Dictionary of Music_, and the _Grove Concise Dictionary of Music_. [MD] From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) de-phazz Date: 02 Feb 2001 17:34:21 -0600 Pretty interesting website! colleenintexas Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Raga Round the Clock... Date: 02 Feb 2001 18:57:51 -0500 >What is "Raga" and why does it have a soundtrack? Raga was a documentary about Ravi Shankar, directed by Howard Worth. The soundtrack was released on Apple Records, so I am fairly sure that this was a pet project of George Harrison's. I have never seen the movie and it doesn't seem to have been released on video. >I listened to the mpeg files and they sound like "classic" electric sitar >noodling. And the guy singing, sounded like a biker film song. What are >you asking? I can't help you. I can't identify it. But I liked it. It does sound like a biker song, doesn't it? I have a theory that it might be an Austrian band called the Rockets, but I asked for verification on that from another list. Wouldn't it be funny if the first song was Ananda Shankar? Glad you dug the files and thanks for responding, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Wages Subject: (exotica) African Room NYC/Brian De Palma's Sisters Date: 02 Feb 2001 23:10:50 -0500 > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3064000251_1005997_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I saw the movie "Sisters" (1973, Brian De Palma) today. All in all, I found it an enjoyable flick (including a nice Bernard Herrmann score with electronic elements). Early in the movie, two characters visit Manhattan's "African Room" for drinks. The restaurant band is playing a wild instrumental which includes jungle effects. The song is enjoyable in the same vein way as Mike Simpson's "Jungle Odyssey" or Shelly Manne's "Daktari" LP. The music doesn't seem to be on the soundtrack album, and I'm going to assume this music isn't Herrmann's. So, have any list-members seen the film recently? Anyone know if that is Manhattan's real-life African Room? Anyone have a clue who might be performing the music in the movie? If it is the real African Room, perhaps it is Guy Warren? I see Warren is mentioned on the Wild's Scene site as heading up a band there. BTW, Vintage ads for the real African Room can be glimpsed here: http://instantliving.safeshopper.com/17/212.htm?671 Paul rewages@mediaone.net --MS_Mac_OE_3064000251_1005997_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable African Room NYC/Brian De Palma's Sisters I  saw the movie "Sisters" (1973, Brian De Palma) today. &nb= sp;All in all, I found it an enjoyable flick (including a nice Bernard Herrm= ann score with electronic elements).  

Early in the movie, two characters visit Manhattan's "African Room&quo= t; for drinks.  The restaurant band is playing a wild instrumental whic= h includes jungle effects.  The song is enjoyable in the same vein way = as Mike Simpson's "Jungle Odyssey" or Shelly Manne's "Daktari= " LP.  The music doesn't seem to be on the soundtrack album, and I= 'm going to assume this music isn't Herrmann's.

So, have any list-members seen the film recently?  Anyone know if that= is Manhattan's real-life African Room?  Anyone have a clue who might b= e performing the music in the movie?  If it is the real African Room, p= erhaps it is Guy Warren?  I see Warren is mentioned on the Wild's Scene= site as heading up a band there.

BTW,
Vintage ads for the real African Room can be glimpsed here:

http://instantliving.safeshopper.com/17/212.htm?67= 1

Paul

rewages@mediaone.net=20 --MS_Mac_OE_3064000251_1005997_MIME_Part-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nicola Battista (Dj Batman)" Subject: (exotica) new legal MP3 stuff now online! Date: 03 Feb 2001 10:58:11 +0100 hello hello I'm always busy and tired to death some of the long-time announced music files are appearing on mp3.com in these hours. First of all, enjoy: http://www.mp3.com/orientexpress Edda dell'Orso singing Morricone's "Che senso ha" from "Orient Express" (streaming only) http://www.mp3.com/piernicoladimuro Two tracks from a 40-minutes Rai-Tv special about a Venetian exhibit dedicated to the ancient Etruscans, composed by Italy's latest sensation in soundtracks, Piernicola Di Muro. these two pages still lack of any textual info and graphics, but they will be up soon; also, the Etruscans album will be uploaded completely and also put on sale as DAM CD. I even got my hands on tracks by an Italian orchestra playing a tribute to Akira Ifukube, composer of GODZILLA THEME...!! Expect more exciting info SOON!!! later, Nicola/Dj Batman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Swedish "Holerin" Date: 03 Feb 2001 16:31:52 +0100 i've finally found out that some snippets of this Swedish "Hollerin" appear on a folk CD by Frifot (with member Lena Willemark) on the Amigo label. probably won't bother to find the CD if most of it is filled with folk music. Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Larson/Thomas" Subject: RE: (exotica) The mysterious Exotica files from waaay back... Date: 03 Feb 2001 11:02:48 -0800 > Is all of Waldo's GNP output good? I like everything I've heard. Her "Sacred Rites" CD has tracks from "Realm of the Inca" and "Rites of the Pagan," and is very enjoyable. I also have a beat up copy of her "Matacuda" LP which has a similar sound to the other LPs. Jerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obit] Judy Davis Date: 03 Feb 2001 15:50:52 -0500 Judy Davis of Oakland -- Vocal Coach to Stars=20 Jesse Hamlin Wednesday, January 31, 2001=20 =A92001 San Francisco Chronicle=20 Oakland -- Judy Davis, a legendary vocal coach whose students included Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Grace Slick, Eddie Money and many other noted and lesser-known singers, died of heart failure Friday at her Oakland home. She was 81.=20 An expert in the physiology of vocal sound projection, Ms. Davis was famous for teaching singers how to breathe properly, enunciate and strengthen their vocal cords in order to project freely and control the sound. She devised a series of vocal exercises that are used by singers around the world.=20 "Actually, I'm just a vocal plumber," Ms. Davis told The Chronicle in 1995, when she received a lifetime achievement award at the Bammies. "I fix= pipes."=20 Over the decades, scores of vocalists called on Ms. Davis to help repair their strained pipes and unlock their voices.=20 In the early 1950s, Sinatra flew Ms. Davis to Las Vegas to help solve his vocal problems, and he asked for her help again in the 1970s. In the early 1960s, when Streisand was having vocal difficulties while singing at San Francisco's hungry i, she turned to Ms. Davis, who coached her in the Oakland studio where she continued to teach until just two weeks ago.=20 "She taught me great breath control, the placement of vowels, how to produce notes," said rock singer Money, who began studying with Ms. Davis in the early 1970s. "She taught you how to hit notes you couldn't hit before. She expected a lot from her students, and the last thing you wanted to do was let this lady down. She was beautiful. I valued her artistic knowledge."=20 Country Joe McDonald said: "Judy Davis was an expert in telling you how to control the sounds coming from your mouth. She talked like Auntie Mame. She'd say, 'Well my dear, I must tell you, this is exactly what you're doing wrong. We're going to have to rearrange some of these things, break this habit.' She allowed us to present the sound we want you to hear."=20 Ms. Davis, who was born in Red Bluff and raised in Oakland, studied music and dancing privately, and earned bachelor's and master's degree in music from the University of California at Berkeley.=20 In the late 1930s, she worked in Hollywood as an assistant choreographer at Warner Brothers, working on movie musicals with the first of her three husbands, choreographer Hal Davis. She also taught actresses how to lip-synch to movie soundtracks. Ms. Davis changed her first name after Hoagy Carmichael told her she looked more like a Judy than an Adelaide, which was her given name.=20 In the 1940s, the Davises moved to Oakland and opened a dance studio. Although she was to become a renowned vocal coach, Ms. Davis never sang professionally herself. When she was 19, her vocal cords were damaged during a tonsillectomy, leaving her with a raspy voice.=20 Eager to learn about her vocal cords, she studied Gray's Anatomy and delved deeply into the physiology of voice production. That led to the creation of her teaching method.=20 "Judy could give you confidence, make you feel like there was nothing you couldn't sing," says San Francisco jazz singer Pat Yankee, a close friend. Yankee originally took tap dancing lessons from Ms. Davis. Yankee started studying voice with Ms. Davis in 1965 and continued going to her for the next 35 years. Like most of Ms. Davis' students, she still sings her exercises every day.=20 Ms. Davis was married for many years to tennis pro Frank Kovacs, who died in 1990. She is survived by a son, Mark Van Hayden of Seattle, and a granddaughter.=20 A memorial celebration will be held at 4 p.m. on Feb. 18 in Saroyan Hall at the Armenian Community Center, 825 Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. Eddie Money and Booker T. Jones, another Davis student, will be among those performing. The family requests contributions in Ms. Davis' name to any charity.=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obit] Lou Levy Date: 03 Feb 2001 16:02:32 -0500 http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=3Damg&sql=3DBehebeieeeeeemeha Lou Levy; Pianist Accompanied Jazz and Pop Greats=20 Lou Levy, 72, a pianist who accompanied some of the finest singers in jazz and pop music, including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Anita O' Day, Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan. Born in Chicago, Levy studied piano as a youth and worked first for a bandleader named Chubby Jackson, who introduced bebop music to Sweden on tour in 1947. Levy later joined bands led by Woody Herman, playing with future greats such as Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Shorty Rogers, and by Georgie Auld. He moved to California in the mid-1950s and found steady work with several of the leading singers in jazz and pop music. He was Lee's accompanist for years, performed on several of Fitzgerald's popular songbook albums and played behind Vaughan and O'Day. He played piano accompaniment on the Sinatra standard "My Way." When not working as an accompanist, Levy performed in bands led by saxophonist Getz, Benny Goodman and Shelley Manne. Influenced by the style of Bud Powell, Levy's playing was known for its smooth sophistication and subtle swing. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. today at the Musician's Union, 817 N. Vine St., Los Angeles. On Tuesday in Dana Point of a heart attack.=20 A superior bop-based pianist who has worked with a countless number of top jazz artists, Lou Levy started on piano when he was 12. He played with Georgie Auld (1947), Sarah Vaughan, Chubby Jackson (1947-48), Boyd Raeburn, Woody Herman's Second Herd (1949-50), Tommy Dorsey (1950), Auld again and Flip Phillips. Levy was outside of music for a few years (1952-54) and then gained a strong reputation as a fine accompanist to singers, working with Peggy Lee (on and off during 1955-73), Ella Fitzgerald (1957-62), June Christy, Anita O'Day and more recently Pinky Winters. Levy also played with Shorty Rogers, Stan Getz, Terry Gibbs, Benny Goodman, Supersax and most of the major West Coast players. Lou Levy has recorded as a leader for Nocturne (1954), RCA, Jubilee, Philips, Interplay (1977) and Verve. =97 Scott Yanow =3D=3D=3D '80s pop star Buster Bloodvessel - the 30-stone bald singer famous for leading ska band Bad Manners - is awaiting emergency surgery after he collapsed onstage in Italy. 40 year-old Buster, who recently reappeared on British TV screens in an advert for financial services, fell ill in Perugia, where doctors have diagnosed a strangulated hernia and fear that the singer may die on the operating table.=20 Buster - real name Douglas Trendle - was one of the best-known figures in the British ska revival of the early '80s. Bad Manners' biggest hits include Lip Up Fatty and Special Brew.=20 =20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 03 Feb 2001 15:53:19 -0600 On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, we'll preview choice tracks from "I Dig", the new CD featuring classic exotica and crime jazz by the Interplanetary Contemporary Ensemble. In addition, we'll chat with conductor Duane Schultess during the show and, if you tune in for the live webcast, you'll have a shot at winning a FREE COPY of "I Dig", courtesy of Innova Records. The "I Dig" feature is in the first hour. Second hour includes jungle jazz by Xavier Cugat, Michel Magne, Esquivel and Martin Denny; now sounds from Claus Ogerman and Frank de Vol (check out his score for the movie "The Happening"!); plus tunes by Seksu Roba, Peter Thomas and Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts (from Cowboy Bebop). For the live webcast, tune in tonight (Saturday) at 7:00pm Central time at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/realaudio/index.htm To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour anytime (this week's show should be posted later tonight), just visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Comments and requests always welcome. Thanks for the space! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Space Bop, February 4 Date: 03 Feb 2001 20:13:02 -0500 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #128 Boogaloo! This week, some great dance tunes - try sitting still while listening to these! Malente: Boogaloo "The Spirit Of Malente" Buscemi: La Musica Ayer Con El Sonido De Hoy "Unique Club Culture" Jacknife Lee: Brown Glitter "Muy Rico!" Tim "Love" Lee: First Base Bossa "Just Call Me "Lone" Lee" Lemon: Mr. Bongo "All Systems Are Go Go" Los Chicharrons: Chicharron 'n' Boogaloo "Conga Heaven, Bongo Hell" Mike Young: Rude '56 "El Gran Ritmo De Mike Young" Le Hammond Inferno: Don Quichote "Easy Leasing Superstar" Kulturni Program: Pong (Stereo de Luxe Remix) Tim "Love" Lee: Bed Sheet Shuffle "Just Call Me "Lone" Lee" Ursula 1000: Polyblend "All Systems Are Go Go" Malente: Fertig "The Spirit Of Malente" Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening. cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: (exotica) February 3, 2001 playlist for Dial-ated Pupils Date: 04 Feb 2001 01:39:10 I got a lot of nice feedback regarding the Middle Eastern themed set at the beginning of the show - thanks!! Tune in next week for an Indian-themed spectacular... -Dan ARTIST SONG ALBUM FORMAT LABEL RUFUS HARLEY Sufur Scotch & Soul LP Atlantic EDDIE "THE SHEIK" KOCHAK W/FRED ELIAS AND THE EL-MECCA ENSEMBLE Belly Dancer Ya Salaam: The New Amer-Abic Sound of the Middle East LP Mace OZEL TURKBAS Ozel's Dance Routine How to Belly Dance for your Sultan LP Elay ARTIE BARSAMIAN Raks Jemil II More Belly Dance LP Fiesta LALO SCHIFRIN The Snake's Dance Brilliance: The Piano of Lalo Schifrin LP Roulette CAL TJADER Sahib Several Shades of Jade LP Verve LES BAXTER A Night with Cleopatra The Primitive and the Passionate LP Reprise FRED KATZ Chili'lo Folk Songs for Far Out Folk LP Warner Brothers CHICO HAMILTON The Ghost The Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi-Fi LP Pacific Jazz AL COHN Inside Out East Coast - West Coast Scene LP RCA BOB COOPER Hallelujah Kenton Presents: Shifting Winds LP Capitol HOWARD RUMSEY'S LIGHTHOUSE ALL-STARS Bud Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars, vol. 5 10" LP Contemporary TONY SCOTT There Is Nothin' Like a Dame South Pacific Jazz LP ABC-Paramount Sophisticated Lady Tony Scott LP Verve MAX ROACH & ANTHONY BRAXTON Rebirth Max Roach featuring Anthony Braxton LP Black Saint LESTER BOWIE St. Louis Rope-A-Dope LP Muse KALAPARUSHA MAURICE MCINTYRE Out There (If Anyone Should Call) Humility In the Light of Creator LP Delmark DON CHERRY, DEWEY REDMAN, CHARLIE HADEN, & EDDIE BLACKWELL Old and New Dreams Old and New Dreams LP Black Saint ILLINOIS JACQUET Riffin' with Jacquet 1946-47 CD Classics - France WILLIE SMITH Airiness a la Nat Relaxing After Hours with Willie Smith and His Friends 10" LP EmArcy COLEMAN HAWKINS 39"-25"-39" The Hawk in Hi-Fi LP RCA BILLY ECKSTINE Opus X The Birth of Bebop CD Charly BUDDY TATE Tate's a Jumpin' Jumpin' on the West Coast! LP Black Lion Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sem Sinatra Subject: (exotica) 2 questions Date: 03 Feb 2001 23:12:38 +0900 Folks 2 questions: 1. Is anyone on the list in Osaka, Japan? 2. Does anyone know of any Exotica friendly bars/clubs in Osaka? thanks Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) HATT-BABY! Date: 04 Feb 2001 01:46:43 -0500 http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/ Can one of our Swedish members please tell me what's going on at the above URL? Thanks, Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) HATT-BABY! Date: 04 Feb 2001 11:42:41 +0100 (CET) citerar Lou Smith : > > http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/ > > Can one of our Swedish members please tell me what's going on at the above > URL? Hi Lou Why do you want to know, and why did you look on that page? It is about a party thing. It involves a hat, When the choir song starts, the most old one at the party gives the hat to the most drunk one, and he dances into the dancing crowd while all yells -The Drunk Hat! to him. The drunk one sings -The Hat Is Mine! Never heard about it, and I have been on lotsa parties involving many strange customs. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rosemary=20Brown=20-=20A=20musical=20s=E9ance=20REVIEW?= Date: 04 Feb 2001 15:05:13 +0100 (CET) Review of: Rosemary Brown - A musical s=E9ance=20 PHILLIPS PHS 900-256 I am not really sure of this record belongs on the exotica list,=20 because the music contained on this album is classical, but the record=20 is so strange I thought that maybe it could be classified under=20 Incredibly srange music, which often is discussed here. I found the LP on a fleamarket some weeks back, and paid no attention=20 to it first while browsing through a bin, but it was something with it=20 that made me look again, the front cover features a celestial hand=20 holding one of those ancient feather pens and writing musical notes. First I thought it possibly could feature a moog, because moogalbums=20 often has that solemn look. I flipped the cover and started read the=20 linernotes, which I have written down for you: "On January 1970 Sir Donald Towey (deceased), communicated the=20 following message about this record to Rosemary Brown from beyond the=20 weil: As you listen to this record, you may wonder whether the music=20 you hear is the product of Rosemary Brown's abilities, or whether it=20 has indeed emanated from departed composers who are still creating=20 music in another world. Many ideas have been formulated to explain the=20 emergence of the music, but the possibility that composers of the past=20 are still alive in different dimensions from yours, and endeavouring to=20 communicate, should not be dismissed too perfunctorily. Even the most=20 stubborn disbeliever in ExtraSensory Perception cannot prove=20 conclusively that there is no life after physical death, and scoffers=20 may one day find themselves faced with indisputable instances of=20 autentic communication from those who have shuffled off their mortal=20 coils. We are not transmitting music to Rosemary Brown simply for the=20 sake of offering possible pleasure in listening thereto..." Sir Donald=20 Towey (1875-1940) I stood amazed. The first record I ever come across that featured=20 linernotes written by a man who has been dead for 30 years. I had to=20 buy it. With the record safe at home I found a booklet inside who was=20 very serious in tone, this was apparently no joke, Rosemary Brown (An=20 ordinary housewife in a poor suburb of London) had written literally=20 hundreds of compositions who she claimed was dictated to her by=20 deceased composers, he talks of them as one does of old friends, she=20 can see them as well when they come to work with her, on Schubert she=20 talks: '...When Schubert first appeared to me to me he was wearing his=20 spectacles but I think it was only to make sure that I recognized him.=20 Now he doesn't wear them at all', and on Chopin 'Chopin once rescued us=20 from having a flood in the bathroom'. The record consist of one side where a man named Peter Katin plays=20 piano, He plays the compositions Rosemary Brown has written down,=20 because apparently they are to difficult for her to play well herself.=20 I don't know about the quality of it, because I never listens to=20 classical music but on side B Rosemary plays herself. And I must say I=20 enjoy it, It is like... how shall I put it... It's like you are living=20 in an old house by the sea, maybe in the 30s and you are preparing the=20 dinner, and you have an old aunt visiting you and she is playing on=20 your piano in the livingroom and she has a little talent. Sounds=20 strange, but that is what comes to mind... It definetly has atmosphere, and the music is very calm and relaxed,=20 not spooky at all. They have even found a picture of Sir Towey (the linernote man)=20 standing near the R=F6nntgen couple on an image from 1911. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Danger Diabolik Soundtrack Date: 04 Feb 2001 11:43:01 -0500 just got this from a friend - >In case anyone is interested... > >I bought a CD claiming to be the soundtrack to Danger Diabolik (for >about $30.00 I might add) >and got pretty much what I expected, semi-unfortunately. > >The CD is just excerpts from the actual movie and has that pre hi-fi >stereo tinny character. > >It's kind of a nifty little collector's package, but be warned, it is >not a "real" soundtrack album. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) Kitten With A Whip Date: 04 Feb 2001 11:18:05 -0600 Yesterday evening, I had the guilty pleasure of catching Ann-Margaret chew the scenery down to toothpicks in this classic JD film shown on AMC. It was pretty hilarious watching her smirk, grit her teeth, and scrunch her eyebrows to convey "bad girl" -- a method actress A-M wasn't -- she was about as threatening as a hyperactive prom queen with hemmorhoids. The beatnik bad guys were a veritable fount of classic Hollywood hipster dialogue ("Now cool it and co-exist!") and equally laughable threats. I was pleasantly surprised to see Doodles Weaver pop up. Anyway, I had missed the opening credits, so I waited patiently to catch the end in order to find out who had composed that groovy soundtrack of cool crimejazz, crazed bongo beats, and south-of-the-border sleaze, to no avail. A search of the 'Web came up empty as well. So therefore Exotica pals, I turn to you in my hour of need. Who scored this little gem of cheesy exploitation and is there a soundtrack LP out there hiding in a cardboard box in someone's garage just waiting to be found? -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Kitten With A Whip Date: 04 Feb 2001 13:01:45 -0500 At 11:18 AM -0600 2/4/01, Matt Marchese wrote: >Who scored this >little gem of cheesy exploitation and is there a soundtrack LP out there >hiding >in a cardboard box in someone's garage just waiting to be found? The score is comprised of music from the Universal library - chunks of it are from Mancini's score to "Touch of Evil". I recall the credit read "music supervised by Joseph Gershenson", who was the music super at Universal at the time. I've never seen a soundtrack listed anywhere. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brett Leveridge Subject: Re: (exotica) Kitten With A Whip Date: 04 Feb 2001 13:17:15 -0500 (EST) On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Br. Cleve wrote: > The score is comprised of music from the Universal > library - chunks of it are from Mancini's score to > "Touch of Evil". I recall the credit read "music > supervised by Joseph Gershenson", who was the music > super at Universal at the time. I've never seen a > soundtrack listed anywhere. IMDB.com offers the following: Original music by William Loose (uncredited) Henry Mancini (uncredited) Carl W. Stalling (uncredited) Non-original music by Hans J. Salter (uncredited) Frank Skinner (uncredited) Herman Stein (uncredited) Brett ************************************************** Brett Leveridge's "Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales" is now in a bookstore near you. Order signed copies at: http://www.menmymotherdated.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Rosemary Brown - A musical =?iso-8859-1?Q?s=E9ance?= Date: 04 Feb 2001 21:41:10 +0100 apart from the incredible strange liner notes.... is the record any good? Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de exotica@web.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) love letter to a mailing list Date: 04 Feb 2001 17:13:03 -0500 Dear List I'm on this other mailing list. On that list, my posts have been censored, refused and edited. In addition I've received posts from the administration asking me to find a way to post without offending the sensibilities of other listmembers. Even while they told me this, they were quick to point out that I wasn't violating any of the rules or guidelines for posting. In fact I had already censored myself on that list, toned down my rhetoric. And I'd never flamed anyone (though there is one I'd like to flame.) But that's not good enough. Apparently my style of writing jumps off the page and offends "several" members there. It doesn't really surprise me that someone can be offended by an opinion or by the style in which that opinion is expressed. What surprises me is that people on an internet mailing list complain to the administration when they experience that offense. "Hey I didn't join this list to be assaulted by opinions!!!!" They want everything to be like a form letter. "Dear List, Can someone tell me about - fill in name of recording artist - ? I'm particular interested in the year and catalogue number of - fill in title of song - ?" It's richly ironic since I'm in the middle of proposing a new film which is basically about what it's like to live in a world where people are afraid to express an opinion. A world where you ask their opinion and they take a step backwards and then try to figure out the right answer. Anyway that's just an introduction to say that THIS list is pretty amazing. I've been here three years now. It has its ups and downs and long long dry spells. But it somehow manages to take care of itself and deal with people's personalities and differences. I would have thought that was the norm. I would have thought that any internet mailing list would acknowledge the beauty and the danger of the internet, namely the wide, wild range of uncontrollable opinions. For a long time I assumed that all lists were like this one because this was the first one I joined and the only one I was on for a long time. But sadly that isn't the norm. This list is quite atypical as it turns out. So congratulate yourselves. I especially want to thank those members who were on this list when I joined and are still on it. But I thank everyone. And the adminstration too. And if you run into BJ tell her we miss her. Same thing goes for Jack who I assume is lurking. You can be wrong all the time and still have a place on this list. Sylvester Stallone is on that Actors Studio interview show right now. I understand that next week it's going to be O.J. AZ AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) love letter to a mailing list Date: 04 Feb 2001 23:58:10 +0100 (CET) I thank you and join you. Last year was just movies for me (I bought a DVD player which resulted in a very expensive habit) but I just felt around christmas how much I missed exotica. I had lived a whole year away from my records (well not Eden Ahbez and a couple more). And I missed the list too with all its nice people. I am glad to be back. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Fwd: Danger Diabolik Soundtrack Date: 04 Feb 2001 20:20:10 -0800 I picked up Diabolik just the other day from Intrada. I don't buy many CD's - about 1 to every 25 records - especially pricey imports! Or is this "limited edition" a bootleg? Probably. Anyway, I had heard alot of good things about this movie, and I love 60s soundtracks so I got it. Now it's up for grabs on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1408332247 Not because of poor sound quality which i really did not notice. sound quality is never very important to me, unless it is really bad, like borderline defective. about 10 minutes of the 48:00 minute disc are dialogue, which I can do without. Unless they are original trailers or spots! There are a number of variations on the main theme, Deep Down, some with vocals by Christy, some instrumental. I'm not sure about the reference to the nifty collector's package, as the front booklet is a single insert, there are no liner notes at all. Very similar in packaging quality to the exotica bootlegs that hit the shelves a few years back. I regret getting it now mainly because I'd rather put that kind of money toward vinyl originals and I'm not as thrilled as I should be. So, off to the auction block it goes... > just got this from a friend - > > >In case anyone is interested... > > > >I bought a CD claiming to be the soundtrack to Danger Diabolik (for > >about $30.00 I might add) > >and got pretty much what I expected, semi-unfortunately. > > > >The CD is just excerpts from the actual movie and has that pre hi-fi > >stereo tinny character. > > > >It's kind of a nifty little collector's package, but be warned, it is > >not a "real" soundtrack album. > > br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obuts] "Fast Eddie" Parker, Rito Romero Loza Date: 05 Feb 2001 00:33:32 -0500 HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - Eddie Parker, the pool shark whose life was said to have inspired the movie ``The Hustler,'' has died of an apparent heart attack on South Padre Island. He was 69. Parker, known as ``Fast Eddie,'' died Friday night at the U.S. Classic Billiards Eight-ball Showdown, officials said. He is credited with inspiring Walter Tevis to write the book and screenplay for ``The Hustler,'' a 1959 film starring Paul Newman. Parker was born in Springfield, Mo. He mostly taught himself to play pool beginning at age 9, when his father bought a used table. Survivors include his wife, Peg. Funeral arrangements are pending. ================= info from Jose Fernandez at La Arena http://www.highspots.com/arena/ Rito Romero Loza was born on March 19, 1927 in a town near Acatic, Jalisco. He started out training at age 12. Around that time, they didn't let him into the gym "La Mutualista" because he had to be at least 15, but he became friends with a soccer player called Felipe Zetter, who talked to the owners so they let the kid join the gym. With him being from Guadalajara, lucha fans won't have a lot of trouble to figure out that the legendary Diablo Velasco trained him. He started out competing in Mexico, and then moved to Texas. Later on he moved to Los Angeles where he didn't get any titles but he became more popular to the point of even appearing on the cover of popular cinema magazines due to his work in Mexico as an actor of the lucha film genre. Romero also wrestled in New York, France, Egypt and other countries. He toured all over Europe with his friend Lou Thesz and there was was nicknamed "Rayo Mexicano". His biggest claim to fame is that he created the hold La Tapatia (The one from Jalisco), also known as the Romero Special. Rito was a technical master with an strong personality and he had a reputation as a tough guy that could handle himself very well in and out of the ring. He was a great performer and Lou Thesz himself considers him one of the best Mexican wrestlers he has ever seen along with Gory Guerrero and El Canek. Around 1960 he suffered a broken leg during a match in Houston against The Destroyer and he decided to quit wrestling. He retired without a lot of fanfare, and unlike other luchadores, he didn't leave in a bitter way as he kept being a fan. He, however, didn't like the way the business was changing as in his own words "nowadays any kid gets masked and believes he's a wrestler". He was checked into a Guadalajara hospital on January 16 because he had a high level of blood sugar. It was later discovered that he had an appendicitis so he had surgery. A day later, he was bored of being in bed at hospital so he unplugged himself and left. Five hospital workers tried to get him back in bed but he refused and during the "fight" he suffered a fatal heart attack. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kev Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott and other forgotten scores Date: 04 Feb 2001 13:52:42 -0800 Well, I'm at the parental abode today, and finally got a chance to dig up my stack o' vinyl and play some of it (yay Dad for scoring a turntable!). Found two bits of interest so far, that I'd forgotten about. First: "A Yank In Europe" by Ted Heath and his Orchestra subtitled: "The Music Of Raymond Scott" London ffrr LL1676 Interesting orchestrations of Scott tunes: Lady On The Riviera Garden In Versailles Nightfall In Venice Supper At The Savoy Visibility Limited English Channel Palma Majorca Talking Turkey Night Club In Sorrento Opening Chorus-Folies Bergere Train Ride In The Alps Blue Grotto In Capri London Airport One rather interesting bit about this album is, my copy has a mislabelded b-side. The label claims that side B is actually "Waltzes To Remember" by Frank Chacksfield. Fortunately, the B side is in fact the Ted Heath / Raymond Scott stuff. The other interesting bit o' vinyl I found is "Futura" by Bernie Green and his Orchestra. manic early stereo record with lots of bits travelling from left to right. Favorite bit in the liner notes: "What will popular music sound like in 1970?" This album was recorded in 1961, and has some interesting tape cut-up experimentation in it, anticipating sampling. Fun stuff. Off to go see what else I forgot I had... -Kev. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Iannis Xenakis Date: 05 Feb 2001 11:18:22 -0500 http://allclassical.com/cg/x.dll?p=acg&sql=1:8133 http://www.google.com/search?q=iannis+xenakis&btnG=Google+Search February 5, 2001 Iannis Xenakis, Composer Who Built Music on Mathematics, Dies at 78 By PAUL GRIFFITHS Iannis Xenakis, the Greek-French composer who often used highly sophisticated scientific and mathematical theories to arrive at music of primitive power, died yesterday at his home in Paris. He was 78. He had been in poor health for several years and lapsed into a coma several days ago, said Charles Zacharie Bornstein, a conductor who has championed his music. By training, Mr. Xenakis was an engineer and architect; his musical education came late. This enabled him largely to ignore conventional techniques of composition. He rejected the idea of intuitive or unreasoning randomness in composition, for example, and by constructing his works on laws and formulas of the physical sciences, he sought to control his music at every instant. He once said, "This is my definition of an artist, or of a man: to control." At first he depended on the use of mathematical models of disorder. By using calculations derived from, say, the numbers of different-sized pebbles on a shore, Mr. Xenakis could determine the pitches of notes or their placements in time. In this way he could create music with chaotic inner detail but a decisive shape or impulse. Typical examples of such partly randomized effects in a Xenakis composition might include a bundle of nonaligned upward slides on orchestral strings. Once computers became available to him in the early 1960's, Mr. Xenakis was able to work much faster. And however far removed he was from the tradition of Western classical music, he inevitably began to create a tradition of his own in composing so abundantly. Iannis Xenakis (pronounced YAHN-nis zen-NAHK-ess) was born into a prosperous family of Greek origin on May 29, 1922, in the Romanian town of Braila. His mother died when he was 6, and he was sent to the Greek island of Spetsai to be educated at a British-style boarding school. His musical studies began at the age of 12, and even then he intended to study both science and music. In 1938 he moved to Athens to prepare for admission to the Polytechnic School, where he enrolled in 1940 and graduated in 1947 as a civil engineer. He lived in Athens during the Italian and German occupations of World War II. For much of this time he was a member of the Communist resistance, which was directed at first against the Germans and Italians and then, when they were defeated, against the British. In 1945 he was struck by a shell fragment from a British tank and lost an eye and part of his cheek, leaving the left side of his face deeply scarred. "In Greece, the resistance lost, so I left in 1947," he once recalled. He moved to Paris ("In France, the resistance won"), where he found a job in architecture at Le Corbusier's studio. He was there from 1947 to 1959, and contributed to some of the studio's most important projects, including the pavilion for the Philips electronics company at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. He always maintained that the Philips Pavilion was entirely his own design, and certainly its simple but strikingly original geometry of curves and planes is worked out on principles very similar to those he had used in his first published composition, "Metastasis" for orchestra (1953-4). "Metastasis" came at the end of a period in which he studied with some of the leading composers in Paris. But he was a mature student, and perhaps all he could learn at this stage was how to avoid banality. His alternative was the extraordinary busy textures and clean shapes of "Metastasis." He showed this score to the conductor Hermann Scherchen, who became a fervent supporter. The first performance of "Metastasis," however, was led by Hans Rosbaud at the 1955 festival in Donaueschingen, Germany, one of the important meeting places of the European musical avant-garde. "Metastasis," largely built on glissandi of rising volume that could recall an airplane rising during takeoff, caused a sensation. Many young composers were impressed by Mr. Xenakis's sense of music as pure sound, but other musicians, notably Pierre Boulez, detected a lack of craftsmanship. Mr. Boulez was eventually persuaded to commission a score from Mr. Xenakis for his Domaine Musical concerts in 1963. He was rewarded by one of Mr. Xenakis's strongest pieces, "Eonta" for brass quintet and piano. But the antipathy between the two remained. Mr. Xenakis did not lack champions, however. Mr. Scherchen conducted the premiere of "Pithoprakta" for trombones, percussion and strings in 1957 and the premiere of "Achoripsis" for small orchestra the next year. A little later Gunther Schuller gave the composer his first American performance. George Balanchine stiched together two of his scores to create the ballet "Metastasis and Pithoprakta." Like other of his works, "Metastasis" and "Pithoprakta" were regulated by Poisson's Law of Large Numbers, which implies that the more numerous the phenomena, the more they tend toward a determinate end — as in flipping a coin. "I have tried to inject determinism into what we call chance," said Mr. Xenakis, who used the scientific word "stochastic" to give a name to this idea of probability in music. As the 1950's drew to an end, Mr. Xenakis started working in the electronic music studio of French radio, producing "Concret PH" for the Philips Pavilion. In 1961 he visited Tokyo for the first time and met the pianist Yuji Takahashi, for whom he wrote "Herma," a work of cascading complexity for solo piano. In 1963 came his first trip to the United States, to teach at Tanglewood. A Ford Foundation scholarship enabled him to spend 1964-65 in Berlin, and in 1966 he founded his own studio in Paris, the Équipe de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales. After that he focused his activities on Paris, while returning to the Greek islands for summer holidays and traveling the world to lecture and attend performances. His work with electronic music continued, notably in "Bohor" (1962) and in various projects combining electronic sound with laser projections. One of these was "Polytope de Cluny" (1972), devised for the Roman bathhouse in Paris. It was a good match. Rugged in construction, his music went well with ruins. In other works, he combined his music with literary ruins — texts from the Greek plays or other classical sources. One powerful example is "Ais" for amplified baritone, percussion and orchestra (1979), on lines from Homer and Sappho. Another piece in the same mode, "The Goddess Athena" (1992), for baritone and chamber ensemble, was performed late last month by the Met Chamber Ensemble at Weill Recital Hall. But Mr. Xenakis could also create a feeling of ancient drama, ceremony and intensity when using voices without words, as in "Nuits" for chorus (1967). That same feeling often persisted in the instrumental works that form the bulk of Mr. Xenakis's output: solo pieces of extreme virtuosity, chamber music, compositions for the standard modern-music ensemble and works for symphony orchestra. Percussionists enjoyed Mr. Xenakis's music for its vitality and drama, and the solo pieces "Psappha" (1975) and "Rebonds" (1988), as well as the sextet "Pleiades" (1978), became classics of the genre. His last work was a piece for percussion and ensemble, "O—mega" (1997). Mr. Xenakis became a French citizen and married a Frenchwoman, the writer Françoise Xenakis, who had been decorated for saving the lives of resistance fighters. He is survived by his wife and by his daughter, Mâhki. He wrote several books and essays on mathematics, architecture, town planning and music. These writings show how deeply he based his music on mathematics and logic. He rejected criticism that he wrote "a species of desensitized music." Asked once if he composed without sentiment, he answered: "Yes, if you mean that kind of traditional sentimental effusion of sadness, gaiety or joy. I don't think that this is really admissible. In my music there is all the agony of my youth, of the resistance," as well as "the occasional mysterious, deathly sounds of those cold nights of December '44 in Athens." "From this," he added, "was born my conception of the massing of sound events." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Kitten With A Whip Date: 05 Feb 2001 16:00:26 -0600 Brett Leveridge wrote: > Carl W. Stalling (uncredited) Wow. Well, the film *was* kinda cartoonish in spots... -- Matt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Kitten With A Whip Date: 05 Feb 2001 19:49:53 -0500 > > Carl W. Stalling (uncredited) > >Wow. Well, the film *was* kinda cartoonish in spots... Probably due to the scene with the television on, juxtaposing wacky AM and a wacky cartoon (w/ a Stalling score). m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jschwart@voicenet.com Subject: (exotica) Scopitones in NYC Date: 06 Feb 2001 07:22:19 SCOPITONE PARTY Presented by The Secret Cinema and the University Program Board Roone Arledge Cinema, Alfred Lerner Hall Columbia University, 115th and Broadway Saturday, February 17, 5pm Admission: $5.00 For information: 212-854-8200 On Saturday, February 17 at 5pm, The Secret Cinema from Philadelphia will present SCOPITONE PARTY, a unique collection of music films from the early and mid 1960s. They were originally made for a French film jukebox called Scopitone, which entertained patrons in bars, cafes and bus stations in both Europe and America. The film clips, which feature performers both famous and obscure--and are considered to be among the more important of the many predecessors to the modern rock video--are today quite scarce, and usually difficult to see. The program will include a large assortment of the precious 16mm prints (most of which were discovered by a film collector, in pristine, never-used condition, in the long-warehoused inventory of a retired Virginia jukebox dealer). But adding interest to the SCOPITONE PARTY program will be a special talk about the history of film jukeboxes (which date back to the 1940s), illustrated with color slides of rare photos and original advertising materials. Scopitone Party will include performances by such well-known names as Dion, Nancy Sinatra, Paul Anka and Procul Harum. Also on view will be many French pop performers, including currently in retro-vogue names like Francoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, rockabilly-belting Johnny Hallyday, and doomed chanteuse Dalida. And then there are mystifying, bizarre clips by the British Elvis imitator Vince Taylor, a quartet of singing Jerry Lewis-types named Les Brutos, and even a few songs by performers whose names were lost to history. While some Scopitone films were included at the Secret Cinema EXOTICA MUSIC FILMS programs at Fez, this is Secret Cinema's first all-Scopitone presentation in New York. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] J.J.Johnson Date: 06 Feb 2001 10:27:15 -0500 http://www.jjjohnson.org http://www.elvispelvis.com/jjjohnson.htm http://www.trombone.org/default.asp http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=Bmmegebeeeeeeheba Modern Jazz Architect J.J. Johnson Commits Suicide Feb 5, 2001, 3:30 pm PT J.J. Johnson J.J. Johnson, the most influential trombonist in jazz history, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Indianapolis on Sunday (Feb. 4). Johnson, who was 77, had been suffering from prostate cancer and other irreversible health problems. February 6, 2001 J. J. Johnson, Jazz Trombonist, Dies at 77 By BEN RATLIFF J. J. Johnson, the most influential trombonist in postwar jazz, died on Sunday at his home in Indianapolis. He was 77. The Marion County Sheriff's Department reported the death as a suicide. Mr. Johnson translated the fast, linear style of bebop to the trombone in the late 1940's. "He was the definitive trombonist of the bebop generation," said the saxophonist Jimmy Heath, who played with him in the early 1950's and remained a close friend. "He didn't use the trombone as it was usually played, with the slide being the important part; he could speak the language of bebop with such clarity and precision. And everybody wanted to play trombone like that afterward." Mr. Johnson, born James Louis Johnson, started his music studies on the piano. He began listening to jazz in his early teenage years and switched to trombone in high school. In 1941, instead of going to college, he left Indianapolis to travel with the midwestern bands led by Snookum Russell and Clarence Love. Most of his influences, he told the writer Ira Gitler in "The Masters of Bebop: A Listener's Guide" (Da Capo Press), were not trombonists but trumpeters and saxophonists like Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In transferring bebop to the trombone, he used a clean, dry tone and short notes. He was often wrongly assumed to be playing the valve trombone, which allows easier articulation than the slide trombone. He did acknowledge the influence of Fred Beckett, a trombonist who played with Harlan Leonard and Lionel Hampton in the 1930's and 40's. Leonard, Mr. Johnson once explained, "was the first trombonist I ever heard play in a manner other than the usual sliding, slurring, lip-trilling or gutbucket style." Returning to Indianapolis for a time, he was hired by Benny Carter in 1942 and spent three years in Carter's big band. In 1945 he joined the Count Basie Orchestra for a short period before becoming a bandleader in his own right. For the next nine years Mr. Johnson balanced his bandleading career with jobs as a sideman, playing with Parker, Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet, Woody Herman, Miles Davis and others. But the work wasn't enough to support a family, so Mr. Johnson, ever curious about electronic equipment, took a two-year job with the Sperry Gyroscope Company as a blueprint inspector. In 1954 the Savoy label decided to record him and the trombonist Kai Winding in a double-trombone front line, a format that proved to be a hit. Jay & Kai, their band, allowed Mr. Johnson to quit his day job and was one of jazz's most popular acts until it disbanded in 1956. Mr. Johnson was an admirer of Hindemith, Stravinsky and Ravel, and after his part in the famous "Birth of the Cool" nonet recordings of 1949 with Davis and Gil Evans, he soon got involved in the new large- ensemble jazz as a composer. His first large-scale work was the four- part "Poem for Brass," included on Columbia's "Music for Brass" album of 1956, a sort of recorded manifesto of the Third Stream movement, conducted by Gunther Schuller. He wrote two pieces commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1959: "El Camino Real" and "Sketch for Trombone and Orchestra." And Gillespie, after hearing "Poem for Brass," asked Mr. Johnson to write him a whole album's worth of music in a similar style. The result was "Perceptions," a 1961 35- minute suite including six trumpets, four French horns and two harps. From 1967 to 1976, Mr. Johnson barely recorded, devoting his energy to composing. In 1967, through the help of the film composer Elmer Bernstein, he got a job as staff composer and conductor for M.B.A. Music in New York, a company that provided music for television commercials. He moved to Los Angeles in 1970, writing and orchestrating music for films like "Barefoot in the Park," "Scarface," "Trouble Man" and "Sea of Love." Despite his prolific career as a composer, Mr. Johnson's skill as a trombonist did not dull, even into his 60's and 70's. He was a firm believer in practicing every day, and his strength is fully evident in "Quintergy" and "Standards," albums recorded live at the Village Vanguard in 1988. In the 1990's, under contract with the Verve label, Mr. Johnson created some ambitious recordings, including "Tangence," a collaboration with the arranger and film composer Robert Farnon; "The Brass Orchestra," which presented music ranging from bebop to selections from "Perceptions"; and "Heroes," an innovative straight-ahead jazz sextet album. Mr. Johnson returned to Indianapolis with his first wife, Vivian, in 1987 and finally retired from public performance in 1997, refusing to play when he wasn't in top form. He had survived prostate cancer and spent much of his spare time in his home studio, mastering the new hard-drive technology for composing and recording. He is survived by his second wife, Carolyn; two sons, Kevin and William, both of Indianapolis; a stepdaughter, Mikita Sanders, of Indianapolis; a granddaughter; a stepgranddaughter; and a sister, Rosemary Belcher of Denver. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlists?? Date: 06 Feb 2001 15:28:51 Nobody seems to answer this, and I've been away from the internet for a few days so... Some people don't like people posting lists, I do. Some people don't really care one way or another about tikis, but wouldn't dream of complaining about everyone else's right to talk about an exotica related topic of great interest to a large number of the list. I like to hear of new records I might want to listen to. I also like to read stimulating argument and robust exchanges of views rather than only lists of records as Nat might say. Sorry Alan. So send away and those people not appreciating it will press delete anyway. I'll read. Thanks for those interesting playlists Cheryl and Brian, always a source of interest to me. rob _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Phil Ford" Subject: (exotica) Beatsploitation! Date: 06 Feb 2001 10:19:21 -0600 Someone recently mentioned lame Hollywood-style hipster dialogue in "Kitten with a Whip" ("Now cool it and co-exist!"), which got me thinking about one of my pet things -- mass-media depiction/exploitation of hipster/countercultural types. Think of all those crazed-murderer hippies (e.g. in Dirty Harry) that suddenly appeared after the Charles Manson case. Anyhow, I'm especially interested in film depictions of hip subcultures before the 1960s. Does anyone have any favorite Beatsploitation movies to recommend? (Or albums, I suppose. Is there such a thing as Beatsploitation music?) I just read a really horrible novel by Bernard Wolfe, probably best known as the ghost writer for Mezz Mezzrow's autobiography, which was maybe the first big work of hipster lit. The novel is called "The Magic of their Singing," and features Beatniks getting naked and smoking weed to the strains of "Muskrat Ramble". (Something wrong with that picture.) Very obscure, and for many good reasons . . . Phil # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: edowning@lightbridge.com Subject: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 06 Feb 2001 11:25:14 -0500 Just wondering if anyone had done a top "whatever number" of Exotica/Lounge records, yet...I know certain web-related sites give there polls but just wondering about the listeners out there, if they have given their word... This is kinda cool for beginner Exotica listeners...like myself... Thanks... Eric # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatsploitation! Date: 06 Feb 2001 10:55:34 -0600 Phil Ford wrote: > > Does anyone have any favorite Beatsploitation movies to > recommend? (Or albums, I suppose. Is there such a thing as Beatsploitation > music?) Hi Phil, Sure, there are a bunch of stereotyped beatnik portrayals in film. Check out the following nicely done URL for a small cross-section: http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0896August/Automedia/beatnik.html I'm quite partial to Roger Corman's low-budget beatnik flick "Bucket of Blood", myself. -- Matt Marchese mattm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/ Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Gingerich Subject: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 06 Feb 2001 12:52:08 -0500 Funny you should bring it up since I was thinking the same thing for awhile and hadn't broached the subject. It would be interesting to create it here with feedback from the listees. And I think a trick would be to avoid say, all of Esquivels albums, but a 'best of' of each artist..... On that note I would nominate 'Orienta' by the Marko Polo Adventurers. Another album someone here is into is 'Ports of Call' by Les Baxter. (this is from memory, so I might be a bit hazy on proper titles or spellings...) What say the rest of you? pg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Magnus Date: 06 Feb 2001 19:36:59 +0100 Looks like Magnus already left the list again. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael Greenberg" Subject: (exotica) question about a scanner for lp's Date: 06 Feb 2001 14:11:55 -0500 Hi folks - I think I recall someone posting about a scanner that had a large enough bed to scan entire lp's covers. A friend of mine is getting a computer setup that will allow her to make cd's and wanted to know about such scanners. If any can confirm or deny the existence of such scanners, I'd appreciate it! thanks in advance, Michael # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 06 Feb 2001 14:24:58 -0500 At 12:52 PM 2/6/01 -0500, Peter Gingerich wrote: > > On that note I would nominate 'Orienta' by the Marko Polo Adventurers. >Another album someone here is into is 'Ports of Call' by Les Baxter. (this >is from memory, so I might be a bit hazy on proper titles or spellings...) > > What say the rest of you? See how lazy and blase we've become. The lists would have poured out three years ago when I joined this list. But okay, no recriminations. Okay here's a completely random list Sonny Lester - After Hours Middle East The Versatile Henry Mancini Alvino Rey - Swinging Fling The Gugliemis - Adventure in Sound Axel Stordahl - The lure of the blue Mediterranean Tak Shindo - Brass and Bamboo Phil Kraus - The Percussive... Ray Martin - Dynamica (Stereo Action) John Klein and Sid Ramin - The New Sound America Loves Best Percussive Jazz (Audio Fidelity) David Carroll - rePercussion The Three Suns - Movin and Groovin Eddie Osborn - Baldwin Organ and Bongos Irving Fields - Bagels and Bongos Perez Prado - Big hits by... Add four or five Esquivel, ten Les Baxters, five by Denny, a couple by Lyman... you could get to fifty. Plus you have to get Persuasive Percussion and Provocative Percussion on Command and any of the Brass Impact records and maybe a couple of the Command Cha Cha records I'm also partial to Hot Line for Sound (musical explorations in beats, bongos, boffs) Other personal favorites include Moe Wechsler and Joe Harnell - Boogie Woogie and Bongos Tarragano and his Orchestra - The Sound of Latin Brass Michel Legrand - Strings on Fire Percy Faith - Exotic Strings then there's early Ferrante and Teicher - such as Soundproof (?) And then there are records that you'll find that maybe none of us have. So there! AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Jazz Fest Schedules Date: 06 Feb 2001 11:48:47 -0800 (PST) http://www.insideneworleans.com/partners/nojazzfest/schedules/ If anyone is coming down (or up) for this, please email me. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: edowning@lightbridge.com Subject: (exotica) Re: from Exotica/Lounge top albums... Date: 06 Feb 2001 14:49:11 -0500 I had emailed this list to inquire about a top 50 "exotic/lounge albums" that are top albums in the eyes and ears of the listeners instead of critic...and someone wrote that "we are getting "blase" and "lazy"... Wrong... This list is not a matter of becoming "blase" or "lazy"...it's a list of awareness... Especially for those who are new to the crowd... Didn't mean to step on toes of the "pretentious"...open up, there are newbies in the room... Keep your nose down to the world where Exotica and all music resides...not up in the clouds.... Thanks for the impressive list, though...good show!!!!!!!!! Eric Downing # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 06 Feb 2001 14:56:41 EST In a message dated 2/6/1 2:23:55 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >See how lazy and blase we've become. The lists would have poured out three >years ago when I joined this list. But okay, no recriminations. Its not so much that we've become lazy and blase. Three years ago the discovery of this stuff was fresh and new to many of us so naturally we'd be inclined to chime in on some particularly good finds that would fall under that moment's Top-50...Speaking strickly for myself though, I'm kinda tired of the "Top..Anything" lists that surround us daily in some form and find my own judgements about what constitutes the top to be fleeting at best. When I make something the best it usually precedes my over using it, wearing it out, and quickly placing it on my "Top-50 Never Heard From Again" list...JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Mardis Gras Date: 06 Feb 2001 12:24:19 -0800 (PST) Mardis Gras day, the New Orleans Carnival is scheduled for February 27. At 8:00 am that morning, Mondo Kayo,(pronounced K-eye- Yo) the only Tiki flavored carnival club, will take to the streets for its 5 hour parade celebration. Lots of grass skirts and tiki tropical costumes will grace the official parade route in New Orleans. Our sound system plays 5 pre-planned cassettes with Exotic sounds including Martin Denny) and Soca, Zouk, Soukous, Shibuya-kei, surf, jive, Compas and Now Sounds and an acid jazz song. We throw golden bananas grown in our back yards with little stickers on them that say "Mondo Kayo Carnival Club". This years theme is "2001: A Kayo Odyssey; May the Tiki Gods Bless Your Banana Trees" This theme with the official logo is on the wooden doubloons thrown by 150 members of the club. We offer a basket of Golden Bananas to the Mayor while confetti is canon-ed high into the air and Walt Disneys Tiki Tiki Room blares from the speakers followed by The Chaquita Banana commercial from the late 1940s. We always celebrate New Orleans as the northernmost banana republic and all the good things associated with tropical culture. Mondo kayo actually started in 1982. The sound system now is so loud it sets off car alarms as we pass by. The floats, decorated with banana leaves, palms and Exotic objects include a giant banana with real children riding on top, a chacmul and a new giant Tiki. We busted up the last giant styrofoam Tiki. The four JBL speakers are 8 feet up in the air. This parade is a riot and crowds love the music we play. Its funny how we arrived at tiki culture independently. I will be drinking my beer from a blue plastic Tiki Mug. I wouldn't dare risk a beautiful glass tiki mug on the streets of the carnival and French Quarter on Mardis Gras day. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Date: 06 Feb 2001 12:46:20 -0800 (PST) Nice list Alan I would also like to add Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo Moon Gas Russ Garcia's Fantastica Frank Comstock's Project Comstock Expresso Expresso compiled on cd by the Karminsky Brothers OST to The Day the Earth Stood Still Beat Jazz: Pictures From A Gone World (a boot cd) Hypnotique by Denny Cugat The Early Years Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- alan zweig wrote: Add four or five Esquivel, ten Les Baxters, five by Denny, a > couple by> Lyman... you could get to fifty. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 06 Feb 2001 14:27:27 -0700 I would add: Voice of the Unpronounceable (Xtabay) - Yma Sumac Exotica 1970 - Kokee Band Sitting in Phoenix, just Tempe-rarily, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 06 Feb 2001 17:10:06 -0500 >See how lazy and blase we've become. The lists would have poured out three >years ago when I joined this list. But okay, no recriminations. It's not that. It's just that the longer I've been on this list, the more I know that there's more I don't know than I will ever know. And how can I justifiably say x, y and z are the greatest ever, when somewhere out there in a dusty stack, there's probably something unheard of that simply blows them away. Then there's the problem of picking "top" albums and not picking others, which leaves me feeling like a parent forced to decide which children shall live and which shall die. I can't take it! I just can't take the pressure!!! Alright. A few nice records, with the understanding that they are only the tip of a mysterious and unfathomable iceberg... Esquivel - Latinesque Les Baxter - Ritual Of the Savage Yma Sumac - Voice Of The Yxabat Martin Denny - Exotica Living Brass - That's Life Andre Popp - Delirium In Hi-Fi Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Herb Alpert Presents... Ferrante & Teicher (prepared period), Lyman, Brazilians, Bacharach, Chaino, Mancini, Cal Tjader, Prado, more, more, more. How many exotica angels can dance on the period at the end of this sentence. There's too much out there for me to even dream of distilling down... m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: edowning@lightbridge.com Subject: (exotica) In response to the top Exotica albums... Date: 06 Feb 2001 17:11:49 -0500 It need not be a top 50 albums....it was just an individual list of fav's....no numbers...it's hard to list 50 down to 1... I couldn't do it, myself...nor would I want to do it...initially I wrote to have a top 50 exotica/lounge...I really meant to have a list of some albums that each of you would recommend... Thanks, Cats... Eric # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mr. Fodder" Subject: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show - Week of 02/05/01 Date: 06 Feb 2001 11:28:27 -0800 The Friendly Persuasion Show - Week of 02/05/01 Cool and Strange Music Magazine's weekly radio show on Antenna Internet Radio. Go directly to the show page here, http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm Hit the personal Show pages here, http://www.thebranflakes.com/fp Yes Dear Friends.... Another installment of the time treasured stylings of the flab four interpreted by artists who really know who to express a Beatles tune and others who simply enjoy to mock the Beatles in general. This Week's Playlist: Rev. Jimmy Swaggart Introduction Lord Sitar - I Am The Walrus Barney Gumble Speaks Don Bowman - The Other Ringo The Templeton Twins - Yesterday Peter Sellers - Can't Buy Me Love Big Daddy - She's Leaving Home Chinese Band - I Saw Her Standing There Bugs & Friends - It Won't Be Long Snoopy's Beatle Classics - She Loves You Allan Sherman - I Hate The Beatles The Red Skelton Hour - Pearly Buttons (Production Number) Weird Al Yankovic - Pacman Mrs. Miller - A Hard Day's Night Sam Chaplin - Michelle Tiny Tim - Nowhere Man (Live at Royal Albert Hall, 10/30/68) Don Sebesky - Lady Madonna Doodles Weaver - Eleanor Rigby Alan Copeland - Mission Impossible/Norwegian Wood Sesame Street - Letter B Gary Strivent - Something The Carpenters - Help! Tony Randall, Bernadette Peters, Paul Williams and Others - Beatles Medley (from "Beatles Forever" ABC TV Special, 1977) Daniel Johnston - The Beatles Laibach - Across The Universe The Residents - Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life / Flying The Rutles - Doubleback Alley Tony Randall - Finale Chow, Otis Mr. Otis F. Odder The Friendly Persuasion Radio Show Jump into Cool and Strange Music Magazine online at, www.coolandstrange.com Issue #19 is out now! WEIRD AL YANKOVIC is on the cover. This issue features a big interview with WEIRD AL YANKOVIC, as well as with VIC MIZZY and FAY LOVSKY. Other articles cover XAVIER CUGAT, JEAN JACQUES PERRY and the ONDIOLINE, records about DRINKS AND DINING, the career and records of SOUPY SALES, and much, much more! Our big catch this issue is an interview with the "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" girl from the Herb Alpert and the TJB LP of the same name!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mr. Fodder" Subject: (exotica) Re: Playlists?? Date: 06 Feb 2001 11:37:03 -0800 I like to post my playlists, I hope others enjoy reading them and then tuning in for the fun audio. I post them from time to time when I think a certain show will be exciting for those on the list. I posted this week's Friendly Persuasion show to the list moments ago. :-) I also like reading other people's playlists for I dig listening to everyone's shows during the day at work. Makes the day go by so much happier. Thanks all (and thanks Robert for reading and listening), Cheers, Otis mofo@thebranflakes.com www.thebranflakes.com > > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:28:51 > From: "Robert McKenna" > Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlists?? > > Nobody seems to answer this, and I've been away from the internet for a few > days so... > Some people don't like people posting lists, I do. Some people don't really > care one way or another about tikis, but wouldn't dream of complaining about > everyone else's right to talk about an exotica related topic of great > interest to a large number of the list. > I like to hear of new records I might want to listen to. I also like to read > stimulating argument and robust exchanges of views rather than only lists of > records as Nat might say. Sorry Alan. > So send away and those people not appreciating it will press delete anyway. > I'll read. Thanks for those interesting playlists Cheryl and Brian, always a > source of interest to me. > rob > _________________________________________________________________________ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr Chris R. Tame" Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 06 Feb 2001 22:15:35 +0000 In article <000801c09065$872af550$95c62aa6@mcit.com>, Peter Gingerich writes > > > Funny you should bring it up since I was thinking the same thing for >awhile and hadn't broached the subject. > It would be interesting to create it here with feedback from the >listees. > And I think a trick would be to avoid say, all of Esquivels albums, but >a 'best of' of each artist..... > > On that note I would nominate 'Orienta' by the Marko Polo Adventurers. >Another album someone here is into is 'Ports of Call' by Les Baxter. (this >is from memory, so I might be a bit hazy on proper titles or spellings...) > > What say the rest of you? > >pg > These lists are very useful for newbies to the genre like me (primarily a '50s rockabilly/R&B/R'n'R fan). Do please keep 'em coming. It would also be very helpful to have some evaluations of the many lounge/exotica compilations (like the UltraLounge series) now available. -- Dr. Chris R. Tame, Director Libertarian Alliance | "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, | 25 Chapter Chambers | and the secret of Freedom is Courage" | Esterbrooke Street | Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration | London SW1P 4NN England Tel: 020 7821 5502 Fax: 020 7834 2031 Email: chris@rand.demon.co.uk LA Web Site: http://www.libertarian-alliance.com/ Free Life Web Site: http://www.whig.org.uk # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) question about a scanner for lp's Date: 06 Feb 2001 17:49:26 -0800 At 02:11 PM 06-02-01 -0500, you wrote: > >Hi folks - I think I recall someone posting about a scanner that had >a large enough bed to scan entire lp's covers. A friend of mine is >getting a computer setup that will allow her to make cd's and wanted >to know about such scanners. If any can confirm or deny the >existence of such scanners, I'd appreciate it! I own the Plustek A3I scanner. It actually is about 1/4 inch too narrow to get an entire album, but most albums waste that space anyway. I went with this because the real full size scanners cost an arm and a leg...and the price for this one is VERY reasonable in comparison. Now go websearch for that...and for all A3 scanners and you will see what I mean! Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "You've got to stand for something or ||| you'll fall for anything." ||| ||| ---John Mellencamp ||| ||| ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net Portland, OR, USA||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: Re: (exotica) love letter to a mailing list Date: 06 Feb 2001 21:39:50 -0500 Alan wrote: > I'm on this other mailing list. On that list, my posts have been censored, > refused and edited. In addition I've received posts from the > administration asking me to find a way to post without offending the > sensibilities of other listmembers... Apparently my style of writing jumps off the > page and offends "several" members there. Now why Alan of all people... Go figure! OK seriously... Now that you mention this subject I've winessed some volatile crossfire from my years of lists dedicated to The Residents. The original list was not only moderated and edited but the listowner has a peppy-happy writing style that well, may not be for everyone. A band of renegate members start their own list and much of what transpired since it began, (including a few very nasty exchanges between the original list owner) has been a venting of free speech that the group felt had been denied them. Unfortunately for both lists the Residents haven't exactly been producing earth shattering work these past years so the whole thing leaves me bored. Still its a good example that if you let people say what they want, they are less likely to go overboard. Most of the big blow-ups on this list were the result of one or more former members attempting to determine what was correct for everyone. Anyway Alan, if you should need a character reference on the new list, I'm sure many of us would be happy to oblige. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) Re: (Exotica) Scopitones Party Date: 06 Feb 2001 21:39:41 -0500 > SCOPITONE PARTY > Presented by The Secret Cinema and the University Program Board > Roone Arledge Cinema, Alfred Lerner Hall > Columbia University, 115th and Broadway What I wouldn't do to see this! I could surely see this as a great travelling show. Anyone in New York want to convince the organizers bring it here to Montreal we'd find a proper venue for it at McGill or CKUT (right Will?). The few bits of these I've caught on AMC were great! I already sent this link to a few people on the list (thanks to Jean for sending it to me) but here's a must-visit site on this very subject: http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/9.4/scopitone/scopitone.html Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 07 Feb 2001 01:41:18 -0500 At 05:10 PM 2/6/01 -0500, m.ace wrote: > And how can I >justifiably say x, y and z are the greatest ever, when somewhere out there >in a dusty stack, there's probably something unheard of that simply blows >them away. Don't worry about picking the best ones. Just list some of your personal favorites. List the favorites that you think NO ONE ELSE WOULD LIST. For instance: >Living Brass - That's Life That's a cool choice. No one else would list a Living Brass record in their top anything. Let's see more lists like that. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 07 Feb 2001 13:32:07 +0100 OK, I react.... I'm shocked that these names didn't appear in any of the top-lists: Gene Rains Warren Barker Eden Ahbez The Surfmen Milt Raskin Marais and Miranda Moondog not to mention any more recent artists. After all the basics of Exotica don't seem to be THAT common... Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Mardis Gras Date: 07 Feb 2001 13:33:16 +0100 chuck schrieb: > Mondo Kayo,... all this sounds like great fun. when you invited folks to the Jazz fest, I wasn't really turned on, but this makes me think... Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Playlists?? Date: 07 Feb 2001 13:33:35 +0100 I like a playlist when I have the chance to listen to the music, like when it airs somewhere or when I get a CD. If not, the "fun" of reading a playlist reduces to realizing which titles I know and which don't mean a thing to me. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) Hala Kahiki Date: 07 Feb 2001 08:48:58 -0500 Just a note for anyone that wants to experience a true Tiki/Polynesian bar - go to the Hala Kahiki in Chicago. A business trip for my boyfriend, he managed to video tape the inside of the bar and some of the gift shop located next door. The gardens were closed in winter but huge Tiki's await you out there!! We also had dinner at the Trader Vic's in Atlanta on Saturday night. Wonderful cocktails with a flower in one for my hair! Aloha, Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Hala Kahiki Date: 07 Feb 2001 08:22:54 -0600 "christie j. white" wrote: > > Just a note for anyone that wants to experience a true Tiki/Polynesian bar - > go to the Hala Kahiki in Chicago. A business trip for my boyfriend, he > managed to video tape the inside of the bar and some of the gift shop > located next door. The gardens were closed in winter but huge Tiki's await > you out there!! I was there last November and the decor was indeed swell. I thought the drinks were pretty pricey and watered down, however. They also have a fairly well-stocked gift shop on the premises that sells a vast array of Hawaiiana (i.e. cheap plastic hula skirts, moai statues, keychains, etc.). Chicago also has a Vic's downtown at the Palmer Hilton in the heart o' the Loop. If you go in the winter, be careful that you don't get impaled by giant icicles falling from skyscrapers...apparently several people have. I also drove to a bar down on the Southside called House of Tiki. It was in an extremely [ahem] crummy neighborhood, had newspapers plastered all over the windows, and it was so dark inside that I thought I'd gone blind when I stepped in the door. The clientele were casually attired in stomping boots, chains, and leather vests. When I entered, every head in the places swiveled to glare at me. The "Tiki" decor looked as if it'd been purchased from bachelorpad.com and the drink I ordered was damn near all rum and nothing else. I drank quickly, used the can, and beat feet posthaste. > We also had dinner at the Trader Vic's in Atlanta on Saturday night. > Wonderful cocktails with a flower in one for my hair! Hey, are you guys following me? I ate there last month while on a business trip. It was definitely the most crowded Vic's that I'd ever been in. Oddly, almost every woman in the place was wearing leopardskin. -- Matt Marchese mattm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/ Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) "It Crawled From the Bins" Date: 07 Feb 2001 09:27:06 -0500 Hey, most of you are undoubtedly aware of this great site. Unfortunately = "Peter Gilstrap" has said "So long" and isn't updating the site anymore. Anyone have his e-mail so I can send him a "Good Job!" letter?? Could he possibly be a member of this list? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Re: Hala Kahiki Date: 07 Feb 2001 07:24:37 -0800 (PST) The Hala Kahiki was just full of suburban Chicagoites speaking polish when I was there a year ago. I brought my northern friends 2 of whom don't drink (anymore) My friends were amazed at the awe I experienced from the fabulous decor. Really everywhere there was fantastic tiki decorations. I had my fill of icefilled Mai Tais. I was hoping to hear more exotic music but the Hawaiian music they played was just fine. The store was fantastic. I purchased 3 amazingly colorful grass skirts for this Mardis Gras. I really recomend highly the Hala Kahiki. Its a fantastic tiki site. Matt I am surprised the Trader Vics in Atlanta was crowded. I heard from this list that the Atlanta Trader Vics was an endangered species. When I went to the Trader Vics in Chicago we were the only people in there. Does anyone know if Trader Vics are experiencing an upswing in popularity in Atlanta and other locations? Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Matthew Marchese wrote: > > We also had dinner at the Trader Vic's in Atlanta on Saturday > night. > Wonderful cocktails with a flower in one for my hair! > > Hey, are you guys following me? I ate there last month while on a > business trip. It was definitely the most crowded Vic's that I'd > ever been in. Oddly, almost every woman in the place was wearing > leopardskin. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 (Living Brass, etc) Date: 07 Feb 2001 07:38:33 -0800 > >Living Brass - That's Life > > That's a cool choice. No one else would list a Living Brass record in > their top anything. Let's see more lists like that. Agreed on the Living Series! Plays a Mancini Tribute is nice, with a vocal "Bye Bye" (Peter Gunn) Living Brass, Jazz, Guitars records always have some really good tracks on them, sometimes downright great. I usually steer away from the Strings and Voices versions, but maybe they have some choice cuts too. There seem to be tons of these, does anybody know of a complete discography? I've also seen Living Marimbas, Living Percussion (The Beat Goes On - Jungle Fantasy - WOW!!), I think a Living Trio too. keep an eye out for those occasional sitar tracks on the Guitars series, San Francisco Nights is all sitar. Cheap too, nobody wants em. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: RE: (exotica) Hala Kahiki Date: 07 Feb 2001 09:56:06 -0600 chuck > Does anyone know if Trader Vics are experiencing an upswing in > popularity in Atlanta and other locations? Well, I discovered Trader Vics Spiced Rum at my local liquor store last night. I didn't buy any, but I wonder how it compares to my beloved Capt. Morgans spiced rum... -Indy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Hala Kahiki Date: 07 Feb 2001 17:47:53 +0100 "christie j. white" schrieb: > Just a note for anyone that wants to experience a true Tiki/Polynesian bar - > go to the Hala Kahiki in Chicago. A business trip for my boyfriend, he > managed to video tape the inside of the bar and some of the gift shop > located next door. The gardens were closed in winter but huge Tiki's await > you out there!! > > We also had dinner at the Trader Vic's in Atlanta on Saturday night. > Wonderful cocktails with a flower in one for my hair! since so many original places have closed down forever in the last few years, it's always pleasant and a relief to hear some nice reports like this. speaking of it... any news from the new Kahiki in Columbus/Ohio? By the time it closed, many suspected, that despite the old owner's plans a new one would most likely never be built. BTW: a new bar has opened in Munich, the Aloha Bar. It's full of Bamboo, Tikis, and exotic pictures. Rumors have it that the owner of the Atomic Cafe wants to open a big tiki bar/restaurant right across the street of the Hofbrauhaus. Together with the new tiki decoration at the Atomic Cafe itself, the Trader Vic's and the Waikiki, and 4 independent groups of people who regulary stage tiki events, I now consider Munich a CENTER of the world-wide tiki cult. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 07 Feb 2001 10:03:07 -0700 And foithermore... I did forget about Moondog! Moondog - Moondog (CBS) Available as a double CD set. Also, "Story of Moondog" has a bit of music that Alan Freed used on his Moondog Rock 'n' Roll Party show, so Freed must have known someone else was using the name. Ananda Shankar and his Music. Out of print. Sitar meets synth in the seventies. Sweet. Great International Hits - V. Balsara and his Singing Sitar (Jack Diamond carries this as part of a double CD) Golden Rain(Nonesuch) - OK, so it's Balinese Gamelan music, but it features the best version of the Monkey Chant, even though someone keeps bumping into the danged microphone. Bravos del Ritmo - Various Artists. Machito, Perez Prado, Richie Reyes and Tito Rodriguez. Not a bad cut on it, I tell su. This is out of print and I think, on CD only. Cuba Classics, Vol. 2 Dancing with the Enemy. MUCH easier to find than the above and also, it also doesn't have a bad cut. Los Zafiros, Maria Teresa Vera Vargas and Caridad Hierrezuelo. Whee'! Captain from Castille - Alfred Newman. Long before his happy stint at Mad Magazine [lose this bit of misinformation - Ed.], this wonderful soundtrack was issued and still is print. Real strut around the house in a towel music. Taboo - Nope, not the one the Arthur Lyman record, but actually performed by a small group of college students. I think it's on Diplomat or Promenade (I am not at home). A couple of kids and some bongos. Alan Partridge has nothing on these folks when THEY shout Ah HAAAA! My brother and I grew up listening to this one (and a kindly list member got me a tape of it again). Exuma - Exuma (Mercury) His first album is still his best one. I consider him a Folk singer that stopped at the Voodoo Shop. Listen to it in the dark and you...um...will bump into things. If you like this one, also try Snake. If you wish to read about him go here http://www.furious.com/perfect/exuma.html The Gentle Rain (soundtrack) - Luiz Bonfa. Plesant, wonderful and features the great "O Ganso". The Day the Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrmann - Not only a good movie but the music is so good that at the last screening I went to of this, the Main Title got cheers! It's just been reissued, too. Dance Mania (Vol. 1) (RCA) - Tito Puente. Volume two is fine, too! Reissued and I think, one of his best sellers. Willie Rosario - Boogaloo and Guaguanco (Atco) Watusi Boogaloo is enjoying a vogue in clubs right now, but the whole album is great. Oscar Brown, Jr. and Luiz Henrique - Finding a New Friend (Fontana). Jazzy grooves and Brazillian tinges. A good candlelight album, that plays even better when the power comes back on in the house. Sonny Lester - How to Belly Dance for Your Husband. Well, the instruction booklet didn't do me much good (didn't want a husband, in all fairness), but the music is very good. Speed the Parting Guest - Jimmy Carroll (Cook) A short but wonderful onslaught of percussion. Much better than Wild Stereo Drums, although that album has DJ Dan Ingram's closing music, "Tri-Fi Drums". http://www.spaceagepop.com has a small write-up on the album. I have seen it only once and I am glad I bought it. Zweig's note made me think a little harder, now for that common cold cure, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Betty Page on E! Date: 07 Feb 2001 11:36:02 -0600 Anyone manage to catch the 2-hour documentary on Bettie Page over the weekend on the E! channel? Not bad, even included some music from "Danger Girl", showed/mentioned the CD and had an interview with Bettie herself (in shadow, of course). I assume they'll re-run this thing pretty soon. Catch it if you can! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Hala Kahiki Date: 07 Feb 2001 11:47:25 -0600 Moritz R wrote: > > > Rumors have it that the owner of the Atomic Cafe wants > to open a big tiki bar/restaurant right across the street > of the Hofbrauhaus. Y'know, I'd love to see Tiki and Hofbrauhas Culture somehow mixed together: Shirtless, barefoot Bavarian farmers in grass skirts doing the Schuhplattler dance. Bamboo lederhosen Exotic Village performed by accordionists and an oompah band. MaiTais and Chinese BBQ'ed Weisswurst. Zehr Kuhl! -- Matt Marchese mattm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/ Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Betty Page on E! Date: 07 Feb 2001 10:52:59 -0700 >Anyone manage to catch the 2-hour documentary on Bettie Page >over the weekend on the E! channel? I saw a bit of that one. Not knowing what she sounded like, I was most surprised to find that she had a Southern accent! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Playlists?? Date: 07 Feb 2001 16:45:09 +0100 >Like, do you people mind when playlists are posted? not when they're annotated ;-) Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Hala Kahiki / Trader Vic's Date: 07 Feb 2001 13:38:43 EST In a message dated 02/07/01 9:24:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, mjmarch@charter.net writes: << Hey, are you guys following me? I ate there last month while on a business trip. It was definitely the most crowded Vic's that I'd ever been in. Oddly, almost every woman in the place was wearing leopardskin. >> The Vic's at the Beverly Hilton is the busiest of the one's in the chain. The Vic's are what I call elegant Tiki and uphold a pretty high standard. I was at the Beverly Hills Vic's a few weeks ago on a Friday (and Sat) night. The Friday night was so crowded you could not move. Which is GOOD because I want those things to stay open. BTW, the Beverly Hills location is often rented out (the whole joint) for Hugh Hefner's parties. Tiki Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Hala Kahiki Date: 07 Feb 2001 13:44:45 EST In a message dated 02/07/01 10:25:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, chuckmk@yahoo.com writes: << Matt I am surprised the Trader Vics in Atlanta was crowded. I heard from this list that the Atlanta Trader Vics was an endangered species. When I went to the Trader Vics in Chicago we were the only people in there. Does anyone know if Trader Vics are experiencing an upswing in popularity in Atlanta and other locations? >> The one in Atlanta thrives more on the mid-week conventioneers crowd. They have been "slower" the last few years. I know two bartenders, a hostess and manager there and they "inform" me periodically as to what is going on. At this point there are no plans to close the Atlanta location. The bar business during conventions is enought to keep it open. Plus, the Hilton likes an alternative to the standard Hilton run Lobby Bar AND it moves the drunk conventioneers to the basement (where Vic's is located). I go to Vic's about twice a year in Atlanta and once a year in LA. I can say with some degree of confidence that these two are in no danger (at this time) of being closed. TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) FPM Date: 07 Feb 2001 14:19:44 -0500 I recall there was some recent queries/comments re. the sound of FPM's new release. Here's the decsription (with some realaudio links) from Other Music's latest newsletter. lousmith@pipeline.com FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE "Beautiful" (Avex Trax, Japan) CD $31.99 RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/Paragon.rm RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/WhistleS.rm For his third album Tomoyuki Tanaka (aka Fantastic Plastic Machine) delivers his most straight-up house record to date. Those who picked up FPM's 'Take Me to the Disco' single from late 1999 could probably hear this one coming, for the rest it may come as a bit of a surprise. On "Beautiful" Tanaka has moved to replace most of the funky breaks and chaotic samples that characterized his first two records with a steady 4/4 house beat. Luckily for us he doesn't totally abandon his patented cut-and-paste approach and adds a lush string section on many tracks worthy of some of the classic '70s disco that he's trying to evoke. But the best tracks here are ones that go beyond the straight-ahead house/disco formula including 'Paragon' with its skittering, cut-up Brazilian rhythms and 'Whistle Song,' a breezy down-tempo number. On 'Love is Psychedelic', an Isaac Hayes imitator inexplicably recites a poem over a beefy bass line and a chorus of violins -- weird, but it works. "Beautiful" may not be the FPM album you expected from Tanaka, but there's plenty here to savor. Please note that this album will be released domestically in April, but probably without the deluxe packaging of this Japanese import. [TC] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mark jung" Subject: Re: (exotica) question about a scanner for lp's Date: 07 Feb 2001 19:39:27 i was looking into this recently, and was unable to find ANYTHING with a 12-13" horizontal bed that was less than $1200. better to invest in a copy of photoshop, place the album cover on your scanner flush left, scan it, move the album flush right, scan it, then crop both images about an inch and a half in from the "cut off" edge to remove the gradation and paste them together. then, use that other $500 to steel yourself with intoxicants. do enough album covers, you certain to need it. i know. mark >Hi folks - I think I recall someone posting about a scanner that had >a large enough bed to scan entire lp's covers. A friend of mine is >getting a computer setup that will allow her to make cd's and wanted >to know about such scanners. If any can confirm or deny the >existence of such scanners, I'd appreciate it! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Scopitones Party Date: 07 Feb 2001 14:09:19 -0800 (PST) Brian Thanks so much for this link. You just gotta love this list for the info thrown out at you on a variety of topics. The Night Train video was great as were all of them. Hope some of these videos end up in my dreams tonight. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Brian wrote: > I already sent this link to a few people on the list (thanks to > Jean for> sending it to me) but here's a must-visit site on this very subject: http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/9.4/scopitone/scopitone.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) TIKI BARS Date: 07 Feb 2001 16:26:48 -0600 Does anyone know if there is a list of Tiki Bars around? Are there any in Dallas or Houston? I've haven't heard of any here in Ft. Worth...we're fond of honky tonks, ya know...yeeehaw (groan). colleenintexas Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: edowning@lightbridge.com Subject: (exotica) Tiki Bars in Massachusetts? Date: 07 Feb 2001 17:28:48 -0500 hey kids... I was wondering if there is anyone out there who know of any Tiki bars in Massachusetts... We do have a large polynesian resturant that is in Mass. It's called Kowloon...A huge Tiki graces the giant frame of the buildings entrance...Has good food too...They do have some interesting jazz sometimes...not so much exotica but lounge...and then occasionally you'll have a "Rod Stewart" tribute band run through...(why? I don't know...) Eric # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Taub Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Bars in Massachusetts? Date: 07 Feb 2001 17:46:55 -0500 That's the only one I know of that's left (in the greater Boston area = anyway). Jimmy, Jane, Domenic - Any others? Eric (other one) On Wednesday, February 7, 2001, edowning@lightbridge.com wrote: > > > >hey kids... > >I was wondering if there is anyone out there who know of any Tiki bars in >Massachusetts... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Scanners for Records Date: 07 Feb 2001 15:04:04 -0800 >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:11:55 -0500 >From: "Michael Greenberg" >Subject: (exotica) question about a scanner for lp's > >Hi folks - I think I recall someone posting about a scanner that had >a large enough bed to scan entire lp's covers. Even an 11 by 17 scanner would crop a little bit. Those aren't cheap. I use my digital camera. The new high resolution cameras take really sharp pictures. Plenty of resolution to do great looking CD covers... See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 1021 Grandview, 2nd Floor Glendale, CA 91201 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: (exotica) Dear Heart Date: 07 Feb 2001 18:06:28 -0500 Yesterday morning, I taped "Dear Heart," the 1964 film with Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page, thinking I'd watch it in some mythical far-from-now period of free time. I got home late, tired from a day of memo writing, and put it on. I hadn't even guessed it was the film from which the Mancini song, staple of a thousand exotica albums, was taken. In the film, it sounds so close to "Moon River," you think Mancini was a factory (which, at this point, he probably was.) It's no masterpiece, but most of it takes place in a New York Hotel. The architectural details are so fabulously post-war, and the characters so typically early-1960s advertising-industry sex comedy, that I could have watched it for eleven hours if it lasted so long. (Actually, I dozed off half-way through, and will luxuriate in the second half when I get home tonight.) Will Will Straw, Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 07 Feb 2001 18:25:54 -0500 Not yet mentioned. . . Hugo Montenegro's _Come Spy With Me_ George Cates _Polynesian Percussion_ Enoch Light! _Far Away Places_, _I Want To Be Happy Cha Chas_, etc. And hey, in the neo-exotica category, what about Tipsy's _Trip Tease_? cheers, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: edowning@lightbridge.com Subject: (exotica) Ennio Morricone... Date: 07 Feb 2001 18:48:16 -0500 "Mondo Morricone" by Ennio Morricone is a great 60's-70's lounge album....check this out... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dear Heart Date: 07 Feb 2001 19:24:20 EST In a message dated 2/7/1 6:06:06 PM, wstraw@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote: >Yesterday morning, I taped "Dear Heart," the 1964 film with Glenn Ford and >Geraldine Page, thinking I'd watch it in some mythical far-from-now period >of free time. I got home late, tired from a day of memo writing, and put >it on. I hadn't even guessed it was the film from which the Mancini song, >staple of a thousand exotica albums, was taken. In the film, it sounds so >close to "Moon River," you think Mancini was a factory (which, at this >point, he probably was.) However, the film contains a Mancini song which receives scant praise even in these quarters...the lyrical miracle called "Man's Favorite Sport" Which is, you guest it, gyrrrrrls. Envious vibes and props to Will for taping the movie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Bars in Massachusetts? Date: 07 Feb 2001 19:21:36 EST There's Bali Hai, a shell of a place off 128, but nice mugs to buy at about 8 a pop. I don't believe Route 1's Weylu's (the bessst in 80's Tiki) is still alive, but Cleve probably knows if I'm speaking in tongues or not...Then there's always the hand-carved 3'6" tiki in my living room that I managed to retrieve from Aku Aku after it closed (thanks Dominic) the backdrop against which I swallow more than my share of cocktails. (for the record, the tiki was installed in the original Boston Polynesian Village in 1948) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kendoll Subject: (exotica) mancini concert Date: 07 Feb 2001 18:14:15 -0700 today at work (cbc radio, transfering old master tapes to cd-r) i had the great pleasure of dubbing a pops concert by the calgary philharmonic orchestra under the baton of henry mancini (though i don't suppose he actually used a baton since he was at the piano). i don't remember the date offhand, i think late 70's or early 80's. they played the expected touchstones -- peter gunn, baby elephant walk, pink panther, moon river, of course, plus several marches, van mccoy's african symphony, and my favorite, a medley of tv themes (charlie's angels, swat, etc.) with some smokin' shaft-esque guitar. introducing a piece called ohio riverboat, hank reminisced about the steamboats of his youth in pennsylvania. do i have a great job or what? mike ewanus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Jazz: Satire Date: 07 Feb 2001 19:26:44 -0600 Benito Vergara wrote: > It was written by John Grabowski (jgrab@earthlink.net), who posted it on > rec.music.bluenote. Mr. Grabowski appears to have sold the work in question to Salon.com in a slightly rewritten form. I hope they didn't pay him too much for it considering all the folks on various mailing lists and newsgroups who've already read it over the last week. http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2001/02/07/ken_burns/index.html It's right next to a piece by one of Salon's senior editors who praises the series. http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/2001/02/07/jazz_defense/index.html -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) mancini concert Date: 07 Feb 2001 21:58:56 -0500 At 06:14 PM 2/7/01 -0700, kendoll wrote: > >today at work (cbc radio, transfering old master tapes to cd-r) i had >the great pleasure of dubbing a pops concert by the calgary philharmonic >orchestra under the baton of henry mancini Yeah sure the Mother Corporation (the CBC for our American neighbours) is transferring everything to CDR. But when are we going to hear any of that stuff in the archive? Never. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) love letter to a mailing list Date: 07 Feb 2001 22:02:30 -0500 Yes indeedy, we are one lucky list. It's the only one I've ever stuck with (and the only one I've felt comfortable posting to). The other lists are either constricted and dull, or flame-happy bash-fests (and dull). Maybe it's because "this music" (the many musics we roll into this tent) tends to draw more open-minded, tolerant and exploratory listeners. Whatever, it's a good thing. Long may she sail. And thanks to everyone on board. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) question about a scanner for lp's Date: 07 Feb 2001 19:12:25 -0800 At 02:11 PM 06-02-01 -0500, it was written: >I recall someone posting about a scanner that had >a large enough bed to scan entire lp's covers. I own the Plustek A3I scanner. It actually is about 1/4 inch too narrow to get an entire album, but most albums waste that space anyway. I went with this because the real full size scanners cost an arm and a leg...and the price for this one is VERY reasonable in comparison (and less than the cost of digital camera). Now go websearch for that...and for all A3 scanners and you will see what I mean! Byron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] J.J. Johnson, Dale Evans Date: 07 Feb 2001 22:14:27 -0500 Tuesday, February 6, 2001 J.J. Johnson; Innovative Bebop-Era Jazz Trombonist and Composer By JON THURBER, (L.A.) Times Staff Writer <> By the 1970s, Johnson had moved to Los Angeles to try his hand at writing for movies and television. And although he had virtually given up playing in favor of his compositional work, Johnson continued to win readers' polls in popular jazz magazines as the finest player on the trombone. In Hollywood, Johnson wrote music for such popular television shows as "Mayberry R.F.D.," "The Danny Thomas Show," "That Girl" and "Mod Squad." He also found movie work, either orchestrating or writing the music for films such as "Shaft" and "Cleopatra Jones." But Johnson never believed he got the opportunities his distinguished career as a musician and composer merited. And race, he believed, was the reason. "Film scoring is still a white world," Johnson told Heckman in 1996. "That's the way it is, that's the way it always has been. . . . The four or five major films I did were all about black people. "A black film composer will never do a big budget picture like 'Jurassic Park' or 'The Fugitive'--the biggies," he said. "We won't get there." In the early 1990s, he returned to Indianapolis. His first wife, Vivian, died after suffering a stroke when a Johnson- led band was on the road in Tokyo. After a period of depression, he remarried and began playing again, recording his last album, "Heroes," in 1998. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Johnson. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. === Singer-Actress Dale Evans, 88, Dies By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dale Evans, the singer-actress who teamed with husband Roy Rogers in popular Westerns and co-wrote their theme song, ``Happy Trails to You,'' died Wednesday at 88. Evans died of congestive heart failure at her home in Apple Valley in the high desert east of Los Angeles, said Dave Koch, son-in-law of Evans' stepson, Roy ``Dusty'' Rogers Jr. She had suffered a heart attack in 1992 and a stroke in 1996. Evans' son and other family members were at her side. A memorial service will be held Saturday, Koch said. She was the ``Queen of the West'' to Rogers, the ``King of the Cowboys.'' She rode her horse, Buttermilk, beside him on his celebrated palomino, Trigger. The first movie she made with Rogers, already an established singing cowboy star, was ``Cowboy and the Senorita'' in 1944. They married in 1947, and together appeared in 35 movies, including such Saturday afternoon favorites as ``My Pal Trigger,'' ``Apache Rose'' and ``Don't Fence Me In.'' When the B Western faded in the early 1950s, they began their television career. ``The Roy Rogers Show'' ran from 1951 to 1957; later incarnations included ``The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show,'' 1962, and ``Happy Trails Theatre,'' 1986-89, a show of repackaged Rogers and Evans movies on cable TV's Nashville Network. In 1951, she co-wrote ``Happy Trails,'' which became their theme. She also wrote the 1955 gospel music standard ``The Bible Tells Me So,'' with the refrain, ``how do I know? the Bible tells me so.'' She and Rogers recorded more than 400 songs. Their most recent album was ``Many Happy Trails,'' recorded in Nashville in 1985. Rogers died in July 1998 at age 86. In a statement, Evans remembered him as ``a wonderful human being. What a blessing to have shared my life together with him for almost 51 years. To say I will miss him is a gross understatement. He was truly the king of the cowboys in my life.'' Through her life, she was active in Christian evangelism, which she called ``the most meaningful, the most enjoyable part of my life.'' She wrote more than 20 books, including the best-selling ``Angel Unaware,'' a poignant account of their daughter, Robin, the only child born to the couple. Robin, who was retarded, died of complications from the mumps shortly before her second birthday in 1952. It wasn't the couple's only taste of tragedy. Korean-born Debbie, one of the couple's adopted children, was killed with seven others in a 1964 church bus crash; the following year, their adopted son John choked to death while serving in the Army in Germany. ``In the Bible, it doesn't say you're going to get by without having troubles,'' Rogers once said. The couple also adopted another daughter and raised a daughter by foster parenthood. In addition, Evans had a son by a previous marriage, and Rogers had a son and two daughters, one of them adopted, with his first wife, Arline. She had died in 1946, shortly after giving birth to Roy Jr. Evans was born Frances Octavia Smith on Oct. 31, 1912, in Uvalde, Texas. When she was a girl her family moved to Osceola, Ark., where she attended high school. She was working as a secretary in Chicago when she tried to launch a show business career, she recalled in the 1984 interview. ``I wanted to get a foothold in radio, but I couldn't get a job,'' she said. ``Finally I succeeded in Memphis, then I got jobs in Louisville and Dallas before going back to Chicago.'' From local radio singing jobs, she worked up to national radio, signing on in 1940 as a singer on a weekly CBS radio show ``News and Rhythm.'' Shortly afterward, she started working in Hollywood, appearing in films such as ``Orchestra Wives'' and ``Swing Your Partner.'' She said she felt sorry from some of today's rock stars: ``They are overnight successes making unbelievable amounts of money. They're like meteors, shooting up and then falling just as fast. People like Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Roy and me, we paid our dues. We've known the hard times and the good, and we appreciate what we've got.'' Besides Roy Jr., she is survived by her son by her first marriage, Tom; adopted daughter Dodie; foster daughter Marion; stepdaughter Linda Lou; adopted stepdaughter Cheryl; 16 grandchildren; and more than 30 great-grandchildren. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlists Date: 08 Feb 2001 04:18:55 +0100 (MET) "Mr. Fodder" mofo@thebranflakes.com wrote: >>I like to post my playlists, I did miss your playlist here from time to time and would welcome if you would post your list regular again. I also would like to see the tracklist from Darrell Brogdons The Retro Cocktail Hour here. Why not ? I sadly do not have the possibility to check out all the great radio shows all the time, so the playlists are a good help to decide where to tune in -- visit the ***Space Escapade*** Exotic Club Pop Entertainment with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night http://www.atomic.de/ Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Re (exotica) Mardis Gras Date: 08 Feb 2001 04:25:17 +0100 (MET) Mardis Gras Sounds like BIG FUN, I wish I coud be there! Please give us after it a report (In germany we only have street parades with stupid commercial techno and house music. (i like a lot of the real techno and house stuff, but you will never hear it on these parades) >>Mardis Gras day, the New Orleans Carnival is scheduled for February 27. At 8:00 am that morning, Mondo Kayo,(pronounced K-eye- Yo) the only Tiki flavored carnival club, will take to the streets for........<< -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Larson/Thomas" Subject: RE: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 07 Feb 2001 20:39:05 -0800 Take a look at http://www.spaceagepop.com/ Jerry Larson > Just wondering if anyone had done a top "whatever number" of > Exotica/Lounge records, # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) TIKI BARS Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:27:44 +0100 Colleen Pyles schrieb: > Does anyone know if there is a list of Tiki Bars around? this is a very good question. I've been waiting for such a list for a while and was hoping, that Otto's Tiki News homepage would have it one day, as I believe that most infos about Tiki places come together on Otto's computer. We should really throw our knowledge together and create this list. I'll be glad to co-publish it on my own tikiland homepage. Otto, what do you think? Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Ennio Morricone... Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:26:52 +0100 edowning@lightbridge.com schrieb: > "Mondo Morricone" by Ennio Morricone is a great 60's-70's lounge > album....check this out... it has a follower More Mondo Morricone, which is also pretty neat. But speaking of Morricone... is there anybody in this list, who has been dipping deeper into the sheer unlimited record output of this amazing musician? This man must have made hundreds and hundreds of records and most of what I ever heard is between good and ingenious. Of course he has an entire mailing list dedicated to his oevre... Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Bars in Massachusetts? Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:28:00 +0100 edowning@lightbridge.com schrieb: > > We do have a large polynesian resturant that is in Mass. It's called > Kowloon... I was not aware that the Kowloon still exists. I have an old Kowloon tiki mug and it's certainly one of the weirdest in my collection. Next time you go there you should take your camera with you, to take some sightseeing shots and make them available to the general public. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Scopitones Party Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:28:21 +0100 chuck schrieb: > Thanks so much for this link. You just gotta love this list for > the info thrown out at you on a variety of topics. > The Night Train video was great as were all of them. Hope some of > these videos end up in my dreams tonight. has anyone figured how to download these scopitone video files? to me it looks you can only look at them online and that's it... Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) La Paloma IV Date: 08 Feb 2001 12:52:09 +0100 has this been mentioned before? "La Paloma 4" is out now... check http://trikont.de Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 08 Feb 2001 05:20:14 -0800 (PST) and tack these on to what I sent you, Eric: Jad Paul: Tiger Rag. I'm not overly fond of banjo music, and I bought this one mainly for the cover. But wow - good stuff. My favorite version of Miserlou is on this record. Go JP. Robert Maxwell:interesting records using another instrument I'm normally not fond of, the harp. Kay Still and her Melotron Xavier Cugat: In my opinion it's hit or miss with him, but the lp that contains "Ritual Fire Dance" is quite good. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 08 Feb 2001 15:27:17 +0100 (MET) Here are some more Exotica AND Lounge records/cds that I can recommend highly to newcomers: First some comps with a high hit quote: VA, CD only, Get Easy! The Classic Collection, Motor Music, Germany (is it still obtainable ?) VA, CD only, Cocktail Mix Vol 2, Martini Madness, Rhino, US VA, CD and Vinyl, Inflight Entertainment Vol 1, Deram, UK compiled by the London DJ-Duo the Karminsky Experience VA CD and Vinyl, The Mood Mosaic Vol 4, Les Yper Sound!, Italy VA CD and Vinyl, Le Coeur Qui Jazze, Italy, from the Mood Mosaic Guys I think VA CD and Vinyl, Doob Doob O Rama Vol 1, Filmsongs from Bollywood, Normal Rec, Germany, do not let ya scare about the not so great sound quality, it doesnt matter so much after a second listening VA CD and Vinyl, Jungle Exotica Vol 1 and Vol 2, compiled by Tim back from the grave Warren VA CD? And Vinyl, Swing for a Crime, GMG, comp. by Mad Mike And 3 essential new Artists: LP and CD?, Tipsy, Trip Tease, the seductive sounds of..., Asphodel US LP and CD?, Nicola Conte, Jet Sounds, Schema rec. Italy LP and CD, Combustible Edison, Schizophonic!, Sub Pop, US And two vinyl finds that I still saw never mention anywhere: Don Carlos and Orch the Worlds Greatest Rumbas 10 inch, for a London Restaurant Band they enter the Jungle very deep on there Taboo vers. Hugo Blanco and his South American Harp, Moliendo Cafe, LP, for the fact that Moliendo Cafe by him was a Hit, I think this Album cant be so rare Martin -- visit the ***Space Escapade*** Exotic Club Pop Entertainment with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night http://www.atomic.de/ Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) Dear Heart Date: 08 Feb 2001 10:00:20 -0500 >From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com >However, the film contains a Mancini song which receives scant praise even >in these quarters...the lyrical miracle called "Man's Favorite Sport" >Which is, you guest it, gyrrrrrls. Envious vibes and props to Will for >taping the movie Ah...this is a great song. And the LP also has a great cover of the Beatles tune. "Can't Bye Me Love". "Man's Favorite Sport" ...a song from a different era. Like "Wives and Lovers". Domenic Ciccone "Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday’s 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/misc/wjul/wjul.html (On Real Audio) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLott@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Morricone remix album Date: 08 Feb 2001 10:14:05 EST Anyone know the status of the "Mondo Morricone" remix album, which is supposed to hit sometime this month? Last I heard, Thievery Corporation and Pizzicato Five were among the remixers. --Rod www.hitchmagazine.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) La Paloma IV Date: 08 Feb 2001 07:18:23 -0800 (PST) I heard about this being available in a BOX set of all 4 vols. I love the first 3 vols and played vol 3 last night. I can't recommend these enough! Other Music has the US trikont rep in the same building or nearby so I'm sure they also carry it as they carried the first 3 vols. What an amazing label trikont is! Thanks Mo I'll order this today. Chuck --- Moritz R wrote: > > has this been mentioned before? > > "La Paloma 4" is out now... check http://trikont.de __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hal Blair Date: 08 Feb 2001 10:21:52 -0500 BIGGS, Calif. (AP) -- Hal Blair, who co-wrote songs performed by Elvis Presley, Della Reese and others, died Friday. He was 85. Blair co-wrote ``Please Help Me, I'm Falling'' for Hank Locklin, ``Ringo'' for Lorne Greene, ``I Was the One'' for Presley and ``Not One Minute More'' for Reese. He began his songwriting and acting careers in Western films, working with stars such as Gene Autry. Blair met his songwriting collaborator, Don Robertson, in the early 1950s. Their partnership lasted nearly five decades. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22hal+blair%22&hl=en&lr=&safe=off http://us.imdb.com/Name?Blair,+Hal+(I) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Neo-Exotica top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 08 Feb 2001 07:39:03 -0800 (PST) A Huge vote for Neo-exotica category! Tipsy is a definite Don Tiki is perhaps the BEST Fantastic Plastic's "Luxury" still amazes me. Combustible Edison are the least appreciated Neo-exotica band of all time, even by exoticats. I would nominate "The Impossible World" Shots in the Dark a comp of Mancini covers will explode off your speakers The EXOTIC TRILOGY Vols 1 & 2 revoultionized my way of understanding music. The same song done by a varity of artists in a variety of ways is more fun and educational than different songs in the same genre by different artists. --- Ross Orr wrote: > And hey, in the neo-exotica category, what about Tipsy's _Trip > Tease_? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: RE: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 08 Feb 2001 08:07:08 -0800 (PST) A few vocal "lounge/exotica" lps worth picking up: Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding-Dong (Reprise, conducted by Johnny Mandel). The Coffee Song, for instance is chock full of ludicrous lyrics ("And then you find out later she smells just like a percolator/her perfume was brewed right on the grill/Man they gotta gang of coffee in Brazil"), but it really swings. Dean Martin: Deano Latino; The Silencers. Frances Faye (bongo-meister Jack Costanza is on many of her records). She does a great gravel-voiced version of Besame Mucho. Julie London: Anything that Julie Wants (nice version of "An Occasional Man" - covered by the marvelous Don Tiki). Buddy Greco, The Duke of Cheese. Gotta hear his version of "Like Young". Shirley Bassey: The Bond girl. Well-known for singing the theme to Goldfinger. My favorite is her theme song to The Liquidator (conducted by Lalo Schifrin. This is a fine ST, by the way - though I've never seen the film). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Playlists for the Retro Coctail Hour Date: 08 Feb 2001 08:11:34 -0800 (PST) This is a great idea Darrell! The playlists you have at your site confuse me a little by not having the album title. I know what you are doing by posting the label and #, but the album title written down on your playlists makes it easier to puchase the lp & would help promote commerce of the cd or lp. Could you think about it? Thanks Darrell for all the great Retro Coctail Hours. I think you should post these to the list. If someone doesn't want to read them, hit delete. Or you could just post the link to your playlists at your site. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Hemmel@gmx.net wrote:I also would like to see the tracklist from Darrell Brogdons The Retro Cocktail Hour here. Why not ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) TIKI BARS Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:19:53 -0500 There is the Tiki Bar review pages. I have an entry there for Chan's = Dragon Inn in NJ. It is a pretty nice list of places, mostly up to date, with reviews by attendees. =20 http://www.tydirium.net/ =A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA= =B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=20 Charlieman=20 "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 - Charles H. Duell, 1899=A0 =A0=20 >=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Taub Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlists for the Retro Coctail Hour Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:30:52 -0500 If you sign up for emails from Darrell at the Retro Cocktail Hour website, = you will get an email that lists the album that the cuts from his shows = are from. See format below: THE RETRO COCKTAIL HOUR Pgm. #239 - December 9, 2000 (* denotes LP) Title: See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet Artist: Mel Henke Album: Dynamic Adventures in Sound Label: Warner Bros. BS-1447 * Title: Hell=92s Bells Artist: David Carroll and his Orchestra Album: Percussion in Hi-Fi Label: Mercury SR-60003 * etc. Eric # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Dean Subject: (exotica) Mardis Gras / Mondo Kayo Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:51:08 -0600 I met Chuck through this list, and attended my first Mondo Kayo parade last year. Thank you Chuck -- it was a blast! This year I plan to dress up -- grass skirt and all . . . paul dean > > > > At 8:00 am that morning, Mondo Kayo,(pronounced K-eye- Yo) > > the only Tiki flavored carnival club, will take to the streets ....... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Bars in Massachusetts? Date: 08 Feb 2001 13:01:06 -0500 Gee, I should mention something about Tiki’s here in MA....not a wealth of info here...apologies to the worldwide list members..Hit the delete key now! I’ve seen a few abandoned Chinese restaurants with big Tiki’s out front here in Centralish MA. I think there is one in Shrewsbury on Rt 9. And Rt 114 outside of Worcester. There is a restaurant in Chelmsford on Rt 119 with this Tiki on the outside but I haven't been in in a couple of decades. It might be a dive by now. Like the Tiki Room in Leominster. The Jade Pacific in Billerica has retained their nice Polinesian mural lighted in the back. Can you believe that a lot of these places just cover these over? As a kid in the mid 70’s I remember helping my dad install the tile floor in the newly built Singapore restaurant near where we live in Leominster. Came back one day to grout the tiles and the walls of the bar were painted with a beautiful harbor mural. The Singapore is still there and the booths are all decorated in that interesting carved wood. They put a lot of money into the décor, but they covered the mural with wallpaper! This must happen all the time. If your interested in Tiki Mugs you must know about www.intothevolcano.com? I just got my first Atomic Magazine and saw the ad. Only Tiki mugs for now. At $10 a pop. Should have went to the Kahini closing….. Maybe we should get together at the Kowloon? A mini exotica summit? With the 2 Erics! And I still have to meet you guys. Whew! Domenic Ciccone "Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday’s 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/misc/wjul/wjul.html _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: love letter to a mailing list Date: 08 Feb 2001 17:10:44 +0100 maybe we're so tolerant regarding each other, because we're also very tolerant when it comes to many different musical styles? the members of this list probably have the most eclectic musical taste in the universe! Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Aniara space opera Date: 08 Feb 2001 20:12:17 +0100 (CET) ANIARA, An Epic of Space Flight in 2083 A.D., 2 LP set by Columbia records, 1959 This set is up on ebay and I have bid on it, now someone else has the high bid, this Aniara was written by a swede so I thought it would be funny to have it, me having established a small sci fi LP collection as well. I dont know anything about it though. Anyone familiar with this record? Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: (exotica) Danger Diabolik bootleg Date: 06 Feb 2001 11:30:19 -0800 The reason that Danger Diabolik CD has poor sound, and is a bootleg, and is promoted as some sort of hokey "collectors" deal is because the masters of the soundtrack were destroyed in a garage fire. Unless Morricone re-scores the film for an official release, anything else is going to be something recorded from a print of the film with dialogue edited out in some way. You can find old copies of the theme on 45 floating around with a nice sleeve, but otherwise, you're most likely spending your money on something with questionable quality -- which is sometimes the best you can hope for with some things though, like jazz music documentaries. Unlucky --- Mr. Unlucky presents Shoot To Kill, a weekly set of jazz, soundtrack music, Now Sound, and the occasional foray into international territory on Supersphere.com, Thursdays 1-2 p.m. (CST). Many past sets are archived for future listening pleasure. http://www.supersphere.com Get your small business started at Lycos Small Business at http://www.lycos.com/business/mail.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: (exotica) Big Ray & The Futuras(Boston,USA)SURF BAND Date: 08 Feb 2001 21:44:12 +0100 (MET) Big Ray & The Futuras(Boston,USA)SURF BAND Has anyone of you seen em Live ? Are they good? forwarted to me: > > Gert Geluykens wrote: > > > >>Aloha folks, > >> > >>From thursday the 30st of august till the 16th of september > >>is Big Ray &The Futuras comin' to Europe for the 3rd time > >>in 2 years. > >>Check it out on their www.dblcrown.com/bigray.html > >>This Ferocious High Octane Surf trio from Boston is very > >>comparable with Los Straightjackets and Jon &Nightriders. > >>They just released a brandnew cd called Desolation Planet > >>out now one of the biggest major labels " Double Crown Records" > >>"This is almost one of the best releleases this year" Sean(manager) from > >>Double Crown !!! > >>check it out www.dblcrown.com > >>They also put a song on The Burt Bacharah tribute with other > >>important Surf bands such as Fifty-Foot Combo,Apemen.... > >>Their shows are very explosif and energetic !!!! > >>They're probably one of the most talented 3rd wave Surf-bands > >>of their generation !!!!!!! Martin -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) fwd: Lounge Singer Performs for Jury Date: 08 Feb 2001 18:43:23 -0500 February 8, 2001 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A 33-year-old lounge singer entered a courtroom and did what he does best -- perform for an audience. Only this time his audience was a jury. Thad Schwenk, who sings under the name David Storm, defended himself Wednesday against charges of driving under the influence. He wore a bright yellow jacket, concluded his opening statement with a bow, and employed a dramatic cross-examination style reminiscent of Perry Mason. Schwenk said that his ``mush mouth'' when he was pulled over was caused by tired singing muscles, not alcohol. The evidence that Schwenk ran a stop sign and had a blood-alcohol level of .11 seemed irrelevant to the spectators who filled the courtroom. ``I'm not crazy about the canary sports jacket, but I have a lunch riding on this guy,'' said James Burke, one of nine public defenders watching in amusement. ``I'm pulling for him.'' The only person not amused was prosecutor Abraham Kassis, who feared he wouldn't be able to show his face if he lost. ``Confiscate all notebooks,'' Kassis said in jest to court officers ushering reporters into the courtroom. ``Isn't there something more important going on in this courthouse?'' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sem Sinatra Subject: (exotica) Anyone in Japan? Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:14:40 +0900 Folks OK, so no-one's in my neighbourhood. 2 more questions: 1. Is anyone on the list in Japan? 2. If you are, do you know of any Exotica friendly bars/clubs? thanks Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) of tikis and exotica! Date: 08 Feb 2001 16:58:34 -0800 (PST) Phallica! Now we are talking...Alright, already, so I've been paged. I can't off-hand name my Top 10 favourite exotica rekkids...I have too dang many! And then we get into that nettlesome question of "what is exotica" and Tiki knows we've been down that path. Too many rekkids make me, ahem, beat my chest anyway.. Regarding Tiki restaurants in MA., yes, Mo, there is a Kowloon, and it, besides some of the hideous eighties encroachment, still is amazing and will simply never close! Weylus hath been closed for about two years. Shame, too, as this replica of the Imperial City was equisite. And DJJimmyBee is CORRECt that the Bali Hai in Lynnefield has KICKIN' strong drinks and a decent Tiki decor. I lament the death of the Aku Aku, but happy for Jimmy and Cleve's castoffs of it. I have been told a rumour of a Kahiki-like joint in Western Mass with live hula and fire shows, but I'll believe it when I see it. And as a cryptic remark, I close with saying there ain't nothing wrong with Cecil Taylor. NOTHING! Love and missing you all pangs....from Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Buy the debut release from Astroslut: LOVE AT ZERO G at: http://cdalley.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 08 Feb 2001 21:18:56 -0500 >Don't worry about picking the best ones. Just list some of your personal >favorites. List the favorites that you think NO ONE ELSE WOULD LIST. >For instance: > >Living Brass - That's Life >That's a cool choice. No one else would list a Living Brass record in >their top anything. Let's see more lists like that. Well, I had a go at that and posted it 24 hours ago, but it hasn't come through the exotica pipeline yet. Someday, maybe... m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Penna Subject: (exotica) Scanners for Records Date: 08 Feb 2001 18:36:49 -0800 Do like I do - collect reel-to-reel tapes instead; the boxes are only 7 inches square! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Danger Diabolik bootleg Date: 08 Feb 2001 18:56:06 -0800 <> Not to worry if anyone who buys this CD is disappointed. It is a hot item on ebay and you'll have no problem recovering your money. I started mine at five bucks with no reserve and it's at $46 with three days to go. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) top 10 list Date: 08 Feb 2001 22:48:17 -0500 I really don't have time to talk about all of my fav's and some out there may not agree with this choice either, but there again what defines exotica and the tiki world? The Kodak Hula Show lp's - I love to get my hands on them since they all usually have a different arrangement of " Lovely Hula Hands". Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) The Book of Tiki Date: 08 Feb 2001 22:52:49 -0500 I'm interested in knowing what all you tiki lovers think of the new book The Book of Tiki by Sven A. Kirsten. It's truly amazing. Love the page with the tiki's used on different signs from the past! All those massage parlours!! If you don't have it - trust me - get it! Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) The Book of Tiki Date: 08 Feb 2001 20:28:08 -0800 At 10:52 PM 08-02-01 -0500, you wrote: >I'm interested in knowing what all you tiki lovers think of the new book The >Book of Tiki by Sven A. Kirsten. It's truly amazing. That it is! My girlfriend gave it to me for my birthday anniversary and it is so jam packed with great photos and information. For tiki lovers this is IT. Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "You've got to stand for something or ||| you'll fall for anything." ||| ||| ---John Mellencamp ||| ||| ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net Portland, OR, USA||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Wages Subject: (exotica) Trader Vic's - Atlanta Date: 08 Feb 2001 23:50:31 -0500 I live in Atlanta and dine at our Trader Vic's semi-regularly. Indeed, it has been noticably busier in the last six months or so. A Don Ho tribute band calling themselves Don Horowitz performed there recently. The event was hosted by Kamel Cigarettes and organized by a fellow named Jim Stacey and a local surf band called The Penetrators who also performed. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend the performance, but it seemed cool. I interviewed the manager of the location - Manzoor Haque - for a project I was working on, and he implied that the restaurant wouldn't be going anywhere anytime soon. Haque previously managed the Chicago location and seems to run the place effectively. BTW, The great Japanese director Suzuki Seijun can be spotted at a LA tiki bar in bonus materials on the Criterion Collection DVD edition of his film "Branded To Kill". Judging by the skull mug he is drinking out of, I'll assume it is the Beverly Hills Vic's. Great film with an unexpected tiki connection! Paul > chuckmk@yahoo.com writes: > > << Matt I am surprised the Trader Vics in Atlanta was crowded. I > heard from this list that the Atlanta Trader Vics was an endangered > species. When I went to the Trader Vics in Chicago we were the > only people in there. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chikaskia@aol.com Subject: (exotica) early mediterranean (some of my favorites) Date: 09 Feb 2001 02:25:10 EST the rare ones: bianchi & the jungle sex-tet 'music to play in the dark' from the cover: for delightfully uninhibited males & females only CAUTION! the pulsating rhythms in this album are primitive and basic. those unaccustomed (or accustomed) to dealing with aroused emotions are urged to listen with care! les baxter 'the passions' featuring bas sheva (7" box set) (stan) kenton showcase 'the music of bill russo' (10") albums no console should ever be without: getz gilberto sergio mendes and brasil 66 frances lai 'a man and a woman' (original soundtrack) these are all records that i have known since i were a baby, that were my parents, and now cherished by me. just finished watching: "shakespeare wallah" merchant/ivory 1965 with soundtrack by satyajit ray, presenting a very young felicity kendal now playing: hedninagarna 'kaksi' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chikaskia@aol.com Subject: (exotica) hedningarna Date: 09 Feb 2001 02:36:31 EST spelling hedningarna wrong is impermissible ;-) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "James" Subject: Sv: (exotica) top 10 list Date: 09 Feb 2001 09:44:30 +0100 A favorite of mine is Return To Paradise by The 50 Guitars Of Tommy Garret. An album that I rarely see mentioned with great sound and a superb version of Quiet Village. The album has the all the exotica trademark percussion, and the guitars and mandolins give it a napolitan twist. I´ve cherished this album for 14 years. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Re: Top 50 Date: 09 Feb 2001 13:06:17 -0000 Hey, what about Robert Drasnin's 'Voodoo', absolutely beautiful classic Exotica LP. And for slightly more modern, without being new I'd add Piero Umiliani's 'Il Corpo' OST, not classic, but wonderfully dreamy and exotic, from around 1970. And which Denny and Lyman ones exactly? I got a copy of Arthur Lyman's 'Taboo 2' over Christmas and am completely mesmerised by it. It has such a great sound, full of space. It's almost like dub or Detroit techno. Obviously they would have built the sound around Lymans vibes, and the sound does take its lead from that. Spacey rather than over-arranged with a sound in every nook and cranny of the acoustic spectrum. The kind of thing you can play really loud, but still talk over in a normal voice. Hard to describe, but I know what i mean. Lovely in a way that not much else is. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Trader Vic's - Atlanta Date: 09 Feb 2001 08:12:01 EST In a message dated 2/8/01 8:52:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, rewages@mediaone.net writes: << BTW, The great Japanese director Suzuki Seijun can be spotted at a LA tiki bar in bonus materials on the Criterion Collection DVD edition of his film "Branded To Kill". Judging by the skull mug he is drinking out of, I'll assume it is the Beverly Hills Vic's. >> the BH Vic's is a place frequented a lot by Celebs. The Sat night I was there a few weeks ago, Dana Delaney and Treat Williams were in the booth next to us. The booths to be pretty "private" and can be reserved with some notice so the celebs often go there. Hey, I was there. TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Trader Vic's - Atlanta Date: 09 Feb 2001 14:21:06 +0100 (CET) > The great Japanese director Suzuki Seijun can be spotted at a LA tiki bar > in > bonus materials on the Criterion Collection DVD edition of his film > "Branded > To Kill". Judging by the skull mug he is drinking out of, I'll assume it > is > the Beverly Hills Vic's. >> On the DVD front, a tiki bar can also be spotted in the film "The Apartment" by Billy Wilder, oh, just to let you know, the oscarwinning documentary "Kon Tiki" by Heyerdahl has also been released on DVD. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Trader Vic's - Atlanta Date: 09 Feb 2001 14:02:26 >On the DVD front, a tiki bar can also be spotted in the film "The >Apartment" by Billy Wilder, oh, just to let you know, the oscarwinning >documentary "Kon Tiki" by Heyerdahl has also been released on DVD. > And, more to the point, the Chinese piano player in the bar had an album that features in the plot of the film. Did tiki bars frequently release albums? Does anyone on the list collect them? rob _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Trader Vic's - Atlanta Date: 09 Feb 2001 06:27:02 -0800 (PST) And also in Woman Chaser by Charles Willeford. I'm not sure if this one has been mentioned on the list before. The ST is all lounge/exotica of the 50s: Denny, Baxter, etc. An unconscionable car salesman decides to make a movie. Set in mid 50s or early 60s LA. Should be part of the canon of exotica films... if there is such a thing. --- Robert McKenna wrote: > > >On the DVD front, a tiki bar can also be spotted in > the film "The > >Apartment" by Billy Wilder, __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Trader Vic's - Atlanta Date: 09 Feb 2001 08:44:50 -0600 Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > > > the BH Vic's is a place frequented a lot by Celebs. The Sat night I was > there a few weeks ago, Dana Delaney and Treat Williams were in the booth next > to us. The booths to be pretty "private" and can be reserved with some > notice so the celebs often go there. You were luckier than I was, Bob. The last time I was at the BH Vic's I got seated next to Bruce Vilanch...he tried to hit on me. http://people.aol.com/people/pprofiles/bvilanch/ -- Matt Marchese mattm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/ Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Trader Vic's - Atlanta/Tiki and . . . . Date: 09 Feb 2001 12:10:40 EST In a message dated 02/09/01 8:21:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << On the DVD front, a tiki bar can also be spotted in the film "The Apartment" by Billy Wilder, oh, just to let you know, the oscarwinning documentary "Kon Tiki" by Heyerdahl has also been released on DVD. Magnus >> And this one is funny: I hooked up a new Hi-Fi and turntable last night (vintage) and gave my old Enchanted Tiki Room and Adventurous Jungle Cruise a spin. While listening I looked at the pictures in the album cover "book." And what do I see? On a page where it shows park-goers boarding the Jungle Cruise boats, and I shit you not, I see a guy in the crowd wearing a fez! Like the dude goes to Disneyland and wears his fez. And when you combine Tiki surroundings with fezzes, it's gotta be a blast! TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) TIKI BARS Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:19:53 -0500 There is the Tiki Bar review pages. I have an entry there for Chan's = Dragon Inn in NJ. It is a pretty nice list of places, mostly up to date, with reviews by attendees. =20 http://www.tydirium.net/ =A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA= =B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=20 Charlieman=20 "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 - Charles H. Duell, 1899=A0 =A0=20 >=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Scopitones Party Date: 08 Feb 2001 11:28:21 +0100 chuck schrieb: > Thanks so much for this link. You just gotta love this list for > the info thrown out at you on a variety of topics. > The Night Train video was great as were all of them. Hope some of > these videos end up in my dreams tonight. has anyone figured how to download these scopitone video files? to me it looks you can only look at them online and that's it... Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Top 50 Date: 09 Feb 2001 18:32:51 +0100 G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk schrieb: > > I got a copy of Arthur Lyman's 'Taboo 2' over Christmas and am completely > mesmerised by it. It has such a great sound, full of space. It's almost > like dub or Detroit techno. > Obviously they would have built the sound around Lymans vibes, and the sound does take its lead from that. Spacey rather than over-arranged with a sound in every nook and cranny of the > acoustic spectrum. The kind of thing you can play really loud, but still talk over in a normal voice. You heard a recording made in Henry Kaiser's famous Aluminium Dome... Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) La Paloma IV Date: 08 Feb 2001 07:18:23 -0800 (PST) I heard about this being available in a BOX set of all 4 vols. I love the first 3 vols and played vol 3 last night. I can't recommend these enough! Other Music has the US trikont rep in the same building or nearby so I'm sure they also carry it as they carried the first 3 vols. What an amazing label trikont is! Thanks Mo I'll order this today. Chuck --- Moritz R wrote: > > has this been mentioned before? > > "La Paloma 4" is out now... check http://trikont.de __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Neo-Exotica top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 08 Feb 2001 07:39:03 -0800 (PST) A Huge vote for Neo-exotica category! Tipsy is a definite Don Tiki is perhaps the BEST Fantastic Plastic's "Luxury" still amazes me. Combustible Edison are the least appreciated Neo-exotica band of all time, even by exoticats. I would nominate "The Impossible World" Shots in the Dark a comp of Mancini covers will explode off your speakers The EXOTIC TRILOGY Vols 1 & 2 revoultionized my way of understanding music. The same song done by a varity of artists in a variety of ways is more fun and educational than different songs in the same genre by different artists. --- Ross Orr wrote: > And hey, in the neo-exotica category, what about Tipsy's _Trip > Tease_? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 09 Feb 2001 16:45:40 +0100 is a top 68 OK? it also includes some novelty stuff... sorry for overlaps with previous posts, i'm behind with reading digests... * Leona Anderson: "Music To Suffer By" One of the essential "awful vocal" LPs; I've heard crows with a voice more pleasant than Leona's. * Leo Arnaud and his Orchestra: "Marimbita" Percussive exotica, but no wild "Bang Baaroom" stuff a la Dick Schory. A very light sound, with accent on high tone instruments like Vibraphone, xylophone, triangle, glockenspiel. Several tracks have something cartoonesque, Harry Breuer style. * Kali Bahlu: "Takes The Forest Children On A Journey Of Cosmic Remembrance" if you own the "Incredibly Strange Music" cd with a track from this lp, you know how the rest of it sounds. * Les Baxter: "The Sacred Idol" * Stanley Black Orchestra: "Exotic Percussion" IMO, one of the best, if not THE best Exotic Percussion lp around! * Harry Breuer & Jean Jacques Perrey: "The happy Moog" Electronic Keystone Kapers in space. Six out of the 10 tracks are (co-)written by Perrey. * Miriam Burton: "African Lament" Incredibly Strange Music vol.1, p104. A wordless female vocal affair that is truly wonderful. * Sebastian Cabot: "Sebastian Cabot, actor; Bob Dylan, poet. A dramatic reading with music" Needs reissuing badly! each track is as good as the few featured on several comps * Sam Chalpin: "My father the pop singer" twice as hilarious as Mrs. Miller, I'm not kidding you! It's a very short lp, but the worst singer in the "attrocious vocals category" ever, doing Beatles and other 60's pop hits, like "Leader of the Pack", "I Can't Stop Loving You", "I Want to to Hold Your Hand", "Daydream", AND. the "Batman" theme! Incredibly bad! * Sid Cooper: "Per-cus-sive Jazz. Doctored for super-sound" best of both worlds: percussive crazyness meets crime jazz. * Sid Cooper: "Per-cus-sive jazz vol. 2 - Doctored for super-sound" best of both worlds: percussive crazyness meets crime jazz * Lew Davies: "Strange Interlude" All sorts of exotic percussion, plus Ondioline & Theremin. * Martin Denny: "Exotic percussion" I hope Scamp will reissue this LP too! * Martin Denny: "Forbidden Island" Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". * Leo Diamond and His Orchestra: "Subliminal Sounds" heavenly beautiful ISM. there are Zounds that you can only hear when playing attention, like trains, ocean... * Jonathan & Darlene Edwards: "Sing along with Jonathan & Darlene Edwards" My favorite J&D album! * Esquivel: "Latin-Esque" * Ferrante & Teicher: "Blast Off!" Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". * Ferrante & Teicher: "Dynamic twin pianos" Their most experimental album, with backward tape effects. * Ferrante & Teicher: "Fireworks" Electronically re-channeled for stereo reissue of "Hi-Fireworks" with 2 tracks less. * Ferrante & Teicher: "Heavenly Sounds In Hi-Fi" Exists on CD (as "Easy listening favorites", minus 2 tracks), see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". * Ferrante & Teicher: "Hi-Fireworks" First there was this mono album, later it was re-issued in fake stereo as "Fireworks", with 2 tracks less. * Ferrante & Teicher: "Soundproof (mono)" Soundproof in MONO has the same cover with the still from Forbidden Planet as Soundproof in stereo, BUT different titles. * Ferrante & Teicher: "Soundproof (stereo)" SoundPROOF in STEREO has the same titles as SoundBLAST in MONO. * Ferrante & Teicher: "With Percussion" * Paul Frees: "Paul Frees and the poster people" Hilarious! Voice impressionist Paul Frees "sings" popular songs while imitating the voice of famous (poster) people. "Raindrops keep falling on my head" as if sung by Humphrey Bogart, "Let it be" with the voice of Warner Oland in the character of Charlie Chan, "The look of love" as Boris Karloff, "Hey Jude" as Peter Lorre, "By the time I get to Phoenix" as Clark Gable, etc. Hilarious, and incredibly well done at the same time. The lastbtrack, "Everything is beautiful", is done as if all those celebrities sang together. * Marty Gold: "Moog plays the Beatles" Excellent and varied arrangements, one of my all-time favorite Moog albums, also includes sitar on (at least) 2 tracks! (the series "The exotic Beatles" has a track from this LP, but the performing artist is called "the Moog Beatles") * Bernie Green: "Futura" * Bernie Green: "Musically MAD. Mis-led by Bernie Green with the Stereo Mad-Men" * Jimmie Haskell: "Countdown" Electronic space rock 'n roll, quite rare, and beautiful/funny/way out there! originally issued on Imperial in 1959. * Richard Hayman: "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine. Persuasive electronics by Richard Hayman" Considered to be one of the greatest Moog LPs of all times. Incredibly funky drum section too! * Richard Hayman: "Voodoo!" * Frank Hunter & Orchestra: "White Goddess" As featured on DCC's "Music for a bachelor's den vol. 2: exotica". * Dick Hyman: "The Age of Electronicus" Classic Moog album * Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo: "Moon Gas" Sampled by Tipsy. There are some truely strange and outer space organ sounds happening here! A classic. * Spike Jones & The band That Plays For Fun: "In Stereo (A spooktacular in screaming sound!)" One of my favorite Spike LP's! Produced by Alvino Ray, arranged by Carl Brandt; voices by Luli Jean Norman, Paul Frees, Thurl Ravenscroft, George Rock, Ken Stevens. Must be the best novelty horror concept album ever. * Gershon Kingsley: "Music to moog by" ISM vol.1, p91 * The Exotic Sounds of Rex Kona and his Mandarins: "Wild orchids" * Enoch Light: "Spaced Out" Exploratory trips through the music of Bach, Bacharach and The Beatles, integrating the Moog, The guitar scene, electric harpsichords, flugelhorns etc. "Spaced Out" is also the name of the ultimate Enoch Light and Command Records discography on the web. Go to the links page of my site for its URL. * Lord Sitar: "Lord Sitar" sitar pop * Arthur Lyman: "Taboo!" * Arthur Lyman: "Taboo vol. 2" * Mandingo: "Sacrifice" Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". * Marty Manning: "The Twilight Zone" heavenly beautiful, mysterious outer space exotica, with wordless vocals and lots of electronics. * Muzzy Marcellino and his House Party Group: "House Party Music Time" Whisling record. * Ray Martin: "Comic Strip Favorites" * Ray Martin: "The Sound of Sight" Music creating vision, forming pictures, through lots and lots of Zound effects. * Mike Melvoin: "The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog" about the same sound and quality as "Moog groove" by the Electronic Concept Orchestra: pop covers done with Moog up front, backed by a rock band. Recommended. at least 4 points on 5, maybe even 5 * Mrs. Miller: "Will succes spoil Mrs. Miller?" I like this LP of Mrs. Elva Miller as well as her "Greatest hits"! Hilarious; you will be rolling over the flour when hearing her ultra-vibrato versions of "Strangers in the night", "Girl from Ipanema", "Yellow submarine", "Moon river", "Monday monday" 7 others. * The Mindexpanders: "What's Happening!" * Phil Moore featuring Leda Annest: "Portrait of Leda" Read about it in ISM vol.1, page 104. * Ken Nordine: "Son of Word Jazz" "Outer space" combines the genius of Nordine's Words with cool electronic noises in a conversation between a man and a Martian. * The Nutty Squirrels: "Bird Watching" A unique combination of cool & crazy! Chipmunk scatt jazz with strings. * Elsa Popping: "Delirium in Hi-Fi" * The Portsmouth Sinfonia: "20 Classic Rock Classics" they play incredibly bad, but they say the do try! their 2 oth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: eXotica Releases Overview Date: 09 Feb 2001 16:45:14 +0100 "Dr Chris R. Tame" wrote >It would also be very helpful to have some evaluations of the many >lounge/exotica compilations (like the UltraLounge series) now available. looking for info about some exotica CD? check it out at the "eXotica Releases Overview": http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm a searchable and annotated hyperdiscography of more than 2500 "exotica" & related CD's and new LP's. With hundreds of ratings, comments, and reviews by dozens of people. The next best thing to a truly searchable Exotica List archive! Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. er LP's are classical massacres only, but this one is filled with 1960's Rock Classics. * Gene Rains: "Far Across The Sea" Beautiful, classic exotica. * Gene Rains: "Lotusland" Beautiful, classic exotica. ISM vol.2, p16. * Milt Raskin: "Exotic percussion. Exotic Sounds of Milt Raskin" Also released as "Kapu" (Eros ERLS 5002, UK) and as "Exotic Tahiti". Wonderful, often overlooked, classic exotica masterpiece, with exotic instrumentation, some bird sounds too I think. * Milt Raskin: "Kapu" Beautiful, classic exotica, with lots of exotic percussion, some bird sounds, Novachord, organ, celeste, accordion, harp, flute. and heavenly melodies. Also released as "Exotic percussion. The Exotic Sounds of Milt Raskin" (Crown Records CLP5110), and as "Exotic Tahiti". * Sam Sacks: "Sing it again, Sam! (The Inimitable Song Stylings of Sam Sacks)" He sings - well, tries to, at least - old show tunes like "that old black magic", introducing each song with: "[song title] by Sam Sacks", as if he's the world's greatest singing star; but he can't sing of course; if you like Jack Mudurian of "Downloading the repertoire" fame (CD on Arf! Arf! records), then try to find this LP! * Dick Schory: "Wild percussion and horns a'plenty" * Mike Simpson: "Jungle Odyssey" Beatnik/beat pop with real wild animal sounds mixed in! An incredible, cool & crazy record that is, the animal zounds are well-balanced, it's not over the top at all. * Frankie Stein and His Ghouls: "Introducing (Monster sounds and dance music)" Novelty instro twist and hully gully and other crazy dances with lots of zany sound effects. * The Surfmen: "The sounds of exotic island" * The Creed Taylor Orchestra: "Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat" * The Three Suns: "Movin' 'n' Groovin' " Rare first edition in thick, gold cardboard sleeve with cut-out; as heard on RCA's History of Space Age Pop; this is by far their best, most imaginative and wackiest album. * Woofers & Tweeters Ensemble: "Beatle Barkers" Highly hilarious variation on the Singing dogs gimmick: dogs, cats, sheep and chicken bark, meow, bleat and cackle your favorite Beatle tunes, backed by a sixties drums & guitar combo. As featured on the 2 "Exotic Beatles" compilation CDs. * The Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra: "Barbarella" Classic and highly collectable outer space "now" sounds. Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) more or less recent akwisitions: LPs Date: 09 Feb 2001 16:45:47 +0100 ALBUMS: * Al Anthony (Wizard of the Organ): "Swingin' Hi---fi" o LP, Liberty LST 7021 stereo, USA, end 1950's o appreciation: 3 o note: Good Hammond organ record, not too cheesy, and with a truly "Incredibly Strange Music" version of Sabre dance! * Bones Galore: "Bones Galore" o LP, Polydor 583 078, UK, 1969 o appreciation: 3 o note: Brit Big Band, some very good cuts, the rest is just plain good but nothing really special, not even their cover of Light my fire. * Chango and The Polynesians: "Polynesian Percussion" o LP, Directional Sound DS 5012 stereo o appreciation: 4 o note: Not the same as the George Cates LP on Dot Records of the same title. And the focus is not really on Polynesian PERCUSSION either, but Polynesian multi-voice vocal music, backed by guitar and subtle percussion. Very nice, and funny in a way, especially the track "Cafe au lait". * Martin Denny: "20 Golden Hawaiian Hits" o LP, Liberty SLBY 1276 stereo, UK, 1965 o appreciation: 4 o note: These 20 Hawaiian tunes sound like new arrangements of tunes he did before, but this time without the bird calls and exotic percussion. Maybe it's one of the "ghosted" Denny albums. Anyway, I like it very much: very good cocktal music, whether Denny was involved or not. * Gil Evans: "Plays The Music Of Jimi Hendrix" o CD, BMG Jazz! 7432125755, France, 1995, deleted? o appreciation: 3 o note: Hard jazz rock, originally issued in on Verve in 1974. * Mort Garson: "Black Mass Lucifer" o LP, Uni records Stereo 73111, USA, 1971 o appreciation: 3 o note: Half of it is groovy Moog, the rest is rather dark stuff * Johnny Gunn & Don Ralke: "Introspection IV" o LP, Warner Bros. 1372 stereo o appreciation: 3 o note: I found the musical content, or the result of story+music, not as compelling as with Ken Nordine. Some stories are also difficult to follow and understand if your English is not very good. o quotes: + Brian Linds: Wierdos From The Uncommon World of Johnny Gunn With The OUtre Musical Sounds Of Don Ralke . Ken Nordine-ish coffee house tales. Musicians include: Milt Raskin/Shelly Mane/Marshall Cram/Plas Johnson/Buddy Collette/Ed Kusby/Howard Roberts/Larry Bunker. It's way cool!!! * Mel Henke Group: "Shock Treatment" o LP, Tempo Records 7003 mono o appreciation: 3 o note: Beatnik jazz meets Stravinsky o quotes: + Brian Linds: intense flying finger piano with bongos, guitar and bass. I guess recorded as if they were in a madhouse or something? It's pretty wild. * Roger Roger & Nino Nardini: "Gags A Go Go" o LP, Crea Sound MC 80 18, France/ Canada, 19?? o appreciation: 4 o note: Hilarious, JJ Perrey like electronic (probably Moog) gag music. The melodies are very simple, like kid songs, "Keystone Capers", or circus or fairground organ music, played with all kinds of silly sounds, including some animal noises. In mono, so maybe recorded in the first half of the 1960's. o quotes: + Brian Karasick: It sounds so much like Perrey & Kingsley you would think it was them! But then I believe Roger Roger was their main influence so... I don't believe he ever made any record outside library music. The surprise for me was Nini Nardini as I always though the that release by this person on Desco was another fake. Of course it could be another Nini Nardini but... * Living Guitars: "Let it Be and Other Hits" o LP, RCA Camden CAS-2425 stereo, USA, 1970 o appreciation: 4 o note: sitar on 1 track only, I think, yet still a very nice instrumental covers album, with some surprising material: "Spirit in the sky", "American woman"; plus 7 more. * Living Guitars : "Play Songs Made Famous By The Rolling Stones" o LP, RCA Camden CAS-2521 stereo, USA, 1971 o appreciation: 3 o note: Nine Stones instrumental covers, sitar on 1 track only, I think * Marcy: "Let The Sun Shine In" o LP, Corner Stone MT 112 o appreciation: 2 o note: Not really the "best" Marcy album I've heard yet. * Peter Matz and His Orchestra: "Brings 'em Back" o LP, Project 3 Stereo PR5007SD, USA, 1966 o appreciation: 4 o note: Typical Enoch Light "Now" sound from 1966, with some surprisingly cool & swingin' stuff on it! o quotes: + Will Louviere: Rare title from Enoch Light's Project 3 label. Billed as a Big Band record "updated" with the "sound of TODAY". i guess this one technically qualified as big band, but i dunno. sounds more like a whacked out Now Sound lp to me. 3 tracks highlight Vinnie Bell's electric sitar which ends up sounding like a skillsaw in an echo chamber. Plus goofy wah-wah guitar etc. Pretty awesome. * Billy Mure: "Fireworks" o LP, RCA 1694, USA o appreciation: 4 o note: Five tracks with wordless vocals. The best Billy Mure LP I've heard so far. o See _Cool And Strange Music Magazine_ issue 5 p22 * The Out-Islanders: "Polynesian Fantasy" o LP, Capitol T 1595 mono, USA, 1961 o appreciation: 4 o note: "Cocktail exotica", as featured on the first "ultra-lounge" cd * Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchestra: "Supercussion " o LP, RCA LSP-2613 stereo, 1963 o appreciation: 4 * The Voices of Walter Schumann: "Scrapbook" o Lp, RCA Victor LPM-1465 Mono Only, USA, 1957 o appreciation: 2 o note: Most of it is very boring EZ choir stuff, but a wordless classical piece by Tchaikovsky, a "Choir blues", and a heavenly "Blue Moon" make it a keeper. * Bobby Shad and the Bad Men: "A 65-piece Rock Workshop" o LP, Mainstream Records MRL-306 stereo, 1970's o appreciation: 5 o note: Big symphonic instro rock, absolutely incredible. Sounds like a hard rock version of Michael Nesmith's "Wichita Train". Covers of Whole lotta love, Pinball Winzzard and 4 others. woow. * Jimmy Smith: "Organ Grinder Swing" o LP, Verve V6-8628 o appreciation: 3 * The Soulful Strings: "String Fever" o LP, Cadet LPS-834 stereo, USA, 1969 o appreciation: 4 o note: Strings band, with flute, harmonica, guitar, cello, what a combination, but the result is very nice, smooth, soulfull, even funky, and on a couple of tracks they even throw in some blues! * Uakti: "Uakti" o cd, Verve 831 705, USA, 1987, deleted o appreciation: 4 o note: The back says that Uakti is a "Instrumental workshop". A mix of folky Brazilian traditions, exotic adventure, and new age spirit. One folky track reminded me a bit of Elizabeth Waldo; another one, with tuned percussion, of Harry Partch, and yet another even of Pink Floyd in their "Animals" period. Quite some variation, you might say, and yet it all makes sense because the Brazilian roots are always there. Most compositions by one of the members, but also 1 by Milton Nascimento, and another by Nascimento/Chico Buarque. The front cover shows a picture of a self-made instrument that produces sounds of TUNED water! wonderful to hear. * Los Vegas: "The Newest Sound in Sounds, The Fantastic Los Vegas" o LP, Columbia CS9322 360 Stereo, USA, 19?? o appreciation: 2 o note: Mexico's answer to The Sandpipers. Some songs are a bit funny due to their not-so-perfect English, especially "Sunshine", but most are forgettable. One big exception: "A taste of honey" in a very adventurous arrangement that surprises you by jumping from one style to another: Sandpiper-like vocals, salsa, bebop vocalese, and back again. * John Bunyan's Progressive Pilgrims: "Apricot Brandy and Albatross (The Sound that Sent the Pilgrims on a Trip)" o LP, Alshire S-5154 stereo o appreciation: 4 o note: It's not really like the "Astrosounds" because there are no strings. It's more like The Animated Egg. But not as good melodies/arrangements IMO. Only 1 track has something that COULD be a Moog, several the others have great organ playing. I'd give it a "good" rating, if not for their incredible version of "Sabre dance". Side A is the psychploitation side, whit lots of fuzz guitar and flanging, while side B is more organ blues-rock groovers, a bit like early Pink Floyd at times. o quotes: + Stefan Kery of _Subliminal Sounds_: This is the awesome Alshire LP up there with "Astro Sounds" for fuzzed out, effect treated, moog induced weirdo 60s psych and hot dance floor action. Killer fuzz-out guitar wranglers yeah every track! Weird sleeve. Good stuff! Groovy! It's totally instrumental and very cool (and pretty rare) like the Astro Sounds lp. * Wilson Neves e seu Conjunto: "Juventude 2000" o LP, Parlophone Nova Fase PBA 13.008 reissue, Brazil, 199? o appreciation: 4 o note: very good Bossa Nova, sounds somtimes as if mixed with "twist". Notbas goofy as "Samba - Tropi" or "O Som Quente E O Das Neves". The last 2 tracks sound completely different: on one, Wilson tries something exotic with solo percussion, and the other sounds like instrumental 60's pop. * Lochiel And South Carvolth Schools: "Lochiel And South Carvolth Schools" o LP, Glenwood Region Music Group, Canada, 1970's o appreciation: 5 o note: A school kids choir + guitar + wood blocks and drums sing/play 70's hits: the result is simply amaaaaazing "Outsider music", especially "space oddity"; man o man, i listened to that time after time, and it is simply the most astaunding, incredible cover anytime! pure (amateur) genius at work! And the other 8 tracks are very good too. o quotes: + Brian Linds: I sent Irwin Chusid a copy of their version of Space Oddity and it has caused so much excitement at WFMU, it charted on their top 30 list at #25. The album includes: Little Duece Coup; Space Oddity; Band On The Run; Saturday Night; You're So good To Me; To Know Him Is to Love Him; Help me Rhonda; Something Good; Riannon. They really rock!!! * Mother Earth (Mort Garson): "Plantasia (warm earth music for plants. and the people who love them)" o LP, Homewood Records stereo H-101, USA, 1976 o appreciation: 4 o note: Gentle and bubbling EZ Moog Muzak; DJ's should play it next to Gentle People's "Soundtracks For Living" CD: plenty resemblance! * Billy Mure: "Pink Hawaii" o LP, Strand SLS 1070 o appreciation: 3 * Billy Mure: "Supersonics in flight" o LP, RCA LSP-1869 o appreciation: 3 * Os Mutantes: "A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado" o LP, Polydor LPNG 44.048, Brazil, 1997 | LP, UK, ?, 1999 o appreciation: 3 o note: From 1970. Brazil's answer to the Bonzo Dog Band! COMPILATIONS: * Les Plus Belles Chansons & Musiques Des Films De Jean Gabin Volume 2 (Collection Play Time - Les Acteurs) o CD, FGL Playtime PL 9519, France, 1995 o appreciation: 1 o note: Disapointing, old-time French music. Only at the end, about 5 (more recent) tracks are quite cool and sound more like Raymond Lefevre's "Les Plus Belles Musiques Des Films De Louis De Funes", also in this "Collection Play Time - Les Acteurs" series. * Mondo For Space Age o CD, Capitol/Liberty TOCP-8971, Japan, 1996, deleted o appreciation: 5 o note: I've always thought this was some Japanese variation on "RCA's History Of Space Age Pop". Wrong, it seems. Half of it is NOVELTY, hooray! Even Spike Jones is on it, disguised as Hangnails Hennessey, with a track from his "Rides, rapes & rescues" LP. Then there's the Chipmunks, but also Ross Bagdasarian's "Gotta get to your house", which sounds a bit like Mel Henke's mad musical adventures on "La Dolce Henke". Several artists I've never heard of, like Roy Harte & Milt Holland, who's "The kick" sound as great and over the top as any track from Magne's "Tropical Fantasy"; The Invitations sing a wonderful Hawaiian song; and who is Mr. Gasser? John McFarland? Ethel Azama? The other half, not novelty, is filled with well-known greats like Baxter, Dean Elliott, Jack Fascinato, Harry Revel, Jimmie Haskell, Muzzy Marcellino, and Augie Colon with "Witch Doctor"!! A fantastic CD. long deleted alas. * Wendy Mae Chambers: "Car Horn Organ" o single, 7" single, Artmusic Inc. Artmus 001A o appreciation: 4 o note: Four short but very funny car horn organ pieces: Star Spangled Banner, Dixie, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and an improvisation. o Read article in "_Cool And Strange Music Magazine_" issue 16 Johan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: 78 fave comps Date: 09 Feb 2001 16:48:01 +0100 "Dr Chris R. Tame" wrote >It would also be very helpful to have some evaluations of the many >lounge/exotica compilations (like the UltraLounge series) now available. my faves: * "Barnyard Beat. Livestock Rock And Jungle Jams (A Parody Album)" Animals doing rock classics. * "Beat At Cinecitta Volume 1" A sensual homage to the most raunchy, erotic filmmusic from the vaults of Italian 60s & 70s cinema. One of the best, if not THE best, Italian loungecore soundtrack compilation around. * "Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide (Vol.2 In The Celluloide Series)" I'm drowning in the Easy Tempo series, they all start to sound alike. and then arrives this wonderful CD, with a totally NEW sound from Italy, not yet featured much on other comps. This is not funky or jazzy music, but - as the title sugests - BEAT, the late 60's, instrumental kind. Not really very Psichedelico I think, but very bright and fun, with great catchy, mostly uptempo "pop" melodies that sound like they were all used as TV theme tunes. Everything played by small bands, with very little use of electric guitar as front instrument, but plenty of electric organs. The sound constantly reminded me of Vic Mizzy's "Addams Family" soundtrack, because there's lot's of harpsichord here. Neil Hefti's 2 Batman LP's also came to mind, but without the jazz element. A bit of spaghetti influence on 1 track, another sounded a bit like Duke Of Burlington on his "The Pressed Piano" LP. Just like in the "Schulmadchen Report" CD, there's also a lot of plagiarism here, which seems to be an essential part of late 60's-early 70's "loungecore". One of the best Italian comps I've heard so far, highly recommended, and it really deserves better distribution channels! (Jack, Preston, Stefan, include this one in your sale catalog, that's an order! ;-) * "Beat Vol. 2 - Lounge At Cinevox" 16 more groovy "now", beat, jazzy, funky, and/or psychploitation tracks from the Italian Cinevox Record Archives, starting with a truly psychotic masterpiece by Morricone. 5 tracks prev. unreleased, 10 for the first time on cd. * "Bent, Batty And 'bnoxious!" Highly recommended, if you like stupid "Wavy Gravy" stuff. I actually think this is far better than "Wavy Gravy", much more "demented". * "Betty Page, Danger Girl. Burlesque Music" Really great spy and crime sounds, from the Chappel and Marlowlynn music libraries * "Blow Up Presents Exclusive Blend Volume 3" For this 3rd volume, Paul Tunkin croossed the channel, and visited the French music library "Telemusic". The result is a loungecore collection with a definite French flavor, and much more variation than the previous 2 volumes. Sometimes funky, on 1 sitar track slightly oriental, and on another 13+ minutes of prog EZ, but always with a big production sound. Also includes 2 very French, heavenly female wordless vocal tracks. Compositions by Guy Pederson and Bernard Estardy fill most of this CD. Pederson is better composition-wise, writing better melodies arrangements, while Estardy sounds remarkably modern, groovy in a repetitive way, with Moogish effects, and a total sound not unlike today's "breakbeat" artists. 16 tracks, 55 minutes total. Highly recommended! * "Blue Brazil 2 (Blue Note In A Latin Groove)" Even better than volme 1, much more exotic! Wonderful & pure Brazilian music, almost all 18 tracks by artists new to me. * "Blue Juice" * "Blue Juice Volume 3" The smoothest and mellowest volume yet, which is meant as a compliment! * "Cocktail Mix Volume 1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" my favorite volume of the series * "Cocktail Mix Volume 2: Martini Madness" * "Cocktail Mix Volume 4: Soundtracks With A Twist!" * "Crime Jazz: Music In The First Degree" * "Dig It - The Sound Of Phase 4 Stereo" * "The Easy Project 2 - House Of Loungecore" * "The Easy Project - 20 Loungecore Favourites" I liked this even better thatn"The Sound Gallery"! Super cool collection of production music and rare tracks of British loungecore. * "Easy Tempo Volume 1 (A Cinematic Easy Listening Experience)" * "Easy Tempo Volume 2 (The Psycho Beat)" One of the best in the series. * "Easy Tempo Volume 3 (Further Cinematic Easy Listening Experiences)" Italian soundtrack music by Armando Travajoli, Augusto Martelli, Piero Piccioni, Piero Umiliani, Francesco De Masi, Sergio Nilo, Attilio. Lots of Latin rhythms. * "Espresso Espresso. A Lightly Latin Brazillian Blend" * "The Exotic Beatles Part 1" * "The Exotic Trilogy Vol. I" * "Further Inflight Entertainment" Not as amazing and surprising as volume 1, but still highly recommended, if you don't mind the disgustingly high price... * "Get Easy! Vol.1: The Classic Collection" "Tempo Easy Listening Collection 1". My favorite of the whole series; it's an overview of the Easy Listening greats: Wanderley, Mancini, Astrud, Montenegro ("Lady in cement"!), Lalo, Peter Thomas, Sandpipers, Ray Conniff, Denny, Bottcher, Kaempfert, Bacharach, Herb Alpert and others. all COOL tracks! * "Golden Throats 2: More Celebrity Rock Oddities!" * "Golden Throats 4: Celebrities Butcher Songs Of The Beatles" Alan Copeland's "Mission: Impossible Theme/Norwegian Wood" is THE surprise killer track for me on this comp; it's exactly what the tile says: a combination of the 2 songs in ONE, and extremely well done, brilliant! Others: Day Tripper (Mae West), Michelle (Xaviera Hollander), Something (Telly Savalas), Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (William Shatner), Revolution (Brothers Four), etc. * "Hollywood Hi-Fi" "18 Of The Most Outrageous Celebrity Recordings Ever!": that sub-title is true! * "I Hate The Beatles" * "Incredibly Strange Music Volume 1" * "Incredibly Strange Music Volume 2" * "Inflight Entertainment" As good as "The Sound Gallery" or "The easy project". * "Instro Hipsters A-go-go" Woow! I say, woooooooooooooow!! Incredible, the CD starts with about 5 really loud and fast and boisterous big band "now" tracks, some of them a bit jazzy, with raw electric guitars, organs; think Peter Thomas at his wildest! This must be "the hard rock of EZ". Then, just when I thought "hmm, this starts to get a bit too much of the same thing", the rhythm slows down a bit, you get a Hefti-Batman-like theme, Barry-Bond-twang, boogaloo, funk, spaghetti-Bond, all still quite energetic, then, at last, a slow track with heavenly wordless vocal and harpsichord, but not for long, they go into higher gear again! All first-class meodies (well, except for a 8 minute psych guitar work-out with hypnotic and slightly exotic percussion) and arrangements and very well played. Only a couple of well-known names pop up: John Shakespeare, Johnny Keating, Dave Pike Set ("Mathar", again...), and 2 Pierre Henry tracks from "Messe pour le temps present" played by Les Yper Sound (?) * "Instrumental Favourites: Exotic Moods" * "Jazz 'round Midnight: Bossa Nova" this one doesn't give you the most obvious selections, and it mentions the original albums tracks were taken from AND if they are available on cd. * "Jungle Exotica" great, but rather loud, fun. not just primitive rock and roll, closer to what you hear on "Las vegas grind". it's a mix of R&B, R&R, exotic elements, with a very novelty approach. * "Jungle Exotica Volume 2" no duplicates with the lp's * "Las Vegas Grind Volume 1" * "Las Vegas Grind Volume 2 - Louie's Limbo Lounge" * "Las Vegas Grind Volume 3" * "Las Vegas Grind Volume 4" * "Las Vegas Grind Volume 5" * "Las Vegas Grind volume 6" A very strong volume! Plenty of wacky and trashy mixes of R&B, doo-wop, beatnik, R&R, twist and funk, with lots of sax and organ upfront, and of course -- the trademark of this series: nonsens talk, scats and crazy human zounds. * "Metti Una Bossa A Cena" The best of 2 worlds: bossa nova from Italy! * "Monster Rock 'n' Roll Show" * "The Mood Mosaic 4: Les Yper Sound!" * "Music For A Bachelor's Den Volume 2: Exotica" Great introduction to classic exotica, with several tracks from very rare LP's. * "Music For A Bachelor's Den Volume 3: Latin Rhythms In Hi Fi" * "Music For A Bachelor's Den, Volume 4: Easy Rhythms For Your Cocktail Hour" * "Only In America" * "Ready Steady Boogaloo! (Amphonic Grooves For Carnaby Chicks And Cool Steppers)" This is maybe how volume 3 of "The Sound Gallery" might have sounded like! Eighteen excellent late sixties/early seventies production music from the Amphonic music library, founded by Syd Dale, who worked for KPM during the sixties. Contrary to the title, and though a bit funky at times and with a bit of Latin percusion, there's no real boogaloo here, but - quote - "hard-beating acid-pop and funky Hammond grooves". Some tracks have a touch of Latin, jazz and funk; most are of that typical British combination of sophisticated groovy Hammond + big band horns + strings here and there, with happy melodies and lush arrangements. At only GBP 5-, this must be the best deal of the year! * "Real Gone Garbage" * "Shake Sauvage (french soundtracks 1968-1973)" The cd has 3 extra tracks not on the vinyl. * "Shaken Not Stirred" A bit on the short side, but still great lounge comp. The unlisted bonus track -- a jazz version of the James Bond Theme -- is by James Bond & His Sextet * "The Soul Of Jazz Volume 1 (Gitannes Jazz Productions)" Great dancefloor jazz with Hugh Masekela; Jimmy Smith (2 tracks, 1 of them from "The cat"); Cal Tjader; Quincy Jones; James Taylor Quartet; and others. There are more volumes, though don't know how many. I prefer this over the "Mojo" dancefloor jazz" cd series because that has lots of vocal tracks, and I prefer instro jazz. * "The Sound Gallery" Essential UK Loungecore comp. * "The Sound Gallery Volume 2" * "Sushi 3003" * "Talkin' Verve Groovy" Verve artists do groovy jazz covers of 60's soul, R&B, and pop songs; they sound more pop or "Now" than jazz, which I think is good! Oscar Peterson's "Satisfaction" is about the only "real" jazz track, which means that you can't recognise the original melody ;-) * "Talkin' Verve With a Twist" This was Verve's "Space Age Pop/Lounge" hit compilation, irts reply to Capitol's Ultra-Lounge series I guess. Very much like Rhino's "Cocktail Mix" Volumes 2 & 3, so if you liked those, be sure to check these out! Lots of cool tunes, mostly from the Mercury archives: Charade, Pink Panther, Tequila, Walk on the wild side, Peter Gunn, James Bond theme, What's new pussycat, Girl from Ipanema, One mint julep. * "Television's Greatest Hits (65 TV Themes From The 50's And 60's)" * "Television's Greatest Hits Volume 2 (65 More TV Themes Fro The 50's And 60's)" * "Themes Like Old Times" "90 Genuine Original Program Openings From The Most Famous Radio Shows." highly recommended! There's a lot of use of a Theatre organ on these themes compilation, many themes from mystery and adventure series. E-mail contact: _mailto:video@yesteryear.com_ * "The Thriller Memorandum. Mood Mosaic Volume 2" 1960's spy jazz * "A Trip To Brazil - 40 Years Of Bossa Nova" * "A Trip To Brazil vol. 2: Bossa & Beyond" Excellent second volume, with 38 tracks in total, this time offering more than just classic bossa nova. Disc 2 offers acts who mix samba and other Brazilan sounds with elements from jazz, funk and psychedelia. Highly recommended! Don't confuse with the double vinyl "A Trip To Brazil: Bossa & Beyond", which features exactly the same front cover, and is really a "best of" compiled from "A Trip To Brazil - 40 Years Of Bossa Nova" and this very "vol. 2: Bossa & Beyond". * "Ultra-Lounge On The Rocks Part 1: Rock'n'roll Distilled For Easy Listening" I absolutely LOVED this! (Vol 2 a bit less). You shouldn't compare them to Rhino's "Golden throats", as this is not as much atrocious music, it's just easyfied (instrumentalised) pop classics; a few are silly, but a lot have that "now sound". Very interesting. A friend dj who's very much into dub/techno/drum & base/acid jazz and who also likes some of the stuff I play for him (like the "Sound Sallery" and the Crippled Cick soundtracks) found it very groovy indeed! * "Ultra-Lounge Vol. 1: Mondo Exotica" A perfect volume to start with, if you don't have anything from this series yet. * "Ultra-Lounge Vol. 2: Mambo Fever" * "Ultra-Lounge Vol. 3: Space-capades" * "Ultra-Lounge Vol. 4: Bachelor Pad Royale" * "Ultra-Lounge Vol. 6: Rhapsodesia" * "Ultra-Lounge Vol. 7: The Crime Scene" The uncredited mystery bonus tracks at the end of several of the "Ultra-Lounge" volumes are by Renzo Cesana, also known as "The Continental". * "Ultra-Lounge Vol. 8: Cocktail Capers" * "Ultra-Lounge Vol. 9: Cha Cha De Amor" * "Ultra-Lounge Volume 11: Organs In Orbit" * "Ultra-Lounge Volume 17: Bongoland" One of the numerous delights of the "Ultra-Lounge" series are the previously unreleased tracks, like Denny's version of "The young savages". * "Wanted Dead Or Alive" The best from the original soundtracks of the Italian westerns. The sound of spaghetti westerns from Morricone to Morricone # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "NIELS KREISHOLT" Subject: (exotica) The Unusual We Date: 09 Feb 2001 19:23:52 Hi there, Can anyone tell me about an early 70ies group called "The Unusual We"? What were they like? Where can I get their records? best regards Niels _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "NIELS KREISHOLT" Subject: (exotica) Bacharach solo album question Date: 09 Feb 2001 19:27:34 Hi, Is it true that Burt Bacharach recorded a couple of solo (just piano and singing) albums in the late 60ies? If so - what are the titles of these albums? Are they available as CD re-issues? best regards Niels _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Pronouncing Exotica Date: 09 Feb 2001 13:52:25 -0600 I recently acquired a copy of "Hawaii Right Now!" by The Aliis, and I'm curious how you say their name. Anybody know? And while we're at it...how the hell do you pronounce "Misirlou"? I've heard it mangled ten different ways. Does anybody know the for-sure, definitive pronunciation for this tune? Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Danger Diabolik bootleg Date: 09 Feb 2001 14:57:25 -0500 >And now it's at $81. Incredible, Will Will Straw, Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) Pronouncing Exotica Date: 09 Feb 2001 15:03:07 -0500 >=20 > And while we're at it...how the hell do you pronounce "Misirlou"? =20 Dick Dale, the guy who claims he made the song famous, pronounced it MIZ-er-loo.=20 Rhymes with 'kiss her too'. (was that a stretch!) =A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA= =B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=20 Charlieman=20 "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 - Charles H. Duell, 1899=A0 =A0=20 =20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Neo-Exotica top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge Date: 09 Feb 2001 15:49:33 -0500 At 07:39 AM 2/8/01 -0800, chuck wrote: .> >A Huge vote for Neo-exotica category! > >Tipsy is a definite > >Don Tiki is perhaps the BEST Yesterday at the used CD store, I heard this thing. Couldn't believe how utterly neo exotica it was. It was on one of those "Served Chilled" compilations. I'm pretty sure the cut that blew me away was by MANDALAY but I can't totally trust the clerk. Anyway I sat there listening to the next three tracks just to see if they sounded anywhere near as perfect as that one cut, in which case I would have bought it. But they didn't. One cut came close but that's all. I guess it vaguely fit into "electronica" in that it had the quality of being "looped" or sampled and there was a very low-key repeated beat in the deep background but mostly what you heard was this lovely exotic soundtrackish string section sounding like something out of one of those "Exotic Strings" records (by Percy Faith or Michel Legrand). So does anyone know this compilation or these comps in general? Does Mandalay exist or is it just some name chosen for this compilation? Is there a whole CD by Mandalay out there? And one more thing about neo-exotica. I just bought a Francis Lai record that sounded exactly like Air. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Pronouncing Exotica Date: 09 Feb 2001 21:50:03 +0100 (CET) citerar Darrell Brogdon : > > I recently acquired a copy of "Hawaii Right Now!" by The Aliis, and > I'm curious how you say their name. Anybody know? In Sweden we call them the Alees, like in "Lee" Hazelwood. Looks like a question for Fluid Floyd, also what does it mean? I know I have heard it sometime, either "the high priests" "the Kings" or "gods sons" or something other solemn. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 09 Feb 2001 16:16:19 -0500 At 04:45 PM 2/9/01 +0100, Johan Dada Vis wrote: > > is a top 68 OK? it also includes some novelty stuff... sorry >for overlaps with previous posts, i'm behind with reading digests... > >* Lew Davies: "Strange Interlude" > All sorts of exotic percussion, plus Ondioline & Theremin. Johan owns everything and if anyone can come up with a list, it's him and it's silly to argue with these lists since it's all personal taste. Having said that, I think Strange Interlude is a very very disappointing record. First of all, there's very little theremin on it. And some of the cuts are simply boring. I guess that the best cuts on it may deserve to be on a list of the great exotica cuts but the album as a whole is a snooze. Just warning anyone who keeps seeing it on lists and has it on their list of holy grails. If you find it for a couple of bucks, be my guest. I bought it once too. But in my opinion you shouldn't make this a "must-have". Unless you must have everything. I guess that's why some of us were reluctant to make lists. It's different with a CD. Someone can tell you they like a CD and you can find it and buy it. But with LP's you usually can't do that. And you build up a fascination for the thing and you think "IF I ever find that, I'll buy it no matter what". In the meantime there are records languishing in junkstores that no one is putting on their list and they're just as good as anything you're dying to find. This is not true across the board. I wish it was. But there ARE records you hear about all the time which really are as great as you're hoping they are. But unless you've heard the record already and you know you love it, I suggest you ignore these lists and just buy whatever you see that's cheap and looks interesting. I put this Axel Stordahl "Lure of the Blue Mediterranean" on my list. It's probably not on anyone else's list and it probably doesn't deserve to be. On the surface, it's this run-of-the-mill "exotica travelogue" record, this gatefold thing with great pictures inside and beautiful packaging all around. I was pretty sure I knew what it would be but I took a chance on it anyway. The first couple of cuts were pretty run of the mill. But there are these two "hidden cuts" that are like crime jazz suites or something. They totally don't fit the rest of the record but who cares???? The lists are good. When I first joined this list, you were always seeing records referred to. It was like a de facto list was being created. And it helped you form a mental list. And a mental list is good, as long as you don't really think that these are the best. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Pronouncing Exotica Date: 09 Feb 2001 22:28:16 +0100 Aliis = Uh-Lee-Ees -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) Neo-Exotica top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 09 Feb 2001 13:46:52 -0800 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of alan zweig > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:50 PM > Yesterday at the used CD store, I heard this thing. Couldn't believe how > utterly neo exotica it was. It was on one of those "Served Chilled" > compilations. I'm pretty sure the cut that blew me away was by MANDALAY > but I can't totally trust the clerk. I believe Vol. II of the Serve Chilled series has the Mandalay track. > I guess it vaguely fit into "electronica" in that it had the quality of > being "looped" or sampled and there was a very low-key repeated > beat in the > deep background but mostly what you heard was this lovely exotic > soundtrackish string section sounding like something out of one of those > "Exotic Strings" records (by Percy Faith or Michel Legrand). > So does anyone know this compilation or these comps in general? I used to own both Vol. 1 and 2 of Serve Chilled (I think they're part of a bigger series called Hed Kandi or something) -- bought 'em (all 4 discs!) for $16 in total at one of those outlet mall places. I found them kind of dull, I'm afraid. Not that I didn't have an affinity for so-called downtempo music, but many of the tracks suffered from a sameness (the somewhat interchangeable names of the unfamiliar artists only heightened this feeling): the same head-noddin' tempo, some sample looped endlessly, etc. The best tracks were, for instance, by Thievery Corporation, and since I already owned them, there didn't seem much reason to hang on to the comps for much longer. I suspect you'll get a higher neo-exotica / chillout quotient from those Ursula 1000 comps, or the Thievery Corp's DJ Kicks CD. > And one more thing about neo-exotica. I just bought a Francis Lai record > that sounded exactly like Air. Give it up, Alan -- what was the title? Later, Ben np: mark kozelek, "rock n' roll singer" http://www.bigfoot.com/~bvergara ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr Chris R. Tame" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: eXotica Releases Overview Date: 09 Feb 2001 23:56:36 +0000 In article , Johan Dada Vis writes > >"Dr Chris R. Tame" wrote > >>It would also be very helpful to have some evaluations of the many >>lounge/exotica compilations (like the UltraLounge series) now available. > > looking for info about some exotica CD? > check it out at the "eXotica Releases Overview": > http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm > a searchable and annotated hyperdiscography > of more than 2500 "exotica" & related CD's and new LP's. > With hundreds of ratings, comments, and reviews by dozens of people. > The next best thing to a truly searchable Exotica List archive! > > Johan > > ----- > > Fantastic - just the sort of thing I was after. Many thanks indeed. -- Dr. Chris R. Tame, Director Libertarian Alliance | "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, | 25 Chapter Chambers | and the secret of Freedom is Courage" | Esterbrooke Street | Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration | London SW1P 4NN England Tel: 020 7821 5502 Fax: 020 7834 2031 Email: chris@rand.demon.co.uk LA Web Site: http://www.libertarian-alliance.com/ Free Life Web Site: http://www.whig.org.uk # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: (exotica) Ali'i Date: 09 Feb 2001 16:59:13 -0800 (PST) > > I recently acquired a copy of "Hawaii Right Now!" > by The Aliis, and > > I'm curious how you say their name. Anybody know? > > In Sweden we call them the Alees, like in "Lee" > Hazelwood. Looks like a question for Fluid Floyd... FF to the rescue. Ali'i (ah-lee-ee) means royalty... chief, chiefess, king, queen, noble. welcome back, Magnus... the original midnight son! ever heard June Christy's version of "Midnight Sun?" I love that. Top 50 list- exotica for me is music of many genres that evokes the jungle and/or other worldiness. for jazz, this includes anything from Eric Dolphy's "Feathers" to Alice Coltrane's "Blue Nile" to Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo" or "Inflated Tear" to Yusef Lateef's "Eastern Sounds" album. polynesian exotica musts are Martin Denny (Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia, and all the rest), Les Baxter (Ritual du Savage, Tamboo, Capitol's "Exotic moods of.." is a great start), Arthur Lyman (Taboo 1 & 2), Eden Ahbez, Robert Drasnin and many more already mentioned by this erudite exotic crowd. for neo-exotica there's Tipsy (great review of "Uh-oh" in new Wired mag... haven't heard it yet, anybody?), Montefiori Cocktail, AstroSlut, Action Plus, Joey Altruda, Thievery Corp (DJ Kicks), Amon Tobin's "Nova" track off the "Permutations" CD (same track that Bebel Gilberto sings over on her fab "Tanto Tempo" release), "Minitoka" track on DJ Food's "Kaleidoscope" and on + on. Of course, tons of wonderful Brazilian music, dubby reggae like Augustus Pablo, odd rock like the Rascals "Little Dove" (Peaceful World lp w/ Alice Coltrane!), even the Beach Boys ("Til I Die", "Feel Flows"). i could go on, but just wanted to mention a few things i didn't see covered. many mahalos for everyone's contribution to this topic... i learned alot. the depth of your knowledge is a constant source of inspiration. 'A'ohe loa i ka hana a ke aloha, ( Distance is ignored by love ) Fluid Floyd Don Tiki/Taboo Records __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) GYBE: Interview Date: 09 Feb 2001 19:52:08 -0600 Interesting prank interview with Godspeed, You Black Emperor. http://www.cstrecords.com/html/efrim.html -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "william" Subject: (exotica) re: japan Date: 10 Feb 2001 14:04:52 +0800 > > 1. Is anyone on the list in Japan? > 2. If you are, do you know of any Exotica friendly bars/clubs? > well, i'm sure others have more traditional exotica bars to mention. maybe taro will delurk to give you some ideas or p.g. will since he was just there on vacation. i believe that members of united future organization d.j. at the liquid room in shinjuku quite regularly. and konishi has been popping up at the organ bar in shibuya recently. i haven't been to either place so i don't know how exotica friendly they or what have you. some members of the pizzicato five english mailing list have put together a travel site and there might be something of interest for you on that site. here's the url: http://homepage.mac.com/pizzitravel/main.html william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel" Subject: (exotica) For sale..Martelli/Pete Pearl/Pezzotta/Sciascia/De Angelis Date: 10 Feb 2001 10:28:49 +0100 Hello all, if are are interested in.... -Augusto Martelli - Music In Love (Five Fm 1982 13507) (electronic...) phase 6 superstereo... -Pete Pearl with Strings - La Notte e'Fatta Di Sogni (Night is made for dreaming) (vedette 1969) cover ex -Mario Pezzotta e i suoi solist - Sophisticated Lady (vedette 1975) -Armando Sciascia - Largo e Appasionato (vedette 1972) -OST "Formula Uno" by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis (KTR, Stereo 13900 1979) cover ex + bonus! singel (in fair condition) OST Bruno Nicolai "Ringo Dove Vai" (Ringo Come To Fight) ...write me. I wish to sell all at once. Daniel # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ali'i Date: 10 Feb 2001 11:35:30 +0100 (CET) > welcome back, Magnus... the original midnight son! > ever heard June Christy's version of "Midnight Sun?" I > love that. No, which record is it on? A favorite "Midnight sun" recording for me is featured in the film "Invasion of the Animal People" AKA Horror in the Midnight Sun Space Invasion from Lapland Space Invasion of Lapland Terror in the Midnight Sun One of those really fun sci fi extravaganzas from the fifties, and one of the few swedish produced science fiction /horror films. Since it is swedish it is nudity in it too, so you see you must watch it. To hear the laps talk their fake voodoo language: "Du i eou i du du ie ee ou ed" is worth the price for renting the vhs. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "The Workmans" Subject: (exotica) exotica lists Date: 10 Feb 2001 10:15:37 -0500 I won't belittle any ones choices for their favs, but it is fun to see what you all think. I agree whole-heartedly with the Sergio/Brazil 66 choice, though. I don't think they release a clunker in the first 7 lps or so. I could listen to Reza, Moanin' or Pretty World for hours on end (and sometimes do...). Any other Brazil 66 fanatics out their? Favorites? Keep me posted.. Cold and Snowy in Dayton J Workman theworkmans@mics.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Pronouncing Exotica Date: 10 Feb 2001 10:38:43 EST In a message dated 2/9/01 12:03:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, crajnai@att.com writes: << Dick Dale, the guy who claims he made the song famous, pronounced it MIZ-er-loo. Rhymes with 'kiss her too'. (was that a stretch!) >> i agree. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Pronouncing Exotica Date: 10 Feb 2001 10:42:04 EST In a message dated 2/9/01 12:03:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, crajnai@att.com= =20 writes: << Dick Dale, the guy who claims he made the song famous, pronounced it MIZ-er-loo.=20 =20 Rhymes with 'kiss her too'. (was that a stretch!) =20 =A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA= =B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=20 Charlieman >> my earlier post just said "i agree." and i got to thinking someone might hav= e=20 thought that a smart ass remard to the "that was a stretch". it wasn't. i=20 meant i agreed with the MIZ-er-loo. being careful to not offend, tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) RE: Trader Vic's Date: 10 Feb 2001 10:52:16 EST In a message dated 02/09/01 9:45:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, mjmarch@charter.net writes: << > the BH Vic's is a place frequented a lot by Celebs. The Sat night I was > there a few weeks ago, Dana Delaney and Treat Williams were in the booth next > to us. The booths to be pretty "private" and can be reserved with some > notice so the celebs often go there. You were luckier than I was, Bob. The last time I was at the BH Vic's I got seated next to Bruce Vilanch...he tried to hit on me. http://people.aol.com/people/pprofiles/bvilanch/ -- Matt Marchese >> that is so funny matt. actually i like vilanch because i like hollywood squares. some may remember that last season goldberg had two Shag cat paintings in her square. on that subject, Shag had a show at La Luz de Jesus gallery while i was in LA. he and his wife (glendele) and i have gotten to be sort of good friends. one of the highlights of my LA trip was having them join me and my friend michele (that is micheleflp who used to be on the list) at The Dresden Room for Dinner. Shag and his wife actually met me at Vic's before the Dresden and that is where we saw Dalaney and Williams. oh the other "treat" was meeting Sea and Tea from Luxuria Music.com. a couple of really swing chick DJs. i met them at Vic's on friday and after getting blasted there we went to the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel and got blasted some more. btw, they have a fun interactive show on tuesday nights at 6:00 pacific time. and they are just plain neat! that LA is one hap-nin scene baby. TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Ennio Morricone Date: 10 Feb 2001 16:06:37 +0100 Moritz wrote: >But speaking of Morricone... is there anybody in this list, who has >been dipping deeper into the sheer unlimited record output of this >amazing musician? i tried out several full scores (see below) that had good tracks featured on comps like "mondo M" and all were disappointing! not one CD was so good i'd recommend it. Holocaust 2000 Sesso In Confessionale I Malamondo La Tarantola Dal Ventre Nero Il Prefetto Di Ferro Il Mostro L'antichristo Sepolta Viva L'Istruttoria E' Chiusa: Dimentichi Il Serpente (The Case Is Closed, Forget It) Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: Re (exotica) Mardi Gras Date: 08 Feb 2001 23:11:18 -0500 > Sounds like BIG FUN, I wish I coud be there! Please give us after it a > report (In germany we only have street parades with stupid commercial techno and > house music. (i like a lot of the real techno and house stuff, but you will > never hear it on these parades) Say don't you have that strange event in Germany where people dress up like forest creatures. Saw it once in a German (or maybe Austrian?) film and it was one mighty surreal looking event. I think I remember Moritz once explaining what it was all about. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 10 Feb 2001 12:51:02 -0600 Tune in this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast as we serve up music for belly dancing from Sonny Lester's "How To Belly Dance for Your Husband" and the movie "1001 Arabian Nights". Also on the menu, stereo overstimulation by Bernie Green and The Three Suns; Mike Hammer creator Mickey Spillane in a noir-ish (and rare) crime jazz adventure from the 1950s; outer space exotica from "A Child's Introduction to Outer Space" and theremin virtuoso Paul Tanner; bossa nova by Les Baxter and Dick Hyman; plus new tunes by the Hypnomen and Stereo Action Unlimited, among others. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, just visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Or tune in tonight (Saturday) at 7:00pm Central time for the live stereo webcast at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/realaudio/index.htm At our website, you can view playlists from the show, or sign up for our weekly playlist mailing service (receive a detailed playlist every Monday). Also this week, a new exhibit in the Cover Gallery -- great Exotica album covers for the '50s and '60s. Check it out! As always, comments and requests are welcome. Thanks for the space! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chris Kovin Subject: Re: (exotica) Ali'i Date: 10 Feb 2001 11:25:25 -1000 Magnus Sandberg wrote: >=20 > A favorite "Midnight sun" recording for me > is featured in the film "Invasion of the Animal People" > AKA > Horror in the Midnight Sun > Space Invasion from Lapland > Space Invasion of Lapland > Terror in the Midnight Sun Is this a new El=E4kel=E4iset recording then? ;-0 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Date: 10 Feb 2001 17:47:56 -0500 So I finally found Los Brasilios’s Brasilian Beat 67 LP…on Pickwick Records. I thought it was going to be a lousy rip off record of the Brasil 66 sound and after a few a few cuts I stopped it and plugged the LP into the computer. Burning this baby on CDr to listen in the car for those nasty commutes. A question: Since its on Pickwick and these budget records have a reputation for issuing LP with fewer cuts I wonder if I have the whole LP. There are 10 tracks on the LP. The first cut on side 2, Brasilian Beat, I recognized from hearing it on Luxuria music. Luxuria is turning a year old in a few days, and if I may mention it, my own program is turning 2 years old a few days later. Still having a blast. And making a dent for the exotica community. Next post questions! Domenic Ciccone "Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday’s 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/misc/wjul/wjul.html (On Real Audio) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Project Pimento/ Leningrad Cowboys Date: 10 Feb 2001 17:58:38 -0500 Does anyone know what's happening with Project Pimento? I haven't played them on my program for a while and yet I just got an email from a listener wanting to know about them since on their web page "Nothing has been updated since August and they don't respond to email." They never responded to mine. Also. I got a single cut of the "Leningrad Cowboys" from a friend on the list. "These Boots Are Made For Walking". Is the rest of their output as entertaining? And what would you recommend? There web page is too strange to pick up any real information. I got one listener who went bug nuts over the song so I got to play more of them. Domenic Ciccone "Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday’s 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/misc/wjul/wjul.html (On Real Audio) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HEDCANDY@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Who Are We / Tampa Bay Clubs Date: 10 Feb 2001 20:28:05 EST Hi, I've lurked here for about 3 years and periodically post. Just wondering: A: Where is everyone from and what do we do? My name is Chris. I'm 32 and live in Tampa; moving to Seminole shortly. I teach Commercial Arts to 9th-12th grade High Schoolers at a Vocational School. Turn On's are: Music, Exotica Culture, moog, gourmet popcorn, Quantum Mechanics, the Holographic Universe Theory and 24K gold Martinis (Grand Marye'(sp?) and Gin) B: Anyone know of some lounge / tiki spots in Tampa Bay Area? There used to be a great place in Clearwater called The Neon Rose. Every Sunday from 4 to 8 an act called "Jazz & Connie" would perform. The "Jazz" was a revolving rhythm section of senior citizens playing slide trombone, trumpet, electric guitar, and even oboe! They also had an upright bass, synth, drums and bongos. Connie was about 80+ years old and wore off the shoulder sequin gowns with a giant beehive powdered wig! She would sing and sometimes play maracas as well. I started going and would revel in the $3 Long Island Ice Teas (2 and you were F'd Up!), the cheap dinner menu (Nachos were a must) and the wonderful wonderful people. I dug the sound so hard they started inviting me out of the crowd to play bongos! I never missed the chance and would play my heart out. About the 3rd time there they let me solo and the elderly crowds were yelling GO! GO! What a treasure! I LOVED IT. The place was always packed and the crowd was never under 60+. (Except for me and my wife)These were the real swingers of the Florida scene. Grandma ain't so pure when she's sucking on a Pall Mall while eyeing the room for a gentleman caller. There was even a greaser dude in his late 70's who used to dress (for real) in jeans and a whte t-shirt. He would role no filter Lucky Strikes up in the sleeve. One night we all got tanked and he let us drive his kick ass 1962, jet black Lincoln Continental with suicide doors. THAT was a club. Sadly, the Neon Rose closed in 1997 and it's clients scattered. I have to say that without a doubt that was the most relaxed and enjoyable of the club experiences I have ever had. Great people. Great stories. Great music like "All of Me, Take The A Train, Corcovado, Summer Samba, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cole Porter... *sigh...* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Project Pimento/ Leningrad Cowboys Date: 10 Feb 2001 21:12:45 -0500 > Also. I got a single cut of the "Leningrad Cowboys" from a friend on the > list. "These Boots Are Made For Walking". Is the rest of their output as > entertaining? And what would you recommend? There web page is too strange to > pick up any real information. I got one listener who went bug nuts over the > song so I got to play more of them. Yes, all of their output is as "entertaining" - they're an acquired taste, but I just love their music! They have a few releases out, and star in quite a few of Aki Kaurismaki's films (including "Leningrad Cowboys Go America") (great film, and bizarre music - what more could you ask for?) I believe the single you have is from the "Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Chorus" (not sure if that's the correct title) and it's also a full-length concert film, which is really worth watching, if you've never seen it! cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) Cool it Carol! Date: 10 Feb 2001 22:45:57 -0500 I saw the most bizarre film last night on Bravo. "Cool it Carol!" Absolutely never heard of it. It was a British, made in 1970 and starred Janet Lynn as Carol. She didn't look familiar but the male lead, whose name I don't know, was very familiar. He had a Brian Jones haircut but was a little tougher looking than Brian. I mention it on this list because it reminded me of the kind of swinging movie that gets mentioned here. BTW the really quite impressive, sometimes swinging score was by Cyril Ornadel. I did write down that name because I'd never heard it before. It's a movie about a girl that goes to London to become a model and in the process of becoming very successful, very quickly, she also becomes a prostitute and stars in a porn film with her boyfriend/manager. The porn shoot is a pretty great scene. What's most striking about the film is how light it manages to remain even while going into the areas it enters. It feels like a Carry On film all the way through and the music actually contributes to that feeling. The second really striking thing is the ending. Just at the point where most films would start the tragic slide downwards for our two naive characters (Carol and her manager Joe), Carol asks Joe if he's happy. "Is this what you always wanted Joe?" and he says no. Next scene they're back home. She's back at her mother's station, pumping gas. He's back at his old job delivering meat. No one is the wiser. It's like it never happened. He pulls up for gas and they make a little private joke and the film ends. It just kills me that these things exist. There's a connection to finding surprising records. Right now I'm listening to an amazing almost indescribable record called "Communications 72" which is a collaboration between Stan Getz and Michel Legrand. It's all over the place but I have to say I've never heard a record quite like this. I guess these are the kinds of "discoveries" we're obsessed with. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) Re: Date: 10 Feb 2001 22:47:42 -0500 At 05:47 PM 2/10/01 -0500, you wrote: .> >A question: Since its on Pickwick and these budget records have a reputation >for issuing LP with fewer cuts I wonder if I have the whole LP. There are 10 >tracks on the LP. I've had two versions of that record - with two distinct covers, one showing a "band" and one showing a covergirl (guess which one I kept) - and you've got all the cuts. If I was more obsessive or more diligent, I could tell you the cuts that are duplicated on other records and what those records are but all I can remember is that you'll find at least one of those cuts duplicated on a Design record with a picture of Robert Redford on the front and the words "Downhill Skier" prominent. I'm pretty sure I included one or more cuts from this record on my "Clark Kent's Secret Identity" CD in the exoticaring. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Taub Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool it Carol! Date: 10 Feb 2001 23:22:28 -0500 Hmmm.=20 She's...pumping gas. He's back at his old job delivering meat. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool it Carol! Date: 11 Feb 2001 20:52:07 +1100 on 11/2/01 2:45 PM, alan zweig at azed@pathcom.com wrote: > BTW the really quite impressive, sometimes swinging score was by Cyril > Ornadel. I did write down that name because I'd never heard it before. I have some 7" childrens discs with music and conducting by Cyril Ornadel. Beatrix Potter stories/songs and the AA Milne "When We Were Very Young" poems etc. set to music. Had them from my childhood in England late '50's early '60's. Philip -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool it Carol! Date: 11 Feb 2001 10:56:25 -0500 Okay, so we weren't the only ones watching movies at 1 am Friday night! We caught this film, too, and it wasn't bad (aside from the rather lame ending...) Groovy fashions (especially the men, with their tacky suits and bad haircuts) and some pretty decent music, too. You know a film's obscure when there isn't even a reference to it in the "Time Out" film guide... cheryl > I saw the most bizarre film last night on Bravo. > "Cool it Carol!" Absolutely never heard of it. > It was a British, made in 1970 and starred Janet Lynn as Carol. She didn't > look familiar but the male lead, whose name I don't know, was very > familiar. He had a Brian Jones haircut but was a little tougher looking > than Brian. > I mention it on this list because it reminded me of the kind of swinging > movie that gets mentioned here. > BTW the really quite impressive, sometimes swinging score was by Cyril > Ornadel. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 09:55:06 -0600 Hi Chris, I am a lurker also, mainly because these people are so smart there is nothing I can add that these people don't know!!! Plus, I am not in the "music" business. My name is Colleen, I am a nurse in a urologist's office (Viagra and vasectomies are our specialties!) I live in a small town south of Ft. Worth, Texas. I love the exotica genre and discovered a whole new world by entering "lounge music" into a search engine, which led me to the Retro Cocktail Hour, which in turn led me to this list. Much of the music I loved, I didn't know the names of, didn't know who to ask...etc. Darrell Brogdon has been a great help...he knows everything! Finding the list was great, the discussions are priceless...I learn something everyday. There are no exotica lounges or bars here in Ft. Worth, home of the largest "honky-tonk" in Texas (Billy Bob's), so this list is a godsend to me. I try to listen to all the web programs offered and I DO enjoy the playlists. I post a little, but not much, Mama taught me to keep your mouth shut if you don't know what you're talking about. A lot of the people here are very opinionated, which I don't mind at all, just very reluctant to post, if I'm not sure of my facts. I'm glad you offered this introduction, I would like to know who everyone is also, but was too afraid to ask. Thanks, colleenintexas. Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 10:32:42 -0600 From my NetNet.com bio: "Matt Marchese lives in the alternately boiling and freezing timberlands of Northwestern Wisconsin. He is married, gainfully employed, and busy nuturing miniature genetic replicas of himself who will, one day, be released upon an unsuspecting world." 'Nuff said. What got me interested in Exotica? Probably all those teenage Saturdays I spent hanging out at Drive-in theater swap meets in Los Angeles and being surrounded by loud rayon shirts, crates of old LPs, giant cannibal flatware made of mahogany, and velvet paintings of dogs playing poker, the Virgin Mary, and Elvis. I also took a tour through Southwest Asia and the South Pacific with my parents when I was 11: Thailand, Singapore, Penang, Bali, Fiji, Tahiti, Australia, and Hawaii of course. -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool it Carol! Date: 11 Feb 2001 10:39:20 -0600 The last couple of weeks have been a veritable teevee goldmine of Swingin' 60's and Swingin' London flicks. Last night I watched BBC America's Michael Caine extravanganza featuring, "The Italian Job" and "Alfie". I also taped the second installment of AMC's Ann-Margaret fest, "Bye Bye Birdie" (it's no Kitten With A Whip, but...). AMC's American Pop is doing a commendable job of resurrecting period films from the 50's and 60's. They're also to be congratulated for reviving those great Louis Prima flicks along with other swinging flicks like "To Sir, With Love" and "The Girl Can't Help It." How did I ever live before digital cable came along? -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Space Bop, February 11 Date: 11 Feb 2001 12:04:24 -0500 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #129 Br. Cleve's New Mix This week, we're playing Br. Cleve's latest mix, which is a wonderful mix of non-stop dance beats - we can't fit all of it in, but we will play as much as one hour of airtime allows! We've heard of some of these pieces before (and played them), but most of them are new discoveries for us - and hopefully, for our listeners too! Mr. Bongo: Lemon Skeewiff: Skeewiff Vs. Big Les Freddy Fresh: La Chunga Tim "Love" Lee: One Night Samba Pepe Da Pimp: FF3 + MF4 = Rehab Mix Los Chicharrons: East Meets West Mary & The Pop Shots: Come Play Me C-Mos: La Salsa Fluide: Voce (E O Meu Amor) Ian Pooley: Coracao Tambor Lego: El Ritmo De Verdad Brother Cleve: Boogaluze Boomba Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening. cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 12:13:31 -0500 Welcome, Colleen, and the other lurkers who have come forward. I live in Montreal, like Brian and Cheryl, and work at McGill University (like Brian.) I've been on the list for, oh, four or five years, but haven't been posting much of late. On Cool It, Carol! -- I taped this, and skipped through parts of it, but will watch in full at some later date. Weird to see Stubby Kaye in there, though, his career obviously in the deep south at this point. Cheers, Will Will Straw, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Mardi Gras and Fasching Date: 11 Feb 2001 20:12:52 +0100 Brian schrieb: > Say don't you have that strange event in Germany where people dress up = like > forest creatures. Saw it once in a German (or maybe Austrian?) film an= d it > was one mighty surreal looking event. I think I remember Moritz once > explaining what it was all about. There are different kinds of archaic carnival celebrations, in Southern G= ermany and Switzerland called Fasching. The one you refer to could be fro= m one of these regions related to the famous Fasenacht of Basel. The area= on the German side is called the Allgau, all around the Bodensee (it's w= here Frank runs the hotel with Christine). This year Fasching takes place= around the 24th of february. Each town has its own costumes, that didn't= change for centuries. It's an unforgetable event: thousands of people, w= ith face masks, all dressed up alike, dancing in the streets. In Frank's = town they have black costumes with colorful rags attached; looks pretty m= uch like a S/M dress. Each town also has its own song and dance. During t= he parade every once in a while they play this song and everybody dances = this dance. I might go there this year - and while so close to Zurich may= be visit the Kontiki Bar, that someone recently recommended to me. Appare= ntly it's an old exotic bar - from 1955 - and still pretty much unchanged= =2E Should be worth a little expedition. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de =2E......................................................................= =2E. n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 14:12:24 EST In a message dated 2/11/1 12:14:34 PM, wstraw@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote: >Welcome, Colleen, and the other lurkers who have come forward. >I live in Montreal, like Brian and Cheryl, and work at McGill University >(like Brian.) I've been on the list for, oh, four or five years, but >haven't been posting much of late. I'll follow up Will's intro with my own...I'm living in Boston, native to the area. I teach media arts (mainly radio) and sexuality in a public high school. Got a wife, two kids, mortgage, etc. I also have a radio show on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fridays at midnight EST. It can be roughly described as a mix of "Space Bop" and "Retro Cocktail Hour". I try to play the original piece then the sampled piece of the original in a new rekkid, but that is really hard since I can't always place a sample. I came here and into exotica in early 1997 after hearing about it off and on from Brother Cleve, then a keyboardist with Combustible Edison (RIP) and an ambassador for Cocktail Nation. At first I thought it was trendy and basically ignored it, but knew Cleve had dues-fully-paid credentials and checked out his weekly DJ slot at Lizard Lounge in Cambridge...Long story short..Here I still am, now pretty knowledgeable about the music and a firm believer in both its artistic and political merit...Sometimes those of us here a long time forget that newbies are still breaking in to the music even though it is not so fashionable..Apologies to anyone offended, not intended. And keep buying rekkids weekly and you too will know what we know. Its that simple...James Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) Tomorrow's "Back-Ward" Playlist, Feb 12 Date: 11 Feb 2001 19:34:56 -0000 Hello, I got bored of posting playlists for my show a while ago but a) the time-slot is so lame that I need all the listeners I can get, and b) the recent 'playlist discussion' convinced me to throw them at your feet yet again. If it's not your thing just step around it and move on. "The Back-Ward" is a show featuring cool soundtracks from the 60's and 70's; exotica; lounge; now-sounds; incredibly-strange; tropicalia; forgotten country and western; obscure garage & psychedelia; funk/70's instro'; moog; early high-brow electronic; industrial and/or post-punk from the late 70's/early 80's. More recent material may creep in from time to time. The show can be heard Monday afternoons from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST on CFRU 93.3fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome. The show is also available in RealAudio. Click on "Listen to us live via the net" at: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm/ tomorrow's show: Quiet Village - Eddie Baxter Poison Dart - Don Ralke Jungle Fantasy - Living Guitars Ford Mustang - Serge Gainsbourg Jungle Fever - Chakachas Harley Davidson - Depth Charge Fluid - Twink Tell That Man To Go To Hell - Gordon's War OST Black Cream - Harold Wheeler Consort Let Go - Astrud Gilberto Modulo 1000 - Ferrugem e fuligem Ho Messo Gli Ochi Su Di Te - Ennio Moricone Forest Of Black - Dirty Filthy Mud Too Many Creeps - Bush Tetras Victims of Terrorism - Aurora Pushups Inside Me - Jesus & Mary Chain thanks for your time... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: edowning@lightbridge.com Subject: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 14:31:14 -0500 Hey Kids... In addition to all of the Introductions...I myself am from Massachusetts (as DJjimmy, Dominic , and others I'm sure). I am a computer tech/supp/ programmer/ musician...with intentions to write a exotic / lounge sort of demo (been in the making for about 1 1/2... I'm not good at bird calls though...ha ha.) Iv'e only been a exotic/lounge fan for about 2 years... very new to me. But I remember when I was a child (i was born in the 70's) being mesmerized about polynesian/chinese resturants (for those who live in Ma. Aku Aku, Honolulu, in Westboro..and another in Marlborough...) And other stores that had the 70's stripes on the walls and interesting 60's and 70's retro styles (not at the time)...This one toy store in Worcester, Ma which was called "Capital Toys", had this weird theme on the outside of the building..with a big clown on the front...and a resturant in Hudson Ma...where i am from, had the old 50's type dinner feel to it...which had lounge music playing all the time...fun. anyway...that's me in a nutshell... Eric Downing # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 14:46:17 -0500 At 02:12 PM 2/11/01 EST, DJJB wrote: >Sometimes those of us >here a long time forget that newbies are still breaking in to the music even >though it is not so fashionable..Apologies to anyone offended, not intended. >And keep buying rekkids weekly and you too will know what we know. Its that >simple...James Botticelli And our newer members may not be aware that a complete archive of past posts, going back to mid-1994, is maintained at: http://www.xmission.com/pub/lists/exotica/archive/ Lou Smith # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 21:11:08 +0100 edowning@lightbridge.com schrieb: > I am a computer tech/supp/programmer/ musician... Mac? Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 15:23:43 -0500 At 12:13 PM 2/11/01 -0500, Will Straw wrote: > >Welcome, Colleen, and the other lurkers who have come forward. > >I live in Montreal, like Brian and Cheryl, and work at McGill University >(like Brian.) I've been on the list for, oh, four or five years, but >haven't been posting much of late. Well if Will is going to come out of lurking to come forward, who am I to remain in the shadows. But if I do "come out" like this, colleenintexas, you have to tell me everything you know about Viagra. I've been thinking lately that it's time I try it out. But I was wondering if I should wait until I have a partner other than myself. Then again, I'm trying to live for today and not live in a state of waiting for something or someone to come along. So, do people develop a dependence on Viagra? Do they never go back? Are there side effects? And is there a reason not to use it even if all you do is masturbate? I just turned 49. Can you believe that? I can't. You'll probably say that age is just a state of mind and I'll say that you must be in your twenties because no one in their forties would say that unless they're deluded. Well maybe JimmyB would say it. And maybe Brian Philips. But Cheryl and Brian and Will wouldn't say it and that's because they're Canadians and we're more honest. Or at least we're less self-deluded. Americans live with so many delusions that one more isn't hard to squeeze in. How did I get into exotica? Well I'm not really into it anymore but I still like it when I hear it and my appreciation of it was definitely a very important step in the evolution of my musical taste. Sometimes I still can't believe the stuff I love now. Anyway the way I got into it was that I started going to junkstores (Goodwill mostly) and buying anything that caught my eye because it was so cheap, I could afford to check out anything. And before long I found that bringing home piles of records just to find out what was there became more compelling to me than going to a store and picking out one or two records I thought I might love. That's no longer true. Now I go and buy the things I think I'll like and I pay more for them - sometimes A LOT more - and I get rid of them less. But because of this journey I took into easylistening and lounge and exotica, the records I now look for are much different than they used to be. The other night I bought a Tony Bennett LP and a Sergio Mendes I didn't have and an obscure Bacharach soundtrack (On the Flipside), Jazz Raga by Gabor Szabo (a masterpiece I might have bought even in the old days), New Colony Six (for my soft pop tastes) and the Kaleidoscope soundtrack which is pretty well every bit as great as you'd hope it would be. And then there's my current taste for certain kinds of electronica. I have this voracious appetite for "instrumental pop" of all kinds and that all comes from the exotica journey I took. Right now I'm sort of waiting to hear about a new project and I have nothing to do and I'm going to figure out a new time waster but in the meantime, this is it. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Re (exotica) Mardi Gras Date: 12 Feb 2001 00:16:49 +0100 (MET) Sounds like this was maybe about a solstice ceremony ? >> Sounds like BIG FUN, I wish I coud be there! Please give us after it a >> report (In germany we only have street parades with stupid commercial >>techno and house music. (i like a lot of the real techno and house stuff, >>but you will never hear it on these parades) > >Say don't you have that strange event in Germany where people dress up like >forest creatures. Saw it once in a German (or maybe Austrian?) film and it >was one mighty surreal looking event. I think I remember Moritz once >explaining what it was all about. >Brian -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 17:21:26 -0600 Brother Cleve, then a keyboardist with Combustible Edison (RIP) and an ambassador for Cocktail Nation. Does RIP mean they are no longer together? I like Combustible Edison! colleenintexas Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 11 Feb 2001 19:04:52 -0500 > It would also be very helpful to have some evaluations of the many > lounge/exotica compilations (like the UltraLounge series) now available. In my opinion, the best of the Capital 'Ultra Lounge' series are .. - Vol. 4 Bachelor Pad Royale - Vol 18 Bottom's Up - Vol. 1 Mondo Exotica next favorites are - Vol 17 Bongoland - Vol 16 Mondo Hollywood - Vol 11 Organs in Orbit - Vol 2 Mambo Fever These are based on my mindset 3-4 years ago .... my tastes may have shifted since then. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 20:30:10 -0500 Combustible Edison are no longer, sadly... Several of their members are present on this list, and you can check out the Millionaire's excellent website, Luxuria Music (www.luxuriamusic.com) cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 11 Feb 2001 20:58:39 EST In a message dated 2/11/1 6:36:12 PM, colleen7@ireland.com wrote: >Does RIP mean they are no longer together? sadly, yes # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) The things you find on DVD! Date: 12 Feb 2001 00:32:11 -0500 Just rejoined (after a few years of having a small child) the video store La boite noire (The Black Box), that would be the envy of any international film junkie. They have an amazing selection of videos but what's so great is they don't just have your average DVDs, they have a lot of those expensive specialty items on Criterion Group, Anchor Bay or even Something Weird, let alone a collection of every film ever made in Quebec that has been put on DVD. This week I was attracted by the eye catching packaging on this one: Seijun Suzuki - Tokyo Drifter It said it was a stylized Japanese gangster film from 1966. And it was... but a kind of cross between Fassbinder and Wong Kar-Wai! The music ranged from Gert Wilden sounds, to now sound dance, to the sombre vocals reminiscent of "In The Mood for Love". I can't believe I had never heard of this film or the director but I think it was never on video but just now on DVD. There's another one by him I have to get next week. Anyone know if any of the soundtracks to these films were ever released? There's also a two-fer DVD of 1960's Quebec made soft core porn film hits "Valerie" and "L'Infidele". Actually Valerie was the only hit as the second one bombed. I missed this one on either Bravo (Canada) or Showcase last fall but I remember seeing a few scenes once and it was quite atreat to see Montreal in that era. I seem to remeber good music too and a soundtrack never being available as always seems the case! And then there's the 1970's Quebec hit "Elvis Gratton", now in commemorative DVD edition, complete with an interactive quiz. I have a feeling though it doesn't have any subtitles which is too bad, but then again, it would be like trying to subtitle Woody Allen! Yes, you can sure tell winter is in full swing here.... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The things you find on DVD! Date: 12 Feb 2001 01:10:10 EST I'm a big fan of Seijun Suzuki's films. I've not heard of any of the soundtracks being available. You should also check out "Branded to Kill" and "Youth of the Beast" and "Gates of Flesh." He's John Zorn's favorite filmmaker. --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: susi@nme.com Subject: (exotica) info exotica Date: 12 Feb 2001 10:31:59 +0000 ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname@nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Introductions are in order. Date: 12 Feb 2001 12:30:06 +0100 I just remember this list-members personal-questions-list that circulated here a couple of years ago, where everybody (xept me) answered questions like "Do you wear a fez?" :-) Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Exotic roots - 3rd DHRC Seminar Date: 12 Feb 2001 12:01:03 -0000 One of the things about working in a University is the occasional lecture. Looks interesting, unfortunately I can't go. > El Maestro Con Queso > > djcheesemaster@yahoo.com > grr@brighton.ac.uk > http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm > http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ > The Stare > > On Wednesday 14th February we will be welcoming:- > Alicia Weisberg Roberts, > Victoria & Albert Museum > > Uses of Drawing in the Early 18th Century in France > > In 1715 Antoine Watteau made a series of drawings of the Persian Embassy > to France. Following this series' progress as a design process from > inception to posthumous publication, this talk will explore the potential > limits of representation and mis-representation in the face of the exotic > other. Through the inter-action of popular, luxury and speculative print > cultures Watteau produced images that play the authority of direct > observation against the conceptual and commercial necessity of > recognisable types. > > Hope you can join us. > Board Room, Mezzanine Floor, Grand Parade, Wednesdays 5.30 > > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lang Thompson Subject: Re: (exotica) The things you find on DVD! Date: 12 Feb 2001 08:24:05 -0500 >reminiscent of "In The Mood for Love". I can't believe I had never heard >of this film or the director but I think it was never on video but just now >on DVD. There's another one by him I have to get next week. Anyone know if >any of the soundtracks to these films were ever released? "Tokyo Drifter" and "Branded to Kill" were on videotape a year or so before the DVDs appeared. Those sort of jump-started the interest in Suzuki in the US leading to four more films (tape only) coming out a couple of years ago. All of these are worth seeing but "Branded to Kill" is the best (Jarmusch lifted with acknowledgment parts of it for "Ghost Dog"). Naturally quite a few others have come out in Japan but never with subtitles. I've never heard of a soundtrack album. Lang Adventures In Sound http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/adventures.htm Outsider Music Mailing List http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/outsider.htm Documentary Sound http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/adventures/documentary.htm Full Alert Film Review http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/fafr.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Wages Subject: Re: (exotica) The things you find on DVD! Date: 12 Feb 2001 09:35:25 -0500 > Seijun Suzuki - Tokyo Drifter If you liked "Tokyo Drifter", check out "Branded To Kill" -- the film that (more or less) got Suzuki blacklisted from the Japanese film industry. And try to get the Criterion Collection edition if possible. Others Suzuki films like "Youth Of The Beast" and "Story Of A Prostitute" have been released on VHS only. > on DVD. There's another one by him I have to get next week. Anyone know if > any of the soundtracks to these films were ever released? Apparently not. There are "Branded To Kill" MP3s at < http://sweetbottom.tripod.com >. All pulled off the DVD. Paul # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) introductions are in order Date: 12 Feb 2001 09:43:31 -0500 My name is Christie J. White ( aka Kiliki ) and I live in Knoxville, TN. I just moved here from Atlanta and I'm still in a bit of a culture shock. I have been a lover of Tiki/Polynesian culture for several years and have a collection I'm extremely proud of and care for as well. I was a member of the exotica list a couple of years ago but moved and was disconnected for a while. You guys are the best. I have so much mail in my inbox because I have too many things to cross reference and remember to research from all of you. I'm a 50's collector as well. Furniture, clothing, music - the whole bit. I feel it's my duty to bring that era to the public's attention. My boyfriend and I are currently trying to plan a regular Cocktail evening here in Knoxville and are still in the discussion phase. If anyone has any feedback on this email me directly. We thought we would seek out a venue that's a little retro in feeling and hit the owner up for an evening that's dead. There is not a cocktail scene here at all but we have plenty of people that would support us. Plus, we would make it diverse. Tiki evening ( of course ), Rat Pack night, Cocktail hour, etc. Well, that's enough about me- Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) Brother Cleve Date: 12 Feb 2001 09:51:47 -0500 Ok, I'm getting mixed signals here. Is Brother Cleve actually dead? If so, does anyone know the circumstances? I am a huge fan of his and Combustible Edison. Thanks, Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lenkei, Bruce" Subject: RE: (exotica) Brother Cleve Date: 12 Feb 2001 09:54:21 -0500 he is still quite alive (and posts to the list fairly often) but the band, has broken up. No need for alarm! - bruce > Ok, > > I'm getting mixed signals here. Is Brother Cleve actually dead? If so, > does anyone know the circumstances? I am a huge fan of his and Combustible > Edison. > > Thanks, > Kiliki > > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) Pronouncing Exotica Date: 12 Feb 2001 11:30:54 -0500 No sweat there, Tiki Bob. No offense taken. =20 =A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA= =B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=20 Charlieman=20 "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 - Charles H. Duell, 1899=A0 =A0=20 >=20 > << Dick Dale, the guy who claims he made the song famous,=20 > pronounced it > MIZ-er-loo.=20 > =20 > Rhymes with 'kiss her too'. (was that a stretch!) > =20 > = =A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA= =B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=20 > Charlieman >> >=20 > my earlier post just said "i agree." and i got to thinking=20 > someone might have=20 > thought that a smart ass remard to the "that was a stretch". =20 > it wasn't. i=20 > meant i agreed with the MIZ-er-loo. >=20 > being careful to not offend, >=20 > tb >=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) When I First Joined This List Date: 12 Feb 2001 08:54:36 -0800 (PST) Allan you have summed up exactly what I am missing most about this list. When I first joined this list, records were constantly referred to. Sometimes this led to further discussion or debates. From these references I built up a great collection. Easy listening in the Big Easy --- alan zweig wrote: > When I first joined this list, you were always seeing > records referred to. It was like a de facto list was being > created. And it helped you form a mental list. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 12 Feb 2001 11:40:49 -0800 >* Lew Davies: "Strange Interlude" > All sorts of exotic percussion, plus Ondioline & Theremin. >Johan owns everything and if anyone can come up with >a list, it's him and >it's silly to argue with these lists since it's all >personal taste. >Having said that, I think Strange Interlude is a very >very disappointing >record. First of all, there's very little theremin >on it. And some of the >cuts are simply boring. I guess that the best cuts >on it may deserve to be >on a list of the great exotica cuts but the album as >a whole is a snooze. Once again I agree with Alan. This is the first sort-of-exotic records I ever thrifted. I still have it. I look at it from time to time, and go, That's a nice cover. And then I think, I haven't listened to this for a while. Then I look at the song titles and I remember why: it's dull. And relative to its dull quality, the cover is relatively dull too. I guess people are interested in it because of the ondioline and theremin, but the use of those instruments is relatively inconsequential to the overall orchestrations on the album. The album I think that does what people seem to THINK this album does (well, there are many), and the one I really love, is The Three Suns "Movin' 'n' Groovin'". That album is like no other. Now there's a record and a cover to match. People should be putting that near the top of their list, cut-out cover and all, instead. Okay, just my two cents for the day. Mr. Unlucky --- Mr. Unlucky presents Shoot To Kill, a weekly set of jazz, soundtrack music, Now Sound, and the occasional foray into international territory on Supersphere.com, Thursdays 1-2 p.m. (CST). Many past sets are archived for future listening pleasure. http://www.supersphere.com Get your small business started at Lycos Small Business at http://www.lycos.com/business/mail.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) When I First Joined This List Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:11:09 -0500 There's been a host of introductions lately, and although I have not actually subscribed to this list until yesterday, I've been reading the online archives for over a year now. I didn't plan to join, in part because it seemed that discussions had tended off in directions that didn't hold much interest for me. But the recent thread on a top-50 list and, even better, the talk of unusual additions to such a list, finally got me talking to the screen again, so I decided I ought to quit the clandestine affair with the exotica mailing list and bring it out in the open. My name is Clayton, and I've been buying the kind of albums familiar to you all for about five or six years. I teach history (Russia is my specialty, but I have to cover pretty much everything non-U.S.) at a small college on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Ever since I was a kid I've been under the spell of vinyl. My brothers and I centered our free time around the ritual of buying, cleaning, reading liner notes, and staring for unnaturally long stretches of time at records and their covers. In those days it was mostly Zappa and late-70s punk--at dangerous levels. In college I went through the typical Dead phase. In graduate school I migrated to Afropop. But as I reached the end of graduate school and found myself driving more, I began to think that I'd really like something innocuous, softer, without lyrics--like the stuff my father used to listen to when we'd take those interminable cross-country trips in the station wagon. We hated it then (in part because my father would keep listening even when we were reaching the limits of the radio's range and the fuzz became intolerable), but I was beginning to see what he saw in the music. And there was that other attraction--vinyl was cheap now. At first it was partially for the humor of it. What kind of weird sounds would this thing have on it? It was only 50 cents, why not see? But the music was just good and I couldn't get enough of it. I've got about a thousand records now, much to my wife's chagrin (our house is small), but there are still plenty of classics in the genre that elude me. OK, I'm sure you're all familiar with the rest. So let me say that I've been wanting to raise the issue of "hidden treasures" for some time now. The "Living Brass" discussion piqued my curiosity, so let me contribute a few that I don't hear enough of on record discussions but that find their way to my turntable on a regular basis: Any of the George Shearing Latin albums. The sound he gets out of his keyboard (whatever it's called--is it just a straight piano or is it something else? A Mellophone?) sets the perfect mood for almost any occasion. It's also one of the few artists that doesn't set my wife's teeth on edge. Gary McFarland, Summer Samba. I bought this one by chance. Jazz aficionados dislike it for being a sellout, but I love it. Whistling and off-key humalong. (My wife actually likes this one) I actually avoid playing it for fear that I'll play it too much and get sick of it. Henry Mancini, Soundtrack to Arabesque. I've never seen any discussion of this album, and I only found out about it because the local PBS station ran the film and my ears perked up when I heard the title song--unmistakably Mancini. Great, great soundtrack, especially "Something for Sophia." Maybe not a classic, but still a great album is Werner Muller's Hawaiian Swing. Most Hawaiian stuff puts me to sleep, including the disappointing Stereo Action album _Paradise Regained_ by Leo Addeo, but Muller's Hawaiian songs bear little relationship to authenticity, and I appreciate it. A recent find that might not be on a top-whatever-number list but that really turned me on was a Kai Winding album with the Axidentals, on the Pickwick label. I have studiously avoided that label, but this one's a nice combination of brassiness and vocals (not zoo zoo, I admit, but still good). I'll quit there. If you've stayed with me this long, thanks. I'm glad to be out of the archives. Clayton Black Chestertown, Maryland # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:21:26 -0500 At 11:40 AM 2/12/01 -0800, F. Cobalt wrote: > >Once again I agree with Alan. the one I really love, is The Three Suns "Movin' 'n' Groovin'". That album is like no other. One good agreement deserves another. I agree. This is a truly great record. Unlike many of the records we discuss here, this is good from start to finish. It's so good that I think you could play it for someone who didn't like this kind of music and they would still get it. I've often tried to explain what's great about the Three Suns but if you play them "Danny's Inferno" from this record, you don't have to 'splain nothing more. BTW I know we're all slightly jaded and also overwhelmed by the number of amazing records in the world but it would be really nice if people here talked about records they love... which hardly happens anymore. You don't have to make lists of your top anything. Just go to your shelf, rifle through a few and pull out one exotica/NowSound/lounge/easylistening/spaceagebachelorpad LP (or CD) you love and tell us about it. Do that review you've always wanted to do. OR tell us what you're looking for in general. For instance, Johan it seems that you have a very complete collection of a couple of genres. What genres are they and why are you obsessed with them? Or Brian and Cheryl, I know you guys buy a lot of CD's in the breakbeat/electronica world but when you look through the LP bins, what are you looking for? Or Moritz, I know you have a particular love for Les Baxter. Why? And is there a connection between Les and the other music you love? Magnus, who are you? You say you're 31 or so. I was surprised to find that out. I figured you were older but then again, I always forget that you don't have to be old like me to be a bit "eccentric". What kind of music do you listen to most of the time Magnus? Do you ever listen to rock n roll? Or James Brouwer, I believe you have the best soundtrack collection I've ever come across. But that's only because you seem to want the same soundtracks I want. You're not trying to get every kind of soundtrack. So how would you characterize the kind of soundtrack you're looking for? I can't think of questions for basic hip or bag@hubris but you both seem to have amazing collections. What are you focussed on these days and why? Brian Philips, give us a clue about you. Tell us the last ten things you listened to I sort of have the same question for you JimmyB. You post these amazing playlists which go back and forth between groovy OLD things - like you and me - and groovy NEW things. But when you're at home with the wife and kids, do you listen to stuff like this? Or do you even have time to listen to music simply for the hell of it? Oh and is there anyone here that has their own room with their collection(s) separate from the rest of their family? A room you go into and turn on music that the rest of them would never listen to? If so, what else do you have in that room? And chuck, do you listen to any contemporary music with the exception of soft pop things on Siesta? And how old are you? I can't figure it out. And how many records do you have on the wall? Are they all framed? I just listened to an amazing half-spoken word half soft pop cut by the New Colony Six called Prairie Grey. If you tell me this stuff, I'll tell you. For those of you who still read my posts, that is. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:27:05 -0500 Is there nothing you want to know about me, dear Alan? Will Will Straw, Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) Some Top Exotica/Lounge comps/why i got into exotica... Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:37:15 -0000 > > It would also be very helpful to have some evaluations of the many > > lounge/exotica compilations (like the UltraLounge series) now available. in my meek opinion, these are some fine compilations, but it ain't a definitive list: 1) Sound Gallery Volume 1 (worth the price for "Half Forgotten Daydreams" alone, but virtually every track on this thing is a winner. Sort of a shag-carpet, jet-set plaza musique of the 60's/70's thing) 2) Easy Tempo Volume 3: The Psycho Beat 3) Erotica Italia (on Bistro records, italian porn music from the 60's/70's) 4) Sound Gallery Volume II (not as good as the first, but still of high calibre) 5) Shake Sauvage (french soundtrack music from 68-'73, it's brand new and superb). i'm sure i'm forgetting some... actually, it was that first sound gallery record, plus both volumes of "Incredibly Strange Music" published by RESearch, that got me into exotica (to answer a question that has been floating around), though I had been collecting 'incredibly strange' records for a few years before that, but not very seriously. the above mentioned two items made me much more serious about it. two cents worth. that's all jb _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: R Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:37:49 EST In a message dated 2/12/1 3:20:30 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >I sort of have the same question for you JimmyB. You post these amazing >playlists which go back and forth between groovy OLD things - like you and >me - and groovy NEW things. But when you're at home with the wife and >kids, do you listen to stuff like this? "The" wife isn't as enamored of this stuff as I...but my son likes it at 6. My daughter at almost 9 thinks its "weird" She mimics "ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba" and other wordless stuff as silly and meaningless--she's right of course--but she is more through the looking glass than she thinks, knowing all the lyrics to "Barbarella". Mixing the old with the new makes all the sense in the world for me because as great as the old is, you need to move forward too. I like the whole concept of Loungetronica, Houseanova and all that falls in between. But I also believe in creating a context so the listener can latch on to something that provides roots..its all good >Or do you even have time to listen to music simply for the hell of it? I recently built a dj booth in my basement...Its my part of the house and I spend about an hour a day there...All my records are in crates with covers facing me at chest height. Two wheels of steel, two CD players, a mixer and a tape machine all on a counter...Baby i'm good to go!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) When I First Joined This List Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:42:48 -0500 At 03:11 PM 2/12/01 -0500, Clayton Black wrote: > Any of the George Shearing Latin albums. The sound he gets out of his >keyboard (whatever it's called--is it just a straight piano or is it >something else? A Mellophone?) I don't know if we're talking about the same thing but I assume it's the combination of piano and vibes. I agree with this choice Clayton you lurker you. I especially love "Latin Escapade" but that's also for the cover. > Gary McFarland, Summer Samba. I bought this one by chance. Jazz >aficionados dislike it for being a sellout, but I love it. Whistling and >off-key humalong. This is one of my alltime favorite records. "She loves you" is a classic. If I was still a jazz snob, I might hate this. But I'm just an afficianado now so I can admit how much I love it. But wait. Are we talking about the same record? You mean SOFT Sambas, right? I also recommend his "Soft Samba with Strings" and "Does the sun really shine on the moon?" which are similar records. And if you have the taste for something really strange, look for Sympatico which he made with Gabor Szabo. They sing together in unison on every song and they give Edmondo Ros a run for his money as far as bad singing goes. I like the way Gary sings on his own so it must be Gabor's fault. I love Gabor and Gary so I keep this record but it breaks my rules. > Henry Mancini, Soundtrack to Arabesque. I've never seen any discussion >of this album, Great, great soundtrack, especially "Something for Sophia." You're three for three with me Clayton. This is a great record and that's a great tune but I would have to add "Dream Street" which is the best cut of its kind I've ever heard. Almost all the "Something for... " cuts on Mancini soundtracks are good, especially "Something for Sellers". > Maybe not a classic, but still a great album is Werner Muller's Hawaiian >Swing. Most Hawaiian stuff puts me to sleep, including the disappointing >Stereo Action album _Paradise Regained_ by Leo Addeo, but Muller's Hawaiian >songs bear little relationship to authenticity, and I appreciate it. Well you're four for four now. And I'm not the only one to join you on this one. This is a big record with Montreal listers. I mostly love this for Hawaiian Eye but I agree the whole record is above average. Other stuff by Werner is also good. What's the story with him? I've lost most of my prejudice but still, the name Werner Muller does not conjure up such a swinging cat as he turns out to be. > A recent find that might not be on a top-whatever-number list but that >really turned me on was a Kai Winding album with the Axidentals, on the >Pickwick label. Hmmm, can't quite go there with you. I have a bunch of Kai records including the ones with Ondioline and his "crime jazz themes" compilation but I have to say that Kai is always a little disappointing even though it's kind of cool that this jazz trombone player tried to make all these groovy records. Obviously I wish there was more discussion like this on the list. There once was. I can understand why it's changed but to be honest, if the way it is now had been the way it was when I first joined three years ago, I wouldn't have stuck around. Now it's just a habit I can't break and I keep hoping I can coax it back there. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:51:52 -0500 At 03:27 PM 2/12/01 -0500, Will Straw wrote: >Is there nothing you want to know about me, dear Alan? Well as a matter of fact... I want to know why you're suddenly so active on this list? I hope you're not suddenly less busy for the worst of all possible reasons. Okay Will, here's my question. I know that you are capable of giving a brilliant and academic treatise on why you love soundtrack and Now Sound LPs. But do you actually understand why you love the music you love? I ask for myself as much as anything else. I can't figure out why I spend so much time listening to soundtracky things. And by the way, how did you like those soft soundtrack CDR's I copied for you? I can't get over them myself. I like them too much. What's wrong with me? AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) When I First Joined This List Date: 12 Feb 2001 16:04:37 -0500 > You mean SOFT sambas, right? > I also recommend his "Soft Samba with Strings" and "Does the sun really > shine on the moon?" which are similar records. > And if you have the taste for something really strange, look for Sympatico > which he made with Gabor Szabo. They sing together in unison on every song > and they give Edmondo Ros a run for his money as far as bad singing goes. > I like the way Gary sings on his own so it must be Gabor's fault. > I love Gabor and Gary so I keep this record but it breaks my rules. Quite right. Soft Sambas. Funny you should make the comparison with Edmundo Ros, because the only other album that my wife likes is Ros's _Strings Latino_ (or something like that), especially his singing of "A Man and a Woman." Maybe she just likes bad singing, I don't know. > >> A recent find that might not be on a top-whatever-number list but that >> really turned me on was a Kai Winding album with the Axidentals, on the >> Pickwick label. > > Hmmm, can't quite go there with you. I have a bunch of Kai records > including the ones with Ondioline and his "crime jazz themes" compilation > but I have to say that Kai is always a little disappointing even though > it's kind of cool that this jazz trombone player tried to make all these > groovy records. > Well, as somebody recently noted, "favorites" come and go with the seasons, and recent favorites are often recently purchased albums that, surprisingly, didn't disappoint me and that I play more than once. Kai isn't among my absolute favorites either, but as a former trombone player myself, I have this abiding love for trombone front-men (hence my affection for Si Zentner and Warren Covington as well). And harmonizing vocals seem to be growing on me. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 12 Feb 2001 22:05:06 +0100 alan zweig schrieb: > What's wrong with me? nothing. you are a film maker. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Answer to alan Date: 12 Feb 2001 22:58:28 +0100 (CET) Alan wrote: > Magnus, who are you? You say you're 31 or so. I was surprised to=20 find that > out. I figured you were older but then again, I always forget that you > don't have to be old like me to be a bit "eccentric". What kind of=20 music > do you listen to most of the time Magnus? Do you ever listen to rock=20 n > roll? Exotica changed my life! When I was younger (9-15) I listened to=20 reagge, dub, calypso (old), soca and african pop. I got all this from=20 the radio, there were two different shows. One was called "Radio=20 Westindia". Now there were some incredible music on this show, not just=20 the current hits from jamaica and Trinidad but also old weird calypso=20 and novelty songs and such, I taped all shows and listened to it every=20 day. I knew the name and place of every island in the westindies and i=20 was heavily involved with the political situation over there. I was=20 pretty much alone in listening to this, I have a brother and he liked=20 it to, but not as much as I did. When I turned 15 I started listen to=20 60s rock and pop, such as Thirteen's floor Elevators and Byrds and=20 stuff like that, psychedelic pop. But I did not use drugs at this time,=20 I was heavily against it, seems strange afterwards listen to that kinda=20 music. CD had not arrived so I searched for LPs, mostly reissues, there=20 were also many great rockbands that I used to go and watch, I also=20 listened to 70s punk and New Wawe. Pop Group and Mark Stewart, Kukl=20 (former Sugarcubes/Bj=F6rk) Blurt and Captain Beefheart. Then I had some years when I listened to Mississippi country blues, Son=20 House and Bukka White, Robert Johnson and Robert Pete Williams was=20 among my favorites. I listened to very dark music too, and I was=20 getting darker inside, I was not the happy guy that used to dance with=20 myself to calypso, I had a severe pain inside that I just couldnt get=20 rid of. I started hang out with the guys who in those days were=20 called "Blackrockers". We listened to Very dark music, I have lost all=20 menory of that music, Ueck! It seemed everything was turning downwards,=20 I had nothing to look forward to in music, everything just went worse=20 and worse, in the end the only records I bought was made by Tom Waits=20 and him what's his name, that australian guy with the black long=20 hair... Cant remember.=20 But! in the end of the eighties I was begining to collect american=20 videotapes of weird films, so that became my new interest. I bought=20 stuff like the brainiac, mesa of lost women, terror of tiny town, robot=20 monster the Ed Wood films etc. We used to gather at night and watch it=20 drinking VERY MUCH red wine. I used to drink up to three bottles, then=20 go out and have fun, which usually meant MORE BOOZE. No other drugs up=20 to this point. Just VERY MUCH RED WINE. Now the music in these fifties films started get to me, and I wanted it=20 on record, but records like that was not to be found. I made a score=20 now and then, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, cult=20 fifties rockers but I wanted something different, I wanted the mood=20 music which i heard in the movies. Then came the 90s, and suddenly it was the internet, I was online in=20 1995, and it didnt took long for me to find some weird webpages with=20 albumcoverart and the name... Exotica. Now I had a Martin Denny record (Another taste of honey) and I=20 recognized the name "Exotica" from its backcover. I had a feeling I had=20 stepped into something REALLY IMPORTANT. I was determined to learn all=20 about this new (to me) music so I started buying lots and lots of=20 records from the united States, some of it was crap, but much of it was=20 what I can see as classics in the genre. I spend lot of money.=20 tousands! I just couldnt get enough of it. I can honestly say that I=20 have experienced GOD in this music, it is so big to me. NO, I dont=20 listen to Rock or soul or blues or HipHop or anything. I LISTEN ONLY AT=20 EXOTICA. But Exotica is pretty wide, though I am most fond of the=20 birdcall jungle exotica I also enjoy any record that has a happy mood,=20 and has the power to transform it to me. Like Bill Page "sound of the=20 sonic sixties" Like the Nutty Squirrels which I just got a CDr copy of=20 from my buddy Johan. Like the Three suns. But if i was to choose some music for eternity, it would be the jungle=20 exotica. It is the only thing I just cant live without anymore. It is=20 my new home. Nature boy, quiet village, flamingo, poinciana. It is=20 what my dreams are made off. Its eternal. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr Chris R. Tame" Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records... Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:52:30 +0000 In article <3A8728A4.5CBC2800@attglobal.net>, itsvern@attglobal.net writes > >> It would also be very helpful to have some evaluations of the many >> lounge/exotica compilations (like the UltraLounge series) now available. > >In my opinion, the best of the Capital 'Ultra Lounge' series are .. > >- Vol. 4 Bachelor Pad Royale >- Vol 18 Bottom's Up >- Vol. 1 Mondo Exotica > >next favorites are > >- Vol 17 Bongoland >- Vol 16 Mondo Hollywood >- Vol 11 Organs in Orbit >- Vol 2 Mambo Fever > >These are based on my mindset 3-4 years ago .... my tastes may have shifted >since then. > >Vern > > > Thanks for the recommendations. I have Bachelor Pad Royale and agree with you. It's an outstanding collection. -- Dr. Chris R. Tame, Director Libertarian Alliance | "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, | 25 Chapter Chambers | and the secret of Freedom is Courage" | Esterbrooke Street | Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration | London SW1P 4NN England Tel: 020 7821 5502 Fax: 020 7834 2031 Email: chris@rand.demon.co.uk LA Web Site: http://www.libertarian-alliance.com/ Free Life Web Site: http://www.whig.org.uk # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: top 68 Date: 12 Feb 2001 18:09:34 -0500 >BTW I know we're all slightly jaded and also overwhelmed by the number of >amazing records in the world but it would be really nice if people here >talked about records they love... which hardly happens anymore. You don't >have to make lists of your top anything. I'm TRYING, but the framdam listserver isn't putting my post through! I gave it 5 days, tried again and now it looks like that attempt won't come through either. Last week, I thought it might be because of length, but then then Johan's massive posts came slamming right through, and I don't think it's nearly as long as they were. under a gag order for an unknown crime, m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) A Big Easy Response to Alan's Question Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:15:49 -0800 (PST) Alan I have 160 framed albums at my house and I just ordered 50 more for me and 50 for another exoticat on this list. I change the albums for the season. Mardi Gras season is upon us so every Exotica album I have is competing in my mind to go up. Yesterday my girlfriend and I framed a few including "Ritual of the Savage" and "Jungala" and some wild Limbo album to give you an example. At halloween time horror albums graced my wall. At Cristmas time you can just guess, Jack Benny Chrismas album...3 Suns albums, Joni James, "I Know What You Want For Christmas" and the occasional disco Xmas. For my little girls 5th Birthday Party up went a Mary Kay Birthday Cake lp, Disney picture disc lps and kiddie lps. Her bedroom has lps she chose herself, some ballet, disney and sweet cute cheesecake. At one time my hallway had 30 or so Ray Coniff album covers. "A Coniff Hallway" just the concept makes me laugh! Yma Sumac and exotica are up there now. The back bedroom, which is full of lps on the floor and cds in the shelves, will get all those great outer space lps. Well Alan, you should remember all of my shibuya-kei posts from the last few years. There is something so wild refreshing and unpredictable about a good shibuya-kei song. It is just exhilarating fun for me to hear a great shibuya kei song. Mansfield 6 is my favorite japanese club pop band out these days. I can't get enough of their last 2 eps. Its close though because P-5 have rocked my world with their last 2 singles. Kinky Beats is my favorite comp of last year! Nothing in this genre has matched it for me. Dusty Trails is by far my favorite album of last year. I just ooze every time I hear it. I associate the melodies on it to 1966 my favorite year in music! Its soft pop and its not on Siesta. The Brian Wilson tribute album, "Caroline Now" on Marina is so good I went out and purchased those mid/late 1970s beach boy albums like "Love You" The marina versions are better! I play a lot of sci fi horror music. A real lot. The Nuggets Box Set gets my award for my favorite box set! Love 1966 garage music! and the band LOVE. The Magnetic Field's 69 love songs gets a lot of play. God Speed You Black Emperor made the heavy rotation a month or so ago. The newer Blow up comps are getting lots of play. Sssounds of Music and any thing by Bertrand Burgalot I love. His Chrominance Decoder production of April March still awes me. I'm spread a little too thin these days with all my purchases and worse during Mardis Gras because I make the tapes and the music is full of Soca, Soukous Zouk and Compass. Getting a lot of play at my house and in the car is the PowerPuff Girls tribute cd. Optigannly Yours and Apples in Stereo are simply tremendous on it. I have all of the Apples in Stereo releases including the early individual lp. They rock with a little 66 pop/garage feel to me. Mary Mayo has the best voice I have ever heard! Well Gal Costa does too! Diane Webber the best legs! Thrifted Burnished Brass today! Shoot who needs viagra when you got the Diane Webber record covers and bossa nova music. Put on a little Bossa Nova music Alan and pull out all those Diane Webber lps and see what happens. For Bossa Nova try the Trip to Brazil comps. Over the years I have never been able to get enough Bossa Nova. Any info on Diane Webber is welcome. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- alan zweig wrote: > And chuck, do you listen to any contemporary music with the > exception of soft pop things on Siesta? And how old are you? I can't figure it out. > And how many records do you have on the wall? Are they all > framed? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: Re: (exotica) Ali'i Date: 12 Feb 2001 15:26:57 -0800 (PST) Héj Magnus- > ever heard June Christy's version of "Midnight > Sun?" > No, which record is it on? it's on "Something Cool" (Capitol) and has many other, well, cool tracks on it. i read your self-portrait and noticed the songs that are your exotica staples... notably "Nature Boy." i love that tune as well and i'm making a cd based on it interspersed with Eden Ahbez's music and the 5 versions of the song that I have by 1. Jon Hassell 2. Nat King Cole 3. Mile Davis 4. John Coltrane 5. Johnny Hartman. know of any others? alohaderci, Fluid Floyd Taboo Records __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) Re: Hatten =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= din Date: 12 Feb 2001 17:37:03 -0600 I just happened across the English translation of that sublimely bizarre Turkish hat dance Flash site that was posted here a couple of days ago: http://www.geocities.com/pommesrotweissx/ Wish I'd swallowed my beer BEFORE I read it! Hatt-baby, hatt-baby!!! Glue piece of ham, cool! -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ali'i Boy Date: 12 Feb 2001 19:24:04 -0500 tikiman wrote: > notably "Nature Boy." i love that tune as well and i'm making a cd based on it interspersed with Eden Ahbez's music and the 5 versions of the song that I have by 1. Jon Hassell 2. Nat King Cole 3. Mile Davis 4. John Coltrane 5. Johnny Hartman. know of any others? alohaderci, Fluid Floyd ================= I made a tape compilation of Nature Boy for the exoticaring - well, actually, it's one side of a 100 minute tape. I put all the versions I had and others filled in the rest of the tape. Unfortunately, I can't remember what the track list was, so perhaps whoever has it now might be able to send us the list. Of course, you can always go to http://allmusic.com and search for song:nature boy. There's lots and lots of versions to be found, that's for sure. lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) Nature boy Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:18:45 -0500 >n"Nature Boy." i love that tune as well and i'm >making a cd based on it interspersed with Eden Ahbez's >music and the 5 versions of the song that I have by >1. Jon Hassell 2. Nat King Cole 3. Mile Davis 4. John >Coltrane 5. Johnny Hartman. know of any others? I just got an amazing version of this song by guitarist Joe Beck from an album named after the tune. It's five minutes long with lots of wah wah guitar and sounds a bit like Zappa or something similar. I also have versions by Annie Ross, Art Pepper, Buddy Merrill and Robert Maxwell. If I had to pick a fave, it would be Art Pepper but that's cause he's my favorite alto sax player of all time. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Nature boy Date: 13 Feb 2001 02:22:47 +0100 (CET) citerar alan zweig : > > I just got an amazing version of this song by guitarist Joe Beck from an > album named after the tune. You like that?? Maybe I have to try it again. Listened very quickly and back in the bin it went. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_=28exotica=29_Re:_Hatten_=E4r_din?= Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:30:51 -0500 Well, that English translation explains everything...glued ham and all - what have those Turks been smoking? > I just happened across the English translation of that sublimely bizarre > Turkish hat dance Flash site that was posted here a couple of days ago: cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) exotica) A Big Easy Response to Alan's Question Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:40:26 -0600 Sheeesh Chuck, that's alotta framed albums. I'd like to frame a few, where do you find the frames to do that? colleenintexas Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin Leeeeee" Subject: (exotica) The April Fools soundtrack Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:09:15 -0700

HELP!

trying to track down the credits and info for one of the songs on this soundtrack.  I believe it's the Mongo Santamaria track called "La la la" (?).  i can't find any info on it anywhere on the web and it's driving me up the wall!  i need composer name, exact title, publisher name.

it's the song on that soundtrack with the wordless haunting female vocals.  very easy and groovy.  for anyone who's not heard this song, it's worth getting the soundtrack!  that is, if you can find it.

kevin leeeeee



 


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Here is a link to a bit of info, plus a scan: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1407341544 Run a search on ebay every now and then, it'll turn up! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Answer to alan Date: 12 Feb 2001 22:48:44 EST In a message dated 2/12/01 2:04:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << But if i was to choose some music for eternity, it would be the jungle exotica. It is the only thing I just cant live without anymore. It is my new home. Nature boy, quiet village, flamingo, poinciana. It is what my dreams are made off. Its eternal. Magnus >> sums it up for me. thanks maggie! tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: Subject: Re: (exotica) The things you find on DVD! Date: 12 Feb 2001 18:28:15 -0500 Paul wrote: > > on DVD. There's another one by him I have to get next week. Anyone know if > > any of the soundtracks to these films were ever released? > Apparently not. There are "Branded To Kill" MP3s at all pulled off the DVD. Yes I just discovered a new use for my Minidisc recorder as I ripped all the sound off of that Tokyo Drifter DVD. It created a huge number of tracks due to quiet noise gaps, but after some erasing, what I have left is a non-destructive digital image of the audio to manipulate. It is a bit tedious but you could do the same on a hard disk I suppose. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: buMp Subject: Re: (exotica) The April Fools soundtrack Date: 12 Feb 2001 22:44:42 -0500 LA LA LA- Mongo Santamaria composer is MARVIN HAMLISCH of all people. Pub. 1969 Columbia Pictures SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT > great friggin track! > >> >>HELP! >> >> >> >>trying to track down the credits and info for one of the songs on this >>soundtrack. I believe it's the Mongo Santamaria track called "La la la" >>(?). i can't find any info on it anywhere on the web and it's driving me >>up the wall! i need composer name, exact title, publisher name. >> >> >> >>it's the song on that soundtrack with the wordless haunting female >>vocals. very easy and groovy. for anyone who's not heard this song, >>it's worth getting the soundtrack! that is, if you can find it. >> >> >> >>kevin leeeeee > > ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* DJ Bump "Primitive Rhythms for Evolved Minds" Defective Records-Executive Producer bump@defectiverecords.com http://www.defectiverecords.com "Music, Non-Stop" -- Ralf + Florian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Clifford Subject: (exotica) please allow me to introduce mice elf Date: 13 Feb 2001 02:24:08 -0800 (PST) This recent rash of closet exits and lurker de-cloakings has inspired me to get up offa my thang -well, actually, sit right down on my thang - and write a couple things about myself. My interest in Exotica is part of an overall obsession with music and pop culture. My interest in exotica list type-stuff probably first manifested in high school and early college early-mid '80s when I started picking up albums with alluring, attractive, scantily clad women on the cover, including the famous Betty Page w/ leopards album. I soon expanded into cool covers of other types and actually buying some records for the music alone. I ended up using a lot of these while I lived in New Mexico on my college radio show, Expando Radio (once, and perhaps still, listed on the Space Age Bachelor Pad site). Now I live in the western Boston burbs (Waltham) and really enjoy catching Seks Bomba, Astroslut, Electric Logs, etc. around town. Com. Edison's last cd release party at a great place in Chinatown with Electric Logs and Pineapple Ranchhands was a blast. Although I don't enjoy the prices charged for cool exotica stuff at the used joints in town, I've found a cigarette/ record store here that's got some decent stuff for cheap. Picked up another Rod Mckuen there after the recent list discussion of his stuff. I work at a local cable news network, in master control overnight, so now have plenty of time to peruse the exotica list messages while I work. Enough for now - hope this helps make a previously anonymous infrequent poster into more a real person... Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: (exotica) Lai=Air Date: 13 Feb 2001 11:04:41 >"Exotic Strings" records (by Percy Faith or Michel Legrand). >So does anyone know this compilation or these comps in general? Does >Mandalay exist or is it just some name chosen for this compilation? Is >there a whole CD by Mandalay out there? > I've only ever seen 12"s >And one more thing about neo-exotica. I just bought a Francis Lai record >that sounded exactly like Air. > >AZ When I saw them a few years ago they played the theme from 'Bilitis' a rather dodgy (underage) soft porn 1970s lesbiansploitation film which was scored by Lai. I think the theme itself is from a debussey song of one of the Pierre Louys 'Bilitis poems. So they're obviously fans. Rob _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) please allow me to introduce mice elf Date: 13 Feb 2001 08:04:40 -0500 >Now I live in the western Boston burbs (Waltham) and really enjoy catching >Seks Bomba, Astroslut, Electric Logs, >etc. around town. Com. Edison's last >cd release party at a great place in Chinatown with Electric Logs and > >Pineapple Hey! Another de-lurker from Massachusetts! Allright! As I mentioned only last week, live in Leominster. I’m working as a mechanical designer at a company that makes semiconductor inspection equipment. Slowly pursuing a mechanical engineering degree at U Mass Lowell. Carol and I we got 2 kids: Leandra 16, and Geneva almost 5. Carol likes some of this music, but I think she suspects I’ve joined some kind of cult. You are all going to hate it. But it was the Ultra Lounge series that got me into this stuff. And forced me to take the turntable out of mothballs. As I mentioned about a year ago, been listening to a lot of Jazz and “American songbook” for years (I’m a public radio junkie) and was surprised to find this “hidden genre”. “The Wild Cool and Swingin” comps were easy enough to digest and the others have been a great introduction to the rest. A few months later I discovered that as a student at U Mass Lowell I was eligible to join the “radio club”. Jumped at it. I was thinking of doing a strictly jazz or even a classical program. But hey! If you have seen the Ultra Lounge brochures that they stocked in those martini displays you will agree that this is “the coolest music on earth” and that’s what I was going to play! Mike, if your ever interested in getting back on the air as a guest or substitute host let me know. Waltham is less than ˝ hour from Lowell. Domenic Ciccone "Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday’s 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/misc/wjul/wjul.html (On Real Audio) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) HI MY NAME IS... Brad Date: 13 Feb 2001 07:08:50 -0600 Well, since we have to stop at the door and put these silly name tags on .... My name is Brad, I am a list member since 1995, and like Alan, I got interested in this stuff when the price of CDs drove me into thrift stores, and I've never looked back. Like many fans, I owe a huge debt to V.Vale and the Re/Search crew for publishing "Incredibly Strange Music" and giving me a "to find" list to last the rest of my life. Although I can snobbishly say that I actually got "Incredibly Strange" because I started buying Re/Search because of their J.G. Ballard issue. I am 43, married, with three kids, currently living in San Antonio, Texas, but moving to Brussels this summer. I'm in the Air Force and have spent most of my time managing information technology operations and programs. I was lucky to spent a fair amount of time in the Bay Area, L.A., and Washington, DC, all of which are great places for collecting records. Many dollars spent at Rhino and Amoeba in Berzerkely. And much on eBay in the last 3 years. I'm maxing out now and just bought a CD recorder to start thinning out my LP stock. About 5 years ago I started what's now the Space Age Pop website (www.spaceagepop.com). I've been slowly but steadily adding to it, and now have something like 450 pages out there in cyberspace. A few books have heartily plagiarized it, but for the most part, I think it's safe to say it's the most comprehensive guide to space age pop musicians out there. It's a labor of love, not profit, although I have been interviewed twice by BBC2 (and paid for it!) for their series on "The Arrangers." I would post more here, but I really spend very little time online. I also subscribe to the Jazz West Coast list, mostly for posts by Milt Bernhart and other veteran jazz musicians who are still alive and kicking. I've been buying neo Exotica lately, thanks to CDNow's Cosmic Credit program. Just got Sushi 2000, which is almost as good as a tape a Japanese fan once sent me. If anyone can ever locate the CD by Tokyo's Coolest Combo, write me. Their cover of the James Bond theme is an organ-vibes combo killer. I listen to just about everything except more of the "Adult Contemporary"/"Today's Country" shit they pipe into my offices. I believe in the quote attributed to Charles Ives: "Sit up and use your ears like a man!" However, the main thing you'll hear in my home is N'Synch and the Baha Men. My kids view my hobby as a mental defect, something to apologize to their friends about ("My dad is ... um ... a record collector."). Latest spin: Mantovani's Greatest Hits--"Charmaine." The classic easy listening track we all know and love. I am starting my thinning out program with the slabs o' wax that are easiest to get rid of. So here goes a compilation of Manny, Kostelanetz, Melachrino, and a bunch of other stringers I bought a couple of years ago for an article I wrote in "Cool and Strange Music" magazine a while ago. Kudos to Lazlo Nibble for starting and keeping this list, and to all of you (particularly Nat/Alan, who feeds it on those days when the rest of us forget to) for contributing. This list has been the source of much pleasure and many purchases over the years. Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Jack Costanzo Live Date: 13 Feb 2001 07:12:57 -0600 Just pulled this off another list: No Bongos, But Lots of Rhythm from Costanzo" by Don Heckman Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2001 Jack Costanzo virtually introduced the bongo drums to American music in his performances with Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee and, especially, Stan Kenton (on such familiar items as "Peanut Vendor," "Cuban Carnival" and "Bongo Riff"). He can probably also be blamed for providing the instrument that became a fixture in pine-paneled rumpus rooms of the '50s, and no beatnik poetry reading of the period was complete without bongo accompaniment. In addition, he lists stars such as Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis and Gary Cooper among his bongo students. But when Costanzo came on stage at the Conga Room on Friday night, there were no bongos to be seen. Instead, he spent the entire set positioned behind a pair of conga drums. Nothing wrong with that musically, since Costanzo is a masterful percussionist with virtually any sort of hand drum. Still, it would have been nice to hear him take a turn on the smaller bongo drums, if only for the sake of nostalgia -- especially since the packed-house crowd clearly included a contingent of enthusiastic listeners who remembered him from his earlier years. To his credit, however, Costanzo has not remained in the past. The 10-piece band -- with three vocalists, including the high-spirited Marilu -- was a solid, hard-swinging unit. And the arrangements, many of which included Costanzo's imaginative rhythmic ideas, used the five horns as a massed harmonic unit, the resulting sounds comparable to a full jazz band. Combined with a surging rhythm section, the results were first-rate, a stunningly compatible blending of jazz horns with the infectious pulse of mambo, cha-cha and Latin funk. The combination was especially effective in an unusual rendering of Nat Adderley's classic soul jazz tune "Work Song," which began with a walking bass line, then quickly shifted into a jazz-tinged, foot-tapping, body-moving cha-cha. Most of the other numbers featured singer Marilu, whose effervescent physicality and rich, dark-timbred voice was at times reminiscent of a youthful Celia Cruz, but more often was simply a convincing vehicle for her own unique style. Especially impressive on the rhythmic numbers -- which were all enhanced by her nonstop dance movements -- she was less so on the ballad "Te Quiero, Te Quiero," a piece whose voltage was set far too low for this sort of dynamic evening. But that was the only relatively passive moment in an entertaining evening of Latin jazz driven by the sheer rhythmic excitement of Costanzo's drumming. "Mr. Bongo," as he once was called, still knows how to get the fires burning, no matter what he's playing. --------- Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Taub Subject: Re: (exotica) Ali'i Boy Date: 13 Feb 2001 09:00:13 -0500 whoever has it now might be able to send us the list. It's at home, but can send it out tonite. Eric # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Hatten =?ISO-8859-1?B?5A==?=r din Date: 13 Feb 2001 09:40:28 -0500 > From: Matt Marchese > Organization: Arbeit Macht Muede > Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:37:03 -0600 > To: exotica@xmission.com > Subject: (exotica) Re: Hatten =E4r din >=20 > I just happened across the English translation of that sublimely bizarre > Turkish hat dance Flash site that was posted here a couple of days ago: >=20 > http://www.geocities.com/pommesrotweissx/ >=20 > Wish I'd swallowed my beer BEFORE I read it! >=20 > Hatt-baby, hatt-baby!!! Glue piece of ham, cool! FANTASTIC! That's the best thing I've seen online since Lileks's Gallery o= f Regrettable Food. (http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html) "Glue a piece of ham, cool" is unparalleled lyric writing. And the melody is terrific. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) album frames Date: 13 Feb 2001 10:27:16 -0500 Sheeesh Chuck, that's alotta framed albums. I'd like to frame a few, where do you find the frames to do that? colleenintexas Colleen Hey Colleen, You can get them at any craft store usually. We have Michael's around here and in the South - not sure about TX. The best and cheapest way to do it though is get your glass cut at some out of the way, small, been there forever, old man running glass shop and get these clips that I've started using. It's a super way to show off the album and the frame doesn't cover any precious details. The clips can be found in a more specialty art supply store. Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) HI MY NAME IS... Brad Date: 13 Feb 2001 10:37:15 -0500 Brad Bigelow's message -- with the news that he was moving to Brussels this summer -- prompts me to ask: is there anything worth seeing in Brussels, exotica-wise? I'm off to the big B for a week, next Monday, with a fair amount of down time in what is ostensibly a "research trip." Any tips? Will Will Straw, Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Lai=Air Date: 13 Feb 2001 16:56:53 +0100 Robert McKenna schrieb: > I just bought a Francis Lai record > >that sounded exactly like Air. mind telling us the title? Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Gingerich Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10/best jazz rekkid Date: 13 Feb 2001 11:14:26 -0500 I'm not too sure about exotica but the best jazz album handsdown is 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis..... pg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: (exotica) Night and the City Date: 13 Feb 2001 11:30:40 -0500 I can't help plugging a conference we're holding here in March, organized by two of the coolest grad students you'd ever meet. Here's the website: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/ahcs/nightandthecity.htm Will Will Straw, Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Buddy Tate Date: 13 Feb 2001 12:03:40 -0500 http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Begieeheeeeeieehg] http://www.google.com/search?q=%22buddy+tate%22 February 13, 2001 Buddy Tate, Saxophonist for Basie's Band, Dies at 87 By BEN RATLIFF Buddy Tate, a broad-toned saxophonist who was a vital part of the widely admired Count Basie band of the 1940's, died on Saturday in Chandler, Ariz. He was 87. Mr. Tate was one of the great tenor saxophonists of the swing era, a superbly sophisticated ballad player influenced by both the diaphanous tone of Lester Young, his section mate in the Basie orchestra, and by the urgency and rhythmic muscularity of Coleman Hawkins. These traits could be heard in his first recorded solo with Basie's band, "Rock-a-Bye Basie" from 1939, which Mr. Tate felt was one of his best. His force and his flights into the horn's high registers identified the Texas tenor style, also exemplified by the saxophonists Arnett Cobb and Illinois Jacquet. Born George Holmes Tate in Sherman, Tex., he began his career in the late 1920's, playing around the Southwest with bands led by Terrence Holder, Andy Kirk and Nat Towles. He played briefly with Count Basie in 1934, then began his 10-year association with the Basie orchestra in 1939, after the death of its saxophonist, Herschel Evans. It was his work with Basie that most assured him his place in jazz history. In the 1950's Mr. Tate played with Lucky Millinder, Jimmy Rushing and Hot Lips Page, and in 1953 he began to lead his own band, which played a regular show at the Celebrity Club in New York for more than 20 years. He worked often in Europe, playing with Jim Galloway, Jay McShann and Al Grey. In the late 60's he recorded in France with the organist Milt Buckner and the drummer Wallace Bishop. He and the saxophonist Paul Quinichette were co-leaders of a band at New York's West End Cafe; Mr. Tate led another band with the drummer Bobby Rosengarden at the Rainbow Room in the 70's. Mr. Tate's career of playing and recording, mostly at selected festivals and with touring groups like the Statesmen of Jazz, lasted through the mid-90's, with a final appearance on "Conversin' With the Elders," the 1996 album by the young saxophonist James Carter. Mr. Tate lived in Massapequa, N.Y., until a few weeks ago, when he moved to Phoenix to live with his daughter Georgette. She survives him, along with another daughter, Josie, also of Phoenix, and many grandchildren. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10/best jazz rekkid Date: 13 Feb 2001 12:09:00 EST In a message dated 2/14/2001 12:14:56 AM, peter.gingerich@wcom.com writes: << 'm not too sure about exotica but the best jazz album handsdown is 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis..... >> I agree completely. Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Brussels Date: 13 Feb 2001 12:30:45 -0600 Will Straw wrote: > > I'm off to the big B for a week, next Monday, with a fair > amount of down time in what is ostensibly a "research trip." > Any tips? Don't drink too much Kriek (sour lambic cherry beer). I got VERY sick on the stuff after drinking only two pintish-sized glasses the last time I was in Brussels. I haven't been drunk like that since I was in high school. As for Exotica, I didn't see any, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. -- Matt Marchese mattm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/ Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Hatten =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= din Date: 13 Feb 2001 12:46:42 -0600 Clayton Black wrote: > > FANTASTIC! That's the best thing I've seen online since Lileks's Gallery of > Regrettable Food. (http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html) > "Glue a piece of ham, cool" is unparalleled lyric writing. And the melody > is terrific. Ah, Lileks. I don't know how he manages to keep coming up with such fantastic stuff. I have yet to make my pilgrimage to the Gobbler Motel, but a good friend of mine stayed there many years ago. I don't even know if it's open anymore. I love Middle-eastern and Mediterranean pop. My favorites include a comp called "Yalla: Hitlist Egypt" and an American-Greek band, Annababoula that plays very trancey, rhythmic guitar/synth pop. There are some very good comps of Bollywood film music out there as well. The Bollywood lyrics are usually every bit as whacked as those of Hatten dr din, if not moreso. Whenever I go to big Persian and Indian restaurants, I always check out the music videos and movies they're playing. I recall seeing an Indian film which featured a woman swinging on a rope and shooting a machine gun while singing a song about milk! I've been looking for that one ever since. -- Matt Marchese mattm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/ Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Ali'i (actually Nature Boi'i) Date: 13 Feb 2001 14:07:05 -0500 >1. Jon Hassell 2. Nat King Cole 3. Mile Davis 4. John >Coltrane 5. Johnny Hartman. know of any others? There is a parody version of it by "Moms" Mabley, which I believe is on the "Moms" Mabley at the Playboy Club album. Before anyone scoffs too hard, don't forget she also had a hit with "Abraham, Martin and John". Stan Freberg recalled that his record, "John and Marsha" and Cole's "Nature Boy" were part of a very early marketing test for Capitol Records. They set up a listening room and each desk had bulbs. If the person sitting there liked the record, they squeezed the bulb. All of the records got little reaction, with the exception of Nature Boy and "John and Marsha" (he said that people almost broke the bulbs in response to the John and Marsha record!). Brian. Phillips. Brian? Phillips? BrianBrianBrianBrianBrianBrian...PHILLIPS # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Brussels Date: 13 Feb 2001 11:09:09 -0800 (PST) Maybe there was a bad batch. After getting off the train from Amsterdam, several of these were the only thing between me and the satanic hangover than nagged me and nagged me and nagged me to strangle one of my traveling companions. Delightful hate-quelling stupor. Good beer. Man-serving beer. --- Matthew Marchese wrote: > Don't drink too much Kriek (sour lambic cherry > beer). I got VERY sick on > the stuff after drinking only two pintish-sized > glasses the last time I > was in Brussels. I haven't been drunk like that > since I was in high > school. ===== "Grunt Big for Daddy." - Thomas Paine __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) another answer to Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 19:38:19 -0000 since Alan has asked it would be rude not to respond: >Or James Brouwer, I believe you have the best soundtrack collection I've >ever come across. But that's only because you seem to want the same >soundtracks I want. You're not trying to get every kind of soundtrack. So >how would you characterize the kind of soundtrack you're looking for? ummm, by way of introductions. I'm 33, a veteran graduate student in Philosophy, and have no wife or kids. I'm originally from Vancouver, though I've been stuck in Ontario for years now. Besides records, I collect postcards, old photographs, stereocards, and thrift-store paintings. The compliment is appreciated, though I'm sure most people on this list have impressive collections, including yourself -- though I have yet to see it. I collect lots of different music but got into 60's/70's soundtracks for a) the nostalgia (glimpses into my TV-mediated childhood), b) the 'scenic'-ness (the way the some film-music converts your everyday surroundings into some filmic-narrative from the past) c) the artifice (the way some film music exaggerrates the era to which it belongs -- hippie/biker soundtracks are great for this) d) the music itself (just plain damn good in places) e) the look (I love a good OST sleeve) and f) the movies ( I'm a fan of old films, but usually not the ones I collect OSTs of). Some OSTs I like? Adventurers - Ray Brown Barbarella - Bob Crewe Bullitt - Lalo Schifrin Follow Me - Stu Phillips Girl From U.N.C.L.E. - Teddy Randazzo Stilletto - Sid Ramin Hanged Man - Alan Tew Hell's Angels on Wheels - Stu Phillips Truck Turner - Isaac Hayes Lady In Cement - Hugo Montenegro Angel's From Hell - Stu Phillips Still can't find "They Came to Rob Las Vegas" OST though.... anyhow, thanks again Alan. maybe i'll see you at the next toronto record show (they've changed venues and dates though) jb _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Answer to alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 14:42:02 -0500 At 10:48 PM 2/12/01 EST, Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: >m.sandberg@telia.com writes: > ><< But if i was to choose some music for eternity, it would be the jungle > exotica. It is the only thing I just cant live without anymore. It is > my new home. Nature boy, quiet village, flamingo, poinciana. It is > what my dreams are made off. Its eternal. > > Magnus >> The post describing your musical journey Magnus was very interesting. It seems that you get into one kind of music at a time and stay there. So I guess I can imagine you choosing one genre to concentrate on. I can't argue with the idea of someone listening to nothing but jungle exotica but that's partly because listening to one genre exclusively is so unimaginable to me that I don't feel qualified to respond to someone who listens to music that way. So... as long as we understand that no one can really comment on someone else's taste... can I ask you this? What is it you like about it? Is it the music or is it the idea of it? Does it really remind you of exotic locales and "exotic people"? Or do you enjoy the irony of suburban white session musicians pretending they're crazed cannibals? Jungle exotica is such a bastard genre. They gathered a bunch of tunes with vaguely exotic themes or exotic words in the titles. Words like chinatown,caravan, persian, baubles, bangles, beads, cumana, cumbanchero. I like the way they knit together this little sub genre. I like the influences they sucked into their vortex. I like the irony of it. And I enjoy the arrangements and the instrumentation. But it doesn't really seem exotic or dark to me. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Nature boy Date: 13 Feb 2001 14:53:16 -0500 At 08:08 PM 2/12/01 -0800, tikiman wrote: >Hey thanks Zweig-eist! love Pepper too and wasn't >aware of his version. Beck take available on CD? >someone else mentioned the Maxwell one as their fav... >so i'm on my way to check 'em all out. again, muchos >mahalos, FF You're on your way where? I doubt the Beck take is available on CD but never say never when it comes to obscure CD rereleases. And I know I said the Beck version was amazing but that doesn't mean it's so good. (So don't go back and listen again Magnus.) The entire Joe Beck record is kind of amazing to me but that doesn't mean I'm recommending it as a good record. You have to appreciate things the way I do to enjoy it. To me, most of the music we end up talking about here was an "experiment". And the experiment always involved new, surprising and inadvisable juxtaposition. Sometimes the experiment was done for purely commercial purposes. "I know you do polka records but McArthur Park is a big hit so you're going to cover it!" Sometimes the experiment was done for a combination of commercial and artistic purposes. The record company wanted the big band to play rock for commercial reasons. The big band leader came up with his own interpretation of his assignment. Often the big band leader was way way way out of his element but accidentally came up with something bordering on genius. Anyway, the Joe Beck record is a mixture of a bunch of things and as such, I think it's amazing. But if you don't get off on the inadvisable juxtapositions, you might find it a mediocre failed experiment. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) please allow me to introduce mice elf Date: 13 Feb 2001 15:00:06 -0500 At 08:04 AM 2/13/01 -0500, Domenic Ciccone wrote: > >Hey! Another de-lurker from Massachusetts! Allright! I heard yesterday that the governor of Massachusetts is about to become the next ambassador to Canada. I appreciate this on a couple of levels. First of all I'm glad the USA considers us a separate country. Secondly it makes sense to me that the ambassador be from Massachusetts because there's a spiritual connection between that state and my country. It may just be that the University of Toronto looks so much like universities in Boston are supposed to look like and so almost every movie that takes place around Boston universities - such as The Paper Chase and Class of 44 - is shot in Toronto. But I also feel a kinship with the members of this list who are from Massachusetts. To me they're honorary Canadians. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dan Mastous Subject: (exotica) Yet another intro - for the record Date: 13 Feb 2001 12:22:25 -0800 (PST) This will mark my first post the exotica list. I am 36 with some college. I live (like everyone else on this it seems) in Massechusetts. In Haverhill to be exact. I work in Wilmington for (gasp!) a defense contractor. I got into, and out of to some extent, exotica about 5 years ago after browsing my local used CD shop (in Northern California at the time) and found an interesting CD with a martini glass and a atom on the cover. The cover interested me and so I picked it, the first Esquivel compilation Space Age Batchelor Pad Music, up. That was the revelation. Since then I've compiled a small, a bout 30 CDs, 20 LPs, and they occupy a spot behind a bunch of other CDs of various genres. This isn't because I don't like exotica anymore, it's just that most of what I found had a few good moments and the rest was boring. I picked up a pre-release copy of P5's Happy End of the World and I was gone. I've been into Shibuya music ever since. My favorite at the moment would have to be Cornelius' Fantasma. What a trip! Musically speaking of course. But recently some of my purchases have drawn me back to the fringes of exotica. Perhaps I'll dig my Martin Denny Exotica CD out, dust it off and give it another listen. Or the Les Baxter CD that I can't remember the name of. I also have the Research Incredably Strange Musics CD, 4 Bond soundtracks and some others I don't remember. My musical tastes are very broad. I have long been a fan of ambient soundscapes (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schultz the Orb) Rock (I'm partial to Styx, Kansas and Boston), pop (I've been a Barry Manilow fan from the start, I also must admit to a fondness for the Bee Gees) country (Ricky Skaggs, Waylen Jennings, Roger Miller) and oldies (Ed Ames, Buddy Grekko) Techno (Underworld), lots of eighties (YMO, Yello, Depeche Mode), and having spent half a year working in Asia I picked up some Ramadan music from Malyasia and some Filippino discs that I found forgettable. My most vivid exotica memory has to be the Tiki room at Disneyland. I do enjoy the Tiki atmosphere. I spent a week with my girlfriend on Boracay Island in the Philippines and it was a very plesant, relaxing esperience. I joined this list because I felt I might find some better suggestions of exotica samples than the ones I have. Outside of Esquivel I have found nothing that more than piques my curiousity. I hear a melody here, or a song there, and then a lot of forgettable songs. Also I have recently "discovered" a type of music called Enka (commenly called Japanese country) that I am looking for sources for. A search on the internet turned up nothing. I heard this type of music while watching the MASH movie. I found the soundtrack, but it doesn't have the actual songs, or any info on the singers. Does anyone have a line on where I can locate some of this music (that is in English)? Also someone recently mentioned Shirly Bassy. I know she is mostly known from having sung 3 Bond themes, but I am more inclined to remeber her for her work with Yello. It's really too bad about the demise of Combustable Edison. I remember hearing some of their music as backgroud to a dramatic reading on a KPFA program. I have a couple of their CD's. Anyway perhaps each of the memebers of the band will form a separate band and there'll be more to choose from in the future. Good luck to them in there future endevours. I really appreciate Brother Cleve for being instrumental in having brought Mr. Esquivel back to the spot light. I'll go back and lurk and learn some more. Dan Mastous __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) HI MY NAME IS... Brad Date: 13 Feb 2001 15:30:18 -0500 At 07:08 AM 2/13/01 -0600, Brad Bigelow wrote: > > > I'm in the Air Force Wow. There goes another prejudice. About ten years ago - or it could have been more - I was in a used record store and there were a couple of cops there. I immediately assumed they were there to investigate some stolen record scam or maybe looking for illegal bootlegs. Then one said to the other "Should I get the Black Album or Lovesexy?" (I guess that dates it. When did Lovesexy come out?) In any case, I still haven't quite recovered from hearing a cop say "lovesexy". I definitely have a prejudice against policemen, some of which comes from an upbringing which taught me to question all authority and some of which comes from my experience driving a taxi for fifteen years at the mercy of cops who assumed every cab driver was a bootlegger or a pimp. (I wish!) But I'm no longer surprised when a cop likes Prince. Anyway I'm surprised that Brad, the creator of the spaceagepop website is in the Air Force. Not that folks in the air force don't like music or that they wouldn't like this kind of music. But they wouldn't be as cool as Brad. >I would post more here, but I really spend very little time online. I also >subscribe to the Jazz West Coast list, mostly for posts by Milt Bernhart >and other veteran jazz musicians who are still alive and kicking. What's that list like? Is Pete Rugolo on that list? I'm sort of on another list where one of the seminal musicians posts but that particular person bores me to tears. Still, I'd love to hear from those veteran jazzbos. > >Latest spin: Mantovani's Greatest Hits--"Charmaine." The classic easy >listening track we all know and love. I am starting my thinning out >program with the slabs o' wax that are easiest to get rid of. So here goes >a compilation of Manny, Kostelanetz, Melachrino, and a bunch of other >stringers I bought a couple of years ago for an article I wrote in "Cool >and Strange Music" magazine a while ago. It's funny you should say that because when I started making CDR's, I too began with the big string sections. I didn't really have any Mantovani but I certainly had Kostelanetz. The thing is, I not only think that Kostelanetz's later records are brilliant but as I made those CDR's, I started to believe that these were really some of my best records. I've been attracted to the more OVERTLY GROOVY records for the past few years and I probably always will be but there's something more "genuinely musical" about some of these beautifully arranged soft records. I do listen to the CDR's I made and I listen to those string things as much, if not more than the rest. Anyway it makes me smile to learn that you've crossed over into the CDRchiving territory but I warn you, very soon you're going to start wondering "Where do I stop?" In my case I was planning to divide my records into two categories: those I put on CDR and dump AND those I don't put on CDR and keep. But what happens is that I'm listening to the CDR's and not the records. So if I want to hear the supposedly better records, I start to wish I had them on CDR. But when I put them on CDR, I wonder why I'm keeping the records. And I wonder why I don't just decide to put ALL of them on CDR. Good luck. I'm listening to one of my five volumes of Mancini CDR's right now. This one contains my favorite cuts from five Mancini records which sort of went together : The Big Latin Band of, Mancini Generation, Symphonic Soul, Hanging out with and Cop Show Themes. It's hard to beat. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) please allow me to introduce mice governor Date: 13 Feb 2001 15:29:17 EST In a message dated 2/13/1 2:59:03 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >But I also feel a kinship with the members of this list who are from >Massachusetts. To me they're honorary Canadians. Then you'll love our Italian governor..Paul Cellucci..a film buff BTW, who also has gambling debts around 750K American. His appeal is minimal on a good day..it was a present from Dubya that arrived about two months late. Which reminds me. Clinton appointed Boston's Irish mayor to be the Ambassador to the Vatican. back in '93. He spent most of his time in Rome's Irish pubs and off on junkets of earth-shattering import....Ciao for niao...J Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Lai=Air Date: 13 Feb 2001 15:36:27 -0500 At 04:56 PM 2/13/01 +0100, Moritz R wrote: >Robert McKenna schrieb: > >> I just bought a Francis Lai record >> >that sounded exactly like Air. > >mind telling us the title? I'm sorry I can't tell you the title. I put it on CDR and gave it to my friend. It's got a very colorful almost psychedelic cover, it's from the seventies and he covers "Close to you". I would buy ANYTHING with his name on it. I once had another one of his, a bit older, where he did "This guy's in love" and "McArthur's park" and the arrangements were just lovely. Interestingly, I seem to recall that the arrangements on the record which I'm saying reminded me of Air, were actually by Michel Columbier. His own stuff was kind of Air-like no? In retrospect? Lai is almost Air backwards. I guess not. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 22:03:51 +0100 (CET) > Does it really remind you of exotic locales and "exotic people"? Or do you > enjoy the irony of suburban white session musicians pretending they're > crazed cannibals? > Jungle exotica is such a bastard genre. First, I dont find this music dark. Second: I dont just listens to jungle exotica, what I said was that if there were one kind of music that I could take with me to eternity it would be jungle exotica. And Alan, I cant see any irony in this music at all, off course the albumcovers tell one story and the music another. I think it compliments one another. Here we had artists with incredible inner worlds, the way they made their version of an exotic paradise/ a jungle etc is so stunning sometimes that it borders to genius/Divine inspiration. The kind of inspiration you get from love and nature. Its the combination of the ancient drums picked up from Africa and south America combined with the sweeping strings and brass that makes it so special, it creates images in you, images that may be false compared to the real exotic countrys out there, but in a way truer than reality. The wild beasts in the Jungle becomes thrilling and humorous, All of a sudden a train appears, IT IS FULL OF BIRDS! Its a safe place to live in. It is exotica for kids and there are always a friendly female voice to guide you in this place to see you get home alllright. It is Mans wish for nature to be. If not in fact natures own music transmitted to the little monkeys who think they are so special. It is romance of the kind that makes you dizzy. It is a world that loves you for being in it. It is my belief that nature loves us this way, You have as a human all the rights to express yourself in all the ways possible, is not that fantastic? think how it was like millions of years ago when dinosaurs ruled the world. How meaningless!! No photographs to document it, no artists to interpret what was happening, just millions of years for nothing. Man is both a beast and a fabulous being, and Exotica is an exellent example of what we are capable of, when we are trying out something important and not just machines and computers and other technical things. I think it sounds like you need a puff of marijuana so you get the kid you once was back into you. I dont use it myself anymore because everything just got too much for me and ended in a terrible psychosis who took me one year to get over, but when looking at it with a little manual, I say it surely was worth the trouble i got. And now I can listen to Eden Ahbez and really understand what he is singing about, much of the things he described have been my reality too. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Giovanni Berti" Subject: (exotica) Re: Nature Boys Date: 13 Feb 2001 22:34:52 +0000 tikiman (Fluid Floyd) wrote: > "Nature Boy." I love that tune as well and I'm > making a cd based on it interspersed with Eden Ahbez's > music and the 5 versions of the song that I have by > 1. Jon Hassell 2. Nat King Cole 3. Miles Davis 4. John > Coltrane 5. Johnny Hartman. Know of any others? lousmith@pipeline.com replied: > I made a tape compilation of Nature Boy for the exoticaring - > well, actually, it's one side of a 100 minute tape. I put > all the versions I had and others filled in the rest of the tape. > Unfortunately, I can't remember what the track list > was, so perhaps whoever has it now might be able to send us > the list. I was the one who filled Lou's tape with more versions. Complete tracklist is: 1. Jon Hassell (from "Fascinoma"); 2. Grand Award All Stars ("Percussion & Brass"); 3. Mickey Katz ("Katz Put On The Dog"); 4. Esquivel ("Other Worlds, Other Sounds"); 5. Tony Mottola ("Tony & Strings"); 6. The Unnatural Seven; 7. Keely Smith ("What Kind Of Fool Am I?"); 8. Three Sounds ("Black Orchid"); 9. Shirley Scott ("Oasis"); 10. George Benson ("In Flight"); 11. Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures & Yusef Lateef ("Verona Jazz"); 12. Nat "King" Cole. Lou selected and recorded tracks 1 to 6; I choose and added 7 to 12. I have a copy of the tape (currently circulating in the exoticaring), in someone's interested. Ciao Gionni # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Giovanni Berti" Subject: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La Date: 13 Feb 2001 22:34:53 +0000 > From: buMp > Subject: Re: (exotica) The April Fools soundtrack > > LA LA LA- Mongo Santamaria > composer is MARVIN HAMLISCH of all people. > Pub. 1969 Columbia Pictures > SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT > > > great friggin track! Catch it on "The Mad, Mad World Of Soundtracks" comp. (Motor, Germany). Notes say: "imagine a bunch of 16 year old babes singing La La La... and a happily smiling Mongo Santamaria on percussion. Sounds like heaven, isn't it? Well, it is - just listen, folks! The creator of this musical candybar - former piano wunderkind Marvin Hamlisch - was just 24 years old when he wrote this heavenly piece for the movie The April Fools. The film marked the beginning of his rapid rise in the soundtrack business. In 1973 he managed to get hold of three oscars (best song and best score for The Way We Were, best song score for The Sting), two years later he composed the Hollywood smash A Chorus Line. The April Fools - a charming comedy typical of the sophisticated late sixties - features Jack Lemmon and the gorgeous Catherine Deneuve. The soundtrack album contains, besides Hamlisch's music, exclusive recordings by the Chambers Brothers, Taj Mahal and California. The beautiful title track was written by Brill Building dream-team Bacharach/David". I was born on April Fools' day 1964, BTW. ..."sophisticated late sixties"...??? wasn't that the time when hippies and street fighting men were all around? Ciao Gionni # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Dr. Zweig on the loose (OK, so it didn't rhyme...) Date: 13 Feb 2001 16:33:58 -0500 >Brian Philips, give us a clue about you. Tell us the last ten things you >listened to Knowing full well that I cannot resist responding to something that rhymes so much, I will tell you. The dull stuff: Pewter J. B. Stoner News reports about Kidman and Cruise. The dull stuff you ASKED about: I am 37, African-American, Christian, brought up to love and respect the Arts by my parents and a doting Grandmother. Rock was welcomed in the house, but didn't expect to see either parent lining up for Gilbert O'Sullivan concerts (if they did, would I have admitted it here?). The last ten things I listened to were: 1. A Mod Jazz Compilation culled from a friend's collection, featuring songs such as "Cold Duck Time" by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, "Scratch" by Herbie Mann and "But It's Alright" by Brother Jack McDuff. 2. Love, Peace and Poetry, American Psychedelic Music. Standout tracks were "Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo" by the Music Emporium and "Oceans of Fantasy" by Michaelangelo, which I daresay would please the Now Sound crowd. 3. Love, Peace and Poetry, Latin American Psychedelic Music, standout track here was Los Dug Dugs' "It's Over". 4. La Dolce Henke - Mel Henke - I downloaded this, actually. What I heard was cute and had I found it for a dollar or two I would have said, what a funny and odd record. From what I have heard of it, I am glad that I didn't pay collector prices for it. 5. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (their first album). Another download, however, I will be buying this CD soon. What a wonderful collection of psychedelia and Brazillian influences. Can anyone tell me whether vocalist Rita Lee was born in Brazil? Favorite tracks, the wonderfully trippy "Panis Et Circenes" and the fuzzed-up "A Minha Menina". Git it, git it, git it! 6 through 10 has mostly been Northern Soul stuff; not albums per se, because mostly my buddy and I record singles that we cull from record shows. I am ABOUT to hear: The JFK Quintet, featuring Andrew White, Inside Sauter-Finegan The Third Man Theme and others - Anton Karas Sauter-Finegan - Under Analysis Les McCann Plays the Hits. Robert Maxwell - Shangri-La. Maxwell, Under Analysis, Third Man set me back a grand total of 75 cents. Off to the Isle of Letya know, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 13:40:37 -0800 (PST) Wow Magnus, you've nailed it! that was the dopest opus on exotica ever. my pardner, Perry Coma, and I call Hawaii the "irony free zone." that's why i moved here from L.A. 25 years ago. not paradise anymore, it still offers the best of mother nature and an aloha spirit in the people... a true rainbow coaltion of races. our troup reflects this with the players including a Hawaiian, a Korean, a Brazilian, a Filipino, a Black, a Japanese, and of course, the dreaded white man (or two). Just like Martin Denny's music stirred a million backyard luaus around the world, it's the idealized, romanticized vision of what could be vs what it is. although i've never been to Brazil and am aware of the overpopulated squalor of many images and facts, it remains a sexy paradise in my mind via the gorgeous music from Jobim to Gal Costa to Bebel Gilberto. when we played the Kahiki gig in Columbus last summer, the best compliment came from a cynical, chain-smoking scenester who gushed "I never had any interest in going to Hawaii whatsoever till I heard your band... is life really like this over there?" no, dorothy it ain't, but we can still try to evoke a jungle paradise for our collective dreams of a better world. call me naive, but i'm staying on Eden's Island. alohaderci, Fluid Floyd Don Tiki/Taboo Records "Life is painful, suffering is optional" -Zen quote --- Magnus Sandberg wrote: > First, I dont find this music dark. Second: > I dont just listens to jungle exotica, what I said > was that if there > were one kind of music that I could take with me to > eternity it would > be jungle exotica. And Alan, I cant see any irony in > this music at all... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La Date: 13 Feb 2001 16:53:00 -0500 I haven't heard that, but it sounds reminiscent of Googie Rene's "Smokey Joe's La La" which is also a good 'un. It even has folks singing "Lalalalala"! Which brings us back to...*OUCH*, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 23:13:14 +0100 (CET) citerar tikiman : > Wow Magnus, you've nailed it! that was the dopest opus > on exotica ever. Exotica just inspires me to write, I am happy to be sharing my thoughts with others, and I hope that someday, we all will return to paradise together. That would be a blast! >call me > naive, but i'm staying on Eden's Island. I am naive too, very naive but that is just my nature. And Sweden is in fact an Eden too, those summernights... So sweet and it smells so good. Kind beautiful people with light in their eyes. I love it here. Even wintertime. Just some small wants, I wish for an apartment with a fireplace, and an exotica girl beside me. And a copy of "the Unexpected" by Raymond Scott. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La Date: 13 Feb 2001 17:28:24 EST In a message dated 2/14/2001 5:23:31 AM, giovanni@pirulazio.interim.it writes: << Catch it on "The Mad, Mad World Of Soundtracks" comp. (Motor, Germany). >> How isthis cd? Do you also have the previous one? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La Date: 13 Feb 2001 14:37:20 -0800 (PST) This cd is fantastic! Still play it a lot. The Harpers Bizarre tune is only available here I think. What do you mean by the previous one? I don't think there was a previous one, this one came out in 1997 or 1998. I hope there is a previous one. There is a book associated with the cd that is still around though out of print. Its tremendous full size album pictures , well some are smaller. This bood drives me nuts, I havelots of records but only a dozen or so in this Album Cover Art of Soundtracks book. It was available at half.com or ebay Thanks Chuck > --- HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > > How is this cd? Do you also have the previous one? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) Response to Magnus' response to Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 16:40:49 -0600 Magnus, You are so poetic, that is exactly how I would describe the feeling of exotica! colleen Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La Date: 13 Feb 2001 18:11:37 EST In a message dated 2/14/2001 6:38:09 AM, chuckmk@yahoo.com writes: << What do you mean by the previous one? >> CDNow lists two cd's: Mad, Mad World of Soundtracks and Mad World of Soundtracks, although there is no track listing for the second. It is priced higher, although it could be the same one. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10/best jazz rekkid Date: 13 Feb 2001 18:35:22 -0500 > << not too sure about exotica but the best jazz album handsdown is 'Kind > of Blue' by Miles Davis..... I had previously wrote that I was really enjoying the Ken Burn's 'Jazz' documentary, mainly because there was so much of the genre that I was unfamiliar with. I was looking forward to start buying more jazz music, as soon as I could narrow down a bit my choices from the long list of deserving artists. Anyway, the Saturday after the Jazz series ended I was in Tower records, and the first CD I picked out to purchase was 'Kind of Blue' I'm still discovering new music, in whatever ways I can. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Yet another intro - for the record Date: 13 Feb 2001 20:14:07 -0500 At 12:22 PM 2/13/01 -0800, Dan Mastous wrote: > This isn't because I don't like exotica >anymore, it's just that most of what I found had a few >good moments and the rest was boring. >I joined this list because I felt I might find some >better suggestions of exotica samples than the ones I >have. Outside of Esquivel I have found nothing that >more than piques my curiousity. >My musical tastes are very broad. (I'm partial to Styx, Kansas and >Boston), This is a classic example of "Make up your own punchline". You love Styx and Kansas but you can't find much exotica that meets your standard. Clearly you prefer your exotica closer to home. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) another answer to Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 20:14:05 -0500 At 07:38 PM 2/13/01 -0000, james brouwer wrote: >ummm, by way of introductions. I'm 33, a veteran graduate student in >Philosophy, What does "veteran" mean in that context? Interesting that academics are attracted to this kind of music. >The compliment is appreciated, though I'm sure most people on this list have >impressive collections, including yourself -- though I have yet to see it. You have me beat by a mile. I've only collected soundtracks for about a year. Before that I occasionally bought crime jazz or other ones I recognized but I wasn't doing it in a purposeful, focussed way. And once upon a time, I scorned all who collected soundtracks. I scoffed at them as inferior. Now of course, I mostly meant those folks who buy new soundtracks. And some of my scorn was directed at the endless repetition of themes, present in most soundtracks. Which I still stand by. But I admit that I was wrong on some level. There is something great - or at least intersting - about soundtrack music that is hard to find anywhere else. I do "collect" tunes that remind me of soundtrack music. Often it's the original tune written by the artist on a record where he's covering sixties rock tunes. The generic psychedelic-sounding tune on records from the Ventures' psychedelic period. But the best place to hear generic groovy or jazzy tunes is on soundtracks. I have greatly increased my collection in the last year or so, partly by paying those painful American exchange prices on ebay where every record ends up costing twenty dollars. I never count records but just to convince you... I now own 75 soundtrack LP's. That's not much. I've seen your list. I >I collect lots of different music but got into 60's/70's soundtracks for a) >the nostalgia (glimpses into my TV-mediated childhood), b) the 'scenic'-ness >(the way the some film-music converts your everyday surroundings into some >filmic-narrative from the past) That's interesting. I think maybe I experience that with the crime jazz but not with the groovy ones (such as Kaleidoscope or Up the Down Staircase.) But that could be because I have a sense of myself as living in a film noir sometimes.especially my favorites like "Out of the Past" (Is there a soundtrack for that?) or "Asphalt Jungle". (I love the Sam Jaffe character, not to mention Sterling Hayden.) > >Some OSTs I like? > >Adventurers - Ray Brown >Barbarella - Bob Crewe >Bullitt - Lalo Schifrin >Follow Me - Stu Phillips >Girl From U.N.C.L.E. - Teddy Randazzo >Stilletto - Sid Ramin >Hanged Man - Alan Tew >Hell's Angels on Wheels - Stu Phillips >Truck Turner - Isaac Hayes >Lady In Cement - Hugo Montenegro >Angel's From Hell - Stu Phillips As you know, I have one of those. But that's all I have on that list. I'll put them on my want list, not that I really need a want list, given that everytime I see anything interesting I grab it, price allowing. thanks for responding... az # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "The Workmans" Subject: (exotica) Alan,Alan,Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 20:38:38 -0500 I know you did not ask, but here is someinfo about me. My name is J Workman. I am 34 years old. I am married and have 6 children. I do not have my own room for music, but would like to (Yes, no one else in my family shares or cares about my jazz/exotica/easy listening interests...). I am a pharmacist at Childrens Medical Center in Dayton Ohio. I do read your posts and have quite a respect for you tastes and your "ramblings". I quite enjoyed (and agreed with) your recent posts on Ken Burns Jazz. For my own interests in exotica (all music), here goes: Martin Denny, Dean Martin, James Bond film music, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Esquivel, Elvis, The Byrds, Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes/Brazil 66 Neil Young, and I could go on. As far as used lps, I tend to look for the things I do not have, but have heard of from you all. Questions? I would enjoy chatting with you (all) at anytime. See ya, JW theworkmans@mics.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 20:41:30 EST In a message dated 2/13/1 4:41:25 PM, taboorecords@yahoo.com wrote: >that was the dopest opus winner..."Groovies Expression of February" award # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La Date: 13 Feb 2001 20:43:02 EST In a message dated 2/13/1 5:29:04 PM, HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: >How isthis cd? Do you also have the previous one? All good...Start to finish...no bad tracks # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La Date: 13 Feb 2001 20:42:25 -0500 CDNow has some of the strangest listings - they often list the same thing with up to three different prices - try to figure out the difference...There is, however, a Volume 2 of "Mad Mad World Of Soundtracks" due out within the month, I believe (it's on Dusty Groove's upcoming releases page - I'm waiting patiently for it to appear...) cheryl > > In a message dated 2/14/2001 6:38:09 AM, chuckmk@yahoo.com writes: > > << What do you mean by the previous one? >> > > CDNow lists two cd's: Mad, Mad World of Soundtracks and Mad World of > Soundtracks, although there is no track listing for the second. It is priced > higher, although it could be the same one. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 21:48:24 -0500 At 10:03 PM 2/13/01 +0100, Magnus Sandberg wrote: > And Alan, I cant see any irony in this music at all, >I think it sounds like you need a puff of marijuana so you get the kid >you once was back into you. I hope there was some irony in that last statement. In any case, I really enjoyed reading your response especially the bit about the monkees coming by in a train. Was that the last train to clarkesville? AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Alan,Alan,Alan Date: 13 Feb 2001 21:55:47 -0500 Please everyone, it's not about me. I know you like saying my name and setting me up as a target so you can knock me down. Luckily my ego can withstand all the slings and arrows. I was just trying to generate a little old fashioned discussion. I hoped that I wouldn't be the only one responding to the responses I generated. But alas it looks as though I am. I give up. For now. Till I'm bored again. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] Buddy Tate,Lewis Arquette Date: 13 Feb 2001 23:32:38 -0500 Buddy Tate Jazz saxophonist whose relaxed grace and lyricism were born in the swing era John Fordham Monday February 12, 2001 The Guardian Jazz often confirms that the most wilfully egocentric performer can produce the most sensitive and hospitable music; but if ever temperament and style faithfully mirrored each other, it was in the case of the great swing saxophonist Buddy Tate, who has died aged 87. One of the most relaxed, humorous and amenable of musicians, Tate's personal style was glowingly reflected in the lissom and occasionally gently mocking elegance of his saxophone playing. Like many of the lyrical and romantic jazz performers of his era, Tate could perform miniature miracles with minimal materials, and to hear him embroider a ballad like I Can't Get Started in unaccompanied performance, merely shuffling a handful of soft, buttery notes and mingling them with a textural repertoire of intimately whispering intonations, was one of the most agreeable experiences in postwar jazz. But Tate could also be an exciting, hard- swinging player too, and his control of the horn in its upper register predated many of the technical advances in saxophone playing that were made by the modernists in hard bop and the avant garde. Tate came up in the 1930s when swing ruled popular music and instrumental stars were heroes whose reputations were not far behind those of singers. But the connection between the song and the sound of a saxophone, trumpet or clarinet was closer then. Bebop, with its intricate, cliffhanging melody lines and unpredictable resolutions had not yet arrived to launch a jazz sound very different to the shapely lyricism of vocalised instrumental methods that mimicked singing. Tate therefore learned from the examples of saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Herschel Evans. Young's favourite query to an improviser who strayed too far from the fundamentals of the song was "What's your story?" That accessible notion of an improviser's narrative was Tate's too. Tate began working with the territory bands that travelled around the southwest in the tough years following the Depression and before swing took off. He worked with McCloud's Night Owls, the St Louis Merrymakers and a band led by Terrence Holder that was later to be taken over by the celebrated Andy Kirk. Tate worked briefly for Count Basie on Lester Young's temporary departure, but this early incarnation of the Basie band soon broke up for want of bookings. But Basie's chance came again when swing became a national craze around the mid 1930s, and in 1939 Tate got his big break when was invited to join the now successful Basie orchestra following the sudden death of tenorist Herschel Evans. The two had been old friends and Tate maintained later that he had dreamed Evans had died before he ever heard the news, and was sure that a call from Basie would come. For Basie's part, the bandleader said in his autobiography: "Buddy was enough like Herschel, so he could take care of that business, but he also had his own thing, which meant we still had two different styles, tones, and everything." Tate stayed with Basie for nine years, until postwar economics forced changes in the line-up and the saxophonist decided to look for work that would keep him closer to New York. Tate played for bandleaders Lucky Millinder and Hot Lips Page, and in Basie singer Jimmy Rushing's Savoy band. He eventually secured a residency at the Celebrity Club on 125th Street in Harlem, and stayed for 21 years until the rise of jazz-rock and the eclipse of mainstream in the 1970s. Tate nevertheless continued to record regularly, toured with the irrepressible swing trumpeter Buck Clayton and kept himself in the public eye by preserving a Basie-influenced small-group music that was affectionately received by every kind of jazz audience. He also appeared with Jay MacShann, the bandleader in whose outfit the young Charlie Parker's tentative bop experiments were first heard, and with trombonist Al Grey, a musician with much of Tate's own relaxed grace and lyricism. Tate was badly scalded in an accident in 1981, but returned to playing through the 80s - sometimes with a hard-swinging ensemble also featuring the driving blues-influenced tenorist Illinois Jacquet and called the Texas Tenors. =95 Buddy (George Holmes) Tate, saxophonist, born February 22 1913; died February 10 2001 =3D=3D=3D From Variety -- LEWIS ARQUETTE By VARIETY STAFF Actor and comedian Lewis Arquette, father of actors Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, Alexis and David, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at the UCLA Medical Center. He was 65. Lewis, the son of comic Cliff (Charley Weaver) Arquette, was born in Chicago and began his theatrical career on Broadway before returning to Chicago as a regular at the famed Second City. His reputation as a stellar improvisational actor lead him to Hollywood, where he amassed a list of television and film credits that include roles in pics "Waiting for Guffman," "Scream 2" and "Johnny Got His Gun." He appeared in several movies as recently as last year, including "Little Nicky" and "Best in Show." His numerous television appearances included a multi-episode run on "The Waltons" in the 1970s, as well as stints on "Matlock" in the '80s and "L.A. Law" in the '90s. In addition to his five children, Arquette is survived by a brother and sister as well as two grandchildren. =3D=3D=3D=3D Singer Joan Baez has cancelled her domestic and international concert tours to be with her younger sister Mimi Farina, who is suffering from advanced lung cancer. Mimi was widowed at the age of 21 when her husband and performing partner Richard Farina was killed in a motorcycle accident on the eve of the publication of his now cult-classic "Been Down So Long Looks Like Up to Me." Mimi and Richard Farina made 2 albums together before Richard's death. Mimi established BREAD AND ROSES, a donation-funded San Francisco-based organization which brought music and entertainment to institutionalized people. BREAD AND ROSES recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, but Mimi was too ill to take part fully in the festivities. The blue-eyed black-haired Mimi was often introduced to audiences by her sister Joan as "my outrageously beautiful sister..." There is a book coming out in March or so about the early uneasy relationship between Baez and Bob Dylan, and Richard and Mimi Farina. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Wages Subject: (exotica) Don Tiare @ www.emusic.com Date: 13 Feb 2001 23:36:57 -0500 I've been downloading legit MP3s off of emusic.com the last day or two (they're running a 30 day free trial on their "unlimited" service right now), and was suprised to find Don Tiare's "The Music Of Les Baxter" album. I'm curious as to rather this corresponds with an actual CD re-issue. I had never heard of one... I'm not familiar with all of the Baxter tracks covered here, but I have a feeling something is out of sequence; The "Quiet Village" file seems to contain two tracks, while "Qua Bir Hackeim" is 18 seconds of silence. Anyone care to comment? Other exotica-related stuff available at emusic: Korla Pandit ("Odyssey"/"Exotica 2000"), Arthur Lyman ("Pearly Shells"), and Les Baxter ("African Blue/Colors Of Brazil"). Also Cal Tjader, Edmundo Ros, Ted Heath, Ennio Morricone, Goblin, and others. Hope this info is of use to someone... Paul # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) basic hip Date: 13 Feb 2001 21:45:56 -0800 Colleen asked: >>I would like to know who everyone is also, but was too afraid to ask<< OK, let's go back to the beginning. I've been around since the early days - 1994 maybe? jack diamond turned me onto the list and his KFJC show was the main influence for my exotica foundation. Those Incredibly Strange books and CD's along with the first Esquivel comps pretty much got me hooked. I've seen many come and go - and come back again. Otto, Xanadu, the Spy jazz guy. Didn't we have two Kevin Kings at one time? King Kini. My favorite, bottom feeder Jessica, queen of the thrifts. The mod, Jordana. jack of course, who, by the way, I know quite well and, lemme tell ya, he is a big pussycat. check out his show on Luxuria, newbies. Sundays at 10am. I've never been much of a poster. I rarely give an opinion or challange one and generally just reply to requests for information only when I'm 99.9% sure of the facts. I really admire Alan's ability to write and express himself. Email goes in cycles for me, most of the time, I just skim and delete and find it hard to sit down and type. That's why it sometimes takes me a week to reply to a yes or no question! But I do like to think that I (eventually) get back to people when I say i will. That's why, Sean Pearman, you can expect a goodie in your mailbox soon. Jack and Will (Show and Tell Music) are the only two list (ex?) members I've met and spent time with - oh, I had breakfast with Preston (Vinyllives!) Peek when he visited San Francisco. He used to be on the list. I live in the SF Bay Area - just north in Marin County. Also here in Marin is Mickey McGowan. I've been to his bunker in San Rafael - oh me gosh, whatta collection. You have to see it to believe it. My collection is actually quite small. You'd be surprised. I'm in my early 40's, married, guiltlessly childfree - much to the disappointment of my inlaws. I love records and put up with CD's, but love records. to me, it's just more fun with records, going thru the ritual of slipping a record out of the sleeve, wiping it clean, manually placing the tonearm onto the lead in grooves. looking for them, finding them. The only CD's that mean anything to me are the ones I've traded for with other listees. And Manhattan Research, or the Fanderson Supercar / Fireball XL5 scores and library tracks. Maybe a couple more. :) I'm not into the club scene at all, we are usually in bed by 9:30, we don't drink. So I am much more inclined to hit delete when I see "tiki news" opposed to somebody's play list. I'm not into the new stuff, although Combustible Edison was an important part of the early days. I recall hearing carnival of souls on a Sub Pop freebie and being fascinated. Breaking out of our rut, we did see them at Bimbos 365 club a few years ago. I bought Tipsy, Don Tiki and Dimitri, but they have all been traded in. i have a bunch of Martin Denny and Les Baxter records, but rarely play them. but I would never part with them either. I still don't get The Free Design. What am I missing? Somewhere along the way, I decided I was going to collect whistling records. Actually, I did not decide, it just happened. Fred Lowery, Muzzy marcellino, Ralph Platt, Art Coates, I could go on and on. But nobody wants me to, that's the trouble. My interest in whistlers springboarded me into a related category, actual bird sounds with musical accompaniment. So, I've got a bunch of this stuff and even took a crack at writing an artical for cool and strange music magazine. I did have a whistling web site up - I'm not sure if it is still around. I suppose I am the list's resident expert on whistling records. The thing is, they never come up, nobody ever asks. the fact is, there are quite a few darn good ones out there, many with exotic and space age pop tunes and Fred Lowery really was quite a significant star in his day. I'm getting tired now. I love soundtracks too. No particular type - just as long as it's late 50's, 60s or early 70's. i'm stuck in the sixties, man. no particular type, groovy, sci-fi, comedy, secret agents, anything except musicals. Not that musicals aren't great. I love Henry Mancini. And Kenyon Hopkins. John Barry's The Wrong Box was a real dud - but That Darn cat was one of the nicest surprises I ever came across. I find it hard to believe that the score to In Cold Blood is not readily available but you can get Me, Myself and Irene anywhere. 60s radio commercials issued only to stations - i love those. "Outsider" music appeals to me - incorrect stuff. Strange without trying to be strange. A sincere effort that is a little off. Like Gordon Thomas. Live365 webcasts are up for those with DSl or cable connections - more on those later... I'm really tired now... I'm ford, that's my name, but I rarely close with a signature...basic hip comes from a track on a beatnik record, how to speak hip....Colleen I'll send ya a CD-R of a couple of hard-to-find exotica titles as a welcome, you strike me as a very nice person... My longest post ever...i'll save it and use it again in three years.. I love movies too. I'll watch Waiting For Guffman ten times, or American Movie, or American Job, but sleep thru Titanic. Gotta hit send now or I just wasted an hour you asked... *click* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Christine Karkow Subject: Re: (exotica) Brussels Date: 13 Feb 2001 22:48:46 -0800 Hi everyone, no problems have I had with the Kriek and you definently need to drink some Gueuze-as for cool places (though not exotica nor space age) = I liked La Mort Subite. Also, maybe you already know this, but you must absolutely positively go to Atomium. its on the Metro-ohh I forget the stop, but its slightly north of town on the site of the 1958 worlds fair-a 100 M high replica of an Iron molecule. You get to go inside, up to the top and then ride the escalators down. there are little exhibits in each atom, including extensive cartoons featuring my favorite, Gaston LaGaffe. speaking of Bandes Desin=E9es, you have to visit the museum of La Bande Desin=E9e. Not only is it fabulous and probably the only place for miles designated to comics, but it is housed in a building designed by Victor Horta. This leads me to the next thought, there is much Art Nouveau to be appreciated in Bruxelles-faut en profiter!! Mais, La Gueuze-c'est super. Also recommended, Faro. oh I am so damn thursty writing this bon voyage et, s'il te plait, =E9cris-nous toutes de tes nouvelles de cette jolie ville!! christine # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip Date: 14 Feb 2001 21:25:29 +1100 on 14/2/01 4:45 PM, basic hip at basichip@home.com wrote: > The thing is, they never come up, nobody ever asks. > the fact is, there are quite a few darn good ones out there, many with > exotic and space age pop tunes and Fred Lowery really was quite a > significant star in his day Ford/Basic, A couple of those Lowery and Marcellino mp3's you had available a while back have become firm favourites down here. I have a young neice who loves birds and I made a Cd for her from those tracks and some bird call stuff from you and other sources. Great stuff. I recall you saying a while back you were going to do a full whistling CDR. Did that ever happen? I'd be veeery interested. Philip -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip Date: 14 Feb 2001 12:00:46 +0100 (CET) citerar Philip Jackson : > > I recall you saying a while back you were going to do a full whistling CDR. > Did that ever happen? I'd be veeery interested. > > Philip > -- > I have got it, its called "Whistling for you". BEAUTIFUL STUFF! It is one of my favorite CDs! Basic Hip, you have also mentioned an all 78s whistling CDr, I would love to get a copy of that too. magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) introductions Date: 14 Feb 2001 06:58:03 EST It's rare for me to post more than a couple sentences, but it's been interesting reading the testaments of people that I've been corresponding with but really knew very little about. My name is Sean Pearman. I have lived most of my life in my home town of South Bend, Indiana, which is about 90 miles east of Chicago. It's a frozen nowhere of a place, but maybe that helps stimulate my interest in things exotic. I am 38, married, and have three children. I manage software development projects for a large finance company. It's a stressful occupation, but my musical pursuits have helped keep me from going insane. I have been collecting music since I was about 14 and it's more of an addiction now than ever. When I was in high school, I played a lot of piano (especially 20th century classical music) and composed music, too. I had made up my mind that I would study music but found the academic music scene to be full of cold, arrogant, pedantic people. I have been rebelling against all things academic ever since. Exotica was something I didn't know existed until about 1992 or 93 when a friend of mine 10 years younger than I introduced me to Martin Denny. I'm not positive, but I think he had heard about Denny from his interest in Throbbing Gristle who were big Denny fans. He had made a tape for me with Death In June on one side and Martin Denny on the other. Around the same time, my wife's grandmother was clearing out her attic and asked if I wanted any of her records which included one called Persuasive Percussion. These two acquisitions led me to seek out records wherever I could. 80 percent of my collection falls into the territories discussed on this list. I listen to everything from electronica to blaxploitation to truck driving songs. My new addiction is making CDRs which I have been trading with several list members. James Brouwer introduced me to Jonny Yuma (Richardson) with whom I've traded several great, rare titles. I have found the people on this list to be the nicest people I have never met . I also have a Hawaiian shirt collection and a largely cannibalized web site which shows just how erratic my musical tastes get Much of what I have learned about this music I have gleaned from the internet in the past 3 or 4 years. Brad Bigelow's site, while not as flashy as Will's Show and Tell Music or King Kini's site, is probably the most informative I have come across. I struggle with the idea of an exotica top ten but some of my favorites include Kenyon Hopkins, Lalo Schifrin, A.C. Jobim, Attilio Mineo's Man In Space With Sounds, the I Love You Alice B. Toklas soundtrack (thank you Two Little Kooks), Johnny Richards' The Rites of Diablo, Mort Garson's Black Mass, the Barbarella soundtrack, and Les Baxter's entire career (except for the syrupy pop albums). My favorite comp has got to be Rhino's Beat Generation box. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Mad Mad World of Soundtracks Date: 14 Feb 2001 14:45:20 +0100 the thing with these albums was that they were published together with a book of record covers, which according to general agreement in this list is really fabulous. I know the guys who compiled and designed both the book and the CDs. One of them runs a label called Marina, well-known for its soft pop albums. You gotta check that out too! http://www.marina.com Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) HI MY NAME IS... Brad Date: 14 Feb 2001 14:51:58 +0100 Will Straw schrieb: > Brad Bigelow's message -- with the news that he was moving to Brussels this > summer -- prompts me to ask: is there anything worth seeing in Brussels, > exotica-wise? You lucky guy! The main attraction of Brussels these days is the free-living colony of parrots at Place Guy d'Abrezzo. You just gotta make it there; take your video camera with you! Then they have this nice old colonial ethnological museum, which aside from the fine artefacts it buries, displays "decorative" sculptures on the walls, that are *really" colonialistic: they show scenes of white masters and their slaves kneeing in front of them and stuff like that. Most people just don't note these things, but in "correct" terms they should long have disappeared. So unvoluntarily this is a secret museum within the museum - for the one who can see it: the museum of colonialistic art. The old botanical gardens should also be quite nice for the architecture alone. That's about it. I've never heard about an exotic bar or something. maybe you find one. Before you leave - don't forget to learn the new European language at http://www.neuropeans.com/topic/europanto oh, and somewhere near Brussels there lives a strange record collector, named Johan Dada Vis, or so... -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) Love Words for your Valentine Date: 14 Feb 2001 10:17:40 -0500 I had such a blast last night. A good friend, a gin & tonic, and the album Love Words by Ken Nordine. Tracks include: You Do Something To Me, My Funny Valentine, Don't Take Your Love From Me, etc.... This record is phenomenal!! Of course I adore Nordine and all that he has done. I was lucky enough to find Word Jazz on vinyl lately, although I have it on CD, I feel I can rest now in a sense. Ken is the best - wish he could do my answering machine greetings for me! Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) Fred Lowery Whistling Hour Date: 14 Feb 2001 07:40:54 -0800 If you'd like a little taste of Fred Lowery today at work and you have a decent internet connection (DSL or Cable works great) please check out my Fred Lowery Whistling Hour. You may not go for the religious stuff, but there are some real gems in there, especially his duests with Dorothy Rae (on 78) and his comical Whistler and his Dog - that's him narrating! listen here: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=basichip and please share your thoughts # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Cosmic Peekaboo, Free Design's New Cd Date: 14 Feb 2001 08:28:28 -0800 (PST) Listened to this for the first time two nights ago. It just let me down so much. It reminded me of Kenny G, The Roches and the Narada New Age Label. The vocals and harmonizing are still there but somehow the styles of the songs have that early 80's feel to them. I really need to give this a few more listens. Has anyone else heard this yet? If so, am I off in my assessment? I really love everything else by this band. Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) supressed and depressed Date: 14 Feb 2001 11:33:27 -0500 >I was just trying to generate a little old fashioned discussion. >I hoped that I wouldn't be the only one responding to the >responses I generated. But alas it looks as though I am. I *tried* but it's no use. My post won't go through. I've fiddled around with the prose and tried 3 times over the last week, but I can't get it through and no one's managed to forward it through (thanks anyway). It can't be for length, because longer messages than mine have come through, and Johan's are well over twice as long. Either it contains some fluky combination of keywords that I can't catch, or something more sinister is going on. At any rate, learning that my posts may be blocked with no explanation dampens my enthusiasm for putting time and effort into composing non-trivial posts. I spent an hour or two on that favorites list (okay, I'm a slow writer) for nothing. I guess I'm supposed to limit myself to posts like this: "Me like records. Round things pretty." Now to see if this post will go through. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Response to Magnus Date: 14 Feb 2001 11:41:01 -0500 Magnus tribe shaman m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip Date: 14 Feb 2001 11:43:06 -0500 Basic Hip whistle discs good. Shiny, pretty, whistly. Fire bad. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Cosmic Peekaboo, Free Design's New Cd Date: 14 Feb 2001 11:56:44 -0500 At 08:28 AM 2/14/01 -0800, chuck wrote: > >Listened to this for the first time two nights ago. It just let me >down so much. It reminded me of Kenny G, The Roches and the >Narada New Age Label. I haven't heard it yet but I'm not surprised to hear this. I'd have been shocked if they'd been able to maintain the same sound they had thirty years ago. And if Chris Dedrick told me that he had no choice but to "progress", I wouldn't argue with him. I understand how artists want to move on. But it's a paradox, isn't it? In general, we don't really care about the needs of the artists. We just want to hear what we want to hear. Chris Dedrick has been scoring television shows here in Toronto for a while now but I only figured it out a couple of years ago. And he does an okay job. He actually uses a lot of wordless vocal "choirs" in his scores and it's a nice touch. I suspect that he simply had no idea ALL that we love about his old band. He probably tried to get some of that old sound but I suspect he doesn't really know what that old sound is. It's not just the vocal harmony even though that's obviously a large part of it. But if you set that vocal harmony in the wrong setting, it can make a huge difference. Too bad. I expect to run into him someday. I've even thought about hiring him the next time I make something, assuming there is a next time. I only have one piece of Free Design vinyl. Every single time they come up on ebay, it goes for over 20 dollars and I just can't go there. My fantasy is to hire him and then get him to autograph my collection. Anyway, thanks for the report chuck. I'm sort of glad I don't have to rush out and look for it. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: "Strange Interlude" Date: 14 Feb 2001 16:34:56 +0100 no, i don't own everything; anyone ever does? anyway, i haven't listened to "Strange Interlude" in years, i bought it about 5 years ago, when i had very little exotica , and my comment and high rating is also that old. so i might think different about it now... and you're absolutely right, Alan: using fave lists of others is not the most ideal way of finding out which records you think you'll like, and you want to try to find. but there aren't that many other sources... i have been compiling such fave lists, from this very exotica list, from "Incredibly Strange Music" books... to create my own want lists, and i have been disapointed several times. but mostly not. you could say that only records recommended by several people are worth hunting, but then again, if you never take a risk, you'll never experience that kick of a "discovery". if i ever get cured from this pesky and debilitating CFS/ME, i'd love to create an "eXotica RECORDS Overview", an annotated LP hyperdiscography based upon this very lists opinions... Johan ----- alan zweig wrote: >> >>* Lew Davies: "Strange Interlude" >> All sorts of exotic percussion, plus Ondioline & Theremin. > >Johan owns everything and if anyone can come up with a list, it's him and it's silly to argue with these lists since it's all personal taste. Having said that, I think Strange Interlude is a very very disappointing record. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) A record I like Date: 14 Feb 2001 19:24:35 +0100 (CET) As a further answer to Alan, and his wish for us to write about records we love I will write a little review of an LP that probably is on CD too, it should be pretty easy to find. "Music from the BBC-TV serial the Singing Detective" REN 608 BBC records I wtched this serial by Dennis Potter when it screened on swedish television in 1987, and was very impressed. I dont remember so much, I hope for a DVD presentation of this in the future but here are a little reveiw from an anonymous croatian from IMDB: "The Singing Detective" is the best TV-series I've seen in years. Some viewers might find it challenging to watch, because of its jumps in time and imagination/reality contexts, as well as mixing it, but I think it is one of the best things about it. It all comes to the same point at the end: Phillip Marlow's murder mystery that he writes in his head, while in hospital (often heavily medicated), besides being a search for a killer, is also his inner quest; self-examining, cynical, sincere and brilliant. And I like Marlow's comment on "high-brow" novels (inevitably connected with "high-brow" people): "It's all answers, but NO CLUES!" (as opposed to a mystery novel, with all clues, but only one answer - quite a metaphore, don't you think!?). Anyway, this is one of the best things I've ever watched on TV. You dont need to have seen the TV serial to like this record, much of the tracks on the LP are wellknown classics, I had a fantastic evening a year ago, when I heard this record as for the first time, when it spoke to me in person. Quite incredible, and a welcome treat since much of my life back then was a nightmare. Anyway here is the tracklist: Peg O' my heart -Max Harris and his novelty trio Limehouse blues -Ambrose and his orchestra Blues in the night -Anne Shelton Dry bones -Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians Rockin' in rhythm -The jungle band (Duke Ellington and orch.) Cruising down the river -Lou Preager and his orch. voc.Paul Rich Dont fence me in -Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters! It might as well be spring -Dick Haymes Paper Doll -The Mills Brothers Lili Marlene -Lale Anderson I get along without you very well -Sam Browne with the Lew Stone band Do I worry? -The Ink Spots Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive -Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters You always hurt the one you love -The Mills Brothers After you've gone -Al Jolson Its a lovely day tomorrow -Jack Payne and his orch Into each life some rain must fall -Ella Fitzgerald the very thought of you -Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots The Teddy bears' picnic -Henry Hall and his orch We'll meet again -Vera Lynn with Arthur Young at the novachord Some are sad, some are happy and all is very great, I must have listened to this record some 200 times, and i never get bored on it, its a perfect collection with some stuff not so easy to find on record. i recomment it highly, you will feel enriched afterwards when you've listened to it. Some special treats are: "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive", "Dont fence me in" , "Do I worry?", "The Teddy bears' picnic " and "Dry Bones" Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) Magnus Date: 14 Feb 2001 12:39:56 -0600 <> Brief and to the point, this message got through. Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) suppressed favorites linked Date: 14 Feb 2001 14:13:57 -0500 If interested: http://ookworld.com/favorites_post.txt Open in text editor if word wrap desired. Not like it's even such a wonderful post that it deserves all this fussin'. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) A record I like Date: 14 Feb 2001 11:38:55 -0800 (PST) Great film! Came out in the mid-late 80s, I think. Potter did quite a few pieces for television (and wrote several novels, all quite good) - most known of these is "Pennies from Heaven", starring everyone's fav. hedgehog, Bob Hoskins (bastardized in "Breathless" fashion in a US version which starred Steve Martin). I have an interview with Potter somewhere where he speaks of his fascination with popular songs, which figure into the narrative in a good many of his films. If you have never thought of "The Teddy Bears Picnic" as deeply disturbing song, you will after viewing The Singing Detective. --- Magnus Sandberg wrote: > "Music from the BBC-TV serial the Singing Detective" > REN 608 BBC records __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) A record I like Date: 14 Feb 2001 13:22:50 -0800 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Ben Waugh > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:39 AM > wrote several novels, all quite good) - most known of > these is "Pennies from Heaven", starring everyone's > fav. hedgehog, Bob Hoskins (bastardized in > "Breathless" fashion in a US version which starred > Steve Martin). The American remake wasn't too bad -- the scene where Christopher Walken is dancing on the bar counter has to be seen to be believed -- but it wasn't the original... The music for "The Singing Detective" was indeed great (I believe V/VM sampled a lot of the Al Bowlly stuff for his/their "Selections from the Haunted Ballroom" album). The acting, of course, was superb (Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Alison Steadman, Joanne Whalley, and that feller who guested on "Cracker" as the evil reverend). Stephen Holden's (from the NY Times) pronouncement that it's one of the two or three greatest things to ever come from television in the entire history of the medium isn't too far off the mark. Still kicking myself for failing to tape "Cold Lazarus" and "Karaoke" off Bravo last year, Ben np: schloss tegal, "black static transmission" http://www.bigfoot.com/~bvergara ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) supressed and depressed Date: 14 Feb 2001 16:24:05 -0500 The same thing happened to us last month - Brian tried at least three times to post something, and it didn't work. So I copied it to my e-mail, and tried to post it. Nothing again. In the meanwhile, it posted to another mailing list we're on just fine. So I edited it and tried again. Still nothing. Finally, I replied to another message, and added most of it in, and voila! Not sure what the problem was - it has happened to others on the list, too - and I haven't heard from Laszlo as to what it might be. So try posting as a reply to an exotica message, and see what happens... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: (exotica)Howdy y'all! Date: 14 Feb 2001 16:31:18 EST Well, since we're all introducing ourselves... Hi, I'm David, and I'm a vinyl addict! I've been on the stuff for decades...was raised on classical, West coast jazz & weird folk music...got into thrift-store/cutout bin soundtracks really young (Barry, Morricone & Mancini) & played trombone in (up to) highschool band...went through the usual pop-rock-aor-prog-punk trajectory, ended up in industrial/noise music, at which point I discovered the Three Suns "Movin & Groovin", and from there my record collection got impossibly eclectic...I also started playing pseudo-avant-garde music about then (mid-to-late 80s), until I realized that I wasn't even listening to the kind of music I made! Eventually, this led to my current situation... These days, I'm mostly busy with the band I have (Tipsy); I live in the San Francisco bay area (east bay), I'm 37, single, slightly manic-depressive & have more records than I have room for. I'm currently most obsessed with vintage Asian pop music for some reason (especially a 60s-70s Singapore-based instrumental combo/back-up band called the Stylers), as well as homemade/"outsider" records and r&b 45s. Also a big cult/badmovie fan. By the way, I'm also playing/DJing in SF at the Deluxe on Haight Street this month, on the 15th and the 22nd, and I'd love it if any of you drop by & introduce yourselves. -dave # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: Re: (exotica)Howdy y'all! Date: 14 Feb 2001 21:59:09 I'm currently most obsessed with >vintage Asian pop music for some reason (especially a 60s-70s >Singapore-based >instrumental combo/back-up band called the Stylers), Hey I look for that too! Most recently I brought home about 2 dozen Korean pop LP's from the 60's and early 70's - some truly amazing sounds amidst all of those lush strings! Booming, surfy guitar runs abound, which suggests to me that the Korean studio engineers had just imported the one and only reverb unit into the country, and were so taken with its sound that they applied it to everything! Also, do you or anyone know the teen combo The McCoys, from Singapore? I have an EP (with a gorgeous mod-psych sleeve) of theirs from the mid-60's where they do inept, yet somehow effective, covers of numbers like "Watermelon Man" and "Wade in the Water". This is truly obscure, exotic stuff. I imagine the pickings are a little more plentiful in SF than they are here in Austin TX. -Dan Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Lazlo help us out supressed and depressed Date: 14 Feb 2001 14:48:21 -0800 (PST) I find this whole thing amazing. I took m.aces message he sent me off list, changed the title, and the format and still it didn't post and it was coming from me not him. I sent it to myself and replied back to the list and still nothing. I sent it straight to exotica@xmission.com and also to exotica@lists.xmission.com I gave up after 3 tries. I too had this happen. Lazlo was nice enough to explain to me that some word tripped off some filter block in the system. It would be nice to understand what went wrong with this. This happened to me more than once over the years. None of this compares to the problems Mo seemed to have had. Lazlo can you help explain to us what happened??? Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- cheryl wrote: > > The same thing happened to us last month - Brian tried at least > three times to post somhing, and it didn't work. So I copied it to my e-mail, and tried to post it. Nothing again. In the meanwhile, it posted to > another > mailing list we're on just fine. So I edited it and tried again. > Still > nothing. Finally, I replied to another message, and added most > of it in, > and voila! Not sure what the problem was - it has happened to > others on the > list, too - and I haven't heard from Laszlo as to what it might > be. > > So try posting as a reply to an exotica message, and see what > happens... > > cheryl __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Piccioni's The Tenth Victim Date: 14 Feb 2001 18:12:37 -0500 I found a copy of Piero Piccioni's "The Tenth victim" on CD today - but it wasn't the Right Tempo (legit) reissue - it was a "limited edition" twofer with Bruno Nicolai's soundtrack for Jess Franco's "Marquis de Sade". The sound quality was a little iffy in places - anyone heard of this version of the soundtrack, and should I just hold out for the legitimate one, hoping the quality's better - or is it really worth getting the Nicolai soundtrack? cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) introductions Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:15:41 -0500 At 06:58 AM 2/14/01 EST, Pearmania@aol.com wrote: > He had made a tape for me with Death In June on one side and >Martin Denny on the other. Around the same time, my wife's grandmother was >clearing out her attic and asked if I wanted any of her records which >included one called Persuasive Percussion. These two acquisitions led me to >seek out records wherever I could. I think I could also say that it was Martin Denny and Persuasive - and Provocative - Percussion that got me into this. Command Records in general. Take those names like Terry Snyder, Phil Kraus, Bob Rosengarden, Phil Bodner, Tony Mottola, Dick Hyman. If you just follow those tributaries, before long you're waist deep in "lounge" records. What I find interesting is how Command records in particular are so often the "gateway drug" and how five years later, I no longer get the thrill of anticipation I once did when I see something with that familiar style of cover design. I've gotten rid of most of my Command records. On the other hand, I usually keep the Project 3 records. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:15:40 -0500 At 09:45 PM 2/13/01 -0800, basic hip wrote: >I still don't get The Free Design. What am I missing? > >Somewhere along the way, I decided I was going to collect whistling records. Whenever I play the Free Design for my friends, I warn them that they'll probably hate it at first. And that they'll be really surprised that I actually like it. I'm always surprised at how often they end up loving it. Almost as much as I do. It's sickly sweet. It'll make your teeth ache. If that's all you hear, you're going to hate it. On the other hand, the vocal arrangements are brilliant. Some bands sing in unison; some sing in harmony. Then there are those who take it a step or two further. The Four Freshmen, The Beach Boys. But if you don't get it, you don't have to get it. I've enjoyed a couple of whistling records but I'm glad I'm not the one who is compelled to collect them. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica)Howdy y'all! Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:15:44 -0500 At 04:31 PM 2/14/01 EST, Tipsydave@aol.com wrote: >By the way, I'm also playing/DJing in SF at the Deluxe on Haight Street this >month, on the 15th and the 22nd, and I'd love it if any of you drop by & >introduce yourselves. Okay I'm going to get the self promotion machine started now. My film "Vinyl" will be playing in San Francisco some time in the next while. I think. I'm not sure. If you know Craig Baldwin at "Other Cinema" in the Mission District, ask him whether and when he's planning to show it. Then tell me what he says. You might like it Dave if for no other reason than the fact that some of the soundtrack was sorta influenced by Tipsy. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) A record I like Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:15:43 -0500 At 07:24 PM 2/14/01 +0100, Magnus Sandberg wrote: > > >"Music from the BBC-TV serial the Singing Detective" REN 608 BBC records One of my enduring memories is an interview with Dennis Potter which was recorded about six months before his death. What I loved about the Singing Detective was that I didn't understand it but I never wanted it to end. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) What's the Frequency, Lazlo? Date: 14 Feb 2001 21:31:33 -0600 Heyas Lazlo, As one of the many folks here on the Exotica list who's been seeing their messages mysteriously disappear into the ether recently, I'd really appreciate knowing if this is due to some sort of keyword filtering being done at your end or if it's simply a glitch. It's really a pain to compose my prose just to have it disposed! Cheers, Matt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) Re: (Exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:36:43 -0500 Alan wrote: > Or Brian and Cheryl, I know you guys buy a lot of CD's in the > breakbeat/electronica world but when you look through the LP bins, what are > you looking for? I guess I have to answer this as I'm the only one that would and continues to look through bins of LPs (they smell you know...) Actually I have a pretty specific pattern depending on the time I have and the store I'm in. I usually only look at vinyl in the stores that sell it since the opportunity is so limited and I usually migrate to the Exotica Bizzaro or Instrumental section followed by the Experimental and New Age (that unfortunate term often used for electronic music) and if I have time the Alternative compilations and then maybe soundtracks. A few of the stores here have huge sections of French music, and although I'm no expert on the subject its fun to look. Since they've appeared in the past few years I look out for library records. Oh yes I always scan the wall for any expensive (and usually good) things. I figure someday I may even find a Little Marcy record... > But I also feel a kinship with the members of this list who are from > Massachusetts. To me they're honorary Canadians. I suppose by American standards Massachusetts is as far to the left as is allowable but still no match for us Canadians. I mean here in Quebec we don't even have the right to use English (or to bear arms...)! Of course we haven't ever elected a communist to our legislature as they did in Vermont so who can say. I do enjoy Massachusetts and have to say as a Canadian it is one of the few places in the US I'd feel at home living in. > I definitely have a prejudice against policemen...some of which > comes from my experience driving a taxi for fifteen years at the mercy of > cops who assumed every cab driver was a bootlegger or a pimp. (I wish!) I didn't know this but I can somehow envision Alan having driven a taxi. I'm just woried the next thing he's going to tell us is he's the real Bernie X! Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:49:58 -0500 Got a rare fast link to a Japanese Napster user and I grabbed 2 CDs worth of material from this group I have never heard of? Some interesting ska versions of easy classics, from A Shot in the Dark to Hit the Road Jack. I have to say a lot of the stuff I see in Japanese user lists I've never seen or heard of, and I find it intriguing. I picked up on this by chance while searching for The Plastics. I could say the same about German, Italian, Finnish or other users from countries whose music I could never hope to find here. I'm going to miss this! Speaking of... I finally found Francoise Hardy's German lyric song "Traume" which I'd heard in a French movie last year. I've searched high and low for a CD or vinyl of this material and have determined there is no CD in print I can get with this or any of her German versions. However, I have seen a number on Napster. Wish the system were more relaible as the users I share with always seem to be in places like Germany or Japan and I see more transfer error messages than file complete messages. I suspect the system is overloaded these days what with last minute panic setting in... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) Lazlo help us out supressed and depressed Date: 14 Feb 2001 21:15:01 -0800 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of chuck > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:48 PM > I too had this happen. Lazlo was nice enough to explain to me that > some word tripped off some filter block in the system. It would be > nice to understand what went wrong with this. Could it be... Astrosl*t? Later, Ben http://www.bigfoot.com/~bvergara ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) just a test... Date: 15 Feb 2001 00:36:21 -0500 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: (Exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records Date: 15 Feb 2001 00:40:47 -0500 > From: "Brian" > > I guess I have to answer this as I'm the only one that would and continues > > to look through bins > excuse me - what exactly do I do then??? > > > of LPs (they smell you know...) > Yeah, so do you, but I don't tell people :) > > Actually I have a pretty specific pattern > > depending on the time I have and the store I'm in. I usually only look at > > vinyl in the stores that sell it since the opportunity is so limited and I > > usually migrate to the Exotica Bizzaro or Instrumental section followed by > > the Experimental and New Age (that unfortunate term often used for > > electronic music) and if I have time the Alternative compilations and then > > maybe soundtracks. A few of the stores here have huge sections of French > > music, and although I'm no expert on the subject its fun to look. Since > > they've appeared in the past few years I look out for library records. Oh > > yes I always scan the wall for any expensive (and usually good) things. I > > figure someday I may even find a Little Marcy record... The main reason I don't tend to spend a lot of time searching through record bins lately is that they're just becoming waaay too overpriced, and are often in really questionable condition. It seems there isn't really a lot that either of us would want that we can't get via either a reissue or trade with someone on the list. It really bugs me to pay good money (upwards of $20) for an LP that's in crappy condition that you know the store owner picked up at a garage sale for 25 cents...It used to be fun digging through bins, never knowing what you'd find, and for $1 or less, you could take a chance. But those days seem to be long gone. And while Brian is busy perusing the vinyl bins, I get to go through the CD racks instead. Between us, we usually end up finding something worthwhile... Lately, the only LPs we really seem to be looking for or buying are library records (the good ones) and soundtracks. But the great thing about this list is that there's always someone who mentions a recent find which will pique our interest, and get us searching... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jonathan richardson" Subject: Re: (exotica) introductions Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:38:40 -0800 >What I find interesting is how Command records in particular are so often >the "gateway drug" and how five years later, I no longer get the thrill of >anticipation I once did when I see something with that familiar style of >cover design. Command Records were genius marketers. They got us hooked in all the senses.... 1.Sight- the design looked cool with all the cool shapes, colors and patterns and "space age" 'futuristic" loook. 2. Hearing-They sound great with all that stereophonic separation and mumbo jumbo that we all love (especially the ping ponging between the speakers) 3. Smell- All records smell great, even when they are all moldey I love the smell of moldy records, to me it means a bargain is to be had. 4. Feel- They are all smooth and glossy and give that special little 'crack' when you open up that fresh gatefold. 5. Taste- well....give me awhile on that one, but I bet they taste great with a a mellow red wine or a chianti or something... anyway, I still got all my Command records, even the Tony Mottolas for the weird girl/dragon hybrids, and the great Charles Murphy and Neil Fujita designs. A for the Project 3's? Thats a whole nuther thing......... keep it real folks. I love this list! -jonny _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) (obit) Manuela Date: 15 Feb 2001 10:27:33 +0100 German Schlager-singer and 60s icon Manuela died on Wednesday from cancer= at the age of 57. Manuela, a former electro engineer in a factory in Ber= lin, had a couple of #1 hits in the 60s, the biggest being "Schuld war nu= r der Bossa Nova" (the German version of the American song "Blaming On Th= e Bossa Nova") and "Monsieur Dupont". After her manager ran away with her= millions and a trial against the ZDF (public TV), Manuela, whose real na= me was Doris Wegener, had to go to Las Vegas, where she performed for man= y years. Several attempts for a comeback failed and subsequently she disa= ppeared from the scene completely. I saw her in 1979, after she had just come back from Las Vegas, performin= g for an audience of about 12 people. It was really sad. My favorite song= s by her are "Helicopter US Navy 66" and "K=FCsse unterm Regenbogen". Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Free Design - "Cosmic Peekaboo" Date: 15 Feb 2001 11:28:03 +0100 In the mail today: the new Free Design, out on Marina. This is one for you, Alan, you softy. I don't know if I really like it. It's the first stuff by Free Design I've ever heard, and if it's true that everybody first hates it, then I may change my mind later. It may just hit me in the wrong moment now; I'm too much into disco fun stuff these days, but at one point later, when I'm sad or old or both, this album will surely help me brush my nerves. Although there is one "funny" Dixieland-tune on it, the entire record has something ultra-serious, which I basically appreciate in these silly days, when everybody in the media always tries to be so funny, peppy and spritzy. No, Free Design isn't like that at all, they seem to come from a loophole out of the space/time continuum; if you would have to write nice linernotes for them, you would probably call them timeless. The best parts are when they sound like Mamas and Papas and I think it has something to do with the compositions. It's a record in celebration of singing and that makes one want to sing along; only when the composition is too steep you can't. But in a luxurious well-styled big home, f.i. by a fireplace, just listening to this CD could be really nice, like christmas... you could even read a book while it's playing. Just ignore the remark on the back side of the cover, which says: "play loud!" Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) What's the Frequency, Lazlo? Date: 15 Feb 2001 11:37:40 +0100 Matt Marchese schrieb: > Heyas Lazlo, > > As one of the many folks here on the Exotica list who's been seeing their > messages mysteriously disappear into the ether recently, I'd really appreciate > knowing if this is due to some sort of keyword filtering being done at your end > or if it's simply a glitch. Mr. Nibble has left the building Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) the other side of the singing detective Date: 15 Feb 2001 10:49:21 -0000 The BBC followed up the compilation LP of the singing detective with 'The Other Side of' which is the B-Sides of the original 78's, often by other artists and many of them very good. Theres also one song used in the series that didn't make it onto the first LP. I think it was a whistling/bird call one. It's well worth checking out if you find it. Bizarrely I have this and not the original one. I'll