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exotica-digest        Tuesday, February 3 1998        Volume 02 : Number 043




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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 07:35:56 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Nat King Cole

Thanks for the tip and for those that have TV Land, they are showing an
episode of Nat King Cole's show to-morrow.  His guest will be Harry Belafonte.

Incidentally, Cole was NOT the first black person to host their own show.
That honor goes to pianist Hazel Scott.  Happy Black History Month!

Brian "Remote at the Ready" Phillips

>"Nat King Cole -- Monday night at 8 on A&E's Biography."



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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 07:59:49 -0500
From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Air/Laila France

Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]> writes:

>Re: Air: Moon Safari - I'm glad it's not just me that
>thinks it's *very* ELO influenced... but I can't be the
>only ELO fan here? surely?

I'm with you on *both* counts!


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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 05:56:17 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) just another list of scores

Two worthy of mention: The Astronauts Go! Go! Go!: What Dick Dale did
for Miserlou these guys did for Quiet Village. Kinda weird to hear it
pulsing with reverb. Very cool.

The Exotic Sounds of Arthur Lyman at the Crescendo.

BW


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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:37:57 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: (exotica) Yet another list

Found these today :)

Bruce Haack: Bite (Bite US)
The master of weird pop space electronica like nothing else!

Ron & Shirley: Rock & Scroll (C & C US)
Mindbending private press lounge, electronica, Xian real incrddibly strange
monster!

Frances Cannon: The Singing Psychic (Private US)
Beyond the beyond flying saucer outer space psychic madness that you can
read about in the 2nd RESearch Strange Music book!

Steven Kellstad: Hidden In A Way (Private US)
Happy Sounds: At the Caribe Hilton (Private US)
Willy Wall Trio: The Traveling Sounds (Private US)
Top of the heap weirdo lounge fringe psych out one of a kind personality
real people brain blasters!

Today was real good!

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds



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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 09:47:32 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Friends of Lucas

Will someone please tell me what this Friends of Lucas is ?

Is it little kids recording on their fisher price tape recorder or what the
hell is it ?

also, is there any other swearing than the very 1st title ?

it's wacky!  i love it!!

jack





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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:58:20 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: (exotica) Touchy!

Anyone in the USA ever found a "Touchy Button" for their Lui Lui LP?

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds



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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 13:25:04 -0500
From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Elvis & Burt

So, it appears Elvis Costello has signed with Polygram. Why should you
care? From the Polygram press release...

"Costello's first project for PolyGram, scheduled for release on Mercury
Records in the third quarter of 1998, is a collaboration with Burt
Bacharach which will be based on the new songs they have been composing
together throughout 1997."

good to see Burt still working...




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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:48:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) epulse 4.05 [deal]

Here's some excerpts from the latest Tower Pulse eZine for those who don't
subscribe.

- --Insky

>---  CONTENTS / January 30, 1998
>>>>  Welcome back to epulse, the musically omnivorous
>weekly ezine of Pulse! magazine

>1. ... is love, sweet love dept.
>     Like the fascination circa 1996 with all things Brian Wilson, 1997 was
>a year when '60s/'70s songwriter Burt Bacharach became the name to drop in
>pop-cognoscenti circles. Like Wilson, Bacharach -- a onetime student of
>20th-century composer Darius Milhaud -- penned deceptively accessible tunes
>whose complex structure and unorthodox (for pop music) chord progressions
>contributed a subversive sophistication to the Top 40 of the day.
>     Big Deal Records, now a unit of big-biz communications leviathan TCI,
>started life in 1993 as an indie power-pop imprint with 'Yellow Pills,' a
>various-artists power-pop compilation; that series is now up to four
>volumes. The label recently released another multi-artist set, 'WHAT THE
>WORLD NEEDS NOW ... -- BIG DEAL RECORDING ARTISTS PERFORM THE SONGS OF BURT
>BACHARACH,' a (mostly) fine showcase for its roster of neo-pop enthusiasts.
>     Unlike the far more esoteric explorations of last year's 'Great Jewish
>Music: Burt Bacharach' comp on Tzadik, the Big Deal set hones in on the
>essential pop sweetness of the Bacharach/Hal David catalog, to varying
>results. Bacharach's music contains nuances and idiosyncratic turns that
>are easily steamrollered by a four-on-the-floor power-pop approach, and
>anybody attempting to cover his music is up against the formidable task of
>bettering the work of Bacharach's greatest interpreter, Dionne Warwick.
>     Nevertheless, give props to indie novelty act Shonen Knife for
>trashing the B.J. Thomas chestnut "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." The
>Absolute Zeros' adenoidal take on "Always Something There to Remind Me" is
>arguably better than Naked Eyes' bombastic '80s cover, but nonessential;
>Splitsville (an offshoot of the defunct Greenberry Woods) does a sweet
>Raspberries-esque "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" that is charming in an
>offhand way (nice quote from the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" on
>the tag, guys); Wondermints give one of the album's more lilting moments on
>"Don't Go Breaking My Heart," a breathy meditation with phase-shifted
>vocals, fuzz guitar and lounge-y rhythms; Idle's "Make It Easy on Yourself"
>is positively Bowie-esque; BMX Bandits' "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" sounds
>like '60s group the Association; the usually stellar Gladhands do an OK
>version of "Promise Her Anything," but they're capable of better; Michael
>Shelley's NoDep strip-down of "Baby It's You" (the only song here not
>cowritten by Hal David) is a nice turn; Dan Kibler's power-chorded "Trains
>and Boats and Planes" is a wee bit too AOR for my liking; Cockeyed Ghost's
>dense, Dust Brothers-inspired remake of Warwick's signature "Walk on By" is
>every bit the reinvention a tribute-album cut should be; the Vandalias'
>demo-quality disco-beat version of "Wishin' and Hopin'" has the
>tongue-and-cheek cheesiness of surface '70s parodists; Barely Pink's "It's
>Love That Really Counts" is one of the album's weaker moments; Hannah
>Cranna's "(They Long to Be) Close to You" takes an elegiac Big Star/R.E.M.
>approach, with fine results; Mitchell Rasor's chamber-pop "I Say a Little
>Prayer" is a fitting way to close the set.
>     Brilliant? Sometimes. Good pop music? Definitely. Nice cover art by
>Mad Magazine artist Jack Davis, too.
>

>3. music awards scandal of the week:
>     Here at epulse, we continue to watch the awards shows so that you
>don't have to. Though upstaged by the breaking President-in-Crisis stories,
>Monday's AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS telecast had its own moments of spectacle,
>including Michael Bolton's bombastic operatics (a preview from his
>forthcoming 'My Secret Passion: The Arias' album), Puff Daddy's
>police-pursuit-as-choreography number (heralding the Paula Adbulization of
>hip-hop), and a 25th anniversary medley of AMA hits from Those Darn
>Accordions, who squeezed and buttoned their way through jaunty renditions
>of Lionel Richie's "All Night Long," Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," the
>Village People's "Macho Man," Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy," Gladys
>Knight & the Pips "Midnight Train to Georgia," Stevie Wonder's
>"Superstition," Tony Orlando & Dawn's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old
>Oak Tree," Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart," Madonna's "Vogue," Guns N'
>Roses' "Sweet Child of Mine" and KC & the Sunshine Band's "Get Down
>Tonight." What does it say about pre-millennial America when the _least_
>camp moment of the evening came from "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
>icon Nancy Sinatra? Accepting an American Music Award of Merit for her
>legendary father, she said: "I bring you his love, his thanks and his
>memories, and all the warm gratitude that's in his heart for all of the men
>and women who created the words and the music, who arranged and conducted
>and gave their very best shots to every note on every recording session and
>in every saloon the world over. His appreciation for what they've done for
>him is as wide and deep tonight as it's been throughout his 60-plus-year
>career. When I left the house, Dad said give all the fans a hug for me
>because they made me possible. So consider yourself hugged by the Chairman
>of the Board." Almost makes you wish cynicism would go out of style.
>

>8. audiobook of the week:
>     'Rocky Fortune;' Radio Spirits; original material; six cassettes; 9
>hours; $34.98.
>
>Remember radio before shock jocks rode the airwaves? If so, you are a
>perfect candidate for the ever-increasing number of radio programs finding
>new life on audio. Offering a refreshing change from most recorded books,
>many are worth sampling even if you never heard of Fibber McGee or Molly.
>Radio Spirits offers hundreds of programs from the medium's heyday, from
>'My Favorite Husband' to 'Boston Blackie' to 'Superman.' Some are a little
>too dated to get excited over, such as the racist 'Amos 'n Andy'  series,
>or the moralistic and corny 'Gangbusters,' based on actual FBI cases. Some
>are fun because they are so dated. When Frank Sinatra's shiny matinee image
>tarnished in the early 1950s, he found employment with the weekly series
>'Rocky Fortune.' As an unlikely crime-buster with swagger to spare, he
>plays out the same story every week. While working one temporary job or
>another, Rocky Fortune falls in with a bad lot and solves a murder,
>blackmail or robbery. The plots may be ho-hum, but man, can Sinatra deliver
>that ultra-cool dialogue with its jive-era slang. And who can resist a
>character who's been slipped a mickey full of "winkin', blinkin' and nod?"


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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 13:56:21 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Mad Mad World of Soundtracks

>Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:02:02 UT
>From: [e-mail]

>(Mad Mad World of Soundtracks has some great stuff, but also, IMHO some real
>dreck.)

    yep, i second that thought: about half of it is worth getting, the
    rest is dull, boring, mediocre, IMHO.
    also, the title doesn't make much sence:
    a lot of the music is far from mad, at least not in the MAD sence.

        Johan

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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:30:11 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Melrose Place Jazz

Windam Swill--as my pal calls it


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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:37:58 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Elvis & Burt

I saw Burt and Elvis C on "Late Night" last February while i was on Mai Tais
in Key Waste--I used toothpix on my eyelids to stay awake for it but it was
well worth it. For my $$ Costello is one of the finest singers in the
business and the melodies were very Burtish--as the Man Himself sat in on
keyboards.


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Date: Mon,  2 Feb 1998 19:33:58 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) James Taylor Quartet Research

Okay, I did a little research via CDNow's listening buttons and this is what I
came up with.
The first few JTQ albums are more 60's Go-Go pop oriented and the latter few are
more 70's Blaxploitation/funk chase scene oriented.  At least that's what it
seemed to me...  Can anyone agree or discredit this theory?  Or perhaps generate
a quick timeline?

Thanks,
Peter


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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 11:44:54 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Melrose Place Jazz

for people who don't really listen to music of any kind is what i have
always heard

- -j

At 02:30 PM 2/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Windam Swill--as my pal calls it




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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 20:57:43 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thrift Finds

Some excellent finds on a tour of charity shops in
the Surrey villages of Banstead and Purley this weekend:

Paul Mauriat & Orch - "This is" 1968    Imaginative arrangements
Mantovani with pianists Rawicz & Landauer -
   "Music from the films"   1958 stereo - luxurious versions of
   Warsaw Concerto, Cornish Rhapsody etc.  This pairing is like
   one would expect Ferrante & Teicher with 101 Strings to sound.
   (did that ever happen??)
Bert Kampfaert - "Swinging Safari" & "Bye bye blues"
  - both well known items

For its cheesecake sleeve, I paid 32c for Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping
Beauty" ballet music on the US Hollywood label - a budget label?

But the star find was US RCA LPM 1252 Guy Lupar & his orchestra
"The Esquire album of music for the Continental Host".  1956.
Cover features a very sultry lady reposing on chaise longue, with
lecherous cartoon character Esky leering over.  The blurb is
rather blatant:  "...this is music which belongs to that special
occasion when the champagne is cooling and the blood is warming.
For such an event there must be a beautiful woman - but then, in
these circumstances _all_ women are beautiful....".     Quite.

Most selections are written by Lupar and have titles like "Glorious",
"Strawberry Festival", and (somewhat inappropriately) "Bagdad Ballet",
and is a cross between Leroy Anderson and Nelson Riddle.  8/10.
Far too listenable for the purpose it was intended for....

Hugh.



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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:42:02 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Survey of musical roots

Has anyone on the list ever done a survey on the music backgrounds of lounge
music listeners?   I realize there is a lot of diversity just on this little
list of where people are coming from, musically.  However, I suspect there may
be a significant percentage of you who have roots in punk.  Here is why I ask:

I got a letter from a Flipside reader complaining about my coverage of "lounge
music" and what legitimacy there is in discussing the subject in a punk zine.
(BTW:  The new issue of Flipside is out and in my column, "Michele's Matters,"
is the debate between Ashley and Randall about lounge and whether or not it is
a "scene" as well as the mating rituals argument pro/con, etc. that was
discussed on the mailing list last summer)   Personally I feel the two scenes
have many parallels:  the D.I.Y. aspects such as the club scene and start up
of independent labels to put out the music.  Also, I suspect that there may be
a significant percentage of lounge listeners who have some affiliation with
punk - or so I've gathered at least from a few comments posted from time to
time by various list members.

So what I'm asking is for some response on just how many of you are former
punks or at least have roots in punk music.  Of course this is by no means a
"conclusive" study or even a scientific one, considering this list does not
represent the entire lounge population (and in fact only represents those of
you with computers).

You can respond directly to the list or privately to my email address, if you
prefer and if you have friends that are former punks that are into lounge
music but not on-line, I'd like to hear about them to.

- - Michele
Flipside Fanzine


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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 20:14:22 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Survey of musical roots

Dear Michele:

This is a fascinating set of questions, and I'd love to know the
results of any survey you do.

I hang out with a bunch of people into the lounge scene, and most of
us are ex-punkers.   Those who pretend there are no links are, in my
view, being disingenuous.   Being a punk fan has mostly been about
being a music connoisseur and having fairly cosmopolitan tastes,
reading music magazines, knowing how and where to buy imports, etc.
Those who want to claim it's somehow about being spontaneously
angry are engaged in a lot of wishful thinking.

As I've said before on this list, a proto-lounge inclination was there from
the early days of punk, evident not only in the way early punkers like
Vic Godard and Captain Sensible turned towards the heritage of American
non-rock popular music, but also in the long unfolding rediscovery of
Julie London, John Barry, Burt Bacharach, Martin Denny and so on which
run under the history of punk and post-punk from the word go.  I remember
John Barry-James Bond soundstrack stuff being cool in punk clubs in 1979;
I remember the way the Raybeats riffed off an easy sound that confounded
those  who thought they were simply a surf revival band; and I liked the
laconic loungey stuff on Lydia Lunch's first album.  Weekend's first album
was all about trying to capture the sound of afternoon-radio easy listening.

What unites punk and lounge culture, of course, is a firm anti-rockism, a
willingness
to root around in forgotten histories in search of unexplored margins, and,
most of all,
a belief that rock/pop is at its best when it's part of a long history of
popular music,
not one more move in the struggle of popular music to become art.

That's my rant for tonight.   But the idea that lounge might not be punk
when the
most obscure little avant-cowpunkey move by some alternaband some is  . . .
well, all this is grist for argument.

Will


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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 17:27:23 -0800
From: "super k. riot" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Survey of musical roots

good call will!
i've been runnin with the punk uderground for a long time also and there
are a lot of similarities.  once punks start to get older it seems like
we all kinda either drift towards the lounge scene or rave scene. (in my
case its both) although i still go to punk shows every now and then. i'd
rather lounge around sippin a cocktail with friends. the music is also
super sweet to!  who could argue with martin denny, arthur lyman and
countless others. oh well. i just wanna say, "great post!"
thanks
ken
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 17:38:14 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Survey of musical roots

At 04:42 PM 2/2/98 EST, Michelle asked:
>So what I'm asking is for some response on just how many of you are former
>punks or at least have roots in punk music.

I have been an adult all my life.  No, seriously, I have absolutely no
knowledge of "punk music" unless the album "Chipmunk Punk" counts.

Byron

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 18:58:49 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jan 25, 1998 Playlist for Jack

 KFJC play list 1/25/98 for Jack Diamond

 ARTIST                                TRACK                        ALBUM
____________________________________________________________________________
_____
 The Planets                           Chunky

 Shorty Rogers and
 His Giants                            M-A-N-T-E-C-A                Rca, 1958
 W/ Don Fagerquist, Bud Shank is MY MAN on Alto Saxophone
 Frank Rosolino, Bob Cooper, Bill Holman

 Shelly Manne, Carlos Vidal, Modesto Duran
 Luis Miranda, Mike Pacheco, Juan Cheda
 Manuel Ochoa, Frank Guerrero - PERCUSSIONISTS

 N-E-W!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Jean Jacques P-E-R-R-E-Y                                     1-25-98

 Jean Jacques Perrey                   Clone's War
 Roy Lanham                            Song of India               Dolton, Stereo!
 Pete Rugolo Orch.                     My Name Is Mr. Clean
 I Componenti                          Recital                     Mo'plen 3000,
 Space Killer Tracks-                  From the Past to the        Irma America
                                       3RD Millenium

 Don Tiare Orch.                       Sunrise at Kowloon
 Don Julian                            S-A-V-A-G-E!                 1973
 Electronic Concept                    Atlantis                     Moog Groove
 Ken Nordine                           Miss Cone                    1958, Stereo
 Robert Maxwell                        Caravan(!!!)                 Spectacular Harps
 The Yardbirds                         Hot House of Omagararshid    Jeff Beck-Gtr
 Nino De Luca                          La Ragazza Con La Pistola    [coll]: Psycho Be
 Hugo Montenegro                       Macarthur Park               Moog Power!

 Mineo, Attileo                        Soaring Science              Conducts Man in Space
                                                                    W/Sounds

 Fifty Foot Hose                       Red the Sign Post            Cauldron
 Les Modes                             Hoo Tai                      Dawn, 1956
 W/ Julius Watkins, Eileen Gilbert-Soprano Voice
 Charlie Rouse-Tenor, Martin Rivera-Bass
 Gildo Mahones-Piano, Ron Jefferson-Drums
 Chino Pozo-Bongos

 Elmer Bernstein Orch.                 Hop, Skip but Jump!          Blues and Brass

 Greg Oliver-Male Voice
 Lois Cooper-Female                    S-E-D-U-C-T-I-O-N
 Del Staton-Electric Guitar

 Herby Remmington                      Sweetnin'

 Alfred Hitchcock-Spoken Word w/
 Jeff Alexander Orch.                  The Hour of Parting          Imperial

 Umiliani, Piero                       Stoccolma My Dear(Orchestra) Sweden Heaven and Hell
 Andre Previn                          The Bad Guys                 Fortune Cookies
 The Hellers                           It's 74 in San Francisco     Command
 Attilio Mineo                         Man in Art                   Man in Space W/ Sounds
 Animated Egg                          That's How It Is             Alshire Label
 Dick Hyman                            "I Spy" Theme                O.R.G.A.N.
 Wilden, Gert                          Hong Kong Twist              I Told You not to Cry
 The Ventures                          She's not There!
 Quincy Jones Orch.                    Shoot to Kill                Mirage, Mercury
 Rick Holmes-Sp. Word               Introduction to
 Nat Adderly-Cornet                    Soul Zodiac

 Bruce Haack                          Program Me                   Electric Lucifer
 Clyde Borley                          Afro-Mania                   Martenot Waves
 Jean Jacques Perrey!                  Analog Dialog                1-25-98
 Gabor Szabo                           Search for Nirvana
 Dizzy Gillespie Orch.                 Night in Tunisia             Clef Series Verve
 W/ Joe Manguel-Bongos, Candido Camero-Conga

 Dudley Moore Ensemble                 Beeeeee-Dazzzzzzzzzzzzled!
 Robert Prince Orch.                   Prologue                     West Side Story
 Marty Manning Orch.                   The Sorcerer's Apprentice    Twilight Zone, Stereo
 Kai Winding/
 Claus Ogerman                         Python                       Ondioline
 I Componenti                          Zeus!                        Mo'plen 2000
 Goblin                                Snip Snap
 Mort Garson                           Music for Sensuous Lovers
                                       By "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

 O'Donel Levy                          Playhouse                    Grooooove Merchant
 Pete Rugolo Orch.                     Diamond on the Move

You can't tell by lookin' at the playlist but I am telling you that this
was the best show I ever done did.  Shoulda quit radio after this 1.  Never
shoulda gone "on stage" after this 1 except to interview David Chazam for
the New Jean Jacques Perrey rekkid,EKLECTRONICS, which I did do this past
Sunday and boy, was that a blast.
The guy has a feverish passion bordering on dementia, which is something I
truly admire:)
See for yourself, here;  http://www.KFJC.org/diamond/
Some of you guys heard it, I know 'cause you told and I thank you for that:)

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Http://www.KFJC.org



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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 20:20:18 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What is this ?

Received a cassette tape in the mail from London, dated 1-21-98.
It has no return address and even worse is that though "they" list the tune
titles on a label, "they" don't list the artists!!!

Oh nooooooooooooooooo Mr. Bill!!!

VARIOUS ARTISTS - "EROTICA ITALIA"

1) Maras Theme - SERIOUS female moaning AND sighing to THE BEAT with great
tabla, sitar and bongos
2)Crescendo-Waves of the ocean sound w/ seagulls in the distance, cool
orchestra comes in with bongos.  Very VERY COOL and Groovy
3) Chukeba Bay
4) Part-Y-Time
5) Sequence Mix
6) Klu Klux Klan Sequence
7) Spacedevils
8) Sequence Four
9) Ho Messo Gli Ochi Su Di Te
10) Sun City

That's side A.  OK, so which one o' you lugs OR luggettes out there sent
this to me and who are THE ARTISTS?!

On the back bottom of the label is says; TAPE TO TAPE

I won't tell anyone, I promise:)

Any of these titles look familiar to anyone here ?

Jack



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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:37:33 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Survey of musical roots

In a message dated 98-02-02 20:17:50 EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< This is a fascinating set of questions, and I'd love to know the
 results of any survey you do.
  >>

I guess my original post might have seemed like I was doing a private survey -
my post to the list IS the survey.  So since everyone who has responded has
asked to be kept "posted" on results, can everyone who sent me a response thus
far, please post your response to the list.  Otherwise it will be really a job
in itself to sit here and try to keep forwarding messages.

Also, you guys have been so great responding  - it brings tears to my eyes!  I
mean this guy wrote this very hateful letter which will be printed in the next
issue alone with a response from me, but I was at a loss, honestly to defend
it on anything except my own vague idea that they are so similar in the regard
of DIY/underground/anti-establisment-musical culture level.  So I am so
pleased with the early and quick response and I am asking all those who've
posted to permit me to reprint some of this in an upcoming column.  I would
like to take this guy's letter and cram it up his you know what, but since I
can't do that, at least I can present this as a discussion in my column!  What
do you all think?

- - Michele
Flipside Fanzine


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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 21:46:43 -0800
From: Gary Mattingly <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Survey of musical roots

At 04:42 PM 2/2/98 -0500, you wrote:=20
[e-mail]=20

>
> So what I'm asking is for some response on just how many of you are former
> punks or at least have roots in punk music.=20
> - Michele
> Flipside Fanzine


I don't know that I would call myself a former punk or that my roots are in=
=20
punk music.=A0 I did attend a fair number of concerts at clubs like The=20
Mabuhay Gardens, The Deaf Club, etc. in San Francisco.=A0 However
before that I had long hair and listened to lots of other types of
rock and roll, jazz, classical music, blues, soul, and country, and my
parents had all these strange records by Martin Denny and in=20
high school back in the 60s or something like that I bought this
thing called The In Sound From Way Out and listened to electronic
music interspersed with strange psychedelic stuff, surf and hot rod
music and well, I guess I've always been this way.=A0 I wonder if=20
it started when I was singing Purple People Eater back when I=20
was, um, around 6 or 7 years old.   I could deal with it much=20
better than conversation.

Gee, I don't know.




- --   Gary S. Mattingly
- --   [e-mail]
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 06:49:52 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Survey of musical roots

Michele,
What an interesting post, hope you will publish the
conclusions of your survey.

But wouldn't _real_ punks, like kamikaze pilots, fail
to survive their finest hour?

You might also consider that the overlap areas are not so much
as a result of common interest in the _subject matter_, but
through common traits in the followers, ie that neither punks
nor exoticans really care if their music doesn't suit the majority.
The Australians have a word for such people, whom they call dags.
A dag is actually a rather unpleasant thing, but to be called
a dag is a compliment: it means that you're an individualist,
and to be held in esteem because you're your own person.

Best wishes,
Hugh
(too old to have been a punk, but unconcerned by fashion).


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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:02:16 +0200
From: David Retief <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ramsey Lewis

My biggest surprise in quite a while came care of Mr Ramsey Lewis a
fortnight back.  Mother Nature's child is quite a bland looking lp with
Ramsey playing the piano in a jungle studio surrounded and covered by
squirrels and raccoons - but does it rock!!!  All tracks have great moog
intros and are damn funky.  Definitely not a Beatles tribute, all tracks
are Lennon/Mcartney but quite obscure choices really and they work.
I'm posting this 'cause you have to get this if you see it and I almost
didn't.
Oh, my friend C tells me Buddy Rich played on JJP Moog Indigo...I should've
known.

I am really looking forward to that new one...mmm.
DavidR.




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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:05:25 +0200
From: David Retief <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Recent find reviews

I mean to post mini-reviews but here at work - never time to play - so here
goes...

=> Stan Getz - Reflections (arr Lalo Schifrin & Claus Ogerman - '63)
Great! Great! Great!  Mellow and non bossa with plenty wordless vocals
arranged by Mr Schifrin.  You've obvoiusly gotta like Stan Getz but the
others most  definitely leave there mark.

=> Man with the Golden Arm OST
Great cover, but I'm actually dissappointed with this.  I got excited by
the session line-up and knowing the title track wanted more melody and big
brass.  Very moody tracks and and too soundtracky and demanding (expecting
a shootdown...)

=> Brass Menagerie 1973 - Enoch Light & LB
Very cool stuff with great versions of Donovan's Season of the Witch
(sitar), Carol King's I feel the Earth Move (yes, there are good versions
after J Keating) and a refreshingly interesting Shaft with bongos.  Dick
Hyman has a moog workout on the last track.

=> Antonio Carlos Jobim w/ Nelson Riddle
Very nice bossa with ACJ singing on most tracks.  Nelson Riddle adds a lush
string backround as hoped.

=> Astrud Gilberto - September 19, 1969
Brilliant, perhaps my favourite Astrud.  Opens with Beginnings (on Espresso
Espresso), the main lovely feature being the production (great 70's
smooth)especially of her voice.  Big sound.

=> Howard Roberts Quartet - So Nice?
I know this is stricly jazz but that can be argued of most of the stuff we
discuss and HRoberts deserves an honourable mention.  I love all the stuff
I've come across - great organ/e guitar combo sound /w Shelley Mann
drumming and Dave Gruisin on the electric organ on this specific one.
That's all I can remember remotely, unfortunately
DavidR.




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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 02:42:27 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) List of exotica CDs, etc.

As I have mentioned from time to time on the group, I have a record &
CD business here in San Francisco, specializing in shows, vocals,
some soundtracks (the more unusual the better) and offbeat stuff.
Don't have a catalog or website yet--but I put together lists of new
releases/arrivals which I email to everyone on my e-mailing list.
Please feel free to drop a line to be added to that list, and
I'll send you a copy of my latest list of (& all my past lists, too, if you
request it).  Highlights of the current monster list include--and I
quote:

    April Stevens, TEACH ME TIGER--Classic sultry babe album from 1960 (originals are valued at $100!) on CD, plus nearly 20 additional
tracks with her brother, saxophonist/singer Nino Tempo (they scored a huge hit with Deep Purple in '63).  Mostly standards (Do It Again, Tea for
Two, Indian Love Call, Whispering, Begin the Beguine, I Get Ideas, Paradise, Honeysuckle Rose) and a few more, uh, contemporary sounding songs
(All Strung Out, Poison of Your Kiss, Baby Weemus)
                   Various Artists, MARIJUANA UNKNOWNS, VOL. 1--Dozen ultra-rare marijuana songs of the psychedelic era by forgotten psychedelic
bands; songs incl. Mary Jane is Love, Pot Party & Stoned Is
    MANDINGO--Funky '70s blend of blacksploitation music and 60s exotica,  played on both primitive and electric instruments by an
uncredited ensemble (or is the artist Mandingo??), with tracks like Jungle Wedding, Moon Goddess, Pagan Ritual, Chant of the Virgins, Black Fire
and Sacrifice.
    Various Artists, THRILLER MEMORANDUM--Spy/thriller collection--billed as "24 cracking shots of leather armchair mood swingers
inspired by the world of international espionage"--by obscure sleazy-listening ensembles of the 60s and 70s, incl. Ken Woodman & His Picadilly
Brass, the orchestras of John Shakespeare, Tony Hatch, Mike Hurst & Brian Marshall.  Tracks incl. Danger Man, The Party, Kissy Suzuki, Ghost
Squad, The Saint, Mission Impossible, The Silencers
    Various, BEAT AT CINECITTA VOL. 2--Follow-up CD to the successful
vol. of Italian soundtrack music.
    Andre Popp, DELIRIUM IN HI-FI--You know, a lot of lounge & easy listening recordings of the 50s & 60s promised mayhem and hysteria
in their titles and didn't deliver.  THIS ONE DELIVERS!  Electronically created and altered instruments & vocals abound in this 1957 release by
French arranger-composer Popp (who later wrote the smash instrumental
Love is Blue). Dutch import.
    Raymond Scott's SOOTHING SOUNDS FOR BABY: AN INFANT'S FRIEND IN SOUND, vol. 1-3--Legendary early experimental
recordings by rediscovered mad musical genius Raymond Scott (Mr. Dorothy Collins to you).  Despite their title, these recordings, each ostensibly
created for a different stage of infancy (1-6 months, 6-12 months, 12-18 months) are, in reality, an "often skull-splitting...mixture of high frequency
easy listening and sonic space-pop that, when cranked up, would keep not only the baby awake and bawling, but half the neighborhood, too."  You go,
mad genius!  Dutch import.
    SETTING THE SCENE--22 tracks of generic, often funky easy listening music from the KPM Music Library, with titles like Percussion
Highway, Heat Haze, Underlying Expectancy, Afro Metropolis, Safari So Good, etc.
    Various artists, CELEBRITIES AT THEIR WORST!--Amaze your friends with the ultimate collection of flubs, outtakes and foul-mouthed
hilarity from the likes of Julie London, Carol Burnett, Zsa Zsa, Elvis, Brando, Liz, Frank, Dean & Sammy, incl. truly horrific tirades by Buddy Rich
& Paul Anka.  2-CD set.
    Various/Betty Page, JUNGLE GIRL--Follow-up to the popular DANGER GIRL CD honoring the great Betty Page.  21 original burlesque
tracks in a digipak with 20-pg. color booklet of glamor shots & rare
nudes of Betty.
    Criswell, THE LEGENDARY CRISWELL PREDICTS YOUR INCREDIBLE FUTURE--I CANNOT RECOMMEND TOO HIGHLY
this wacky recording by the star of Ed Wood's infamous PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, and early television personality, in which he unctuously
and often ungrammatically spouts off about the future:  "I predict the new age of nudity for the human body will be glorified!  Body design, self-
painted, will take up most of your spare time!  Women will decorate their breasts in startling colors, while men will decorate their genitals!  Those who
are politically orinated [sic] will print body slogans on themselves and this will take place [sic] of the present-day bumper stickers!  I was not allowed
to say [this] on television, radio, or in my column, as the advertisers would clomp down on me, and clomp VERY heavily."  Huh?  $14.99.  Also avail.:
Original soundtrack, ORGY OF THE DEAD, another insane, inane Ed Wood
vehicle starring--who else?--Criswell, and THE WORST, an original Ed Wood musical (!) by Josh Alan.
    Mary Schneider, YODELING THE CLASSICS--I LOVE THIS CD!  Billed as "Australia's Queen of Yodeling," Schneider yodels--are you
ready?--the William Tell Overture, Brahms Lullaby, Semper Fidelis & more.  (She also sings--in a pleasing, older soprano voice.)  For those of you
who don't know me and wonder what my musical tastes are like--what, for example, I might go into a store and buy unheard--THIS IS IT!  Speaking
of yodeling, that's exactly what I did with Trude Mally & Luise Wagner, the old (VERY old) German singers who yodel Tyrolean mountain songs.
And I didn't regret it!  I highly recommend their 1994 release, DOS
IS MEI HOAMATLE.
    LSD: BATTLE FOR THE MIND--This CD combines two naive, paranoid late 60s LPs explaining why LSD is a greater threat to America
than the atomic bomb--Willard Cantellon's LP of the same name, plus W. Cleon Skousen's INSTANT INSANITY DRUGS.  Skousen is the author of
such "best sellers" as "The Naked Communist."  (Figures.)
    Jack Kevorkian (yes, THE Jack Kevorkian)--THE KEVORKIAN SUITE (subtitled A VERY STILL LIFE--get it?) features the good
doctor on flute & organ on this much talked-about 12-track contemporary jazz instrumental CD.  Apparently he practices between court appearances
and--what would you call them?--extinguishings?  Personally I'd prefer he sang vintage tunes (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You; I'm
Checking Out, Goombye; My Man's Gone Now), but you can't always get what you want.  (Is it true his next CD will be acoustic and called
UNPLUGGED?).
    Various, A CRAFTY LADIES CHRISTMAS (45 rpm)--7-track EP recorded by the participants in the arts program of the San Francisco
Recreation Center for the Handicapped.  Read between THOSE lines.
This is a MUST for collectors of, shall we say, unusualia?
    SOUNDS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ADULT BOOKSTORE--Described as "authentic, totally uncensored field recordings," this
purports to be a narrated tour through Frenchy's Books, New Locker Room Video, Le Salon & other porn palaces.  7" 45 rpm pressed on milky white
vinyl with full-color picture sleeve of the inside of an adult
bookstore.
    VINYL ONLY:  Dick Schory & the Percussive Art Ensemble, RE-PERCUSSION (Concert Disc label)--Hard to find 50s LP by the guy
behind BANG, BARROOM & HARP. Mint, minor cover wear.

So feel free to drop a line--I'll put you on my list.




Michael Mascioli
All Music Services
530 14th St., suite 9
San Francisco, CA  94103
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