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exotica-digest        Thursday, March 12 1998        Volume 02 : Number 064



In This Digest:

(exotica) New and modern music
(exotica) New and modern music
Re:  (exotica) Weekend Goodies... -Reply
(exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply
(exotica) Re: What IS Schlager
(exotica) Man In Space
(exotica) The Flying Red Horse Polka
(exotica) A question
Re: (exotica) Man In Space
(exotica) Re:  Bond compilation
(exotica) The High Llamas...
(exotica) Mailing List Trivia
Re: (exotica) exotica movies (formerly Mancini, etc)
Re: [Br. Cleve: Re: (exotica) Three Suns]
Re: (exotica) The High Llamas...
(exotica) soundtracks
Re: (exotica) soundtracks
Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg
(exotica) Milton Delugg
RE: (exotica) Milton Delugg
Re: (exotica) soundtracks
Re: (exotica) The High Llamas...
Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg
(exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie.
(exotica) Re:  Milton DeLugg?
(exotica) New and modern music ATA TAK
Re: (exotica) soundtracks
(exotica) Milton Delugg and his band with a Thug
Re: (exotica) Exotic Percussion (again!)
(exotica) High Llamas contact
(exotica) Don Fln Party Ñ NYC
Re: (exotica) Barry.  More?
(exotica) thriftstore dilemma

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:43:47 EST
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New and modern music

Hey all,

Chester wrote:
> << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen
to? So far,
> I understand Air and Combustible Edison are appreciated among some of you
> but what else? A lot of that French stuff such as Kid Loco and other stuff
> like Mouse on Mars and Stereolab and  High Llamas certainly go hand in hand
> with some of this list's musical Gods. Even something like Aphex Twin
> sounds like a logical Nineties progression if you listen to something like
> Pierre Henry....>>
Funny you ahould bring this up...  Here in Montreal, our favourite
store uses "acid jazz" for anything that they can't otherwise
classify and isn't original-retro exotica.  That's precisely where
you'd find two of the best 90's prjects:  Tipsy and Sukia. Then there's
the whole "surf & drag " scene aka. The Phantom Surfers, Man.. or
Astro Man. etc.  Also lots of great stuff on the Mai Tai label aka. The Tiki Tones.
Incidentally, Pierre Henry's "Machine Dance"  is a personal favourite!

Personally, I find it a challenge trying to wade throught the "categories"
of 90's electronica but there's a lot out there worth looking at,
Aphex Twin certainly being among them.  Definitely a name to check out is
Pascal Comelade, who has for years been perfoming his own hybrid of
Nino Rota inspired cabaret music using toy instruments. Also, lots of
interesting stuff on the German AtaTak label over the years that has
been inspired by exotica, not the least of which is the recent
release by The Bad Examples that was discussed on the list. Lots of
fun things also on the German A-Musik label, particularly a recent
release by F X Randomiz.  A-Musik was a pioneering label with personalities
from it moving on to such projects as Oval, Mouse on Mars, and POL.
This said, there's altogether too much of the same thing going on in electronica
these days if you ask me...

Brian


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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:46:15 EST
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New and modern music

Hey all,

Chester wrote:
> << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen
>to? So far,
> I understand Air and Combustible Edison are appreciated among some of you
> but what else? A lot of that French stuff such as Kid Loco and other stuff
> like Mouse on Mars and Stereolab and  High Llamas certainly go hand in hand
> with some of this list's musical Gods. Even something like Aphex Twin
> sounds like a logical Nineties progression if you listen to something like
> Pierre Henry....>>
Funny you ahould bring this up...  Here in Montreal, our favourite
store uses "acid jazz" for anything that they can't otherwise
classify and isn't original-retro exotica.  That's precisely where
you'd find two of the best 90's prjects:  Tipsy and Sukia. Then there's
the whole "surf & drag " scene aka. The Phantom Surfers, Man.. or
Astro Man. etc.  Also lots of great stuff on the Mai Tai label aka. The Tiki Tones.
Incidentally, Pierre Henry's "Machine Dance"  is a personal favourite!

Personally, I find it a challenge trying to wade throught the "categories"
of 90's electronica but there's a lot out there worth looking at,
Aphex Twin certainly being among them.  Definitely a name to check out is
Pascal Comelade, who has for years been perfoming his own hybrid of
Nino Rota inspired cabaret music using toy instruments. Also, lots of
interesting stuff on the German AtaTak label over the years that has
been inspired by exotica, not the least of which is the recent
release by The Bad Examples that was discussed on the list. Lots of
fun things also on the German A-Musik label, particularly a recent
elease by F X Randomiz.  A-Musik was a pioneering label with personalities
from it moving on to such projects as Oval, Mouse on Mars, and POL.
This said, there's altogether too much of the same thing going on in electronica
these days if you ask me...

Brian


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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:59:15 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Weekend Goodies... -Reply

Well, yeah, but I think you're missing my point.  There's
soundtrack music that is a great composition in it's own right
with catchy rhythm etc., then there's soundtrack music that
is little more than a series of swells, and musical "asides" ala
a great deal of the Bond stuff......

>>> DJJimmyBee <[e-mail]> 03/11/98
01:14pm >>>

I thought soundtrack music was practically the basis of this
whole musical
"movement"...It is an important reference point for yours truly
anyway.......Jimmy


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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:06:11 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply

Great title!!!

So where can we get this CD?????

- - Nate


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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:25:23 EST
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: What IS Schlager

Br cleve wrote:

> The material from 'Get Easy' (3 of the 4 volumes) is all from the late 60's
> and 70's, as is nearly all "easy listening" from Europe that has been
> reissued since the mid-90's. I don't know if the 50's/early 60's material
> is better, but I doubt it, in the context of what the EZ scene is about.
I'm thinking of Hildegard Knef, etc, but you're probably right about
the lower EZ listening value from this era.  Things didn't really
start to "looosen-up" until the (really) late 50's, if at all during
the decade.  I'm a bit too young to judge having been only 3 yrs old when
the 60's began!

 > >I realized that by 70's disco reared its ugly head even into Germany!
> Have you forgotten the great Georgio Moroder, whose Munich Machine teamed
> with Donna Summer to reinvent the sound? Or how about Kraftwerk? Disco was
> a worldwide phenonmenon, currently being reinvented again quite nicely by
> the French.
Having started listening to Kraftwerk via Autobahn, I remember the
difficulty  I had with the change, natural as it was for the evolution of
electronic sound.  Hey even Conrad Schnitzler did a pseudo disco
record!  All things aside, the MR record I picked up had more of a Bee
Gees feel to it so I failed to make the connection.

> Schlager has nothing in common with the go-go sound being reissued these
> days. Schlager has its roots in German beer hall music; it is a peppier,
> more pop oriented kind of oom-pah sound, sung by popular vocalists. In many
> ways, its the  Teuton equivalent of country & western music, as it's
> favored by truck drivers and the more working class type of folks.
Hmm...  I suspect you're right to a large degree but I have to cringe
at the thought  of me listening to "country & western" music.  But
from the perspective of what makes for a good EZ record, my
experience is that many of the best ones (not necessarily artistically but
most fun!) seem to be precisely  those that were originally intended to be
serious.  That being said,  there's no end to where this line of thinking
can take us, the least of which would be the vindication of those
horrid William Shatner crooner songs for instance, or even Heino!  Call
it a weakness but it's one way to sort through the offerings out there, aside
from a  totally irresistable name (hey could anyone resist  "Bobby Setter's
Cash & Carry - Live a the Moog-O-Theque", even if it did turn out to be a
moog version of "The Bird Dance" ) even if it may bring up all sort of
would be negative associations...   I think the whole bizzaro-exotica
movement as best defined through the ReSearch readings would
support my approach...    That being said, maybe Schlager could be the
next big thing (I shudder to think)!!!

> For more of the go-go sound:...
Thanks for the recommendations.  I reallly did like Gert
Wilder's I Told You Not To Cry.  Looking forward to getting the Get
Easy  German comp...  But are there two Get easy German volumes
or did I get this wrong?

Regards,

Brian


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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:51:12 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Man In Space

Hey -

I keep fogetting to say a big "thank you!" to Jack Diamond and Stefan
Kery at Subliminal for the 'Man In Space' reissue a copy of which I
picked up last week.  Love this fine slice of orchestral electronica
- - and such ENTHUSIASTIC vocal intros!

Let's have more of this stuff please!


Robbie - on his "gay way to space"...

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:00:01 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Flying Red Horse Polka

On which Three Suns album does this track show up?


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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:34:08 -0800
From: [e-mail] (James Cimarusti)
Subject: (exotica) A question

Bryan Cuevas suggested I throw this question out on the list (Thanks Bryan!):

>>>>GARY McFARLAND  Soft Samba (Verve, 1964)

My copy of the above album mentioned by Bryan is manufactured by Capitol
Records and not by MGM.
 I have two MGM records
>>>manufactured by Capitol. Was there a period when MGM didn't have
>>>their own pressing plant? (The label number was STAO ??? on the SS
>>>record, which is what Capitol records used for their gatefold sleeved
>>>records).

Anyone out there who can shed some light on this?

Thanks!

James

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:57:55 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Man In Space

Hey -

I keep forgetting to say a big "thank you!" to Jack Diamond and Stefan
Kery at Subliminal for the 'Man In Space' reissue a copy of which I
picked up last week.  Love this fine slice of orchestral electronica
- - and such ENTHUSIASTIC vocal intros!

Let's have more of this stuff please!


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Robbie,

Thanks a lot and I do mean A LOT!

The chances of "anymore" of that and the like being reissued is slim and none.

The major labels are idiots and way too greed oriented, even to their own
people!

Thanks again,

Jack



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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:05:37 -0700 (MST)
From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Bond compilation

> Any thoughts on the Bond compilation that came out recently? I think it's
> called "shaken not stirred..." or something of that sort. Can't seem to find
> it.

If you're thinking of "Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond
Project", it's a far better disc than it deserves to be.  It's a collection of
vocal and instrumental Bond OST tracks covered and/or reinterpreted by folks
like Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop, Leftfield, The Propellerheads, and Martin Fry
in association with Arnold, who scored Tomorrow Never Dies.  Very big
production sound blending orchestra and electronica, rarely sounding like a
cheap knock-off as so many of these "tribute"-style albums do.

There are a couple of tracks that do nothing for me but the bulk of the disc
is really solid -- "Diamonds Are Forever" and "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service" stand out.  My only regret is that Billy MacKenzie died before he
could do "Diamonds Are Forever" for this disc . . .

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:23:08 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: (exotica) The High Llamas...

Not only have those Llama-guys released a fantastic EP called "The Sun
Beats Down" (the best of exotica mixed with the best of the new
electronica) this week, but songwriter Sean O'Hagan has also remixed a
Pizzicato 5 song (the name escapes me at the moment, maybe you guys know
the title?) to be released in early April on Matador Records as well as
doing another remix of yet another Japanese guy called Cornelius. His song
"Microdisneycal World Tour" from his "Fantasma" album has been remixed by
O'Hagan to be released next month (I think), also on Matador Records. One
musical dream for me would be The Llamas doing something with Combustible
Edison, that'd sound fantastic, don't you guys think!??!! Finally, I might
as well post the tourdates for the Llamas forthcoming sojourn in USA, if
anyone wants to go but don't know when and where they play.

                              High Llamas
                             Spring 1998 Tour


WHEN           CLUB               CITY             WITH/

March

14             9:30 Club             WDC             Trans Am
15             Cat's Cradle          Carrboro, NC     Sharkquest
16             The Point             Atlanta      Neutral Milk Hotel
17             40 Watt               Athens           TBA
18             Howlin Wolf           New Orleans      TBA
20             Waterloo Records      Austin/SXSW     it's an in-store
21             Electric Lounge       Austin/SXSW     His Name Is Alive, others
24             Troubador             LA        Apples In Stereo
25             Great Am. Music Hall  SF              Apples In Stereo
27             Crocodile             Seattle      Apples In Stereo
28             Starfish Room         Vancouver        Apples In Stereo
29             Music Millenium       Portland       it's an in-store
31             Bluebird Theatre      Denver   Apples In Stereo

April

1               Bottleneck           Lawrence     TBA
2               Side Door            St. Louis        TBA
3               Metro                Chicago          Low
4               Concert Hall         Toronto         Exclaim magazine party
5               Secret Sounds Records  Bridgeport, CT  it's an in-store
6               Trocodaro            Philadelphia          Low
7               The Call             Providence         Low
8               Middle East          Boston          Low/TBA
9               Tramps     NYC       Low/Magnetic Fields


"Cold and Bouncy" Quotes:

"The electronic embellishments on Cold and Bouncy (the Llamas' fourth
album) help focus their melodies - especially on the serene "Tilting
Windmills"  and veer the band away from the mere rock revivalism and
occasional aimless wafting and that they were prone to in the past.  As
Brian Wilson once said, "Won, won, wonderful." - ROLLING STONE

"Sean O'Hagan still wears the hearts of Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks on
his sleeve, but finally his adventurous work with Stereolab shines through;
while there's plenty that recalls the vital orchestral pop of 1966 (i.e.
challenging, rather than vapid, easy listening), there are enough
electronic and rhythmic textures to make it seem perfectly modern."
- -CMJ MONTHLY
- ----------------------

Not affiliated with the band, just a diehard fan :)

Chester W. Nimitz





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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:56:00 -0500
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mailing List Trivia

Lazlo wrote:

>Usually I get all the undeliverable bounces, since I'm the list admin, but
>every now and then some system somewhere is misconfigured enough to send them
>to people who post to the list.

FYI, this is often accompanied by a flurry of double-posts to the
list--people misinterpret the bounce message as meaning their exotica post
didn't go through at all.

Having gotten bit by this one a few times myself,

 --Ross

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:00:54 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) exotica movies (formerly Mancini, etc)

Okay, here's a hasty and subjective listing of some films that may somehow
relate to the exotica (loose definition) sensibility -- trying to steer towards
the 60's swank zone, but often veering off-course. Apologies for repeating
anything someone else has mentioned, painfully obvious choices, or anything
exceeding your cinema pain threshold.

The Apartment
Autopsia de un Fantasma
Barbarella
Beat The Devil
Bedazzled
Bell, Book And Candle
Black Orpheus
Breathless (1959 version only!)
Casino Royale
Contempt
The Cool Ones
007 films (pref. earlier)
Dr. Strangelove
8 1/2
F For Fake
A Guide For The Married Man
In Like Flint
The Ipcress File
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Johnny Cool
Juliet Of The Spirits
The Knack, And How To Get It
Lolita
Lord Love A Duck
The Loved One
The Magic Christian
The Manchurian Candidate
Mars Needs Women
Matt Helm films
The Million Eyes Of Su Muru
Modesty Blaise
Mondo Cane
Ocean's Eleven
Orgy Of The Dead
Our Man Flint
Our Man In Havana
The Party
The Pink Panther
The President's Analyst
Seconds
A Shot In The Dark
Touch Of Evil
Thunderbirds Are Go
Vertigo
What A Way To Go!
countless assorted spy movies

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:29:11 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [Br. Cleve: Re: (exotica) Three Suns]

At 5:51 PM +0000 3/11/98, Peter Hipwell wrote:

>Is this the same "African Waltz" as the one written by Galt MacDermot?

yes it is.

br cleve




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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:28:07 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The High Llamas...

At 10:23 PM +0100 3/11/98, Chester W. Nimitz wrote:
> The Llamas doing something with Combustible
>Edison, that'd sound fantastic, don't you guys think!??!! Finally, I might
>as well post the tourdates for the Llamas forthcoming sojourn in USA, if
>anyone wants to go but don't know when and where they play.

>April
>8               Middle East          Boston          Low/TBA

This date will not be at the Middle East, but rather at my "Swank" night at
Bill's Bar/Karma on Landsdowne St. I will be DJ'ing between sets. Maybe I
should discuss ComEd remix possibilities with them while they're here.

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:58:50 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) soundtracks

At the last record show here, a friend of mine, desperate for a new
tributary, finally bit the bullet and dropped a few hundred dollars on this
soundtrack dealer.  All these soundtracks for films that were important to
him.
Got them home, listened and took them to the used record store the next day.
Where he proclaimed "It just sounds like music they play in the background
of a film"... as the clerk calculated all the money he'd lost in that short
period.
I could have saved him the money; then again, what better way to contact
your self-loathing than wasting a few hundred dollars on records you don't
want.
With the exception of the occasional record- and you guys can name them if
you want - soundtracks are only useful as objects to trigger movie memories.
There's background music and there's background music.
And then there's foreground music.  Which is fine if you like overly long
opening credit sequences.  Or musicals.

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:15:41 -1000
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Funk)
Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks

>With the exception of the occasional record- and you guys can name them if
>you want - soundtracks are only useful as objects to trigger movie memories.

Okay. Some soundtracks that I would rate among those "occasional records"
you mention that hold their own as musical masterpieces with or without the
"movie memories:"

1. The Omen by Jerry Goldsmith
2. A Clockwork Orange by Walter/Wendy Carlos and various artists
3. The Good The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morriconne
4. Once Upon A Time in The West by Ennio M.
5. Psycho by Bernard Hermann
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Ligeti, Strauss and others
7. On the Waterfront by Leonard Bernstein
8. The Man With The Golden Arm by Elmer Bernstein
9. The Piano by Michael Nyman
10. Superman:The Movie by John Williams (soft spot for this one)

... I'm sure others would be happy to add to this list.

- - Steve




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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:43:22 -0500
From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg

[e-mail] (I. Breithel) writes:

>Any other DeLugg gems to look out for? His music
>for "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" was never
>released on record, was it....?

There was an album released, but I seem to recall that
it's more of a storybook & record combo with mostly
dialogue from the film, rather than an album of the score.

I know it does have that great "Hooray for Santa Claus"
song on it, though.


Peter
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:16:24 -0800
From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Milton Delugg

In addition to "Accordion My Way", Milton Delugg also did an album of monster music in
the mid-60s.  Don't remember the exact title - something like "Music for Munsters,
Monsters and Mummies".  Anybody ever see this one?  Had a picture of the Munsters on
the cover.

It wasn't a children's record per se - more like big band renditions of themes from "The
Munsters", "The Addams Family", "Bewitched" and others, plus some tunes penned
especially for the album.  Used to have a copy years ago and would love to find another
one!  Milton didn't play accordion on this one, though.

He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV precursor to "The
Tonight Show".  Later he led the band on "The Tonight Show", too.


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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:45:26
From: "Indy Rutks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Milton Delugg

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:16:24 -0800,
[e-mail] wrote...
>

>He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV
>precursor to "The Tonight Show".  Later he led the band on "The Tonight
>Show", too.

And don't forget his gig as "Milton Delugg and his Band with a Thug" on
"The Gong Show"!

- -Indy Rutks ([e-mail])






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Date: 12 Mar 1998 02:25:04 GMT
From: [e-mail] (cheryl shinfield)
Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks

I have to disagree with Nat on this - some of my favourite recordings are
soundtracks.  Perhaps not exotica-inspired, but excellent nonetheless.  To
Stephen's list, I would add anything by Goran Bregovic (especially his
soundtracks for Emir Kusturica films), Nino Rota, early works by Gabriel
Yared (his soundtracks for Jean-Jacques Beineix films), and, of course, Peer
Raben's work for Fassbinder.  And that's just for starters.  I could go on
and on...

Of course, a lot of 60's movie soundtracks were just intended as background
music, and nothing you'd want to listen to by themselves.  But it's hard to
generalise about soundtracks - a good soundtrack is just as good whether or
not you're watching the film.  And then there's Combustible Edison's 4 Rooms
soundtrack, which is infinitely superior to the film itself....

cheryl


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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:12:03 EST
From: Dlsmay <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The High Llamas...

Curiously, the San Francisco Bay Guardian's music section has a big piece on
Cornelius (japanese bricolage popster, took his name from Roddy McDowell's
monkey on Planet of the Apes).  Fascinating stuff.  Both Cornelius and a
british musician, Momus, write for a Japanese idol (Idoru) named Kahimi Karie.
If you can imagine an arch brit with a Scott Walker tendency writing for a
Japanese idol singer, or have fallen under the spell of Serge Gainsbourg
writing for Jane Birkin, or BB or France Gall, then you might want to check
out Kahimi Karie's music.

I dig the Llamas - they've got a long, drifty cut on _Gideon Gaye_ that's
everything exotica ought to be.

- --David


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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:27:38 EST
From: BasicHip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg

<< Any other DeLugg gems to look out for?  >>

i don't know if i'd call it a gem, but i've got this soundtrack from 1966 on
Mainstream, Gulliver's Travels On The Moon.  Credits Anne DeLugg, too.

many of the tracks are "happy, snappy songs", with Rise Robots, Rise being the
standout.


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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:11:08 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie.

I have heard a rumour that there will be a 'best of' release for  Kahimi
Karie in the U.S.  Does anyone on the list  have the inside word about this
project?

- -----------------
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TamTam Books
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:34:52
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Milton DeLugg?

>[e-mail] (I. Breithel) wrote:

>Milton DeLugg, anyone? I just played his "Accordion My Way -- Ole!"
>and was pleasantly surprised: this album really swings! It's mostly
>Brazilian tunes, and he's accompanied by some top musicians such
>as Bucky Pizzarelli, Eumir Deodato, Bob Rosengarden, and Phil Kraus.
>
>Any other DeLugg gems to look out for?

DeLugg's main claim to fame was as the bandleader for "The Tonight Show"
after Skitch Henderson left.  He recorded one album for RCA leading this
band. Then Johnny Carson replaced Jack Paar and replaced Milton with Doc
Severinsen (among other staff changes).  From what I've been able to track
down, he was a performer on the vaudeville and night club circuit, then
settled in NYC as a studio conductor and arranger.  His other score credits
include "Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon" (1966 US version of Japanese
animated movie) and "The Gong Show Movie," which I bet most of you had
thankfully forgotten until I mentioned it.

Brad


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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:28:40 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New and modern music ATA TAK

Reply to Brian Karasick:

Thanks for mentioning my old label Ata Tak. Yes, we were definitely
influenced by exotic music. We heard of Martin Denny for the first time
in 1981 by an American named Boyd Rice. He and his friends from San
Diego had a band called "The Tikis" at the same time. Those people are
the earliest manifestation of a Tiki-Revival that I know. If somebody
knows any events earlier than that, I=91d like to know! Boyd was also an
expert in German Schlagermusic and actually knew more about it, than I
did at that time...
Ata Tak was and still is located in D=FCsseldorf, one of four european
towns that have a "Trader Vic=91s". (The others are Hamburg, Munich and
London). The label is not very active anymore (I quit it legally 1990,
still in contact though), but they have a relatively new homepage, which
is relatively mediocre and needs an improvement.
I=91m living in Munich now and we have a groovy little Tiki-scene going o=
n
here. If you ever visit the original Oktoberfest, don=91t forget to go to
the "Egon Bar", Seitzstrasse 12, the center of good taste and music in
this city.

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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 06:08:37 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks

>9. The Piano by Michael Nyman
>... I'm sure others would be happy to add to this list.
>
>- Steve

Yes. Anything by The Michael Nyman Group, particulary the Greenaway
soundtracks (A Zed and Two Naughts being my favorite, today). Not
exactly exotica, but may qualify as strange.

BW

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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:29:25 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Milton Delugg and his band with a Thug

He also was on the "Gong Show" (credited per the subject line) and backed
Jackie Wilson on his hit records.

>He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV
precursor to "The
>Tonight Show".


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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:39:46 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Percussion (again!)

Okay gang, I re-listened to this LP last night and will have to
revise my remarks.....

Side 1 is pretty cool, I like the arrangements, and my favorite
is track 3 which has some sort of French name (somthin'
about a carnival or something?.........) how's that for
descriptive?

Side 2 on the other hand, isn't nearly as good - the
arrangements are boring and I think by the time you flip the
LP over, the "amusement factor" of the arrangements has
worn off.......

That's my last word on this album - it gets a "50%-50%"
rating (re:good/bad)......

- - Nate


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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:03:32 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) High Llamas contact

Does anyone know how to get in touch with the High Llamas, or who distributes
their stuff?

Thanks,
Peter


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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:10:23 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: (exotica) Don Fln Party Ñ NYC

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The next event will be Thursday, April 16th


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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:03:12 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Barry.  More?

>The last one seems to have been "The Living Daylights" in 1987.   Why he
>stopped is not an answer easily found on the internet, but this link
>http://www.auracle.com/pia/ has a link to a book about him, with excerpts.
>I am a long time Barry fan, so I wouldn't mind seeing him doing the next
>Bond, but it is conceivable that he doesn't want to anymore, having done 11
>or so of the scores for them (although Desmond Llewelyn and until recently,
>Maurice Binder sure keep coming back for more!).

>If I find out that it has to do with some behind-the-scenes
>(Money?)penny-pinching, I'lll...I'll...

You might've actually given us the answer to why he stopped doing
Bond-scores! There was a long interview with Barry in the New Musical
Express 2 or 3 months ago and what he said was similar with behind the
scenes arguments involving, yes, money and the usual movie director versus
filmcomposer fights. It was actually a bit of a shock to read the interview
cos Barry came across as a sad old bitter ego-minded man....Sean Connery
was allegedly a horrible and self-obsessed actor, so was all the other
Bonds as well, according to Barry. Actually, Barry seemed to think everyone
he was involved with were complete idiots...It's been awhile since I read
it but I got the impression he tried to be rude towards as many people as
possible before the interview was over....It's really sad to find out that
a man who's been responsible for some of the greatest music ever made (had
Barry lived 200 years ago, people would've definitely compared him to
Bach/Mozart/whoever of that calibre) turned out to be so seemingly bitter
about everything and everyone....I also got the impression John Barry will
*not* score another Bond-movie....:(

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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:03:20 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma

In my city (I dunno if it's qualified to be called a 'city', there's only
25000 people living here...), there's actually only one place where they
sell vinyl/2nd hand records and I checked it out for the first time today.
To my surprise, they had literally tons of Ferrante/Teicher, Francis Lai,
Michel Legrande, Bacharach, John Barry albums, and seemingly every single
moviesoundtrack made in the sixties. The thing is that they were all priced
about $15/record which I think is quite a lot compared to what most of you
guys pay. The thing is, this store is also a really disgusting pornshop
(believe me, the cliche about hairypalmed men in grey overcoates is
actually true, hahahaha! :)) and the owner doesn't seem to have the
faintest idea about how much some of these records are worth. I'm not
joking when behind John Barry's "The Knack" there was a Samantha Fox record
followed by Wham and then Legrande's "Umbrellas...", and they were all
given the same price! Totally ridiculous!! ANyway, my question is, should I
really pay $15 for records like these...?? Would you guys have done it????
I'm not sure if I want to go back but there is on the other hand no other
place where I live where I can get hold of the fantastic music being
discussed on this list....I'm a poor student with very little money so what
to do?

Chester W. Nimitz





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