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exotica-digest          Friday, April 3 1998          Volume 02 : Number 085



In This Digest:

(exotica) Re: Mel Henke: unsensible, rough, unelegant, loud
(exotica) Jobim: Stone Flower
(exotica) Thrift finds
(exotica) erotic sound effects
Re: (exotica) re:Sergio.....
Re: (exotica) Akkordeon
(exotica) Re: exotica comps
(exotica) Re: Jungle Exotica
(exotica) france gall/coeur qui jazze
(exotica) easy tempo vol. 5
(exotica) Space Safari website overhaul
(exotica) Ros, Cugat, etc.
Re: (exotica) knees up
Re: (exotica) Re: Mood Mosaic <-> the Mood Mosaic
(exotica) Re: Greetings
Re: (exotica) moon river
Re: (exotica) Ros, Cugat, etc.
Re: (exotica) Akkordeon
(exotica) les_'YperSound
(exotica) 101 Strings: Astro Sounds
(exotica) MEL HENKE for the last time
(exotica) FRENCH...Andre Popp
(exotica) France Gall (French / Schlager)
Re: (exotica) Akkordeon
(exotica) Ros, Cugat, etc and lest we Fugat...
Re: (exotica) France Gall (French / Schlager)
Re: (exotica) FRENCH...Andre Popp
(exotica) Beyond the moon
(exotica) knees up
(exotica) fear and lounging
(exotica) Re: Peter Hipwell: Re: Edmondo Ros
Re: (exotica) Ros, Cugat, etc and lest we Fugat...

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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:00:50 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Mel Henke: unsensible, rough, unelegant, loud

"Moritz R=C6" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Henke is so unsensible, rough, unelegant, loud I
>don't know.  I'm glad there are enough better records and I don't have to
>listen to every 3rd class material.

    i couldn't agree more! you're absolutely right: he IS brilliant! ;-)
    just kidding, my friend!

    La Dolce Henke is a very rare combination of _cool_ and _crazy_:
    "cool" like jazz(y) cool, without being (too) fake.
    "crazy" like Spike Jones' novelty, BUT without being silly!
    i can't think of that many exemples of such a combination, but
    Dean Elliott's "Zounds" is another one, i THINK.

        Johan

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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:36:45 -1000
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Funk)
Subject: (exotica) Jobim: Stone Flower

Does anyone know if the A.C. Jobim album on Columibia, "Stone Flower", is
currently out of print on CD or what?

It appears in some old catalogs, but I can't seem to locate it anywhere.

- - Steve





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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 21:39:07 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thrift finds

Hi,
Working near Canterbury this week I found a nice 50's album
in a thrift shop: "April in Paris" by Les Petits Chaux Trio.
Cover photo of Eiffel Tower is captioned "Paris is so close
via Pan American Airlines".  I expected it to be twee, but it
is actually really good, drums, bass and a pianist who is up
there in the Oscar Peterson/Michel Legrand category.
Very fast/flash.  But I doubt if he's a Frenchman: the label
is Promenade Records (mfg by Synthetic Plastics Co,
Newark NJ) and in classic cheap label style, there is a
list of other albums in the series, e.g.

2051 Music for lonely lovers
2079 Salute to Irving Berlin
2085 Campfire serenade
2088 Sgt. Bilko Marches         (huh?)

There must have been many of this type of label.

I also bought a Readers Digest album (part of a set, I guess) which
had cover picture of a girl walking in a field of poppies, quite a
popular e-z listening cover theme.

Hugh.



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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 16:03:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) erotic sound effects

Here's an item to top off the discussion of erotic exotica from a few weeks
back.

TIME Records (who also release the Cafe Music low-price CD compilation
series) have an item (just got mine for $3.99) called Erotic Sound Effects.

There are 90 selections which fall into the following categories:
Pick-Up Lines
Expert Philosophy
Setting The Mood
Small Talk
Special Occasions
Phone Messages
Warming Up
Getting Serious
Variety Is The Spice Of Life

Looks like the perfect item for multi-disc players with random shuffle, or
to drop into homemade tape compilations. Otherwise, I can't for the life of
me figure out what TIME expects the purchaser to do with this disc.

They do offer the less than realistic blurb:
 Erotic Sound Effects can be used to enhance professional broadcasts, movies
and theatrical productions, home videos, parties...or you may just want to
arouse your neighbors.


- --Lou






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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 15:56:28 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re:Sergio.....

Jordana:

Thanks for the info on Sergio and his troupe......I'll have to
give 'em a try - I was assuming they were a Herb Alpert
knock-off.....

- - Nate


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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:44:46 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Akkordeon

moritz said:
> Thanks for answering. ...accordion culture... But why is that? Is the
> accordion like a mobile piano? Are these Liscio and filuzzi dances held
> in public outdoor places? Where and when did this first start?

I guess accordion developed because it was easier to carry than a
piano, so you could dance wherever the musician went: streets,
marketplaces, farms, villages. Nowadays, in Italy we have thousands
of orchestras where the leading man plays "fisarmonica" and makes all
those middle-aged and old people swing and jump for joy. Though it's
a big thing, it's something that deals with older generations, and
that means the accordion sound appeals to older people because
reminds them of their youth, when that was the only way to shake
their thing (there was WW2 back then, and no discos).
I don't think it has nothing to do with exotica. I think it's folk,
like the tex-mex sound in the south of the states.

Gionni


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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:44:46 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica comps

phil wrote:
> Saw your note on exotica-digest about "Las Vegas Grind" - I dig those albums
> to the max when in da mood ... I too have wondered where the music
> came from, who bought'em originally ?!?!
I figure (i don't know, i'm from the other emisphere) they were
soundtrack to those smokey-late night-bad part of town-strip bars
from end of '50's-early '60's, where you had topless girls serving
drinks and bottomless ones wailing in a little stage right in front
of your staring eyes.

>Can you give me some info on
> "Frolic Diner" (Romulan UFO) and "Forbidden City Dog Food" ? Great titles
> alone! I need to know more about those reckids.

Frolic Diner (5 volumes, and rising) is as good as las vegas grind,
though not as seminal for me. It came after it, but keeping up the
quality. It sometimes focuses on food and drink songs, mostly exotic
(the food and the drinks, i mean; their musical exotic nature
being under discussion at the moment in this list. I personally think
they are highly exotical, though certainly in a very different way
than Denny & Baxter are; I would say D&B are the polite exotic while
the artists on those crazy trash comps are the impolite and uncorrect
side). It would be easy to find them via Midnight Records or Norton
Records, in the U.S.A., or Crypt, in Germany. They're all on the
web.

"Forbidden City Dog Food" (the cover sez: "Sensexual - Exciting -
World's Most Thrilling Entertainment Bargain For The Adult Male!") is
quite rare now and you won't find it easily. If you dig the title,
now dig the tracklisting!
Crystals: The Screw
Kenny Henkle's Friends: The Bee
Invictas: The Hump
Mercedes + Blue Notes: Do The Pig
J.J. Jackson: O-Ma-Liddy
Sparkles: The Hip
J.Buck + Blazers: Forbidden City
Kingpins: Ungaua
Florence Pepper: China Rock
Rod McKuen: Noisey Village
Dynamos: Wow Wow Yea Yea
Sliders: The Lamb Shake
Wes Dakus: Sour Biscuits
Wes Dakus & The Rebels: Dog Food
(VIP VOP 1)

> ALso great are the "Wavy Gravy" comps - not only for wild sounds but also
> B-movie trailers! !more!!!!!
So you'll like also "The Wild Wild World of Mondo Movies Music", lp
on UK Big Beat (WIK 90)

Here goes list of my exoticrazy comps ever (apart from others
already mentioned):
- - MADNESS INVASION VOLL. 1-2-3 (GMG-Venus In Furs
- - FRA)
- - AT THE PARTY! - 16 ROMPIN' STOMPIN' LEASE BREAKIN'
  TUNES (Candy)
- - ROCK'N'ROLL THE UNTOLD STORY - VOL. 5: STRIPTEASE
  SMOOCH & HEARTBREAK (Rockafeller US 7004) side a: strip side
  (music to watch pin-ups by); side b: smooch side (...or how romance
  leads to murder!)
- - THE BIG ITCH - VOLL. 1-2-3-4-5 (made by Billy Miller & Miriam Linna
   at Norton)
- - BUG OUT - VOLL. 1-2-3 (Candy) vol. 3 titled "Land of 1,000 Dunces"
- - TOO MUCH GOIN' ON! - 16 YELLIN' SCALPIN' POW-WOWING
  TUNES (Candy) - It's At The Party vol. 2
- - ROCK'N'ROLL THE UNTOLD STORY - VOL. 6: THE JIVIN' WACKY
  TACKY SILLY DILLY DOPEY SAUCY OUTTA SPACE COOL BIBBILY
  BOP HEALING REVEALING SWINGING NOVELTY PARTY RECORD
  (Rockafeller US 7006) Title says it all!
- - REAL GONE GARBAGE (Romulan UFO ufox8) - notes say: "one man's
  garbage is another man's gold" and "your trash, my treasure". Would
  someone really insist saying this ain't no exotica?
- - CHOP SUEY ROCK - SONGS ABOUT THE ORIENT - VOLL. 1-2
  (Hot & Sour Recs.) It's from the guys at Norton, actually
- - BENT, BATTY AND 'BNOXIOUS - AWFUL AURAL URGH
  (Torture tort-000-no) "Vinyl aphrodesia for those special moments"!

All titles are on good ole vinyl, but some are on cd as well.

Last, but not least, I contributed to italian comps of rock'n'roll
trashiness & exotic craziness called "MONDO HYSTERICO" (3 volumes),
which I find to be the best title ever for a comp.

Cheers everyone
Gionni Paludi


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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:44:46 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Jungle Exotica

> >"Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>Jungle Exotica, the lp version anyway, is worthwhile if for nothing else
> >>the opening track by Diablito and Ganim and His Orientals cut, "Daddy Lo
> >>Lo".

> The correct name for this fantastic group is: "Ganimian & His Oriental Music"
> pray you find their rare LP someday.

cheryl wrote
> The LP is titled "Come With Me To The Casbah", released on Atco records.

The Ganim on Jungle Exotica (I have the LP version) is not Ganim &
His Orientals but Ganim's Asia Minors. I wonder if it's the same guy
& group.
BTW - You can hear "Come With Me To The Casbah" by Ganimian & His
Orientals (all-time fave for me) as the opening track of "Psycho
serenade" boot lp comp (Beware 666). other tracks (not by Ganimian)
include "California Hippy Murders", "Souie Baby Souie", "The Evil
Dope", "Scree... Argh", "Terrible Ivan", "Square Record", "Twistin'
In The Jungle", "Arms Ten Feet Long", "Mad" by the Social Outcasts,
etc.)

Ciao
Gionni


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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:44:46 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) france gall/coeur qui jazze

>  > France Gall! France Gall!  Check out "Jazz A Go Go" as written by
> Serge.

> And more Gainsbourg by F. Gall is "Teenie Weenie Boppie", a song in
> french about effects of L.S.D. on Karminsky's "More Inflight
> Entertainment". A real killer.

More killer Gall: track one (and title-track) of "Le coeur qui jazze"
comp on Partners In Crime (sort of non-numbered volume of the italian
Mood Mosaic series). This comp is beautiful. Buy or die (there's
Astrud Gilberto singin' in italian "Aruanda"; amazing brazilian
singer Claudia; a samba by brazialian Leny Andrade tryin' to sing in
french; and more delicatessen). Subtitle says: "the most
controversial and wanted cult-grooves".

Gionni


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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:44:46 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) easy tempo vol. 5

i just bought the new volume in the easy tempo sequel. still haven't
listened to, but tracklisting is as follows:

Augusto Martelli: Nanaue
Luis Enriquez Bacalov: Anice nuraghi
Piero Umiliani: L'arcangelo
Stefano Torossi: Running Fast
Armando Trovajoli: Blazing Magnum
Alberto Baldan Bembo: Trop's
Augusto Martelli: Loco Love Motor
Tony Mimms: Vuca (Wake Up)
Dick Oliver: The Chicken
Piero Piccioni: La RAI si presenta
Lesiman: Bagliori
M. Migliardi: Apollo Beat
Ennio Morricone: Adonai
Luis Enriquez Bacalov: Montreal Non Stop
Augusto Martelli: The Frog
Augusto Martelli: Upa neguino

The record is just out here in Italy, so I guess it'll be available
at your favorite shop shortly.
Subtitle is "A Slammin' Cinematic Experience" (ET 911). Most trax
come from italian movies 1966 to 1976.

Booklet announces forthcoming releases (al CD/DLP):
Alberto Baldan Bembo: OST "L'amica di mia madre" - ET 908
Piero Piccioni: OST "Cadaveri eccellenti" - ET 909
Alberto Baldan Bembo: "Io e Mara" - ET 910
V.A.: "Easy Tempo - Vol. 6: A Cinematic Jazz Experience" - ET 912
Piero Umiliani: OST "La legge dei gangsters" - ET 914
Gianni Ferrio: OST "Tony Arzenta (Big Guns)" - ET 917
Lesiman: "The Future Sound of Lesiman" - ET 920

Ciao
Gionni


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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:07:46 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Space Safari website overhaul

Just to let y'all know that I've overhauled the Space Safari website
and turned it into a review site for new/reissued exotic electronica
and any other weirdness that takes my fancy.

This is a new direction for the site and there's not a whole lot
on it right now but there *is* a list of personal favourites from the
last few years plus a review of a couple of current releases,
including the new FREE DESIGN compilation CD on Spanish label Siesta.

More soon!

I welcome any comments, suggestions etc.


Robbie ("DJ Bongo Boy")

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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 18:21:08 EST
From: Pearmania <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ros, Cugat, etc.

Alright, if we're going to argue about Ros vs. Cugat, let's get one thing
straight -- they're both hacks.

And let's face one other fact that should generate more hate mail

PRADO IS A HACK, TOO!

Both Cugat and Prado started doing legit Latin music but figured out they
could earn bigger bucks doing cheez.  They were both innovators early on, but
ended up on their knees sucking the big one and selling out.

The definitive mambo is: Machito circa late 40's, Puente's Cuban Carnival or
Dance Mania, Tito Rodriguez circa 55-60, Prado's early stuff, or Beny More's
big band stuff circa late 40's, early 50's.

AND MACHITO IS THE TRUE MAMBO KING!

I do like some very early Cugat and I have received some recommendations since
my first statement on the Ros vs. Cugat subject for some good Cugat material.
I plan to pursue some of these further.  But if I happen to think some Edmundo
Ros is worth the one dollar I spent on it, then that's my own problem isn't
it?



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Date: 03 Apr 1998 01:37:05 GMT
From: [e-mail] (cheryl shinfield)
Subject: Re: (exotica) knees up

Well, I just had the delightful opportunity to actually hear the famous ditty
"Knees Up Mrs. Brown" (don't ask...).  Listening closely to the lyrics (what
there are of them), it certainly sounds like they're referring to
dancing.....

cheryl


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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:05:24 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mood Mosaic <-> the Mood Mosaic

- -Mark Turner  wrote:
first there was a "Mood Mosaic" series from British RPM records, with
titles:
Mark Wirtz: The go-go music off Mark Wirtz (Mood Mosaic Volume 1)
 Are these available on CD and/or vinyl, and how are they?

Greetings:
I purchased the Mark Wirtz cd and I like it.   Probably got it from
everycd.com or Other Music in NYC a few months ago.
                                   Chuck
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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:03:29 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Greetings

Greetings to the Exotic Mailing List from the Northernmost Banana
Republic:

I read the rules (over a year ago) & I am suppose due an intro so I
just want to say I've been into exotic music since I was a kid and my
Aunt gave me Quiet Villiage by Martin Denny.  With this background I
formed  a Mardis Gras Carnival Club called Mondo Kayo (pronounced
K-eye-Yo) in 1982.  We play through a sound system Exotic Music such
as M. Denny, L. Baxter,  Dimtri, Gentle People, Tipsy & Esquivel.  Its
Mardis Gras day at  8:00 am and our system is loud enough to set off
the car alarms we pass.  We also play Soca, Zouk, Soukous and we wear
Tiki Tropical outfits in theme with our belief that we live in a
semi-tropical bnana republic.  We throw golden bananas and we toast
the mayor with the Chaquita Banana cammercial song from th 1940s
playing in the backgroud.

The list has lead me to tons of songs and artists I never would have
heard from and the collectors like Jessica are inspiring me to
scrounge through the old record binns (L. Prima is everywhere down
here).

I would like to also say there was a need for the Mel Henke album to
be made & I'm glad it exists.

May your banana trees prosper

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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:10:03 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) moon river

At 11:23 PM 4/1/98 PST, Jordana Robinson wrote:
>I'm sorry that "Moon River" pushes the wrong buttons for you

I love "Moon River".  Always have.  It's like the bunny hop.  Something
that they played at every bar mitzvah I went to in my intense bar mitzvah
period from 64 to 66.  When I hear "Moon River" I think about brittle
hair-sprayed hair chafing against my face and not caring if the song never
ended.

> The lyrics aren't any worse than a lot of other songs.  No cake is left
out in the rain, for instance.

And there's no horse with no name either.  But what difference does that
make?  It's just a lovely song.  "Somewhere over the rainbow" too.  And
yeah "Wichita Lineman" too... although I never heard that at a bar mitzvah
unfortunately.
I guess I find it hard to believe that lyrics could actually make someone
hate a song.  They could make you like a song a little more but I think the
melody is way more important in determining what songs you like.  Most
lyrics pretty well suck.
But in the case of the song I hate the most in the entire world - "The
Night Chicago Died" - I'm sure Burt Bacharach could have taken those silly
lyrics and made a song I like.
I also despise "Sylvia's Mother" but again it's not because of the stupid
lyrics.
I hate bouncy songs too.  But changing the lyrics of "Ob la di ob la da"
wouldn't save it for me.  Nor would new lyrics help "Winchester Cathedral".
Maybe Sarah Vaughn could have saved "Sylvia's Mother" but I doubt it.
The way Wilson Pickett saved "Sugar Sugar".
"To sir with love" has horrible lyrics but who cares?
Sorry if I didn't mention enough exotica songs.

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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:10:07 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ros, Cugat, etc.

At 06:21 PM 4/2/98 EST, Pearmania wrote:
>PRADO IS A HACK, TOO!

I would never argue that any of these guys aren't hacks.  In fact if they
weren't hacks I'd probably be less interested in them.
But there are INSPIRED hacks and TIRED hacks.
To me Edmondo always seems very very tired.
>
>Both Cugat and Prado started doing legit Latin music but figured out they
>could earn bigger bucks doing cheez.  They were both innovators early on, but
>ended up on their knees sucking the big one and selling out.
>The definitive mambo is:

I don't know from "definitive" or for that matter "innovators".  If I want
true innovators, I don't usually look to this kind of music at all.
I have no idea what REAL cha cha or mambo is.  Maybe I once heard some by
accident.  I don't think true mambo artists often covered the songs from
"Hair" the way Edmondo did.
That's what I like about this stuff.  If they weren't so desperate and so
often inept at figuring out what would sell, this stuff would be profoundly
more boring.
It's when they bring in electic sitar and farfisa organ and do some
bongo-laden version of a Monkees song that they approach inspired hackdom
for me.
Edmondo Ros occasionally did something like that but not enough for me.
He's the Jackie Gleason of cha cha for me... except without the cool record
covers.
Prado did make some mediocre records.  I find "Our man in Latin America"
surprisingly unaffecting.  But "Big Hits by Prado" where he redid all his
hits in a more modern style is one of the greatest records I have.  Edmondo
never recorded anything approaching that.  And I'm sure he didn't want to.
I'm sure he was trying to sell to a completely different audience.  The
same audience as Mantovani.

> But if I happen to think some EdmundoRos is worth the one dollar I spent
on it, then that's my own problem isn't it?

I can get you the entire Nana Mouskouri/Roger Whittaker/Hagood Hardy
discography if the cost of the records is really a determining factor.

Nat




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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 01:21:03 EST
From: Dlsmay <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Akkordeon

sheesh,

An accordion isn't a portable piano.  It's a portable organ.  Big difference.
Plus the push-me-pull-you of the bellows makes it perfect for dance music.
(see, Forro...).


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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 23:08:36 PST
From: "Darcy Boucher" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) les_'YperSound

Wayne wrote Nathan:
>> I bought Mood Mosaic #4 -  "Les Yper Sound!" (how DO you pronounce
>>that by the way - yuper, Ipey, oopurr??? enlighten me someone)

Giovanni Berti wrote:
>It sounds as "eepersound".

Yes, as in "Hyper-Sound". It's a pun of sorts, I guess: the aitch is
dropped, 'cause in French they're usually "soft" (not aspired). Also,
don't forget the "liaison" after the article; the full pronunciation
might be: 'lez_ee-pair-sound' (pure French), or possibly:
'lez_eye-purr-sound' (English pronounced w/ French accent).

Mes deux cennes.




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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 05:05:25 -0500
From: Georg Zoche <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings: Astro Sounds

Steve,

please let me know of which records 101 Strings' Astro Sound is a ripoff -
I certainly would like to put them onto my want list,

Nemo

>>it makes no pretenses about being anything but "bad" and "cheezy" and a
"ripoff".<<


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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 13:19:20 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) MEL HENKE for the last time

I better not write about music I DON'T like anymore, like Mel Henke...I
got really exterminating replys on my mistaken statemant about the LATIN
roots, when I meant in fact Brazilian, but "they" will probably not
accept that either. It was not an essential word in the context and I
really don't want to split hairs and I definitely don't want to be a
music journalist.

MO



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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 13:20:44 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FRENCH...Andre Popp

Not to mix up with Maurice Pop, who sounds like Early 70s French
Softporno / San Tropez / Louis de Funes filmmusic, Andre Popp is more
traditional / avantgardistic, like circus / silly march music slightly
out of tune. Like "The syncopated clock", if you will. Fits into the
Jaques Tati corner, although he never did music for the french comedy
director, I think. Has ACCORDION also.There are pieces of Popp with
lyrics of Boris Vian, one of them is on a newly published "best of" CD
in Holland ("Musique qui fait Popp") and it's so grand, "Java des bombes
atomique" is the title. Does anybody know where to find the other
Vian-pieces? They were on a compilation called "Chansons possibles et
impossibles" and I bet, Popp's tunes are tres impossibles.
"Elsa Popping and her Pixieland band" that's also actually Andre Popp!
In America available were his albums "Popppp!" and "Holyday for Djs"
What a title for 1957!
The Exotic touch of his music is partly owed to the fact that he was an
autodidact.

MO



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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 13:21:25 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) France Gall (French / Schlager)

French person was Top German Schlager Singer

France Gall was very big in Germany in the late 60s and she sang a lot
in German. "Der Computer Nr.3", "A Banda"(in German), "Haifischbaby"
etc, my favourite is "Hippie,Hippie". While she was considered a pretty
blonde and not more to most people, you could very well see and hear,
and it later turned out to everybody when she had a comeback in the 80s
with "Ella est la", that this woman had a head and used it. She wrote
her own lyrics in French like in "Les yeux bleus" and formed her all
women big band. Never underestimate a blonde!



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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 13:22:10 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Akkordeon

Dlsmay wrote:

> sheesh,
>
> An accordion isn't a portable piano.  It's a portable organ.  Big difference.
> Plus the push-me-pull-you of the bellows makes it perfect for dance music.
> (see, Forro...).

Nobody said that! The question was, wether the accordion took the place of the
piano as the background instrument for dance events when being outdoors.
Actually the accordion is a combination of the former mouth organ with bellows
and a keyboard.
Thanks to Giovanni again for reporting those folkloristic info. I like those
kind of mails.

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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 07:36:53 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ros, Cugat, etc and lest we Fugat...

Through a wonderful compolation, I was introduced to many great artists,
including one of the pioneers of Son, Arsenio Rodriguez, the "fabulous
blind man",  This comp is called "Bravos Del Ritmo" and there is not a
single bad cut on it!  it features many wonderful artists who I am not
familiar with, such as Richie Reyes (his Feria en Manizales is my favorite
cut), Ocho and many others.

It also features familiar names such as Ray Barretto, Tito Rodriguez (viva
"Bilongo"!), Machito and Perez Prado (who the liners are not too kind to;
apparently he was rather ruthless at times).

I enjoy this comp even more than the David Byrne-assembled "Dancing With
the Enemy" and that too is a fine compilation.


http://www.gemm.com has it (does Jack Diamond?) and a volume 2.  Has
anyone heard that volume?

A standing offer: I guarantee that anyone that is a fan of this music will
love this collection! If they do not, I will personally respond to them,
sometime soon, emphatically saying, "Well, that's your opinion".  Please
forgive my boldness about this.

If you don't own this comp, I suppose it's your Ros.

Primo! Uh-Huh, uh-huh, uh-huh,
Brian Phillips


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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:22:41 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) France Gall (French / Schlager)

Moritz wrote:
> France Gall was very big in Germany in the late 60s and she sang a lot
> in German. "Der Computer Nr.3", "A Banda"(in German), "Haifischbaby"
> etc, my favourite is "Hippie,Hippie". While she was considered a pretty
> blonde and not more to most people, you could very well see and hear,
> and it later turned out to everybody when she had a comeback in the 80s
> with "Ella est la", that this woman had a head and used it. She wrote
> her own lyrics in French like in "Les yeux bleus" and formed her all
> women big band. Never underestimate a blonde!

Blondes have more funk!
Gionni








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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 05:29:52 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) FRENCH...Andre Popp

>"Elsa Popping and her Pixieland band" -Delirium in HIFI

This is also released on CD by Basta in the Netherlands, and it happens
to be one of the most fantastic records ever, IMHO. Tres Tres Tres
Bien!!! To good for words. I had to get the original vinyl, and so I
did.

I have not heard his other stuff, are they as great as this?

I used to read Boris Vians surreal writings... I think everything I have
liked in my life is connected to each other in some way. The
psychotronic films, American underground comics (Mark Beyer, Friedman
bros, Kaz etc), books by such guys as Raymond Roussell, Lautremont, Amos
Tutoula, Outsider Art and the music we discuss. What is the connection?
Twisted raw greatness maybe?


Magnus

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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 05:43:13 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beyond the moon

I would like to say thanks to the guy that mentioned "Gullivers travels
beyond the moon" by the De Lugg's (correct spelling?). One day later I
found a sealed copy on a list, cheap too.

Got it yesterday and after a really quick listen last night (There is a
Something Weird filmfestival in Stockholm at the moment...) can say that
it seem really great. The raw "Rise Robots Rise" became my direct
favorite! Loved that record instantly, at first sight in fact.

Also got Ethel Azama's Cool Heat. I'll post a full report on that one
later.

Magnus

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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:33:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) knees up

At 01:37 AM 4/3/98 GMT, Cheryl wrote:
>Well, I just had the delightful opportunity to actually hear the famous ditty
>"Knees Up Mrs. Brown" (don't ask...).  Listening closely to the lyrics (what
>there are of them), it certainly sounds like they're referring to
>dancing.....
>>cheryl

Alright then, now that we've pinned down the meaning of "knees-up", perhaps
we can now move on to the origin and meaning of "piss-up".

Don't suppose there's a tune called "Piss Up Mrs. Brown".

- -Lou




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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 10:43:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fear and lounging

Here's an item picked up from the Drudge Report. Payoff comes in last graph.
- --Lou


INTENSE 'FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS' SCREENING HAD SOME IN AUDIENCE
LOOKING FOR EXIT

UNIVERSAL sneaked its movie FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Tuesday night in
North Hollywood.  Being described as "one of the most bizarre films ever
made," the Terry Gilliam project based on a Hunter Thompson took them to
hell and didn't let them come back during its 2 hour screening.

"I got sick afterwards," one attendee told the DRUDGE REPORT.  "Like they
laced my popcorn with angel dust or something."

Thompson's 1971 fuss-novel hits the screen after literally 25 years in
development and 17 different scripts.  Names like Nicholson, Scorsese, John
Belushi and Dan Aykroyd have been attached over the years.  The story
follows the adventures of a ROLLING STONE magazine writer [Johnny Depp] who
is sent to Las Vegas to cover a Narcotics Enforcement convention.   Dark
Comedy.

No sex, very little violence, it was scenes of graphic drug-tripping --
scenes that make the TRAINSPOTTING boys look like aspirin chewers -- that
shocked the crowd and had some looking for exit.

One scene that goes down in a Casino has Depp hallucinating lizards.

The 10 minute scene comes early in the film and sets tone.  "He's in this
Casino and all of a sudden every one in it starts to turn into creepy
lizard-like creatures," describes a viewer.  "Very disturbing... wacky."

Depp smokes a cigarillo throughout the film making his continuous drug
rants even more over the top, at times reducing him to nothing more than a
mumble. "Whenthegoinggetsweird, t h e weird turn pro," or something like
that.  Depp acts out ether binges, coke tokes, LSD attacks with surprising
ease. Camera effects simulate the highs for the viewer.

One extended exchange between Depp and his attorney, who is tripping out
hard in a bathtub, was so intense and disturbing that several in the
screening audience walked out of the theater.  [More than a dozen found
exit during the film, according to one estimate.]

The drink and drug road trip of writer Depp and his attorney is set for
release in late May.  Just how a new generation will relate to Thompson's
"Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" is an open question at
UNIVERSAL.  One executive hints that Depp's Hawaiian shirt may become a
fashion trend.  The movie's soundtrack, said to feature 70's lounge, may
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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:24:00 -0500
From: Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Peter Hipwell: Re: Edmondo Ros

>> From: Peter Hipwell
>In fact, he was Venezuelan.

Busted!

Ros WAS Venezuelan, according to the liner notes on Rhythms of the South.
For some reason, my fevered brain gave him a childhood in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada, and a proud Colombian lineage. So much for spouting off without
checking facts first. Thanks for the correction, Peter.

Mimi




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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 09:23:26 -0800
From: Steve Sando <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ros, Cugat, etc and lest we Fugat...

I'm back!

>I enjoy this comp even more than the David Byrne-assembled "Dancing With
>the Enemy" and that too is a fine compilation.

Judging from the recent mail, this list has really changed and a lot of us
are coming from completely different directions. Not that it's bad, it's
just quite different. I agree the David Byrne comps and especially Arsenio
Rodriguez are key to Latin muisc fans. (By the by, did you know Arsenio
moved to the states from Cuba to avoid the prejudice he felt against blacks
and then died in a downtown LA hotel room alone and broke?). But if you
only like the "incredibly Stange" aspect of Edmundo Ros doing Hair, all
this will leave you cold.

Personally I like Hair because it works on so many levels: as camp, as
Incredibly strange, and on odd moments despite itself, as good Latin dance
music. For me, these are always the best recordings. If it's just goofy and
whacked, it's like a comedy record and really only worth a maybe two
listenings.

Mel Henke works on the same level for me. It's camp, silly and yet the band
really is gorgeous with their big brassy sound. How it's vaguely Latin or
even Brasilian is beyond me, but I can see not liking it depending on your
point of view.

Because I really love Cuban music, I find Prado really bland. Except for
some of his early work with Beny More, most of it seems so "dumbed down"
and not quite camp enough for me but he was Cuba's most popular export so I
must be wrong.

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