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exotica-digest        Thursday, March 19 1998        Volume 02 : Number 070



In This Digest:

(exotica) Re: Avengers-related records: Honor Blackman
(exotica) A Theoretical Question
Re[2]: (exotica) Tiki bars, anyone? -Reply
Re: (exotica) Command Records
(exotica) FWD: George Martin retires
Re: (exotica) FWD: George Martin retires
Re: (exotica) Re: Avengers-related records: Honor Blackman
(exotica) AVENGERS!
(exotica) Score of scores!
RE: (exotica) Taboo on CD
Re:  (exotica) Caravan
Re: (exotica) Ennio Morricone question
(exotica) Bardot box set
(exotica) Re: New and modern music
(exotica) AtaTak and Exotica
RE: (exotica) Re: The Egyptian, et al
(exotica) Travel the european Trader Vic's's
(exotica) George Martin retires, but what did the reporter hear?
(exotica) You can't live without this one.....
(exotica) ECM label
(exotica) Re: You can't live without this one.....
(exotica) Re: You can't live without this one..... -Reply
(exotica) Outer Space Electronic Exotica
Re: (exotica) ECM label
(exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 10
(exotica) Re: Avengers
(exotica) Exotica/Et Cetera Issue 12

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 98 13:03:31 -0000
From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Avengers-related records: Honor Blackman

Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]> wrote:

>>From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
>
>>There was also
>>a Goldfinger-era London (US)/Decca (UK) Honor Blackman LP called
>>_Everything I've Got_ where Honor belts out an LPs worth of torch songs,
>>some of which are (unintentionally) gut-bustingly hysterical.

>    i was disappointed about her "hysterical" calibre, she actally
>    sings not bad at all IMHO, and it certainly is not one of those
>    "awful vocals" albums.

If you can listen to her growl out "Tomorrow Is My Turn" without cracking
up, I say you're INHUMAN! ;-) She really is a pretty decent singer, and
you're right, it is NOT one of those "celebrities who can't carry a tune"
LPs, which wasn't obvious in my posting. I think a lot of her vocal
deliveries are rather melodramatic and overdone though, making them kinda
goofy in a more subtle, charming way than those "awful vocals" LPs.

Michael David Toth
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:37:27 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A Theoretical Question

It's definitely not 'strict' exotica, and maybe isn't very list-appropriate,
but I'm curious where some of you might place it in relation to our broader
discussion.

"It" being (for lack of a better term) 1970's European modern chamber jazz --
as released on the ECM label at the time. It does have some of the qualities
enjoyed around here: relatively low-key, atmospheric, contemplative, sometimes
spacy. But unlike new age (before someone brings that vaporous subject up), it
generally had some actual content and rigor (albeit kind of noodly sometimes).
It's "real" jazz, yes. Filtered through a sort of chamber music sensibility.

Just wondered what sort of angle others might have on this.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:23:35 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) Tiki bars, anyone? -Reply


Funny, We went there on our last vacation.  Yeah, the lines are long (forty-five
minutes to an hour) and all the locals we talked to said, hey, the food sucks
but the atmosphere is great.
Well, the food sucked.  Sucked sucked sucked sucked sucked.  And it was
expensive.  Don't buy ANY food there.
Definitely wacky.
But stay away from the chow!

Peter


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Subject:    Re: (exotica) Tiki bars, anyone? -Reply
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Date:       03/18/1998 8:46 AM


Wacky? one more. In Lakewood, CO: Casa Bonita. It looks like a Sergio
Leone Mexican church in the middle of a strip mall. Inside it is a bad
trip into the deep jungles of kitsch: waterfalls, cliffdivers,
gunfights, men running around in gorilla suits, tone-deaf mariachis,
caverns, jungle idols, bars and waiters' stations made to look like
thatched huts. Quite the spectacle. The food is beside the point (and
unspeakable...). But enough. If you live in Denver, you know the place.

More Sopapillas?

BW


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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:17:30 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Command Records

Jeff Boyd wrote:

>I'm thinking about creating a Command Records web site, which would
>be devoted to providing all kinds of information on that incredibly
>cool label.

You might be re-inventing the wheel!  My Spaced Out site has a
virtually complete Command discog alongwith partial track listings,
personnel lists and cover scans.

However, there is still plenty of information I could do with - so
feel free to contribute anything you come up with.


Robbie

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:38:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FWD: George Martin retires

   LONDON, March 18 (AFP) - George Martin, the record producer known as the
fifth Beatle, has decided to call it a day at 73.
   Partially deaf from years of studio work perfecting and producing the
works of countless British music stars, Martin said he had decided to retire
because "I don't want to be doing things that I'm no longer good at."
   A star-studded retirement bash earlier this week had a guest list of rock
and pop celebrities boasting three decades of hits between them.
   Among them were Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, rubbing shoulders with
guitar legend Jeff Beck, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and Slade's Noddy Holder.
   Covered with honours, revered by his peers, the mentor of the Beatles has
turned his back on the studios with a farewell album unlikely to please fans
of the Fab Four.
   But Martin said he wanted to have fun with this final album, "In My
Life," due for release Monday, for which he assembled a galaxy of
showbusiness stars to re-record Beatles' hits.
   Martin, who was knighted in 1996, said that the album summed up his life.
"I thought if I am going to make a last album I'm going to have fun, and we
bloody did. If it sells, that's a bonus."
   The singing performances of Celine Dion, Robin Williams and Sean Connery,
while giving them satisfaction, may not please the purists though.
   It was Martin, then artistic director with EMI, who took the risk in 1962
to sign up John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who
had just been sacked by another record company.
   And it was Martin who over the next eight years added the original
musical touches to their songs which helped make them the world's biggest band.
   Martin originally specialised in Baroque music after studying
orchestration and the oboe at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music in
London.
   His collaboration with the Beatles changed the course of pop music
history. With Martin at their side Lennon and McCartney, who could not even
read music, explored territory previously alien to rock 'n roll, adding
classical violins and wind instruments to their scores.
   Without Martin there would never have been the horn quartet in
"Yesterday", the symphonic backing in "All You Need is Love" nor the
Sergeant Pepper album, the world's top seller.
   Three decades on, the legendary arranger has no illusions about the
limits of the Beatles in their early days.
   "What made me sign them was their characters. They had that quality that
makes you feel good when you are with them and diminished when they leave.
   "But there was no sign of them being able to write hit songs. The sound
was interesting, the songs were not," he said.
   Their collaboration was not without its tensions either. At the end of
the 1960s, Martin seemed to be at odds with his epoch.
   Surrounded by his long-haired proteges in Indian tunics, he maintained
his air of a strict professor in his ubiquitous dark lounge suit.
   He let them experiment but never hid what he thought of their flirtations
with their manufactured paradise.
   "The Beatles never smoked pot in front of me. They just used to go down
to the studio kitchen and come back wreathed in smiles. I disapprove of
drugs to this day," he said.
   Lennon eventually lashed out, challenging Martin in a venomous interview
shortly before the Beatles broke up to produce his own music.
   "I'd like to hear George Martin's music. Can you let me hear it," Lennon
jibed, though he later regretted the remarks.
   Still, Martin cannot help a nostalgic and slightly disappointed look back
at the fabulous years with the Beatles.
   "The split was inevitable. They knew they needed each other and this was
irksome. They wanted to be free, but very little they wrote after that was
ever as good as what they did together," he said.





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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:51:14 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) FWD: George Martin retires

They wanted to be free, but very little they wrote after that was
ever as good as what they did together," he said.


No bout adout that:)

Jack



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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:18:38 +1100
From: Wayne Davidson/Tony Davies <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Avengers-related records: Honor Blackman

If anyone is interested, here's a review of this record I wrote some year=
s ago.

- ------------
Honor Blackman - Everything I=92ve Got
LP Cherry Red - original recording 1964

Ms Blackman claims on the record sleeve that this LP was a dare, and afte=
r
hearing it you will understand why. She makes no bones about the fact tha=
t she
does not consider herself a singer, she even mentions that the purpose of=
 her
sleeve notes is =93since I=92d actually recorded the songs, the least I c=
ould do was
go on and make some sort of public apology=94. Well, she=92s right, the a=
lbum is,
well, in a way, awful, and despite her talents at judo and wearing funky =
cat
suits she=92s also right about her singing voice (although I love it!). B=
ut of
course none of this matters in the slightest, she=92s a personality, and =
she=92s
great fun (the healthily camp aspect) and this gives the album something =
much
better than vocal perfection.

The whole project was never meant to be taken seriously in the first plac=
e and,
on these terms, I must say =93Everything I=92ve Got=94 is rather good. I =
love the way
she croons her way through nonsense like =93C=92est Drole=94 , =93Darling=
, Je Vous Aime
Beaucoup=94 and her breathy earnestness on Aznavour=92s =93Tomorrow Is My=
 Turn=94 is
campery at it=92s finest. The knees-up fare like =93I Wouldn=92t Walk Acr=
oss The
Street =93 and the Gypsy Rose Lee-ish =93I Want A Fair And A Square Man=94=
 are fun but
I think she=92s at her best when she affects that comic-spy femme fatale =
thing.
She does this to great effect on =93Everything I=92ve Got=94 - =93I have =
eyes for you to
give you dirty looks, I know words that do not come from children=92s boo=
ks, There
are hammerlock holds I have mastered a few and everything I=92ve got belo=
ngs to
you...=92=94 and =93To Keep My Love Alive=94 is great comedy as she sings=
 and purrs and
growls about all the husbands she killed to =93keep my love alive=94 - =93=
Sir Thomas
was a insomniac, he couldn=92t sleep at night, I mixed a little arsenic, =
he=92s
sleeping now all right!=94 and lamenting the fact she=92s =93never the br=
idesmaid I=92m
ALWAYS the bride=94. She even tries her hand at the pop standard =93World=
 Without
Love=94, Rogers and Hart=92s =93Den Of Iniquity=94 and the instructional =
=93Men Will
Deceive You=94 where she instructs the listener to send those deceptive m=
en =93back
to their wives=94 (good advice girls and boys). As an added bonus you get=
 her duet
with Patrick MacNee, =93Kinky Boots=94 which I=92ve  never found to be un=
welcome on a
party tape. This is a fun album and really not as bad as Ms Blackman thin=
ks, I
mean it is bad, but tremendously so.

from Mnemonic Hi-Fi 1995

Wayne Davidson
- -----------

Michael D. Toth wrote:

> Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >>From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
> >
> >>There was also
> >>a Goldfinger-era London (US)/Decca (UK) Honor Blackman LP called
> >>_Everything I've Got_ where Honor belts out an LPs worth of torch son=
gs,
> >>some of which are (unintentionally) gut-bustingly hysterical.
>
> >       i was disappointed about her "hysterical" calibre, she actally
> >       sings not bad at all IMHO, and it certainly is not one of those
> >       "awful vocals" albums.
>
> If you can listen to her growl out "Tomorrow Is My Turn" without cracki=
ng
> up, I say you're INHUMAN! ;-) She really is a pretty decent singer, and
> you're right, it is NOT one of those "celebrities who can't carry a tun=
e"
> LPs, which wasn't obvious in my posting. I think a lot of her vocal
> deliveries are rather melodramatic and overdone though, making them kin=
da
> goofy in a more subtle, charming way than those "awful vocals" LPs.
>
> Michael David Toth
> [e-mail]





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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 98 17:27:57 -0000
From: Q <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) AVENGERS!

Hey everyone,

I've been away and am just now catching up on my mail.  This is so cool
talking about the Avengers cause I'm such a HUGE fan (even though I'm
very new to it).  So does anyone know if Kinky Boots is available - I
want it!  Incidentally, someone probably already mentioned this but you
can listen to it on the web:

http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~dawe/avengers/avsound.html

As for the movie coming out they said they were going to be faithful to
the original.  But I'm kinda nervous.  For one thing it isn't in the
60's, it's in 1999.  The trailor's music isn't what any of us are looking
for.  The worst thing is no matter how good Uma is she'll never be Diana
Rigg.

Anyway got to go,
Q

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:35:28 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Score of scores!

Hey kids,

Uncle Jack just scored THE score of scores!

It's like called, "Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales as dug by Don Morrow" (Roulette)
and it is THE SHIT of beatnik speak with THE COOLIST of cool beatnik jazz
backin' it up!

THEN, Jack said, dig this;

"Kenneth Patchen Reads His Poetry with the Chamber Jazz Sextet (Cadence)

YA FUCKIN' HOO!



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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:40:58 -0500
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Taboo on CD

Nate said--

>Whoa!  Waitaminit!!  Have you ever heard Taboo?  This album
>features wild percussion banging that puts Denny to shame.

Sadly no. . .

>Taboo is out on CD (this is Lyman's first album correct?
>- - it's got a pick of a volcano/lava bed on the cover.....?)

To which Ben Waugh asked:

>Also, I think I have that Lyman CD: it's more or less a comp. isn't it?
>Not just tracks from Taboo, the lp?

Not to be too confusing, but the DCC Jazz release with the "Taboo" volcano
art on the cover is NOT a reissue of the LP _Taboo_ .  Instead, it's a
selection of different songs covering all Lyman's 1957-1964 releases on the
HiFi Records label. (A nice collection, but from my point of view it's too
bad it skips some of his wilder and more energetic tracks.)

But perhaps there was also a straight reissue of the 1957 LP _Taboo_?

Just one more comment about _Bahia_ -- I should have noted that it has
3/5ths of the personnel from Denny's (mono) _Exotica vol.1_ !  So maybe
that's why I like it?

Awwk, awwk, brawwwk,

 --Ross

|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr  <[e-mail]>
|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA




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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:35:27 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Caravan

At 02:14 PM 3/8/98 -0500, Jimmy wrote:
>Once again I would like to mention the fine Bert Kaempfert recording with the
>fuzz bass

Finally found it, on Love That Bert Kaempfert  Decca DL74986.  Love it!  It
definitely
was a different and welcome approach.  I also enjoyed the walking bassline
and the muted
trumpets.  Thanks for recommending it.  I'm glad I ran across it.

Byron

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Date: 19 Mar 1998 01:54:34 GMT
From: [e-mail] (cheryl shinfield)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ennio Morricone question

I don't have the album in front of me, but both soundtracks are on it -
they're two different movies, although quite similar (I believe they're part
of a trilogy, the third one being "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly")

cheryl


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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 01:31:55 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (tom talmon studio, inc)
Subject: (exotica) Bardot box set

if anyone would know the answer to this--that person would be on this list!

a few years ago-i stumbled upon a four cd box set of Bridget Bardot from france.

is this still in print?

does anyone know where i could pick this up?

thanks


tom




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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:04:28 +0000
From: michael jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: New and modern music

>>Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon, Sounds of the Satellites
>They have done some pretty interesting Lalo Schifrin-ish stuff...I was
>kinda disappointed with "...Satellites", though, cos it has a couple of
>obvious fillers....

I don't know why people seem to be afraid of releasing a 45 minute album
any more. Since CDs became the dominant format albums have got longer with
more crap on basically. More pruning needed i think...
I think there's also a track on it which sounds identical to one on Pram:
Helium (Blue?).

>>Third Eye Foundation - Ghosts
>I don't think I've
>heard a more claustrophobic record than Ghost! I mean I like it, but
>sometimes it's a bit...it's definitely the opposite of
>easylistening...uneasylistening, basically!

try listening alone with the lights off... remarkably good at clearing the
brain... Actually lots of records improve/make sense with the lights off
(esp. Method Man: Tical, Tricky: Maxinquaye etc) might be something to do
with the darkened studios these ppl record in...

just trying to think of other interesting new stuff, possibly My Life
Story: Mornington Crescent, for interesting arrangements and lyrics, but
they're very tiring to listen to after a while, too much fake-sounding
emotion...


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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:43:57 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) AtaTak and Exotica

Thanks for  your mail. Yeah...aren't we all getting older?

ATA TAK hasn't been very active in the last years. I think I know what
they are doing, though I'm not in the company anymore. The last thing I
had done for Ata Tak was that City Space Compilation which included some
songs of Der Plan and Andreas Dorau under different names. I've been
working with Dorau since, but that wasn't so much musical, I did all the
record covers and stage designs and a promo-magazine called "angenehm".
His last two albums on MOTOR MUSIC are great, with heavy influences of
Easy and 70s Disco.

I like your term GERMAN EXOTICA. I was always looking for the "German
Psychedelia". To my greatest disappointment I learned over the years
that many "German" Schlagers were actually cover-versions of american
songs. However there's a certain attitude, or appeal of German
interpretation of these songs that is in fact German (like "naive") and
can best be compared to Americas ANETTE. We had a very similar woman
here, who was a child star and grew up singing Schlager, Conny Froboess.
Exotica were always a form of escapism  here and you find some Hula
stuff and Hawaiian Romanticism in her repertoire. It was never the music
of the "hip" youth, more like a working class mother-compatible folk
thing. Actually true Pop if you will, but never taken serious by people
like you and me at that time. That explains the negative responses that
you got. I listened to it a lot not before the 80s and found it a relief
that an American like Boyd liked it too. It only confirmed me on the
other hand that in America everything was better, because there you
could meet people that you could talk to about just anything and didn't
have to hide your "weird" obsession with something "low" as Schlager.
Just now in the 90s it became more normal to listen to German lyrics in
Germany.

An American artist called Fareed Armaly just made two very interesting
films about this special German phenomenon of self-denying your own
culture, which, of course is a relict of the horrors of the 3rd Reich,
where nationalism was so much over-emphasized.

Speaking of Boyd Rice... I know he's a satanist today, but I always
found him an amusing, intelligent and polite man. As a German I can
never agree with him on his statements and quotations of Adolf Hitler,
of course and I only hope, he'll find a better way of expressing himself
in the future. I heard he's getting quite popular now? Is that really
true? He was not in the band THE TIKIS; he did the photgraphs, but I'm
sure he was an influence. He joined DER PLAN on a Tour in 1981 with his
then project NON, which was basically very noisy. He's an avantgardist
with dark sides.



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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:50:47 +0200
From: "David Retief" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: The Egyptian, et al

My drive-in bit:
There is now but ONE drive-in remaining in the whole of South Africa.  It's
in Durban on the east coast.  A friend of mine who flew Virgin from New
York said they actually included that bit of info in the pre-landing
tackyfilm.
I've never been to one and have always wanted to - I'm particularly partial
to that one mentioned with a 30 foot waterfall going down the back of the
screen but heh, I'll take what I can in the waning 1990's.
DavidR.





Brett Leveridge <[e-mail]> on 10/03/98 05:30:57 PM

To:   "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
cc:   "'[e-mail]'" <[e-mail]> (bcc: David
      Retief/Tredcor)
Subject:  RE: (exotica) Re: The Egyptian, et al







On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Rajnai, Charles, NNAD wrote:
>
> All the drive-ins in New Jersey are gone too, the last was the Turnpike
> Drive-In, so named because RT35 was once a turnpike.  It closed about 5
> years ago.  The rest have since become strip malls, or megaplex
> theatres.  The only surviving drive-in I know about anywhere on the east
> coast is in/near Matamoras, PA.  It is called the Starlight Drive-In,
> and they use the FM radio broadcast sound system, so I hear.
There are still a number of drive-ins in the east, including
Shankweiler's, the nation's oldest (and the second one ever built) in
Oreville, PA, just outside Allentown.
I operate a e-mailing list devoted to drive-in theatres, populated with
fans and theatre owners. Interested parties should e-mail me for info.

Brett

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:29:11 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Travel the european Trader Vic's's

You're absolutely welcome!
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:49:58 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) George Martin retires, but what did the reporter hear?

>   Without Martin there would never have been the horn quartet in "Yesterday"

What horns?  It's a string quartet!  My apologies if they were bowing some
clarinets.


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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:11:15 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) You can't live without this one.....

After Hours - Spain

Sonny Lester and his Orchestra (Time Records)

I unearthed this LP one rainy day while plowing through
TONS of albums literally piled, strewn, etc. across the entire
second floor of a local "antiques" shop.

All of your standard "Latin favorites" are here done at an
exceptionally brisk pace with frantic organ accompaniment.
These arrangements are fantastic.

This particular album came from the library at the St. Frances
Academy, a Catholic church/school in the area.  It's still got
the old-fashioned "card in the slip-jacket" attached to the
back showing when the album was due back at the library.
The last (and only on this card) person to check it out was
"Sister Dinorah" (!) and I can just imagine her now, up in her
dorm room doin' a little cha-cha-cha in front of her full-length
mirror while Sonny blares away from her portable record
player!

Sonny Lester also put out an "After Hours - Paris" album and
I'm wondering if he gives the same full-throttle approach to
those songs as well?  (I saw this album but didn't pick it up
because those "Paris" songs give me the creeps).

- - Nate


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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 98 06:23:55 PST
From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: (exotica) ECM label

I would have to agree with m.ace that "it" is not exotica, and i would also
have to say that I like it (some of it). I would say that ECM stuff if
definitely recognizable as a certain sound - the label's output as a whole
is very cohesive. I guess I would describe the stuff as avant garde,
introspective, and at times pedantic, but always jazz in some sense or another.

Recent ECM material has been popping up in the 20th C Classical sections of
magazines and record stores, and the crossover, and maybe "intellectualization"
or maybe "academicization" of jazz seems to be part of ECM's focus.

That would be my angle.

clark


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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:38:43 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: You can't live without this one.....

i have 2 others...

"Ater Hours - Italy"  (pretty good)
"After Hours - Middle East"  (absolutely fucking great!)

 - kini

>After Hours - Spain
>
>Sonny Lester and his Orchestra (Time Records)
>Sonny Lester also put out an "After Hours - Paris" album and
>I'm wondering if he gives the same full-throttle approach to
>those songs as well?  (I saw this album but didn't pick it up
>because those "Paris" songs give me the creeps).




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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:48:36 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: You can't live without this one..... -Reply

Wow!  Are these all by Sonny Lester???  Gotta get 'em.

Kini, you wanna swap cassettes?

- - Nate


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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:03:05 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Outer Space Electronic Exotica

Hello all,

"Attilio Mineo Conducts Man In Space With Sounds" is now available on
Compact Disc and a gorgeous package it is, I must admit:)

It's outer space electronica exotique and it is truly a masterpiece like =
I
guarantee you have never heard anywhere, unless of course you happened to
ride in the BUBBLEATOR at the 1962 Seattle State World's Fair!

It also has Spoken Word Introductions that speak of "The Promise Of The
Future" and "Welcome To Century 21" that are tremendous in their own righ=
t.

Originally composed in the early 50's, recorded in the late 50=92s and
released/sold at the 1962 Seattle State Worlds Fair the LP was released i=
n
2 different versions and are as follows;

LP catalog # 55555 was released with Spoken Word Introductions with the
music of "Man In Space with Sounds" and are tracks 1-12 and another LP wa=
s
released with catalog # 66666 and is without the Spoken Word Introduction=
s
and both are included in this 1 of a kind CD release totaling over 63
minutes of outer space electronica exotique brilliance.

Both LP=92s were originally released on the Worlds Fair Records Supersoni=
c
Sounds label.

You can read all about it and see it too on my Attilio Mineo Conducts Man
In Space With Sounds web page at
http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm

Titles:=20
1)Welcome To Tomorrow
2)Gayway To Heaven,
3)Soaring Silence
4)Mile-A-Minute MonoRail=20
5)Around The World
6)Century 21
7)Man In Art=20
8)The Queen City=20
9)Man Seeks The Future=20
10) Boeing Spacearium=20
11) Science of Tomorrow=20
12)Space Age World's Fair=20
Tracks 13-24 is the exact same LP (catalog # 66666) without the Spoken Wo=
rd
Introductions)

Last copy I sold of the original went for $200.00 as this is a 1 of a kin=
d
release.

This is it!  We have landed and are now taking passengers:)

Retail as well as Wholesale Inquiries welcome

Available Now:
$15 per CD
Shipping Extra

Overseas contact Stefan Kery of Subliminal Sounds at
[e-mail]
http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/

In the USA, I'm the man, at least for now.

Jack Diamond
[e-mail]
http://www.jackdiamond.com
Phone/Fax[phone]
Visa/Mastercard, Personal Checks and Money Orders Welcome

Thanks for listening,
Jack






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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:51:30 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) ECM label

Who brought THAT up?
I used to visit ECM when I was a teenager way back in the middle of the
70s every week, when they had just one room in the top floor of a record
shop in the suburbs of Munich, "Radio Egger". Manfred Eicher was sitting
behind a desk and doing his office stuff. You could listen to records in
there and I wanted to like jazz at that time and worked me through all
that weird noisy material they had in order to "get" it. But is it
really EXOTIC? Maybe to Non-Northern-Europeans... What ever happened to
PAUL BLEY by the way? Does anybody know? Used to like his first
records...

M=AE



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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:41:52 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 10

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




Fantastica # 10








* The Moog Cookbook: "Rockin' In The Free World"
      [CD: "The Moog Cookbook"]

    i liked their first (this one) much better than their second,
    but it's hard to tell why... i think the sound of the first is
    more like the vintage Moog sound, as on "the plastic cow" etc,
    while the second one has more disco-like rhythms...

* Alan Tew: "The Detectives"
      [compil. CD: "The Sound Gallery Vol.1"]

* Family Fodder: "Sunday Girl"
      [LP: "Sunday Girls"]

    new wave chipmunks

* ?: "Dolomite Fragment"
      [compil. LP: "Bent Batty & 'Bnoxious"]

    bootleg LP, but highly recommended,
    if you like stupid "Wavy Gravy" stuff.
    I actually think this is far better than
    "Wavy Gravy", much more "demented".

* Sid Cooper: "Dragnet"
      [LP: "Per-Cus-Sive Jazz"]

    best of both worlds: percussive crazyness meets crime jazz

* The Three Suns: "Fever"
      [compil. CD: "The History Of Space Age Pop Vol.2
       Mallets In Wonderland"]

* Stan Freberg: "John & Marsha"
      [CD: "Collectors Series"]

* Monty Python: "Wizzo Butter Commercial"
      [TV Series: "Monty Python's Flying Circus"]

* Time Masheen: "Big Black Bird"
      [compil. CD: "Only In America"]

    mad psychedelic answer to Stan Freberg's: "John & Marsha"

* Ralph Carmichael And Sir Laurence Olivier: "Halelujah MIX"
      [LP: "Ralph Carmichael Presents The Electric Symphony"]

* Modern Jazz Quartet: "Angel Eyes"
      [compil. CD: "Jazz Memories"]

    heavenly beautiful vibes. mmmm i looove vibes, when
    there aren't too many other instruments around,
    when the melody is soft... ahhh

* Michel Magne: "Tabu"
      [LP (on bootleg cd): "Tropical Fantasy"]

    so many odd percussion and other strange sounds that
    it becomes hilarious, over the top!

* Stanley Black And His Orchestra: "Caravan"
      [LP: "Exotic Percussion"]

    IMHO, one of the best, if not THE best Exotic Percussion
    lp around!

* Spike Jones With Paul Frees: "My Old Flame (Edit)"
      [CD: "Greatest Hits"]

* La Lupe: "Fever"
      [compil. CD: "Latino Popcorn Fever"]

    recommended comp, see my review at
    "Dada'quariums Exotica": <http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/>

* Billy Preston: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
      [LP: "Wildest Organ In Town!"]

* Nina Simone: "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
      [CD: "Best Of"]

* Jingles: "Listen To The Best Tune Of The Week"
      [LP: "International (Disco & Funk) Jingles"]

* Miss Piggy: "Stereau Warmup"
      [LP: "Miss Piggy's Aerobique Exercise Workout Album"]

* Francis Lai: "Aujourd'Hui C'est Toi (Chant)"
      [soundtrack LP (CD): "Un Homme Et Une Femme"]

* 2 Monsters: "Murmel"
      [TV Series: "Sesamstraat"]

* Rene Touzet: "Baby Elephant Walk"
      [compil. CD: "Cocktail Mix Vol.2 Martini Madness"]

* BBC Radio 4: "The Future In 1968"
      [Radio Series: "The Harpoon"]

* Vijaya Anand: "Naane Mabaraja (I Am The Emperor)"
      [CD: "Asia Classics 1. Dance Raja Dance"]

    over the top "pastiche" mixture of lots of different
    musical styles from around the world

* Combustable Edison: "The Millionaire's Holiday"
      [CD: "I, Swinger"]

* Sounds Incorporated: "Goldfinger"
      [LP: "Studio 2 Stereo"]





(CD) = exists on CD


        the radio pages on my web site:
        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm

        Johan Dada Vis

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:23:39 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Avengers

i always preferd the french name of the series: "chapeau melon et bottes de
cuir" ;-)

        Johan

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:30:57 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Exotica/Et Cetera Issue 12

Yes, you've heard correctly.  Issue 12 of Exotica/Et Cetera is here.

If features:

"The HeArt of the Cheesecake LP Cover"
A semi-scholarly exploration of the late 50s/early 60s sexy album cover. 37
exquisite examples are provided for those who would rather just look at the
pictures.

"My Father's Record Collection"
My dad loved records. This is my tribute to him, and to a few of his
favorite albums.

"Who Is Pea Hicks, and Why Does He Keep Making Those Crazy Records?"
Who, and Why, indeed?

"The Dawn of the Cheesecake LP"
The real story behind the photo shoot for Music Out Of The Moon and Music
For Peace of Mind.

PLUS -

Br. Cleve's latest Esquivel Page (and this one's a doozy);
thought-provoking Reviews of 12 essential CDs and records; the lovely
Cheese Gallery; a special edition of Cover Madness; and a double-dose of
the ever-popular Bizarre Vinyl.

And, of course, nearly 700 beautiful LPs just crying for good homes
(including 150 or so in The House of Cheap Wax).  Moondog 10" on Epic,
Frank Comstock, Music For Rat Fink Lovers, Fantastica, Mganga (stereo!),
Ken Nordine's Passion in the Desert, Sid Bass' From Another World, Allen
Ginsberg...PLUS electronic, cheesecake, jazz, mondo/weird, and just plain
fun vinyl. TONS of it.

Sample issue is $3 (U.S.) and $5 (non-U.S.) to: VINYL LIVES!, 1401
Ravenhurst Drive, Raleigh NC 27615, USA.  All major credit cards accepted.

Many thanks.

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Exotica/Et Cetera -- "Celebrating the Vinyl LP as Art, Amusement and Artifact."
and
www.vinyllives.com -- "It's the closest thing you can get to
flipping through a rack of records without going to a record store."




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