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exotica-digest         Friday, March 13 1998         Volume 02 : Number 066



In This Digest:

(exotica) Some Great Theremin News!
(exotica) Re: caveat emptor
(exotica) The film with the tiki bar
(exotica) Re: There ARE soundtracks
Re: (exotica) Re: Avengers
(exotica) soundtracks on and on
(exotica) New and modern music
Re: (exotica) Re: Avengers "EXOTICA"???
(exotica) My life is a click-track.(Warning! Long as a David Lean film)
Re: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie. -Reply
Re: (exotica) Caravan
Re: (exotica) Brass Impact
Re: (exotica) Norrie Paramor
Re: (exotica) Barry.  More?
Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on
Re: (exotica) Milton Delugg
Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on
Re: (exotica) Milton Delugg
(exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 51
Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on
Re: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma
Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on
Re: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 51
Re: (exotica) Avengers
Re: (exotica) Avengers
(exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie
(exotica) "the living trio"
Re: (exotica) Barry.  More?
Re: (exotica) High Llamas

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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:23:06 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Some Great Theremin News!

>Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:03:31 -0800
>From: Charlie Lester <[e-mail]>

>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>Organization: 137 Technologies
>To: Lev Net <[e-mail]>,
>        "Charlie Lester's Cyber-Friends" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Some Great Theremin News!
>Charlie Lester writes;
>Two wonderful upcoming theremin gigs have just been confirmed for me:
>
>First, I will be playing the theremin and presenting a seminar on the
>instrument as a featured "clinician" for the annual national conference
>of the National Association of Negro Musicians this August in Las Vegas.
>It will be held at the new Orleans Hotel & Casino overlooking the Las
>Vegas Strip. I'm pretty excited about this, especially since it will be
>my first time ever to go to Vegas!! Maybe I'll run into Wayne Newton and
>do some duets! (Just hope David Copperfield doesn't make my theremin
>disappear!)
>
>Then, I have been invited to appear with the Los Angeles based Southeast
>Symphony at their annual pops concert in May 1999. The featured work that
>evening will be the Spellbound Concerto, and other surprises as well TBA.

Charlie is a really good guy and a customer of mine.
Here he is;
http://www.137.com/theremins/

and here's Sam, the man;
http://www.137.com/hoffman/

If you happen to catch 1 of his shows, say "Hi Charlie!" for me, I'd
appreciate it:-)

Thanks,
Jack



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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:25:24 -0700
From: Eb <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: caveat emptor

>From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
>
>(Man, I really
>have learned NOT to trust people who are paranoid about being ripped off
>- - I have come to believe it's because they expect everyone to be just
>like THEM)

*Excellent* observation.

Eb




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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 02:44:56 EST
From: Micheleflp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The film with the tiki bar

In a message dated 98-03-11 19:00:13 EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< 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 >>

Sorry to quote the whole list here, but I have a purpose:  Can anyone think of
the name of the 50/60's lounge era film (it's gotta be one of the usual
suspects) that has a scene in it where the main characters meet for drinks in
a tiki bar????  I just can't remember what film or who starred in it.  Maybe
it was The Apartment???  Anyone???

- - Michele


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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 02:44:57 EST
From: Micheleflp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: There ARE soundtracks

In a message dated 98-03-11 20:02:19 EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< 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. >>

Well, I'd have to say at least ONE exception that I've been listening to over
and over again in the car, is "Touch of Evil."  All those endless variations
of 50's songs are really the tops.  Anyone else have any favorite soundtracks
they'd like to mention?

- - Michele


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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 02:44:53 EST
From: Micheleflp <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Avengers

In a message dated 98-03-10 15:15:58 EST, you write:

<< Yes, yes,yes!  Particularly the middle period, when Steed was
 accompanied by Emma Peel (Diana Rigg).    Mmmmm!
 Very stylish indeed. >>

I used to watch this show all the time when I was a kid and it wasn't until I
visited a local video store here in L.A., that rummaging thru their classic TV
section, I found out that there was another woman that Steed was with, besides
Ms. Peel????  I don't remember seeing any episodes that had another gal???
Also, in all those shows there never was ANY people in the typical crowd
scenes (like when they show them in or on a Main street somewhere)  - how
unrealistic I thought.  But when I was a kid, I just thought, "where are all
the people?"

- - Michele


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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 04:29:40 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) soundtracks on and on

The "list of "good" soundtracks keeps rolling in...
And given that the majority of records I own in the genres we discuss here,
are only in my collection as fodder for the odd cool cut on a tape - and
for the objects themselves and what they represent - then soundtracks fit
right in.
But for instance, I just got out my copy of "Man with the Golden Arm".  The
cover has those great graphics, just like the great titles in the film,
also by Saul Bass.  Frank played a junkie musician so the film had this
jazz-flavoured soundtrack. That opening flourish, riding the the hi-hat.
And it says it right on the cover: "jazz sequences... Shorty Rogers...
Shelly Manne".
Then you play it.  You certainly get to hear that opening tune as many
times as you'd ever want and in as many incarnations.
But otherwise, it's pretty damn thin.
Or try "Anatomy of a Murder".  Another Saul Bass cover.  They hired a
"real" jazz composer for this one - Duke Ellington - instead of Elmer
Bernstein.  And this is a definite improvement over the last one.  There
are a couple of pieces that are okay.  But it's hard to ignore all those
moments that are just Duke's attempts to provide a little atmosphere or
mood... and not much more.  Duke pulling his punches is better than many
others pulling out the stops but still... it's not much of a record.
I love that period of "jazz scoring" in films and I love discovering new
ones.("The Edge of the City"!) And these soundtracks evoke that for me.
But are those the records you listen to if you like the jazz of that
period?   How high on your list are these records when you're recommending
Shorty Rogers or Shelly Manne to someone?  Where does that soundtrack rate
on the Duke Ellington discography?
Michael Nyman?  I don't know his music.  But I know that there are these
composers out there, who you might call "minimalism light". I don't doubt
that their soundtracks closely resemble their "real" music.  To the degree
their music can stand on its own, I guess their scores can too.
I suppose there's probably a film with an Eno soundtrack out there
somewhere and if it sounds "as good as" his "Music for Films" or his other
ambient records, that wouldn't surprise me. I have those records.
And there's all those Tangerine Dream soundtracks which are mighty similar
to their records.
Practically any music - within reason - put in the background of a film,
helps the film. But in general, when someone's music is said to resemble
"film music", I didn't think it was meant as a compliment.
Somebody brought up "Four Rooms" and how the soundtrack there is better
than the film.  If anything, that example proves my point.  It was a bad
film and one of the reasons - not that the music could have saved it - was
that they (Tarantino?) tried to prop it up with inappropriate (though
groovy) music.  That wasn't a score and it did nothing to help the film
except distract you from the excruciating boredom.
By the way, somebody - Jack? - mentioned "Private hell 36".  I'd love to
find that record. I watched the film again last night and the Leith
Stephens music may be great but it's buried at a barely audible level for
most of the film. (No music at all for the car chase.)
Okay, let the rain start up again.
"McCabe and Mrs.Miller" anyone?  "The Hot Spot"?  "Kamikaze 89"?

Nat



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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:29:31 +0000
From: michael jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New and modern music

>> << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen
>to? So far,

Aerial M, Mogwai, Broadcast, Stereolab
Mike Paradinas - (Jake Slazenger, u-ziq, Gary Moscheles)

I don't think i've seen Pram mentioned on the list, and i'm sure that at
least a few of you must like or would like them. That is, once you get used
to the  slightly out-of-tune sounding vocals.
Pram - Helium (Too Pure?)
Pram - Sargasso Sea (Too Pure)
New:
Pram - North Pole Radio Station (Wurlitzer Jukebox) Haven't heard this. Any
good, anyone?






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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:12:53 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Avengers "EXOTICA"???

Dear Michele,

in fact there were TWO other  Emma Peels (that makes three alltogether,
Uma Thurman is No.4), one I don=91t remember, the other was Honor
Blackman, who was not so bad after all. In 1966 she was singing along
with Patrick McNee that  "camp"-classic "Kinky Boots",  that  became the
B-Side of a 198x-12 Inch on Cherry Red- Records. A-Side was the
incredible Remix of the Avengers-Theme, that was actually better than
the original. Which does not happen to be the case so often.
I like some of the very first Avengers-episodes that were still filmed
in Black/White. It was really a cheap production in the beginning and
got all the class from it=91s bizarr ideas.
SOUNDTRACKS:
Listen to the music of the films of Jaques Tati. Nobody mentioned them
as far as I know.

And now something completely different:
THIS EXOTICA MAILING LIST SEEMS TO BE MORE LIKE AN EASY LISTENING RECORD
COLLECTOR MAILING LIST. WHERE ARE YOU GUYS WHO ARE INVOLVED WITH ARTS,
PERFORMANCES, COLLECTORS ITEMS, TIKI-STUFF ETC.?

=AE



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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:13:09 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) My life is a click-track.(Warning! Long as a David Lean film)

>Anyone else have any favorite soundtracks they'd like to mention?

Hoo-boy.  I AM my mother's son:

The Sea Hawk  - Ernest Korngold (the Charles Gerhardt recording also has
Deception.  Buy that CD and you will be strutting about the living room and
posing.  Guranteed!)
The Manchurian Candidate - David Amram (looking for a copy of this!)
Battle of Algiers - Ennio Morricone (I saw the movie, don't have this one.
Don't know about the record, except that it's SHORT!)
The Tin Drum - Maurice Jarre'
Captain from Castille - Alfred Newman
Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith
Dracula - John Williams (my favorite of his and yes, I have seen Star Wars)
The Red Shoes - Brian Easdale
Hangover Square - Bernard Herrmann (also on a Gerhardt recording called
"Citizen Kane")
The Day The Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrmann (I was at a screening
where they applauded the main titles, the music is so good)
Sweet Love, Bitter ("Today's Scene! Today's Shocks! Today's Shout ... Make
it - any way, with any one - but MAKE IT!") - Mal Waldron.  Haven't seen
this, either.
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami - Darius Milhaud (I would fall out dead if I
saw this soundtrack on an original record)
Rear Window - Franz Waxman (I don't know why some are down on this one.
Cool and Jazzy!)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry The music to this is so good,
my mother bought this, leggy women on the cover and all.
MacKenna's Gold - Quincy Jones
The BIG Country - Jerome Moross
Death of a Scoundrel - Max Steiner
The previous three are soundtracks to movies that I have yet to see.

As a child, these records were all that I had because when I was growing
up, there was no cable (it existed, but my father thought it was
Un-American!) and TV wasn't about showing too many old movies and letting
you know about them).

I am not careening into stories about bad childhood (which wasn't too bad,
actually), I am saying that growing up as I did, I keep a special ear out
for the music, because without the movie, all I could do was listen to the
music and imagine what was happening.  It's not as fun as seeing the movie,
but it sufficed.  I can still see Robin Hood's men leaping out of the trees
at that point in Korngold's score, one can easily imagine a chase on skis
when "Ski Chase" is playing on "OHMSS".

There are soundtrack albums that don't measure up to the movie, such as
"Zulu" (where is the war chanting!?).  However, there are others that such
as the Red Shoes or Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokoviev ( Prokofieff?
Prokovieff? Procough -E -F? Protocol?) that are so good they are played as
concert pieces.  Some soundtracks are complete surprises: I really enjoy
Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin and I thought he was just a great actor.
One of his films, maybe this one, he composed the music first and then
wrote the movie as a sort of ballet to fit the music and he was able to act
out the entire movie for the studio heads with the soundtrack playing in
the background.

There is a rather nasty spate of song-comps-as-soundtracks, however, there
are some gems to be had there, too.  Malcolm X is a great collection of
Jazz and Rhythm and Blues of the time, for example.  Midnight Cowboy also
boasts the great "Jungle Gym at the Zoo" by Elephant's Memory and I STILL
don't know what the song's about, though!

Listen before you buy, if you can, is all I can say.

Don't kick me off the list for long-windedness,
Brian Phillips, son of Dolores and Orva, brother to...Oops!  Sorry.


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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:02:29 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie. -Reply

Are we saying that the SF Bay Gaurdian has a web site so
we can read the article on Kahimi???

Ohhhh, she sounds so cute!!!  Did I miss a discussion here or
something?

Can anybody tell me what music of hers is available???

Thanks to Mutsumi over in Japan I was able to hear this
gal.....Mutsumi did you get my comp tape yet???

- - Nate


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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:16:30 +0200
From: "David Retief" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan

Yes siree...
>Once again I would like to mention the fine Bert Kaempfert recording with
the
fuzz bass




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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:14:12 +0200
From: "David Retief" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Brass Impact

I have an ABC re-release (the white double-lp set with bad colourful
ilustration on front) called Dynamic Brass Impact.  Is this vol 1 & 2 or a
combo of all 3?
I can't agree more - great great stuff!
David.




[e-mail] on 08/03/98 08:13:10 PM

To:   [e-mail]
cc:    (bcc: David Retief/Tredcor)
Subject:  Re: (exotica) Brass Impact





the Brass Impact LPs have been a staple of Club Velvet from the start.
perfect for when i need a little 'punch'.  i've always been surprised that
they don't get more mention on the list and i refuse to think of Warren
Kime as a "poor man's Esquivel" as has been said!   Love 'em!   get all
three!
 - kini

>withing 24 hours of reading Brad Bigelow's "Brass" article in the latest
Cool
>and Strange issue, I tracked down the Warren Kime Brass Impact LP (Command
RS
>910 SD).  I love it when that happens!  six bucks - not bad for SF, less
than
>a movie.
>



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             http://www.tamboo.com
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:32:28 +0200
From: "David Retief" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Norrie Paramor

I generally steer clear of Mr. Parramour after some bad experiences with
extremely bland 70's string albums (The Magic Strings of...) that contain
no magic...Even made the heinous mistake of buying an early eighties one
whith oh so much bad synth (during my soaring seventies strings obsession).

Now if it even says produced by (many british bbc-ish productions do)..I
leave i be.
DavidR.




Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]> on 09/03/98 07:28:08 AM

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Subject:  (exotica) Norrie Paramor





I wanted to mention this in case any of the label-connected list members
may be interested.
In the nearly two years that I've had my "Space Age Pop Standards" website
up, the one artist I've had the most inquiries about--at least one or two a
month, many from overseas--is Norrie Paramor.  I'm constantly being asked
if his "In London, In Love" and follow-on albums (strings with wordless
vocals by Patricia Clark) are available on CD (they're not).  It's not my
favorite stuff, but I've been impressed by the strength of the interest in
these albums (which are usually not too many thrift bins away here in the
U.S.).
Brad
[e-mail]
Visit the Space Age Pop Standards page at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/index.htm

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:53:45 -0500
From: david kasdorf <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Barry.  More?

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.....:(
>>

Bach, Mozart?  John Barry?  Let's please not get carried away.


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Date: 13 Mar 1998 14:21:28 GMT
From: [e-mail] (cheryl shinfield)
Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on

Nat Kone,[e-mail],Internet writes:


Michael Nyman?  I don't know his music.  But I know that there are these
composers out there, who you might call "minimalism light". I don't doubt
that their soundtracks closely resemble their "real" music.  To the degree
their music can stand on its own, I guess their scores can too.
I suppose there's probably a film with an Eno soundtrack out there
somewhere and if it sounds "as good as" his "Music for Films" or his other
ambient records, that wouldn't surprise me. I have those records.
And there's all those Tangerine Dream soundtracks which are mighty similar
to their records.

Okay, not to beat a dead horse, but....why is it necessary to differentiate
soundtracks and "real" music - a proper score IS real music.  "Minimalist
Light"?  I think listening to Philip Glass's "Mishima", or Nyman's "A Zed and
Two Noughts" pretty much disproves that idea.

The only Eno soundtrack I have is better than his "Music For Films" - it's
called "Jubilee", and it's punk.

There are so many good records out there, and a decent number of them happen
to be soundtracks.  What a shame to write off an entire group of recordings
just because of what they're called...

cheryl


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Date: 13 Mar 1998 14:10:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (cheryl shinfield)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton Delugg

Darrell Brogdon,[e-mail],Internet writes:

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.


I actually have this one!  It's called "Music for Monsters, Munsters, Mummies
and other TV Frends" - the exciting sound of Milton Delugg and his Orchestra.
 It's got the themes from The Munsters, Bewitched, Addams Family, The Outer
Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Theme, etc...
Definitely not a kiddies' record.  It's got a purple cover, with a picture of
the Munsters on it.  Imagine The Munsters theme played with an orchestra that
includes a not only a horn section, but an organ...

cheryl


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Date: 13 Mar 1998 14:12:45 GMT
From: [e-mail] (cheryl shinfield)
Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on

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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:08:04 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton Delugg

> I actually have this one!  It's called "Music for Monsters, Munsters, Mummies
> and other TV Frends" - the exciting sound of Milton Delugg and his Orchestra.
>  It's got the themes from The Munsters, Bewitched, Addams Family, The Outer
> Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Theme, etc...


Yes!  That's the one!  I had this one when I was a kid and either
wore it out or lost it years ago before I was smart enough to
actually take care of my records!  I distinctly remember the purple
cover.  My favorite track was "Creature From Under the Sea".
If any of you dealers out there ever have this one for sale, please
let me know!


Darrell Brogdon
Program Director
KANU
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
[phone] (phone)
[phone] (fax)
http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:04:37 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 51

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Fantastica # 51
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* Terry Snyder: "Putting On The Ritz"
      [LP: "Mister Percussion"]

    typical spage age stereo percussive jazzy big band crazyness
    a la Enoch Light

* Marty Manning And His Orchestra: "Spellbound Concerto"
      [LP: "The Twilight Zone"]

    heavenly beautiful, mysterious, wordless vocals and theremin

* Jim Backus And Friend: "Delicious!"
      [compil. LP: "Frolic Dinner Vol. 3"]

    demented cocktail laughing "song". highly disappointing volume,
    I prefer the previous 2 volumes

* Singing Dogs: "Oh! Suzanna"
      [compil. CD: "Your Hit Parade: Golden Goofers"]

    only available from Time Life, lots of rare novelty stuff,
    recommended for Dr. Demento fans.

* Leo Diamond's Orchestra: "Strange Enchantment"
      [LP: "Exciting Sounds From Romantic Places"]

    brilliant LP! tens of different harmonica models plus lots
    of other strange sounds make incredibly strange versions of
    classic themes. EZFX: easy listenig with sound effects.

* Lenny Bruce: "Psychopathia Sexualis"
      [compil. CD: "Spy Magazine Presents: White Men Can't Rap"]

* Robert Mitchum: "What Is This Generation Coming To"
      [CD: "That Man"]

    this Bear family CD contains not only the full "Calypso Is Like So"
    but also plenty of Mitchum singles

* Robert Maxwell, His Harp And Orchestra: "September In The Rain"
      [LP: "The Magic Of Robert Maxwell"]

    EZFX

* Shirley Bassey: "Light My Fire"
      [compil. CD: "Blue Break Beats Volume Three"]

    if you wanna try one, i'd recommend starting with this volume

* Astrud Gilberto: "Call Me"
      [CD: "Beach Samba"]

* Air: "La Femme D'Argent"
      [CD: "Moon Safari"]

    only 10 tracks on their CD, and i liked 5 of them, which is not
    bad ;-) this is soo seventies! lots of Pink Floyd and other
    prog rock influences.

* Tipsy: "Something Tropical"
      [CD: "Trip Tease"]

    "name that sample game" but is also great music to listen to

* Ellie Mannette And The Shell Invaders Steel Orchestra: "Number 69"
      [LP: "Carnival Calypso Hits 1962"]

    isn't that an odd song title for a steel band? they're called
    after the big Shell oil drums they use to make into steel drums.

* Sabu: "Rhapsodia Del Maravilloso"
      [CD: "Palo Congo"]

    afro-latin percussion jazz

* Lorne Green: "Ringo (French Version)"
      [compil. CD: "Golden Throats 3: Sweethearts Of Rodeo Drive"]

    all in all not a great episode in Rhino's series, but i gues
    worth it for this rare gem. Mr. Ponderosa's French accent is
    awful of course.

* Los Albinos: "Frere Jacques Conga"
      [compil. CD: "Shake Your Congas. Another Crazy Cocktail Party"]

    typical novelty-esque Belgian 60's beat-lounge

* Emil Richards: "Celesta"
      [CD: "Wonderful World Of Percussion"]

    brilliant! he plays all the featured percussion instruments.
    all tracks except this one have odd rhythm patterns and meters

* The Robert Cobert Orchestra: "No. 1 At The Blue Whale"
      [soundtrack LP: "Dark Shadows"]

    great great soundtrack! both charming melodies and more scary
    kind of things

* John Barry: "The Human Jungle"
      [compil. CD: "Ultra-Liunge Vol. 13: TV Town"]

    typical Barry: electric guitar plus some electronics in a
    heavenly theme.



(CD) = exists on CD


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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:08:13 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on

While we are at it, is anyone familiar with "Johnny Mandel's Great Jazz
Score for 'I Want To Live'" to offer a brief musical appraisal/release
date?

The track titles are enough to sell the thing: Gas Chamber Unveiling;
Nightmare Sequence; Preparations for Execution; etc. We seem to have all
sorts of, uh, exotic percussion going on here, burmese gongs and the
like, so I assume this thing may be interesting.

"Danke Sch÷n"

BW


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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:23:39 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: Re: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma

Chester is in Sweden. Arn't you?
It's a completely different ballgame compared to thrifting in the USA.
$15 for the good stuff is peanuts here. Sure you can be lucky sometimes but
there arn't that many 1950s US pressing with the killer stuff floating
around over here. Pay what you feel the music is worth to You. That's the
only rule. Buy a cheap portable player and check the discs out first.

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds



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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 98 10:54:01 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Brian Salter)
Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on

>I suppose there's probably a film with an Eno soundtrack out there
>somewhere and if it sounds "as good as" his "Music for Films" or his other
>ambient records, that wouldn't surprise me. I have those records.

'For All Mankind', a pseudo-documentary of the moon landings.  The
soundtrack
uses music from 'Apollo', maybe some of his other albums too, i can't
remember.

highly recommended-- it's a very lyrical and beatiful film!  Keep an eye
out
for it...

- -Brian



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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:50:07 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 51

>* Marty Manning And His Orchestra: "Spellbound Concerto"
>      [LP: "The Twilight Zone"]
>
>    heavenly beautiful, mysterious, wordless vocals and theremin

Johan,

There is NO theremin on that LP

Ondioline and Martenot-YES and definitely no theremin

Jack



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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:34:15 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Avengers

Several years back, one of the US cable channels ran a bunch of the early
"Avengers" episodes. In some of them, Steed's partner was a man, Dr. (I forget
his name (no! not Who!)), but they seemed to quickly abandon that in favor of
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale. I thought she was pretty cool. Her attitude was a
little more stern than Diana Rigg's, and her leather wasn't as tight, but she
did pioneer the intelligent (I *think* the character was an anthropologist in
her day job), butt-kickin', modern grrl aspects of the role. Ms. Blackman went
on to play Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger", but you already knew that, right?
Another note -- John Steed was quite the rogue in those early episodes, doing
things like smacking barmaids on the booty. What a cad! (He did know better
than to try that on his partner, who likely would have flipped him through a
window.)

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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 21:54:53 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Ingemar Breithel)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Avengers

At 14.34 980313, m.ace wrote:
>Ms. Blackman went
>on to play Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger", but you already knew that, right?
>Another note -- John Steed was quite the rogue in those early episodes, doing
>things like smacking barmaids on the booty. What a cad! (He did know better
>than to try that on his partner, who likely would have flipped him through a
>window.)

Very likely -- in fact she wrote an entire book on the subject: "Honor
Blackman's Book of Self-Defence" (1965), with instructive photos of
Ms. Blackman herself, handbag in hand, disposing of a wide variety of
thugs in all manner of unlikely ways. Hilarious stuff.







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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 08:12:47 +1100
From: Wayne Davidson/Tony Davies <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie

For the fans there's another page worth a visit - Kahimi Karie's
Playhouse

http://www2.eccosys.co.jp/~kawakazu/kk/karie.html
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With regards to the thrift store issue, I find them a total gold mine,
but you've got to be prepared to delve (as any good vinyl hunter does
anyway). Only yesterday I picked up 2 french Francoise Hardy releases, a

3LP set of 1960's British TV themes and Birds and Brass (as featured on
the 'Espresso Espresso' comp), all a buck each (even the 3LP set). You
can't beat value like that with a stick!

Wayne






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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:04:12 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "the living trio"

Can any of you "Three Suns" experts - or anyone else - answer this?
Is the "Living Trio" another incarnation of the "Three Suns"?  A friend of
mine claims this and I can see the logic in it.  The instrumentation seems
to be the same and their version of "Holly holy" on the "Ballad of Easy
Rider" record I have, reminds me of what the Suns would have done with it.
Nat



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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 01:05:25 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Barry.  More?

>Bach, Mozart?  John Barry?  Let's please not get carried away.

Why not? I don't see why Barry and Bacharach (in particular) could *not* be
compared to Mozart and Bach....they're all composers in the true sense of
the word, combining complex harmonies and rhythms with popularmusic at its
best. Mozart did a hell of a lot of music which could be described as
easylistening or muzak, didn't you know that? Y'know, several of his pieces
which are considered 'classics' today were simply courtmusic at the time,
written to be performed in the background while the kings and counts
discussed things over dinner or whatever. The music wasn't created to stick
out or make itself heard - it was created to be just a pleasant
wall-tapestry sound, maybe providing somekind of atmosphere but not to the
extent that the conversations would be disrupted or to the extent that the
people would focus their attention on the actual music. Sounds a lot like
the idea behind most moviescores, eh?

Anyone who's a musician could confirm that the complexity of Bacharach
hardly matches *anyone* but some of the most extreme classical composers
and that's a fact which can't be denied. I don't like Bach or Mozart the
slightest but Bacharach is definitely up there, IMO.

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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 01:05:57 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: Re: (exotica) High Llamas

Peter wrote:

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

I had a direct address to the band written down on a piece of paper but I
seem to have lost it.........Doh! :) *But*, I'm pretty sure you can contact
Sean and Co through their management:

Nancy Phillips
Cracks 90
PO Box 1115, London N8 7DX

I dunno who distributes their music...they have their own label, Alpaca
Park, but are also signed to V2, while being published by Sony Music.


Chester W. Nimitz





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