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exotica-digest          Friday, July 24 1998          Volume 02 : Number 162



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Lurkers or
Re: (exotica) Lurkers
(exotica) Adamson and Walker
Re: (exotica) Lurkers
Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg
(exotica) Various
(exotica) Twin Peaks/Badalamenti/Lynch
Re: (exotica) Lurkers
(exotica) Comedian, Actor Corbett Monica Dies
(exotica) fwd: on-line music distribution
(exotica) Twin Peaks
(exotica) Indian Pop / Dave Pike
(exotica) Re: Exotic CD Sales Update
Re: (exotica) Lurkers
(exotica) The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T
(exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project
Re: (exotica) Lurkers
(exotica) translator link
Re: (exotica) Swing Scene CDs Update
(exotica) Moon Gas reissue - on vinyl!
(exotica) Kontiki III - the museum expedition, 4th and final part
(exotica) online exotica sounds
(exotica) Jim Flora memorial
(exotica) Found Photo
(exotica) tiki schtuff
Re: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project
(exotica) Thrift Store Art
Re: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project
(exotica) EXOTICA MUSIC FILMS in Baltimore
(exotica) Augie Col≤n - LPs

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:30:47 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lurkers or

In a message dated 98-07-22 21:42:56 EDT, you write:

<< Is this an "English Only" list?  How come they don't post in their native
 languages?

 - Michele >>

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 05:41:13 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lurkers

><< I'm sure I've written this before, but some lurkers are people who don't
> speak English as a first language and don't necessarily want to take the
> time to write stuff in English to the list. Lots of reasons to lurk,
>y'know...

>Is this an "English Only" list?  How come they don't post in their native
>languages?

I never implied this is an "English only" list. Some people on occasion DO
post in foreign languages. But I reckon they don't get many replies to their
comments AND considering the Welcome to the Exotica Mailing List letter is
in English, it kinda sets the tone, don't you think?

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 04:47:07 PDT
From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Adamson and Walker

while looking through the song credits in new film releases in 'sight
and sound' (a bad vice) i noticed:-

"i threw it all away" by bob dylan, arranged by barry adamson, performed
by scott walker, oboe by ann gilby.

anyone have any more info? this film took a long time to come together
when it's predecessor was made adamson was still in the bad seeds and i
think played on the soundtrack (ghosts of the civil dead).

also, re  bootlegs and whether the ends justify the means, baudrillard
said:-
when we had no means, we said the end justifies the means. now that we
have no ends we say the means justify the end.

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:07:37 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lurkers

[e-mail] wrote:

> Is this an "English Only" list?  How come they don't post in their nati=
ve
> languages?

Weil du sonst vermutlich kein Wort von dem verstehen w=FCrdest, was ich d=
ir zu
sagen habe!

Richtig?

MO



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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:09:03 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg

 [e-mail] wrote:

> Hey, for all we know, the greatest Esquivel fan could be someone on a
> very tight budget who owns only one Esquivel CD and knows nothing about
> the rest of his music or the exotica scene, but crys tears of joy while
> listening to that CD over and over and over.

If it is the right CD this may very well be the case. There are a lot of
artists I wish I had only ever known their one good record.

MO



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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:26:08 -0400
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Various

Dear Liststers:

I've been tempted to jump in a number of recent discussions,
but holding back.  I'm writing now because I'm heading off to
Melbourne, Australia on Sunday for 10 days and am wondering
if anyone has any clues on clubs, stores and so on.  I'm there
for a conference on film music which sounds good, trucking along
a videocompilation of 1960s animated credit-sequences-with-theme-
songs which I've spent a deliriously pleasurable last few days
putting together.

I did want to say, a week or so back, that the Jean-Jacques Perry/Air
"Cosmic Bird" collaboration on the Source Lab comp is my favourite
bit of music of the last year or so.   I will be having no more parties
because of this one . . . I cranked it up so high at the last one, the cops
were at my door in five minutes.

My friend Johanne and I are just back from a four-day road trip into
eastern Quebec and down through Vermont.   The point was to see
some nature stuff, of course, but that was just the filler between thrift
stores and "antique" dealerships.  I found a bunch of soundtracks in
a bookstore in Quebec City, nicely priced, and my favourite of them is
for the Italian film "Seduced and Abandoned."

More when I get back,
Will
- -------------------------------------------------
Will Straw
Associate Professor and Director,
Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:08:31 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)
Subject: (exotica) Twin Peaks/Badalamenti/Lynch

    I love the music too, some sort of moody spooky lounge cool jazz.
     Is there other instromnetal Badalamenti music out there that
    is about the same kind? "Blue Velvet" maybe?

'Fire, walk with me' was my first CD purchase, and I love it.
No, the score of 'Blue Velvet' is more classical, and hardly really gets
jazzy like the Twin Peaks s/ts.  Still a great album, though, with
fantastic tracks like 'honky tonk no. 1', 'In dreams', 'love letters'.
Julee cruise also sings a song on the end (oddly enough, an instro of
this was used in a UK anti drink driving ad a couple of years ago).

Far more like the Twin Peaks soundtrack is the 'Wild at Heart'
soundtrack, which I would recommend very highly.  There are a few tracks
that sound like they could have come straight from Twin Peaks, along with
some beautiful slower easy listening (e.g. 'Dark Lolita', the haunting
piano theme which plays when Sherilyn Fenn is freaking out by the crashed
car), some Chris Isaak and some entertaining Nicholas Cage takes on 'Love
me' and 'Love me tender'.

Brilliant soundtrack, and easy to find, too (also, I believe it is a
mid-price release).

regards
Jonny

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:49:16 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lurkers

Michelle gushed:

<< Ken!   I  was wondering what happend to you - if you were no longer on the
 computer or what!  Yes, thank you for coming!!  We will have to do a new
 dinner soon. >>

Are the rest of us invited too?


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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:01:11 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lou Smith)
Subject: (exotica) Comedian, Actor Corbett Monica Dies

    NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- Corbett Monica, a comedian and actor
who opened for Frank Sinatra and other big-name singers and was a
regular on the ``Joey Bishop Show,'' has died. He was 68.
    Monica died Wednesday at home from cancer, his family said.
    Born in New York, Monica dropped out of high school in St.
Louis and began working in the city's clubs. While in the Army, he
entertained at USO clubs.
    He went on to appear 18 times on ``The Ed Sullivan Show,'' and
was a frequent guest host on the ``Tonight'' show for Johnny Carson.
He also appeared on shows hosted by Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas and
Perry Como.
    Monica appeared in Las Vegas, Miami and Atlantic City, N.J.,
with stars like Paul Anka, Nat ``King'' Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Lena
Horne and Dean Martin.
    He was in the 1970 movie ``The Grasshopper'' and in Woody
Allen's ``Broadway Danny Rose'' in 1984.
    After moving to Florida a decade ago, Monica continued touring
with singers, including Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. His jokes were
clean, often family-based, like the one in which he noted that he and
his wife were trying to get their son to learn a trade ``so we can
know what kind of work he's out of.''



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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:54:33 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: on-line music distribution

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MEDIA
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Jupiter Communications: Music Labels Should Distribute Digitally

Jupiter Communications have advised major music labels not to hesitate in
developing strategies for implementing the digital distribution of music.
The longer labels wait, they warned, the more likely that pirating of
recorded music will flourish.

The availability of technologies like MP3, which downloads recorded music
through encoding and compression, is already having an adverse affect on
music label's profits. Rather than stalling, labels should set up
structures to compete with pirates straight away.

Labels were advised to adopt technologies which could download superior
quality sound than that which is available through technologies like MP3.
Despite fears that customers could pay for music, download it and then
distribute it freely, Jupiter was optimistic that digital distribution of
music could be used as a good marketing tool and that security issues could
be ironed out.

The report outlines four stages for testing the feasibility of digital
distribution among labels. They project that total sales of digitally
distributed music online will comprise 2.2 percent of total online music
sales, USD30 million. Total online music revenues in the US are expected to
reach 1.4 billion by the year 2002.

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:52:27 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Hess Jeffery)
Subject: (exotica) Twin Peaks

Did I just see Laura Palmer playing a grocery checker in a commercial for
Arm & Hammer Dental Care gum?  In which she directs an inquiring patron,
"It's in the toothpaste aisle."  He responds "The toothpaste aisle?"
Then the rest of the checkout line drives the point home, "IT'S IN THE
TOOTHPASTE AISLE!!!"  She wearing glasses and it's hard to tell. Can
anyone confirm this and/or tell me I'm nuts?!?


Jeff

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 98 05:55:18 +0100
From: Bissia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Indian Pop / Dave Pike

Ok, but can we know a bit more about the first original
Dave Pike release(s) ?
Was it on Muse records ?

>I have the 12" credited to Dave Pike, with a 1969 copyright credited to
>Polygram (and licensed through their cool imprint, Motor). It is on the
>British label Outcaste, and has 2 remixes by Badmarsh & Shiri, and a speed
>garage remix by Badmarsh that is pretty groovy. So did Weller re-cut the
>original Pike piece?


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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:48:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Exotic CD Sales Update

- [e-mail] wrote:
> This has already happened over at Scamp where parent company
Caroline cut their release schedule this year. Their only release so
far that I am aware of
> is the fantastic/mandatory Peter Thomas (German of "Space Patrol"
fame) greatest hits CD currated by The Millionaire
>
Thanks Otto for the Scamp information.  Do you happen to know how well
the Scamp Peter Thomas cd is selling or any other exotica releases.
I'm not sure but I can't imagine the record companies expected Peter
Thomas or other exotica releases to sell that well.   But then again
maybe they expected the Bar None Esquivel sales figures which I
understood to be quite high.

Easy Listening in the Big Easy.
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:57:30 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lurkers

At 14:07 23/07/98 +0000, you wrote:
>
>[e-mail] wrote:
>
>> Is this an "English Only" list?  How come they don't post in their native
>> languages?
>
>Weil du sonst vermutlich kein Wort von dem verstehen w=FCrdest, was ich dir=
 zu
>sagen habe!
>
>Richtig?

Exactly! I couldn't have said it better myself!

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:59:46 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T

Friday night at 8:00pm (eastern daylight time) Turner Classic Movies is airing
"The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T" (1953). This is a surreal musical fantasy about a
young boy's nightmare of a kingdom ruled by his sadistic piano teacher (played
by Hans Conreid). Script and songs co-written by Dr. Seuss. Wild set designs.
Good fun.

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:14:28 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project

Ron Grandia <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Bootleg reissues of this stuff are getting easier and easier to do. I
>have been
>thinking a lot about doing one or two on a VERY limited basis...
            < cut >
>I would welcome input from you on the subject as I continue to carefully
>consider
>the idea.

    I've been thinking on a somewhat similar path, though i would only
    TRADE home-made cd copies, not sell them. I feel it makes it at least
    a bit less illegal. My goal would be to spread this rare and neglected
    music, not to scuttle reissue projects...

        Johan


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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:24:19 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lurkers

>Weil du sonst vermutlich kein Wort von dem verstehen wⁿrdest, was ich dir zu
>sagen habe! Richtig?

Then there's always the AltaVista mechanical translator site, which renders
MO's message as:

"Because you would otherwise probably understand no word about that, what I had
to say you! Correctly?"

Mechanical translation can be somewhat awkward. And running the phrase through
every language in the translator eventually gives us:

"From probably the vario nao of the word of alcua of include/understand in this
object, this had that to say it! Correctly?"

Round trip back to Deutsche (hope I spelled that correctly! (been a while)):

"Vermutlich vom varionao des Wortes von alcua von include/understand in dieser
Nachricht, hatte dieses das zum Sagen sie! Richtig?"

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:25:49 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) translator link

Oops. I forgot to add the link to the translator site:

http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:27:39 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Swing Scene CDs Update

In a message dated 98-07-23 01:58:47 EDT, you write:

<< This has already happened over at Scamp where parent company Caroline cut
 their release schedule this year.  >>

Ashely, is this true -- were selections cut?

Robert


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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:35:36 +0100
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moon Gas reissue - on vinyl!

Just spotted this out this week:

DICK HYMAN - MOON GAS - SE4119 MGM LP on 180gm vinyl.

It's a Spanish reissue so I guess it must be another boot?

If anyone's interested in buying a copy, please email me privately.


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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:16:47 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kontiki III - the museum expedition, 4th and final part

We had seen the most amazing ancient ships, we had seen the Raukar-heads
in Gotland (thanks to Stefan K=E9ry for this fine recommendation!) and no=
w
we were back on the Baltic sea heading west, watching an ugly soccer
world cup game with German participation on tele. We considered
ourselves ready to approach the final destination, the ultimate goal of
our journey, the Kontiki museum itself.

Next day we were back on the piste. Even in a 765 "I'm rolling" Station
Wagon 700 kms of country road between Stockholm and Oslo stretch out
pretty long, even after fear of the consequences of speed limit
violation had finally faded. Rain became more common every hour,
ever-present Swedish forests on both sides of the road produced a
feeling of hypnotic immensity. Had we not had Magnus with us who
radiated a soothing and stolid intrepidity from his backseat, we might
as well have gone crazy at this point.

Things became worse after we crossed the border to Norway: the road
which had been straight at least became winding and even more narrow and
our average speed reduced to less than 40 km/h. We diagnosed a certain
contradiction between the quality of the streets and the oversupply of
gas stations in this country, every 300 meters you pass one. But beware
of stopping by and possibly buying gasoline! Fuel in Norway costs as
much as its own weight in gold! Even the Swede in our car shuddered when
calculating the exchange rate.

Then suddenly Oslo. Through curtains of rain showers we saw a city that
- - if located somewhere else, say in the Caribic or Polynesia - could
have been incredibly beautiful. A bay, little islands, houses on hills.
The streets turned abruptly into autobahn sized 6 lane freeways and we
ran into a toll station. I was ready to take the oath of manifestation
when cool Magnus produced a couple of shiny Norwegian coins from his
pocket and saved us. "How can a country as rich as Norway take money for
just using a street?" I tried to argue with the man at the desk. "Maybe
that's why we are so rich" was the young fop's snappy comeback.

We decided to drive through the inner city of Oslo to catch a glimpse of
sightseeing when we disappeared in a hole. We had ended up in a tunnel
and couldn't leave it until we had crossed the whole city underground
and returned to the rainy surface on the other side. So that was Oslo we
went and checked into our home for the night, a place of Magnus'
friends.

Next morning it was still raining and temperatures weren't tropical at
all, but it was Kontikimuseumsday! Although it was only a short way to
the museum, we couldn't avoid the next toll station. We paid another
fortune to drive 100 meters toll street until we had to take the exit
"to the museums". From the distance we could already see a big A-frame
buildung, but when we came nearer we saw it wasn't the Kontiki museum.
It was the museum across the street of the Kontiki museum. Had they
mixed up the buildings? We had finally arrived.  All the efforts were
forgotten: A jewel of a museum opened its door for us!

First hall: The Ra 2 reed raft, that crossed the Atlantic from Africa to
South America, in its full life-size beauty. Surrounded by big photo
displays and all kinds of info. Very well done in a fine graphic style
that reminded me of the Sixties modern architecture. Many  boat models
and information tableaus explain the difficulties that Thor Heyerdahl
faced when he prepared his daring journeys and the successes when he
finally arrived. After a few clicks into the Kontiki CD-ROM you walk up
to the second floor and see the Kontiki balsa raft confronted with huge
Easter island heads, one of them was at least 10 meters high. There is
also a window with a nice Fatu Hiva stone tiki and a big wall painting
of the Pacific Ocean and its islands. A real parrot usually gives a
lively impersonation of "Johannes", the beloved companion of the Kontiki
crew, but on this day the cage was empty. We took our photos and crossed
an entrance flanked by wooden tiki poles to the next room. Here you can
look at Polynesian artworks and tools until you go back downstairs into
a room, where you actually see what's under the Kontiki raft, namely the
dolphins, pilot fishes and the worlds biggest fish, the whale shark, all
of them played important parts in the Kontiki book. You also get an
impression of the simple but effective steering system of the raft.
Next thing to watch is a movie about the Aku Aku expedition to the
Easter islands. It shows how Heyerdahl and his men together with the
natives manufacture and move a giant stone head. An extensive part of
the film shows the celebrations after these successful works, native
maidens and Thor Heyerdahl himself can be seen dancing around a fire.
These less scientific aspects lend the museum its charms. The little
movie theater itself is also very neat: the screen is flanked by plastic
tiki figures on both sides and on the left wall you have a plaster
version of the Kontiki symbol, the face of the old chief
Con-Tici-Viracocha. After the film you walk by a life-size diorama of
one of the caves on Easter island, that Heyerdahl had discovered. Here
the native long ears hid their ritual objects. And there he was: the
mysterious white bearded native with red hair, sitting in his cave and
cleaning a scull of one of his ancestors.

Although the Kontiki museum is not very big we spend hours in there,
including quite a while in the museum's shop, where we had to spend the
rest of our money on silver earrings, Kontiki cheese cutters and plenty
of postcards.

That was the end of our expedition. Now it was going home. Magnus took
the train back to Stockholm and we promised to meet again when he and
his Swedish friends do their expedition through all the German Trader
Vic's. Katja and I headed south back to Germany. When we left Oslo we
faced a continuous traffic jam, that reached far into Swedish territory,
90 or so kilometers long. Thank Thor we drove in the opposite direction!
We could fully understand Thor Heyerdahl now: Norway is a perfect place
to live in Tenerife and that shall be the destination of our next
expedition!

Thank you, indulgent reader, for following me and Katja all the way to a
highlight of Exotica culture!

MO



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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:03:19 -0700
From: jasmine j jopling <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) online exotica sounds

    thanks to everyone who suggested places to go to hear good music
right here on my computer.  I culled some of these sites and included them
in my weekly music column...  'twas very helpful!

cheerios,

jasmine

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:58:49 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Jim Flora memorial

MEMORIAL FOR JAMES FLORA

To anyone interested in paying tribute to artist and author Jim Flora,
who passed away at age 84 on July 9, his widow, Patricia Larsen, extends
an open invite to a memorial gathering at:

     The Congregational Church
     2 Park Street
     New Canaan CT

     on July 31, at 2 PM

I believe some Flora art will be on display, there'll be a small jazz
combo--Jim's favorite music--and it's open to the public.

- --Irwin Chusid

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notes:

The Jim Flora Gallery:
        http://www.inhi-fi.com/flora/
The site, co-designed by Jack Fetterman, includes my 7/14 article on
Flora from the NY Press, along with color repro's of all of Flora's
classic album covers for Columbia and RCA Victor Records.

* * * *

Flora's obit appeared in the NY Times Sat. 7/18, with a photo and
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 98 14:31:43 CDT
From: "VIC RUGH" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Found Photo

Lou Smith <[e-mail]> writes:
     Sam "Magic Whistle" Henderson has recently opened a site to showcase
his
     collection of found photos. Y'all should take a peek.

I cried till I laughed.  Whoops, no.  Reverse that.
Try it:          http://www.spillway.com/found/



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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:58:32 -0400
From: Jordana Robinson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) tiki schtuff

There's a person on Ebay selling a bunch of Tiki stuff (mugs, salt
shakers, etc.).  To see them, go to:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=blip

I'm not affiliated with the seller or anything, but I will let y'all
know when I have my own record auctions up.

Jordana
[e-mail]


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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:56:41 +0000
From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project

Johan Dada Vis wrote:

>
>         I've been thinking on a somewhat similar path, though i would only
>         TRADE home-made cd copies, not sell them. I feel it makes it at least
>         a bit less illegal. My goal would be to spread this rare and neglected
>         music, not to scuttle reissue projects...
>
Amen, Brother DaDa! This is where it's at for me to. I am not
interested in becoming a for-profit bootlegger. I just want to see
some interesting music get spread around. I also LOOOVE album covers,
so it would be nice include them with the music.

I was hoping to be able to find a way to afford some nice packaging
and professional reproduction. This is relatively inexpensive - but only
in volume. I don't think I want to run off 1000 CD's just so I can
handle
the per-piece price. It puts me in the category WAY above tape-trader
and makes it necessary to sell them all to break even. That aspect of
it would be no fun at all for me.

On the issue of scuttling legit releases: I finally understand the
rationale
behind why this might occur. There is nothing to keep a bootlegger
(aside
from his/her own personal ethics) from continuing to pump out illicit
product and compete with the real McCoy. Also, if the bootleg is crappy
quality, "market confusion" could stick the high-quality, legit version
with an unearned bad reputation. I think this is what keeps the record
away from issuing previously booted material.

One fact is striking though...From what I have seen, there have been no
copies of rare CD's floating around. This would be the easiest type of
material to knock-off if one were only motivated by profit. All one
needs to do is copy the digital material. The mastering and restoration
is done. I don't know exactly what this has to do with the cost of
beans, but I thought I would mention it. Maybe it indicates that most
bootleggers really get off on "distributing" rather than profit. Maybe.

Oh, and as an addendum to all this talk of bootleg buying and selling:
To my
knowlege, I have never bought a bootleg. I did, however just buy a box
of records that had Japanese copies of records (Al Hirt, Brenda Lee, Ray
Conniff)
on red vinyl and in funky soft covers with poorly reproduced artwork. I
wonder if these are on the level?


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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:15:12 -1000
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Funk)
Subject: (exotica) Thrift Store Art

Found this today and figured you folks would "appreciate" it more than most...

If you haven't already been there, check out:

"The PSB Gallery Of Thrift Store Art" at

http://www.taiga.com/~paul/

***     ***     ***
Steve Funk
([e-mail])
Anchorage, AK
USA




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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:04:16 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project

Ron said:

 >Bootleg reissues of this stuff are getting easier and easier to do. I
 >have been
 >thinking a lot about doing one or two on a VERY limited basis...
             < cut >
 >I would welcome input from you on the subject as I continue to carefully
 >consider
 >the idea.

Johan said:

     <<I've been thinking on a somewhat similar path, though i would only
     TRADE home-made cd copies, not sell them. I feel it makes it at least
     a bit less illegal. My goal would be to spread this rare and neglected
     music, not to scuttle reissue projects.. >>

I am also on the same road.  Just upgraded to a better sound card, have
familiarized myself with the mixing software and will soon be picking up a CD
burner.  The days of making tapes will soon be over.  I now have the power to
clip and paste from CD, LP, VIDEO...whatever, and create a seamless sound
collage.  This is something I am very excited about.

Thanks to Johan for turning me onto his Fantastica mixing brilliance, he is a
real artist.

Thanks to Pea for taking the time to answer my questions and his inspirational
Lucas And Friends Discover A World Of Sound CD.

Thanks to Ron for holding my hand as I bumbled my way through getting set up.

More on this later...


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:47:55
From: Jay Schwartz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) EXOTICA MUSIC FILMS in Baltimore

Here's some info on another screening of the EXOTICA MUSIC FILMS program
that was shown at Fez in NYC last year (and in Philadelphia the year before
that). Look for EXOTICA MUSIC FILMS PT. 2 before the year is out!...

The Secret Cinema presents "Exotica Music Films" at
The 14 Karat Cabaret's Club Footage Cinema

The 14 Karat Cabaret (lower level at M.A.P.)
218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore. [phone]

On Saturday, August 1, the Secret Cinema will present Exotica Music Films
at The 14 Karat Cabaret's Club Footage Cinema. This collection of
ultra-rare footage from a variety of sources -- including very early TV
shows and film jukeboxes from the 1940s ("Soundies") and 1960s
("Scopitones") -- offers a chance to hear, and see, a wondrous assortment
of international music, from a time before David Byrne rendered "World
Music" a politically-correct bore.

All of the films will be projected from 16mm film prints on a giant movie
screen (not video).

Doors open at 9:00 pm, and the screening begins at 9:30 pm. Admission is
$6.00.

The current explosion of interest in "exotica" music stems from the
publication of Re/Search's Incredibly Strange Music books starting in 1993.
Since then, prices for old Martin Denny albums have skyrocketed, bands like
Combustible Edison and their ilk are exploring new "cocktail" music, and
the success of Esquivel reissues and martini bars has prompted nearly every
record label to start up a "lounge" division. Previously plentiful
thrift-store records are getting hard to find, and the opportunity to see
vintage exotica music performances on a big screen is a rare one indeed.
Some program highlights...

Korla Pandit - The handsome Hindu master of the Hammond organ captivated
women with his beautiful music and hypnotic eyes, even though he never
spoke during his 15-minute TV show, the first all-music program on
television. We will screen a complete episode of this show, plus other rare
clips of Pandit and his haunting, mystical sounds. Korla was seen recently
in the film Ed Wood, and Fantasy has reissued some of his original '50s
albums.

Yma Sumac - Exotica personified, the beautiful Peruvian legend burst onto
the international scene in 1950, displaying all four of her octaves on the
LP Voice of  the Xtabay, and creating new musical languages with her
abstract, wordless vocals. We'll show a kinescope of Sumac performing on
The Frank Sinatra Show, from his CBS television show of the early 50s.

The Three Suns - Another cause c=E9l=E8bre of the Incredibly Strange books,
this guitar/organ/accordion instrumental trio from Philadelphia sold lots
of albums for RCA in the '50s and figure prominently on that label's Space
Age Pop series of CDs. Guitarist Al Nevins teamed with Don Kirshner in 1959
to form Aldon Music, which became the most successful music publisher of
the Brill Building era. We will present rare early footage of the group
from 1944.

French pop music - A collection of colorful rock video-like film clips made
in the early '60s for the French film jukebox known as Scopitone.
Performers include "Ye Ye" singers Fran=E7oise Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, and
Sylvie Vartan, plus torch singers, jazz and other French oddities.

Plus...Hawaiian sing-alongs, Latin music from the 1940s, and much more!

The Secret Cinema, begun in 1992, is a Philadelphia-based floating
repertory film series that shows unusual and lost film fare of all types at
various locations.



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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter C <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Augie Col≤n - LPs

When Augie Col≤n wasn┤t busy playing bongo and mimicking birds with
the Martin Denny group, he recorded solo material.
I have two records with Augie, "SOPHISTICATED SAVAGE" LRP-3101 (thank
you, Magnus!)
and "CHANT OF THE JUNGLE" LST-7148, "Sophisticated Savage" display a
more Latin side than usually Denny records and "Chant of the Jungle"
is more hmm... jungle like, but both are great exotica!

Is this the complete catalog or is there any more Augie solo LP┤s out
there?


Mahalo!
        /Peter

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