Subject: (exotica)The Amazing BasicHip (was where's that Mimi? Got your Sammy song)
Ford, you are such a darlin'! Thank you!
Sammy's "Man with the Golden Arm" is as melodramatic, smooth, and sweetly
sung as I'd remembered it. And guess what? You timed the posting
perfectly--it ended up being a sort of an unexpected birthday present to
me.
I'm so grateful. Is that your MP3 or one you found elsewhere? I'm wondering
now about the orchestra performing with Sammy--would love any info you have
to share. And if you did find the Decca record,...well, you are an
astonishingly quick and resourceful collector!
BasicHip: The Best!
Gleefully yours,
Mimi
>>>Mimi had asked about Sammy Davis Jr's version of "The Man With The Golden
>>>Arm"
>>>
>>>It took some digging - evidently it was never on an LP - only released as a
>>>45 single on Brunswick or Decca.
>>>
>>>This is the Decca version, which I stumbled upon today. Just for you, Mimi
>>>:)
>>>
>>>http://www.basichip/sounds/sammy.mp3
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:10:14 -0500
From: "Colleen Pyles" <colleen7@ireland.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) w.o.w. mirman!
Wow and weird...who is eugene mirman?????
Colleen
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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 19:01:57 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
More importantly, can we stage a kitschy-coup?
I am VERY sorry,
Brian Phillips
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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:10:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dymaxia <dymaxia@ripco.com>
Subject: (exotica) (fwd) Dog releases a single!
I haven't actually *heard* this yet - just FYI
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BUFFALO, NY - Sgt. Pepper Endres, a border collie from Western New York
state, has released his debut single, "The Tale of My Soul", on the
Butter-Dog Records label.
The CD single features two tracks, the canine country hit "The Tail of My
Soul (is Waggin')", and a funny musical tribute to dogs of all kinds,
entitled "All You Need (is a Dog)". Details, sound samples and ordering
information can be found at Pepper's website-
http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html
Sgt. Pepper Endres - The Tale of My Soul
http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html
- --
Kerry
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 13:54:27 +0100
From: Michael Jemmeson <michael@moreover.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) (fwd) Dog releases a single!
Dymaxia wrote:
>
> I haven't actually *heard* this yet - just FYI
I was disappointed. The dog sings very little on the samples you can
download. Just the occasional yelp.
But the idea of singing dogs is, obviously, great.
(The samples are via the 'sounds' link)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> BUFFALO, NY - Sgt. Pepper Endres, a border collie from Western New York
> state, has released his debut single, "The Tale of My Soul", on the
> Butter-Dog Records label.
>
> The CD single features two tracks, the canine country hit "The Tail of My
> Soul (is Waggin')", and a funny musical tribute to dogs of all kinds,
> entitled "All You Need (is a Dog)". Details, sound samples and ordering
> information can be found at Pepper's website-
> http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:26:00 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [NYTimes obit] Joe Henderson
July 3, 2001
Joe Henderson, Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 64
by BEN RATLIFF
Joe Henderson, one of the great jazz saxophonists and a composer who wrote a handful of tunes known by almost every jazz student, died on Saturday in San Francisco. He was 64 and lived in San Francisco.
The cause was heart failure after a long struggle with emphysema, The Associated Press reported.
Mr. Henderson was unmistakably modern. "Joe had one foot in the present, the other in the future, and he was just a step away from immortality," said the saxophonist Benny Golson. His tenor saxophone sound was shaded, insinuating, full of layers, with quicksilver lines amid careful ballad phrases and short trills. He had a clean, expressive upper register and a talent for improvising in semi-abstract harmony, and when the far-out years for jazz arrived in the mid-60's, led by musicians like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, he was well positioned to take part. He made a series of records for Milestone that used studio echo, Alice Coltrane's harp, violins, wood flutes and other exotic accouterments.
But Mr. Henderson's greatest strengths were more traditional: the ballad, the uptempo tune, the standard. And by the early 1990's, when he was a respected elder, he made some of his greatest statements on a series of well-produced, nearly theatrical albums for Verve Records.
Born in Lima, Ohio, he was one of 15 siblings. His parents and his brother James encouraged him to study music because of the talents he displayed as a saxophonist in his high school band. He attended Kentucky State College for a year, then transferred to Wayne State University in Detroit, where he was among fellow students like Yusef Lateef, Curtis Fuller and Hugh Lawson. In Detroit he worked with the saxophonist Sonny Stitt, and eventually formed his own group before joining the Army in 1960. He played in the Army band at Fort Benning, Ga., and toured military bases in the Far East and Europe with a revue called the Rolling Along Show.
In 1962 Mr. Henderson, who soon became a distinctive presence with his rail-thin body, thick black glasses and bushy mustache, was discharged and headed for New York. He quickly joined the young musicians recording for Blue Note records, especially the trumpeter Kenny Dorham, who was acting as a talent scout for the label. He made his recording debut in 1963 on Dorham's "Una Mas," one of the classic Blue Note records of the early 60's.
Mr. Henderson was entering jazz at a fertile moment, when a few ambitious, challenging albums, like John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" and Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue," had broken through to a wide audience. A new self-possessed intellectualism was widespread in black music, and the experimental and traditional factions hadn't yet hardened their positions. Within the same four- month stretch as a Blue Note session regular, Mr. Henderson found himself playing solos on Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder," an album full of bluesy, hard-bop tunes, and Andrew Hill's album "Point of Departure," with its opaque, knotted harmonies and rhythmic convolutions. He played more roadhouse riffs on Morgan's record, more abstract thematic improvisations on Mr. Hill's, and sounded perfectly natural in both contexts.
After making five albums with Dorham, Mr. Henderson replaced Junior Cook in Horace Silver's band from 1964 to 1966. Again he was on hand for a milestone album, "Song for My Father." He was also a member of Herbie Hancock's band from 1969 to 1970.
During the 60's he made several first-rate albums under his own name, including "Page One" and "Inner Urge," and wrote tunes ù among them the blues pieces "Isotope" and "A Shade of Jade," the waltz "Black Narcissus," the bossa nova "Recordame" and the harmonically complex "Inner Urge" ù that earned lasting underground reputations as premium modern-jazz improvisational vehicles.
Mr. Henderson briefly joined the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat and Tears in 1971, and his albums for Milestone, where he recorded until 1976, started to change from mystical Coltrane-inspired sessions to grooves and near jazz-rock. By the end of the 70's, he was working with the pianist Chick Corea. Then, after a five-year silence, he came back with the two volumes of "The State of the Tenor." The first of his moves to redefine his career, these excellent mainstream jazz sets were recorded live at the Village Vanguard.
In the early 1990's he signed a new contract with Verve, which led to three Grammys. "Lush Life," from 1991, used Billy Strayhorn tunes. With its first-rate playing and narrative arc ù it began with a duet, expanded to a quintet and ended with a saxophone solo ù it has sold nearly 90,000 copies, reports Soundscan, a company that tracks album sales.
Other songbook albums, only slightly less successful, included "So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)," a treatment of pieces associated with Miles Davis; "Double Rainbow," an album of Antonio Carlos Jobim's music; and Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," recorded with an all-star jazz lineup as well as the pop singers Sting and Chaka Khan. His 90's discography also included "Joe Henderson Big Band," a lavish rendering of his compositions.
Mr. Henderson's survivors include a sister, Phyllis, and a brother, Troy.
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 20:41:32 +0100
From: Nicola Battista <djbatman@olografix.org>
Subject: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s and more APERITIVO
the first Flabby tracks are finally appearing on Mp3.com :-)
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/172/flabby.html
the express Url http://www.mp3.com/flabby is currently inactive for
technical reasons but should be back in a few hours together with a couple
more downloads.
If you take a look at http://www.mp3.com/aperitivo you'll notice almost all
volumes 1 & 2 are online now. One track is missing since the site keeps
saying it has bad encoding (?). I will give you more infos as soon as
possibile. DAM CDs and more tectual infos i.e. full credits should appear
soon. :)
The Flabby page can also be used to send messages to the group; none of the
members seem online at the moment but messages will be printed and passed
to Soul Trade which will give them to the band.
regards,
Nicola
www.ecl3ctic.com
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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <chuckmk@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s
Thanks Nicola for the heads up!
Flabby gets played, Babluba Shake and Mambo Italiano, by me on
Mardis Gras Day(Carnival Day) in a parade I'm in called Mondo Kayo.
Love these songs and know this band is capable of more great romps
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 16:25:40 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) without a doubt
I was poking around the archives of Internet Update and found a few sites of possible interest.
(To find Internet Update, go to http://www.newsbytes.com/ and Search for "internet update")
Lousmith@pipeline.com
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The Music Of Chromosomes
Imagine being able to convert DNA sequences into musical notes. That is what some Welsh programmers have done with ProteinMusic, a Java-based program that takes data from DNA sequences and plays music from it. The authors say they developed the first version of this downloadable, free program, written in C, on an Apple Mac together with a MIDI connection to a synthesizer in 1996. This program is a complete re-write of the original program in Java. World Wide Web: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~phiwww/pm/index.html
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Gig Posters Memorialized In Web Collection
Gigposters.com collects images of those posters bands use to promote their upcoming gigs. While college students can only manage to collect and display a few posters in their dorm rooms, this site can store and archive thousands in digital form. From the groovy through to the scary and bizarre, these gig posters may bring back some memories to some. They've certainly become an interesting modern art form. Watch out ... the collectors are already hunting for, or arguing over the best poster ever! World Wide Web: http://www.gigposters.com/ .
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8-Ball Answers By Live Webcam
Why buy an 8-ball when you can consult one live and in person on the Web? The "Public 8 Ball" by Jim Studt is "not some cheesy imitation 8-ball written in a Web script. This is a real 8 ball being shaken and read just for you," he tells us, offering up a list of competing sites, which he says are cheesy imitations . His 8-ball is a recently Mattel-manufactured model number 3048AA, we're told, housed in a custom built Lego Mindstorms shaking cradle, triggered and watched by a Linux computer. Just type in that burning question and presto - there's your answer: Reply Hazy. World Wide Web: http://8ball.federated.com
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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:06:13 -0400
From: "Domenic Ciccone" <djdciccone@hotmail.com>
Subject: (exotica) For Boston types
For Boston List members,
Chucks comment about CafΘ Apres reminded me about a store on Newbury Street
in Boston called "Boston Beat Records". I would never have found this if it
was not for a helpful clerk at one of the other places on Newbury. Felix,
the proprietor, was nice (A rarity for specialty records stores in Boston)
and he stocked mostly foreign dance, techno, nouveau lounge sound.
He even offered to let me listen to CD's in the store before buying them.
Unfortunately I was in town for a meeting and was almost late and had to
leave pretty quick.
But next time.
Any comments about the Serge remix CD "I Love Serge"? Any good? Saw it
there.
Domenic
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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:29:18 -0400
From: "Brian" <brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
> Ms. Mah, snacking on jalape~no-glazed pork ribs in front of the sunset,
> said: "Kitschy Tiki has been done so well for many years at places like
> Trader Vic's and the Tonga Room. So there was no point in trying that
again."
It all fits into the argument I've made many times that you can't recreate
history as you cannot recereate the context, ie. the time and place. As to
whether this "artier" rip-off is more valid than a K-mart equivalent, who
can say? Its all a bit muddled what with Michael Graves doing product
design for Target stores and all, but somehow the concept of this place
smells of snob appeal and I would have no part of it. Its like trying to
make Route 66 into higher art by fine tuning it a bit... Or better yet like
what has happened to Las Vegas (or Disneyland for that matter!) in order to
"broaden" its appeal... No, for me it's either all art or all kitch, but
nothing in between...
Brian
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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:19:27 -0400
From: "Brian" <brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy
Alan wrote:
> My question is this. When I first made the CD, I listened to it a bunch
of
> times. I think I genuinely enjoyed it. I don't think I was just
tolerating it. I
> don't think it was all about ironic enjoyment. I think it was genuine.
> But it doesn't really make sense. She's not "good". In fact she's bad.
> But she's bad in a way that I seemed to enjoy. And I wouldn't say "she's
> so bad, she's good". She's never really good..
> I want to know why I like her records in spite of her "bad-ness" (and I
> don't mean James Brown badness.)
I had much the same experience and can't get that kids song "Dad Aren't You
Glad that I'm a Mormon" out of my head! Not go figure, as religious
indoctrination of young kids is one of the most loathsome things I can
imagine, but I just can't forget that song, and worse yet, I know there are
several records of these that are probably going to have much the same
effect once I hear them! It has to be the novelty value and especially the
subverted use of what is essentially popular music that does it for me.
It's that or a genuiely sick sense of humour! call it a weakness...
> stening to that CDR kind of reminded me of listening to Gavin Byrar's
> Jesus Blood". But maybe it also reminded me a bit of the Shaggs.
Now you're making me think of the South Park episode where the kids
performed the Philip Glass piece! But The Shaggs... why not.. look no
further than Mrs.Miller or Lucia Pamela for a comparable "adult"
comparison...
Brian
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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:21:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy
The thing I enjoy about Christian records is that they
are in earnest, authentic. These things are relics,
monstrosities, bizarre artifacts - but that is only
because my world is not that world. They are foreign,
odd, opposed. I hesitate to compare little Marcy to
Islam, or the Eleusinian mystery cults for that
matter, but no matter how absurd the comparison
sounds, there is a link. "Religious indoctrination" is
a foreign phrase among those who go on missions,
circulate vipers and wail at walls. Marcy's God (and
Charlie the Hamster's) is life, like bread and aeresol
dispensed cheddar. Before the Little Marcy website, we
are infidels, profane, outside the temple.
Then again, I identified Popeye with JHVH very early
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 22:00:27 +0200
From: Moritz R <tiki@netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s and more APERITIVO
Great stuff, Nicola, really. And the way you promote it, is equally great. I love it, when real new music is directly coming into the exotica list. To each discussion there should always be links directly to MP3s, so you get to know what you are talking about. It's fresh! Thanks
And... who is... Flabby? Looks like I missed a thread.
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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:17:13 +0200
From: Moritz R <tiki@netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
toobad no homepage is displaying any pix from that place. I'm all for going new ways, and if kitsch by definition is a senseless repetition of old forms, then, yes, it would mean "taking kitsch out of tiki". All-too-often however the fear of kitsch is articulated by people who simply don't have good humour and despise the creative play with popular art forms as a way to question the ever freezing forms of so called serious high art, which as a category can never be defined either. I mean, since Marilyn Monroe made it onto an Andy Warhol silk screen, you cannot be sure what kitsch is anymore. When you hear the word "kitsch", you seem to know what it is, but when you think closer, you often cannot grab it. (Just like the ever mysterious term "camp")
mo
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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:38:50 +0900
From: eat78rpm@bigfoot.com
Subject: (exotica) ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Mystery Song
Please folks
put me out of my misery and tell me what this brilliant song I MD'ed
from Luxuria is ... i've put a realaudio file up here:
http://www.eat78rpm.co.uk/snd/mystery.ra
Incidentally i noticed Luxuria's site has changed ... anyone got any
up-to-date news on that?
Sem Sinatra
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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 05:47:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy
- --- Matt Marchese <mjmarch@charter.net> wrote:
emple.
>
> One of my oldest friends and her first husband were
> deeply involved in a
> Christian puppet ministry. It was as serious as a
> heart attack to them. As far
> as they were concerned, these bits of cloth and
> plastic were far more than just
> puppets, they were masks that covered the face of a
> benevolent God.
Exactly, just like the Catholic mystery of
transubtantiation. And, in a sense, Christ on the
cross and those saint stautues are puppets - just not
very cool ones. marcy would be an advanced model -
like GI Joes with life-like hair and kung fu grip.
> > Then again, I identified Popeye with JHVH very
> early
> > on.
>
> You and Todd Schorr would probably get along very
> well then. Did you make this
> association based on Popeye's miraculous
> resurrection via spinach? And did you
> later come to identify Brutus with Satan and Olive
> Oyl with Sophia the Mother
> Goddess?
"I yam that I yam." And yes, I did see Popeye and
Brutus, at first, as a Manichean parable - the
struggle of the light aginst the dark - but then I
realized that they were essentially one, friends at
heart and equal lovers/beloved of the constantly
fickle Olyv Oyl (chrism of life): Pistis Sophia,
madonna and whore.
> And if Popeye was YHWH, then why couldn't he create
> a more attractive
> girlfriend for himself and get rid of those mutated
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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 09:15:33 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
Subject: (exotica) CD internet site.....
Okay, not exotica related, but what's that GEMM site where you can locate =
out of print CD's..........??
I'm looking for Art.Indust "Amatoria" a *great* trance/house CD from =
India. Evidently, Art.Indust was one of the early "innovators" in this =
type of music. The label folded years ago, leaving behind some hard-to-fin=
d yummie music!!
Thanks -
Nate
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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 10:47:27 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Atkins funeral, Johnny Russell
July 4, 2001
Guitars Gently Weep as Nashville Pays Tribute to Chet Atkins
By DAVID FIRESTONE
NASHVILLE, July 3 ù Chet Atkins was as lean and spare and intense as Nashville is boisterous, a reticent musical craftsman who shaped and defined a city of showmen. At his funeral today, a worshipful country music industry tried to define its debt to him, finally giving up on superlatives and expressing itself as he did in the gentle picking of a Gretsch electric guitar.
Full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/national/04ATKI.html
