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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 05:16:29 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Touchy!

>
>
>Anyone in the USA ever found a "Touchy Button" for their Lui Lui LP?
>
>Stefan/Subliminal Sounds

I have two! I can give you one of mine for free. ...Now thats a
terrific record indeed.

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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:39:35 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Survey of musical roots

Wondering if I'll get this in before the "enough awready wit' the punk"
backlash starts...

Okay, yeah, register me as a veteran punk fan, beginning when I heard "Anarchy
In The UK" on WXPN in early '77.

But then again, I always gravitated towards obscure music. And this tendency
got a huge boost around, uh, '75 when I found WXPN, a way-out, free-form
station at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania (sadly taken over by the
NPR Folk Police in the late 80's). You can imagine the impact on my young mind
of a steady diet of European space music (Can, Faust, Tangerine Dream, etc (I'm
just not comfortable with the term "kraut-rock" -- besides I don't hear much
rock in it)), leftist art-rock (Henry Cow, Hatfield & The North, Magma, etc),
synth/minimalism (Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, Riley, Reich,
etc), avant-jazz (Sun Ra, O.Coleman, the AACM crowd -- Art Ensemble of Chicago,
Anthony Braxton, etc) and contemporary classical (Harry Partch and so on).
Whew. Besides that (partly via 'XPN, partly on my own) there was pre-punk stuff
like Brian Eno (at the time, he seemed like a colorless, odorless gas which
penetrated everywhere -- even onto a Genesis album!), solo John Cale and that
first VU album. This is all a gross oversimplification, of course (and where
does the Bonzo Dog Band fit in on this continuum?).

So when punk hit, I was ready (and already well-trained at digging out obscure
and/or import records). At the time, punk floored me because it seemed to ball
up so much that I liked: the fun of rock, the energy of screaming free jazz and
the "into the void" "prankster with a cause" commitment of the dada movement
(which I had just recently discovered and dug into the history). The DIY
element was also very key, but really that didn't soak in until well after the
initial impact. Today, it's almost hard to remember what a "new" sound punk was
at the time.

No, punk is not "exotica" on a musical level, or even on a philosophical level
(other than the "opposition to rock" angle and maybe some other things). But it
does connect to genres which do contain the exotic impulse (meaning an emphasis
on atmosphere, texture, "otherness"), like space music and industrial (as
discussed the other week). Mr. Rotten was a huge Can fan, as the old saw goes.

But once you get past the real ramalama punk bands, one does find more solid
connections in groups like: The B-52's (I think their interviews were the first
place I saw Yma Sumac mentioned), Devo (obvious pop-synth children), Bow Wow
Wow (faux tribalism) or The Monochrome Set (too many years since I've heard
them to comment). As Will noted, the John Barry sort of sound (or a cool,
hipster sound anyway) was definitely in the atmosphere. Ever heard Lydia
Lunch's languid cover of "Spooky"? (was that with 8 Eyed Spy?)

As far as some wonderful, withering statement for your anti-lounge critic, I
don't think I have it. Maybe a lot of punks wound up here because of natural
disposition towards the different. Maybe because punk was partly about
destroying barriers. Or maybe we're just exploring the many worlds that open up
when you reject Clapton as your God.

Sorry for the length. Thanks for the space (as Jessica says).

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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:04:18 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist Fantastica

Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday
15-16 h.




Fantastica # 46




* Don Harper: "Dr Who"
      [compil. LP: "Beat Actione"]
* Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo: "Moon Gas"
      [compil. LP: "Beat Actione"]
* Tipsy: "Nude On The Moon"
      [CD: "Trip Tease"]
* Leroy Holmes: "Emotions"
      [compil. LP: "Beat Actione"]
* Roy Budd + BBC Radio News: "Hiroshima Mon Amour MIX"
      [CD: "Rebirth Of The Budd"]
* ?: "Interloodio"
      [compil. LP: "Beat Actione"]
* Jaques Lossier: "Ballet Photo Rouge"
      [compil. LP: "Beat Actione"]
* Ego Plum: "Electro Cutie"
      [CD: "Anthology Of Infection, Volume 1"]
* Air: "Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi"
      [CD: "Premiers Symptomes"]
* Don Tiki: "Barbi In Bali"
      [CD: "The Forbidden Sounds Of Don Tiki"]
* Cachao Y Su Ritmo Caliente: "A Gozar Timbero"
      [compil. CD: "Mambo Mania"]
* Le Groupe Angklung: "Hallo-Hallo Bandung"
      [LP: "L'Indonesie"]
* Kiddiecraft Records: "Jack Be Nimble"
      [7": "Dancing Songs And Rhymes"]
* The Mike Samms Singers: "He Who Would Valient Be"
      [compil. LP: "Beat Actione"]
* Kiddiecraft Records: "Skip To My Loo"
      [7": "Dancing Songs And Rhymes"]
* The Do-Re-Mi Childrens Choir: "Spooky"
      [compil. LP: "Beat Actione"]
* Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood: "Journey To The East"
      [compil. LP: "Beat Actione"]
* Hanna-Barbera: "Wally Gator (Main Title)"
      [CD: "Hanna-Barbera Classics Volume 1"]
* Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd: "Samba De Uma Nota So"
      [CD: "Jazz Samba"]
* Lorne Greene: "Bonanza"
      [7": "Bonanza"]
* Tsai Chin: "Any Old Iron"
      [7": "Any Old Iron"]





(CD) = bestaat op CD (exists on CD)


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        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm

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Date: Tue,  3 Feb 1998 20:47:56 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:(exotica) Survey of musical roots

Just to present an different (but not opposing) view: I don't think there's any
relation really between Punk and Lounge music.  I know a lot of old punkers who
either stuck with old punk, migrated to punk's bastard child, Hardcore, migrated
through Naked City to free Jazz or just faded away and listened to Jimmy Buffett
and Blues Travelers the rest of their lives.

I came to Exotica through a decidely non-punk vehicle.  I DJed for a college
station and developed a taste for all sorts of obscure musics, including, but
not limited to funk, prog, exotica, electro-acoustic, heavy rock, free jazz,
experimental, noise, etc. etc. although, not particluarly punk.  I found this
list totally by accident (I subscribe to the Zorn list on the XMission server
also) and have since been turned on to all sorts of wonderful things.

I guess my point is again, that I don't think there's any connection between
punk and lounge, per se, except perhaps for those people who just love music in
general and I think you find a lot of that on this list (and the Zorn list).
When people can rave about a range of performers that includes everyone from
Martin Denny to Pierre Henry, that says something.

I will say, though, that I think you are right in comparing the DIY attitude
that's prevalent in Lounge, and will note that the same attitude also appears in
techno/rave stuff and the downtown jazz scene.

So, that's my two cents, for the non-punkers.

Peter


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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 21:15:42 -0000
From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) JTQ

hey groovesters

Re the ongoing JTQ thing ... someone was asking about their changing sound
... well I don't know much about their more recent stuff but the first few
releases were definitely 60s go-go beat combo stylee with this lineup:

Jamie Taylor - org
David Taylor - gtr
Allan Crockford - bs
Simon Howard - dms

and released

"BLow Up" 7" single  Mar 87 or thereabouts
"Mission Impossible" mini-LP (seven cuts @ 45rpm) mid-87
"Money Spyder" LP Dec 87

all on their own label "Re-Elect the President".

The original lineup then split and JT signed to Urban (Polydor) in early 88
with a new band (AFAICR incl the ex-Style Council drummer) where he did the
Starsky & Hutch remake, which came out on a single, and then I kinda lost
interest ...  there were a series of IMHO kinda bland albums for Polydor,
and Acid Jazz, and Verve. JT's back on his own label now I think.

Before the JTQ of course there wuz the Prisoners - GREAT band - anyone here
dig'em? I used to go see them loads.

BTW I have a spare copy of "Scored 1-0" if anyone wants it - that's the JTQ
and spin-off groups album of covers of film/TV themes. Unplayed double
vinyl. Email me if y'interested.

lllllllllater

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 15:05:18 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More finds...electronica, etc.

Skipped out of work early for an interview and then on to Salvation Army
HQ where:

Kenneth Gaburo: Music for Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds.
George Crumb: Lux Aeterna; Dream Sequence; Four Nocturnes.

The Three Suns: Ding Dong Dandy Record. This one is on the turn table
for the third time: a blast. To my taste, 2nd only to Movin' & Groovin'.

H. Mancini: Hatari! Exotic Mancini. Good fun.

waugh

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 15:08:11 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) oops.

That's
The Three Suns: Ding Dong Dandy Christmas.

Cut and paste challenged,

bw

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 15:08:11 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) oops.

That's
The Three Suns: Ding Dong Dandy Christmas.

Cut and paste challenged,

bw

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 15:05:18 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More finds...electronica, etc.

Skipped out of work early for an interview and then on to Salvation Army
HQ where:

Kenneth Gaburo: Music for Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds.
George Crumb: Lux Aeterna; Dream Sequence; Four Nocturnes.

The Three Suns: Ding Dong Dandy Record. This one is on the turn table
for the third time: a blast. To my taste, 2nd only to Movin' & Groovin'.

H. Mancini: Hatari! Exotic Mancini. Good fun.

waugh

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 19:43:21 -0800
From: "V.Stoltz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Punk/Exotica?  Punk/Polka !!!!

>  However, I suspect there may be a significant percentage of you who have roots
> in punk.

Punk was the first music that I purchased (while I was in college) that
was not based on the Top 40 radio hits, so count me in as one who has
the punk-exotica lineage.

But I also used to be, while in high school, a drummer in a polka band
and there are also strong linkages between Punk and Polka.

Both are high tempo high energy music that builds a real sense of
community within the local audience.  Both have high energy dancing -
one can get just as sweaty swinging to a fast polka as when one is
pogo-ing in one spot to the fast paced punk beats.  I've experienced
enough 'elbows in the side' and witnessed enough bodies being knocked to
the floor with both music styles.

The biggest difference between Polka/Punk and in a way Punk/Exotica is
that most punk songs have very angry lyrics and are very critical of the
world, while polka/exotica has more of a "forget your troubles - let's
celebrate while we can" attitude.  Also Polka bands generally played for
a wide range of ages (usually at a large family wedding celebration)
while most Punk bands played in dark clubs to a very narrow age range.

Also, I never was spit on while playing in a polka band.  Spilt beer,
Yes, but never spit.

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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 19:39:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Brett Leveridge <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 50s Hi-Fi

I just scored a ton of '40s 78s today but have no way of playing them (I
know, I know...a member of this list iwthout a turntable - shocking!).

Anyone know of a source for an affordable player or hi-fi set? I can't use
a victrola, I'm told. Apparently machines from the 'teens, '20s and '30s
do major damage to '40s records.

Any pointers?

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 17:07:49 -0800
From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More finds...electronica, etc.

Ben Waugh wrote:
>
> Skipped out of work early for an interview and then on to Salvation Army
> HQ where:
>
> Kenneth Gaburo: Music for Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds.


i recommend anything by ken gaburo..... it's a bit hard to find
though.... i studied composition at ucla with a colleague of his, and
she played me lots of his unreleased stuff..... all really great, mostly
group-vocal experiments....

pea hicks


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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:55:38 -0800
From: "Jim G" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Nat King Cole

Thanks for the reminder of the A & E Nat bio.....I greatly enjoyed the
story of "Nature Boy" , the old interview clips of Eden Ahbez, and the
apparently recent brief interviews with list regulars Pete Rugolo, Billy
May and Nat's bongo player smilin' Jack Costanzo, who looks like he could
talk your ear off about the good old days.  If he's still around, he'd make
a hell of an interview, unless someone's done this already and I missed it.


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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:17:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Anthony Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dags

- ---Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 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,

This may not be the place for semantic debate; still I always thought
a *dag* was more a wanker with a bad attitude than an proud
individualist.

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 19:33:56 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Webpage stuff

Thanks for those who have posted their URL's most recently.  I plan to add
them as links within the week.  Meantime, look up the Ruth Wallis stuff I
just added.  My playlists are not quite all there but I do have this week's
and next's already up.  I hope to do new scans of all the terrible looking
graphics soon with large versions of all the albums optional.

Byron

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 19:51:14 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Costanzo

and Nat's bongo player smilin' Jack Costanzo, who looks like he could
>talk your ear off about the good old days.  If he's still around, he'd make
>a hell of an interview, unless someone's done this already and I missed it.
>Jim G

Jack is still around.  He lives in San Diego, CA

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 20:58:27 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello,

My name's Jack and I sell high quality previously enjoyed records from
primarily the late 1940's through the 70's, specializing in BUT not limited
to;

Exotica, Space Age Pop, West Coast Jazz, Beatnik Poetry, Spoken Word,
Instrumental Steel Guitars, 60's Instrumental Pop/Rock Guitar, TV and Film
Soundtracks, Easy Listening, Beatnik and Private Eye Jazz, Outer Space,
Wordless Pop Vocals, Male and Female Jazz/Jazz Pop Vocals, Moog, Musique
Concrete, MOOG/Electronics, Psychedelic, Country Jazz, Theremin,
Nude/Cheesecake Album Covers, Jungley Tropical Rhythms Pounding Out Voodoo
Beams of Love and Erotica AND much much more;-)

Much of the music that I play on my radio show at KFJC-FM
(http://www.kfjc.org)
Sundays from 9AM-Noon

Some of the LP's are expensive and some are not but 1 thing is for sure is
that I don't sell junk.  All killer no filler.

I have an e-mail mailing list in which I send out lists of LP's I have
for sale that are graded Goldmine Collecting Standards *strict*, that
have extensive "Liner Notes" describing the sounds that lie within the
grooves leaving nothing to the imagination ;)

Do you want to be on my e-mail mailing list ?  If so then just reply
with a "Hey Jack!  Please add me to your mailing list dude" or some
reasonable facsimile there of;)  If not, then just don't.

Thank you very much for your time and bye for now.

Sincerely,
Jack Diamond
http://www.jackdiamond.com
http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 22:54:50 -0800
From: "super k. riot" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) korla pandit

well, i;m new to the list but i wanna say that i dig all the posts. but
to get started on a subject. i just want to share a little story i have
on korla pandit.  a few years back some friends and i thought we;d check
out this event going on at a drive-in theater called azusa-palooza, (it
was in the city of azusa CA not far from pasadena. it was supposed to be
a fifties kinda thing were some people would cruise to the drive-in and
watch bands and a movie. it was mostly people in there 30's to 50's. the
bands actually now that i think about it, there was only one band. was
jump with joey. i didn;t really care for their tunes but they were kinda
entertaining. plus they were showing 50's movies up on the drive-in
screen. they breaked though and this indian guy with a big turbin (sp)
and a jewel in the middle took the stage. he looked old but was dressed
kinda snazzy. he started talking about how the producer of the ed wood
movie screwed him over and all sorts of stuff. then a movie about india,
(i think it was a documentary) starts up, and this guy just rocks the
organ. he;s playing and playing and feelin the good vibes my friends and
i (who were drunk and had snuck in by jumping a fence to avoid the 20
dollar per car fee) were in total awe. he was so amazing! he played a
few songs then he started jamming with jump with joey. well after all
this happened i was talking to my uncle and he was saying, "no way! you
got to see korla pandit!", he went on to tell me about who he was
story...anyways that is my korla pandit story. he was pretty amazing.
and on to my next rambling: does anyone have any korla pandit on vinyl
or cd that they want to get rid of? would anyone be willing to dub their
record for me? i haven;t heard any of his stuff since. i will pay for
the tape, record, whatever. thanks in advance.
ken

p.s. is he still playing, is he still alive?
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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 07:04:48 -0500
From: citizen kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fred lowery questions

hi, all,

does anyone have a list of re-issues of blind whistler fred lowery
and/or a discography of his original (78) recordings???

thanks,

citizen kafka
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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 07:07:34 -0500
From: citizen kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) blind fred lowery questions

hi, all,

does anyone have a list of re-issues of blind whistler fred lowery
and/or a discography of his original (78) recordings???

thanks,

citizen kafka
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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:43:50 -0000
From: "Downie, William" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) getting into exotica

There has been much talk about fans of exotica who used to be punks. Is
there anyone on the list who is a bit younger on the list?  I got into
music through The Stone Roses and The Happy Mondays and Primal Scream.
Then at college I wanted to have the best record collection so began
scouring charity shops in Glasgow for  old Seeds lps or a Faces single
or  Sly and the Family Stone singles. And through this discovering other
sounds such as Studio Two lps and Burt Bacharach lps.  And then from
this getting into Exotica.


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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 08:49:28 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) getting into exotica

While I can't help Mr. Downie (I'm 34), I first heard Yma Sumac when I was
13 because of my Uncle and my mother had music from all the countries I
could pronounce and my father would listen one of  the Spanish-language
stations in NY (Radio WADO) and my brother and I both liked Osibisa and
Herbie Mann's album Afro-Jazz.

LATER, I bought a Bad Brains EP...


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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:51:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fred lowery questions

At 07:04 AM 2/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>hi, all,
>does anyone have a list of re-issues of blind whistler fred lowery
>and/or a discography of his original (78) recordings???
>thanks,
>citizen kafka
>secret museum of the air

Hey, Citizen K! Nice surprise to see you here -- will you be hanging around
or are you just passing through? It would be great to hear from a guy who
truely knows how the 'exotic' got into Exotica.

To partially answer your question (this is a Lowery release, but not of
78s), here's a write-up (by a former Exotica list member) from the All Music
Guide.

- --Lou

Artist              Fred Lowery
Album Title         Whistle a Happy Tune!
AMG Rating          (Good)
Genre               Easy

Album Review
 Muzzy Marcellino is not the only virtuoso whistler, and near-blind Fred
Lowery's technique is even more dazzling. Accompanied by the Anita Kerr
Singers, Lowery achieves sounds on Whistle a Happy Tune! that would be
absolutely impressive if sung or blown through or a horn. The high vibrato
certainly is hard to imagine coming from any other source. On the great
Decca label, one of the best guarantees of unpretentious worth and novelty.
- -- Tony Wilds

Album Releases
 z     -      Decca      DL 78995






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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 15:00:11 +0200
From: Ariel Tagar <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 50s Hi-Fi

Brett Leveridge wrote:
>
> I just scored a ton of '40s 78s today but have no way of playing them

Well, it is rather shoking, if I lived somewhere near you
I would have give you one of mine... somehwo I keep buying these Hi Fi
sets and all kind of players- closet players, desk players, coffe table
sets and portable sets- I dont know where to put them.


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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:03:47 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Elvis & Burt

>"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."

One song ended up on the soundtrack to a movie called (something like) THe
Grace Of My Heart (or similarly titled). Costello and Bacharach haven't
actually met eachother during the composing, they're playing bits they've
come up with over the phone!! Pretty complicated if you ask me...apperantly
it'll be a 12-track album.


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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:03:26 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: Re: (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 think younger people like myself, born in the 2nd half of the seventies,
who like lounge music, might come from a post-rock/shoegazing
background...it's the same thing again there, the whole DYI thing, people
who release records on indielabels (in the true sense of the word, not
'fake' indies backed up by majors) and distribute them through other
channels than the usual (word by mouth instead of big adverts in the
mainstream press, for example). I really admire the whole Bristol 'scene',
not the triphop one, but the one with Flying Saucer Attack, Movietone, 3rd
Eye Foundation, Hood, et al (Home recording bands whose music can sound
like anything from the most abrasive drone drumandbass stuff to the softest
folkmusic). They don't care about the music press at all and basically
never do any interviews - not because they're arrogant but because they
aren't intrested in the media and are not dependent of the press to sell
records - but they still reach out to a lot of people who buy their stuff.
I think we're currently in a phase where more and more people are getting
tired of Britpop and its arrogance with the same old influences, that's why
bands like Stereolab or High Llamas who are extremely influenced by
exotica-ish music sound really fresh and 'new' (particularly since music
like Enoch Light or Les Baxter haven't been exposed and plundered the way
The Beatles and The Stones have been) - they're the perfect antidote to
Britpop.

What does this have with Exotica?? Don't ask me! :)

Chester W. Nimitz





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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:31:49 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Elvis & Burt

> One song ended up on the soundtrack to a movie called (something like) THe
> Grace Of My Heart (or similarly titled). Costello and Bacharach haven't
> actually met eachother during the composing, they're playing bits they've
> come up with over the phone!! Pretty complicated if you ask me...apperantly
> it'll be a 12-track album.

I just happened to catch "Grace Of My Heart" last night. I liked parts of it,
but not a keeper for me (only my opinion). It's about a Brill Building
songwriter, sort of a composite of Carole King and Ellie Greenwich? Lots of
fictionalized versions of real people, making for an odd parallel world
phenomenon, which really gets jarred when they mention real people. Anyway, the
Elvis rendition of "God Give Me Strength" runs under the closing credits.
There's also a female vocal w/ piano rendition of it in the film (the credits
were too tiny for me to make out the singer).

Now, at the end of the PBS Bacharach documentary that ran a little while back,
there was a mini-feature on Burt & Elvis tacked on afterwards to fill out the
hour. I may not have this straight, so take this with chunks of salt, but my
impression was that "God Give Me Strength" was sort of their "try-out" project
- -- and they talked about how they worked on it over the phone, at least
initially. But I *think* there was some footage of them in the same studio
(unless my memory is muddling together jump cuts of them). Anyway, that song
apparently went well enough for them to continue with more. Good for them.

Can anyone clear all of this up? Thanks.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:36:03 +0000 (HELP)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Lounge Punks on Dope

"My enemy's enemy is my ally" - when I was a snotty nosed punk
playing in power pop, then ska, then darkwave bands, the enemy was
AOR/"classic" rock/peter Frampton, and their enemy was adult pop,
so we therefore embraced easy listening for its implicit anti-rock
qualities.  Hippies hated bands in ca. 1961 thin-lapelled suits and
skinnier ties, so we embraced the Ratpack-James Bond sensibility.
We also used sounds rock had "matured" beyond, like Farfisa organs
and reverby surf guitars and melody (read the liner notes to Split
Enz's greatest hits for a proto-punk, anti-rock defence of lounge
as offering an oasis of melody, arrangement, frivolity in the desert
of 70s rock).  Of course, if you're a pop fan growing up in a rock
world, Bacharach and bossa and TJ-brass are musical saviors just a turn
of the dial away, and punk -and even more, new wave - gave me a
manifesto for coming out of the closet of suburban rock conformity.
But what about today's young people, who listen to lounge?  Do they
have some memory of adult easy listening before it was Bolton-ized?

From BossaNovaVille,
Keir


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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:30:24 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) easy tempo 4

i didn't like vol 4 of the italian "easy tempo" series half as much as the
previous 3 volumes! the subtitle should have been "roots of acid jazz"
because that's exactly what it is. only side 4 (of the dble lp version)
sounded like the other volumes.

        Johan

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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:19:48 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist Fantastica

Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday
15-16 h.




Fantastica # 47: "Ten little Indians"


* Ken Thorne: "A Day In The Life"
      [compil. LP: "PPQ Boogaloo Deluxe 001. Love Is A Swedish Thing"]
* Kiddiecraft Records: "Ten Little Indians"
      [7": "Number Songs And Rhymes"]
* Tommy Downs: "Big Indian"
      [compil. CD: "Wa-Chic-Ka-Nocka"]
* Larry Verne: "Mister Custer"
      [LP: "Mister. Larry Verne"]
* Cary Grant & Kids: "Indian War Dance"
      [Film: "Monkey Business"]
* Los Straitjackets: "Lonely Apache"
      [CD: "!Viva!"]
* Film Trailer: "Caged Heat"
      [compil. LP: "Forbidden City Dog Food"]
* Nico Fidenco: "A Dive Into The Past"
      [soundtrack CD: "Zombi Holocaust"]
* Sound Effect: "Bugblatter Beast Of Traal - Walks"
      [CD: "BBC Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol 1"]
* Murtaugh: "Slinky"
      [compil. LP: "Rare Funk 8 - Psyche"]
* Sound Effect: "Bugblatter Beast Of Traal - Roars"
      [CD: "BBC Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol 1"]
* Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra: "One Step Beyond"
      [LP (CD): "Greatest Science Fiction Hits"]
* Lalo Schifrin: "Danube Incident"
      [soundtrack LP (CD): "Mission: Impossible!"]
* Christopher Komeda: "Lullaby, Part 1"
      [soundtrack LP (CD): "Rosemary's Baby"]
* Mark Wirtz: "A Touch Of Velvet - A Sting Of Brass"
      [CD: "The Go-Go Music Of Mark Wirtz"]
* Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis: "Intro Tune, Jerry Tries To Sing"
      [Cassette: "The Martin & Lewis Show"]
* Mel Blanc: "Bugs Bunny Meets Hiawatha"
      [7": "Bugs Bunny"]
* Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis: "Countdown"
      [Cassette: "The Martin & Lewis Show"]
* Jerry Lewis: "Come Rain Or Come Shine"
      [LP: "Just Sings"]
* Buddy Cole: "Caravan"
      [LP: "Ingenuity In Sound"]
* Bruno Nicolai: "Spy Chase"
      [soundtrack CD: "Agente Speciale LK"]
* Walter Wanderley: "Bicho Do Mato"
      [CD: "The Fantastic Walter Wanderley"]
* Angelo Badalamenti: "Twin Peaks Theme"
      [soundtrack CD: "Twin Peaks (TV Series)"]
* Peter Thomas Sound Orchester: "Gente"
      [CD: "Easy Loungin'. Twenty Easy Listening Classics"]
* Film Trailer: "Locker Room Girls"
      [compil. LP: "Forbidden City Dog Food"]
* Scouts: "Mr Custer Stomp"
      [compil. CD: "Jungle Exotica Volume 2"]
* Henry Mancini: "Arabesque"
      [compil. CD: "Crime Jazz. Music In The Second Degree"]





(CD) = bestaat op CD (exists on CD)


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        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm

        Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis

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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 10:41:07 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Enchanted Tiki Room LP

Hello,

I am looking for a CLEAN copy of this Disneyland LP

If anyone has a copy that they would like to sell or trade or whatever,
PLEASE let me know privately

Thank you!

Jack



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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:54:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeanne Milazzo <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hello

Hello,

My name is John, and I just subscribed to this list for two reasons. For
one it's part of an assignment for my class in school, and second I enjoy
searching for strange LPs wherever I can easpecially tracking down any
Moog/Electronic LPs.






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