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exotica-digest       Wednesday, October 28 1998       Volume 02 : Number 237



In This Digest:

(exotica) Michel,belle!
(exotica) Shorty!!!!!
Re: (exotica) Shorty!!!!!
Re: (exotica) don't buy sushi 4004 LP!
(exotica) Kahiki Recap
(exotica) Hawaiian Wedding Song????
Re: (exotica) Michel,belle!
(exotica) Re. algebra spaghetti
Re: (exotica) Shorty!!!!!
Re: (exotica) moog continued
(exotica) Shorty!!!!! (not long!)
Re: (exotica) Kahiki Recap
(exotica) It The Terror From Beyond Space!
Re: (exotica) Cheap Thrills
(exotica) Lew, Frank and Warren
(exotica) Jim Flora Gallery
Re: (exotica) Jim Flora Gallery
(exotica) St. Frances E./Psychic T.V.
Re: (exotica) moog continued
[Nat Kone: Re: (exotica) Michel,belle!]
(exotica) Who was bemoaning the fact that...
Re: (exotica) moog continued
Re: (exotica) It The Terror From Beyond Space!
(exotica) Hi-Fi Jazz goes to the movies
(exotica) Fantastic Plastic Machine & Club Pop

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:32:47 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) Michel,belle!

Here is a question that has vexed me for years, yet I haven't posed
it...HOW COME NOBODY ON THIS LIST TALKS MUCH ABOUT  MICHEL LEGRAND!  Yes, I
am shouting, from the hilltops, damnit...Ok, so I've been gone
awhile...maybe the last year and a half was devoted to all Michel, all
day...but I doubt it...So, here are some questions after this "where the
hell did THAT come from" rant...I have: THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, YOUNG
GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT(both vocal and instrumental), LE GRAND JAZZ, THOMAS
CROWN AFFAIR, LOVE IS A BALL and
PLAYS RICHARD ROGERS.   Are there other goodies I don't know about?  Does
anyone share my passion about this most under-rated artist?

Pantingly,
Jane Fondle...

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:37:21 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) Shorty!!!!!

 I could shout all day about Shorty Rogers,too,but this album on WB I found
for cheapsville is GREAT!  It's vinyl, not reissued to my knowledge, has a
silvery-cover...I don't have it in front of me, but it's, like a said
before, PURE West Coast with a lot of space-age-pop-stereo-demonstration
thrown in...surely Jack Diamond knows this one;)...Shorty is soooo dang
near impossible to find without a high tag, so this was a victory,
especially because I've since moved from Tampa to Boston, a record-less
rant which I won't start here...all I can say is, if we can get an
Exotica-group rate, let's ALL MOVE TO FLORIDA..    nahhh, too much
competition! XOXO
Jane Fondle
PS-Astroslut(my band) news to follow, soon!

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 09:33:16 +0000
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Shorty!!!!!

At 10:37 AM 27-10-98 -0500, Jane Fondle wrote:
>I could shout all day about Shorty Rogers,too,but this album on WB I found
>for cheapsville is GREAT!  It's vinyl, not reissued to my knowledge, has a
>silvery-cover.

oo, oo, is this part of that stereo demo series that came out in the early
60's when WB got into the act? Mel Henke had one, maybe Warren Barker, also
Buddy Cole?  I actually bought only the cover of the Henke because it
detailed the series a bit...and because it had this neat silver geometric
pattern as part of the design.

Shorty Rogers is indeed someone I look forward to finding...because I enjoy
his  West Coast jazz, but also because he tends toward the exotic
occasionally.  This sounds like one of those cases!

This sounds like a good find to me. I have yet to discover a whole LP from
that WB stereo sound series...and there aren't that many Shorty Rogers LPs
that have that exotic touch to the degree you mention here.

Oh, and please do tell about Astroslut.  I was checking out the websites
and discovered information about two of your former bands, but the Boston
paper that may have had some info at one time about Astroslut no longer has
an entry!

Byron

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 98 19:20:10 +0100
From: Bissia <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) don't buy sushi 4004 LP!

Hi Johan, maybe the pressing you've got is bad !
Also, when a groove is stucked in vinyls ; it maybe a little
fly shit to remove =8A or just give the cells with a finger hit,
but when a CD skip-kip-kip-kip-kip-kip-kip-kip  ...

I found that sushi 4004 lp not as good as hyped anyway
so I didn't bougth it.
But I liked much the first  Fantastic Plastic Machine album on
Bungalow.


>    the needle stucks - the needle stucks - the needle stucks -
>    this vinyl sucks  - this vinyl sucks  - this vinyl sucks  -


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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:41:40 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Kahiki Recap

This is a short story of Baby Doe and Otto's Tiki trip to the Midwest. If you
are not interested please delete and if you don't want to receive further
announcements of Tiki events please respond with REMOVE

Friday night we arrived at the Kahiki after 16 hours of shuttles, planes,
layovers, and rental cars to find the grandest, most elaborate Tiki palace we
had ever seen. From the signage, driveway and utility shack turned Tiki pagoda
out front to the exaggerated sweeping roof to the huge Moais topped with fire
we could barely bring ourselves to enter without kneeling before the Tiki
handled doors.

The entry is a bridge through a dark black cave with blue luminescent water
underneath. Then you dramatically enter into the restaurants round hut with a
6 foot tall Oriental Tiki head that is dripping and gurgling with water. This
area is called the Grand  Foyer (in true Tiki bar fashion all rooms/sections
of the restaurant are named and themed to match the name) from there you can
see the entire depth of the Kahiki which is anchored at the far end by a 30
foot tall Moderne Maoi Tiki fireplace. I'll leave the rest of the description
for you to discover.

Friday and Saturday nights they have a (somewhat out of place) Carribean steel
drum band. At least they wear Hawaiian shirts and leis.

We immediately went into the gift shop where we bought one of everything (well
not really but we bought a lot), the most promising of which was the new
Kahiki necklace ($5.00) with their logotiki in the round made out of black
plastic. Their mugs are for sale but are poorly rendered from China kilns. And
their original Maoi mugs are nowhere to be found.

Saturday we successfully thrifted around Columbus under the guidance of Jeff
Chenault (you may have read his Les Baxter story in Cool and Strange Music)
along with Tiki News contributor and NYC arrival Becky Ebenkamp.

Saturday night saw the arrival of a bus full of Akron/Cleveland fans (about
40) to the Kahiki and the opening night of Combustible Edison's national tour
(actually they played an instore in Boston a few days before but that doesn't
count)
EVERYONE was dressed for the occasion in either formal wear or Hawaiian/Asian
themes! The dinner preceding the show was sold out and was a joyous & friendly
affair. Everyone was talking to each other and meeting new people. I met so
many I can't remember them all but here's a list of some I do: Beau Sterling
(dj and Hawaiian musician) drove to the bus site from Chicago, we heard that
Jack Fetterman was in from NYC but never met with him, Al Hoff and husband Pat
carpooled with Vern (Cannot Become Obsolete zine) and another friend, Mark
Gunderson (Evolution Control) & Lara did sound, Judy & Tim were in from the DC
area, Michael (of Zombo's Record party radio show and The Surfaholics),
Michael Toth (you may have read his story in Cool and Strange Music or the
Tiki McDonald story in Tiki News), Tiki fanatic Michael Manges whose
subscription I did not mess up, Michael Zadoorian (soon to be a Tiki News
contributor), and several others.

Combustible were at their finest obviously spurred on by the crowd. They
performed two full animated sets and a two song encore before having to clear
out due to time constraints. Look for their cocktail napkins printed with a
CE.

The overwhelming feeling of love and warmth caused me to propose to Baby Doe
in the cave entrance of the Kahiki between CE sets!

Sunday Toth toured us around Akron's finest thrifts (something Ann's??) and we
did our best not to overstuff our luggage, but it was hard not to scoop up the
goodies (are you reading this Al?)

Then Sunday night was Zombo's Mondo Record Party on WAPS radio Akron (Sundays
11 pm to 1 am, 91.3 fm)

Monday night we finally made it home to find we had lost
1 Kahiki coconut mug
1 "Karate Punch" mug
1 Hilton Hawaiian Village ashtray
1 cocktail shaker with blue elephants
due to breakage in our suitcase

a sad ending to a wonderful weekend


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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:21:13 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Wedding Song????

In a message dated 98-10-27 13:42:04 EST, Otto wrote:

<< The overwhelming feeling of love and warmth caused me to propose to Baby
Doe in the cave entrance of the Kahiki between CE sets! >>

All I can say is what a fantastic story to tell all the little tiki
grandchildren (or who ever) in the future.

Thanks for the update and congrats!!!

Robert
(aka Tiki Bob)

P.S.  We assume she said yes, right????


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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:20:42 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Michel,belle!

At 10:32 AM 10/27/98 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:

>Here is a question that has vexed me for years, yet I haven't posed
>it...HOW COME NOBODY ON THIS LIST TALKS MUCH ABOUT  MICHEL LEGRAND! Are
there other goodies I don't know about?  Does
>anyone share my passion about this most under-rated artist?

I do.
(I guess I joined the list after you dropped out...)

My first Michel Legrand record was STRINGS ON FIRE.  On the surface, it's
just another lush, string-laded exotica record.  But the strings are SO
HEAVY and they attack with such "verve" (can I use that word?) that the
record is elevated out of the pack.
(I keep it next to this Nelson Riddle album I have, "Love is a Game of
Poker", which has a similar heavy string attack thing happening.)

So Michel was already vying for hero status with me.  And then I bought
"Michel Legrand chante SERENADES DE XX SIECLE".  In case you can't
translate any French at all, that means he sings.

And this record is a classic!  (I was going to call it a "stone fucking
classic" but I thought that sounded too much like Jack D.)

If someone came to me right now and asked what lounge/exotica record I
would suggest they reissue - okay I admit that being on this list has
helped create that fantasy for me - this would be my current choice.  (Up
till now, it would have been Sonny Lester's "After Dark Middle East")  And
it's not that he's such a good singer, though he's not bad.

I guess I'd sort of call it "beatnik jazz".  At least the best cuts.  It's
so good that there's a cut where he scats - something I usually hate - and
I like it.

Then again, maybe my taste has deteriorated to the point that I can handle
bad scat singing.

But I love this record!  And if it has been reissued, everyone should buy
it.  And if it hasn't, then my fantasy continues...

By the way, welcome back

Nat





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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:58:14 PST
From: "sir william walker" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re. algebra spaghetti

(FWD)

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algebra spaghetti CD/LP

please find enclosed some further details

the protagonists:

Mild euphoria-are an instrumental aggregation who assemble only for
recording for reverie or the parties for the children of the
international jet set ( Blake Edwards 'The Party' is the adult version
of  this scene) and perform before cartoon film back projection or
surrounded by soap bubbles.

Monday Sinclair-is our angelic pop boy about town. Our everlasting
choirboy. Our Peter Pan-who will never age a single day. For monday
sinclair it is still 1966 (or 1972) (the Monkees or David Cassidy) and
we are still at the height of teenybop mania. Nothing has changed. Not
the music, the clothes or the pre-pubescent audience. Monday Sinclair
will mime for 45 minutes before being chased across Manchester
Piccadilly square by 300 schoolgirls only to be lifted by his personal
security guards and returned to the sanctuary of a local hotel.

Sunshine day & Today's pop symphony-what the world needs now...vocal
groups! At last a renaissance in this long (and absurdly) neglected
genre. Sunshine day and Today's pop symphony are respectively the
purest harmony pop and scat vocalise with a slightly jazzy inflection.
Sunshine day will bring to mind the soaring uplifting lilting tones of
The Fifth Dimension while TPS are more strange (perhaps a little more
baroque) recalling The Swingle singers and especially their classic
album 'Sketches of Spain' which is their vade mecum. When the camera
cuts away from the action proper to look for atmospheres and
enviroment, their will be Sunshine day or TPS.

Maria Napoleon-purveyor of the teen novelty song. Largely innocent on
the exterior but hinting at something darker underneath, hinting at
temptation, recalling the bossanova psychedelia or Claudine Longet and
the nonsense verse of Edward Lear, Maria Napoleon will be your tour
guide and narrator through the Reverie pop world.

Lollipop train- Eileen is the ten year old daughter of a russian
diplomat. She organises children's tea parties amongst her friends set
to the music of early Pink Floyd. The children have brought their own
jelly and made their own hats. Their is a toy drum some percussion and
a guitar. They make a game of this.lord of the flies with musical
instruments but with a slapstick ending. Lollipop train is the name
that Eileen has given to her group and they are currently preparing
their album for reverie which is entitled 'Treacle toffee world'.


The songs of Algebra spaghetti....

'Sunshine day' 'Rupert the bear' and 'Different' are all drawn from
television or film sources; 'Sunshine day' is a very famous household
song in America as it is from the Brady bunch television show that was
huge in the seventies (and also appeared subsequently in their film).

'Rupert the bear' is rather older-having initially been a children's
cartoon favourite as far back as the fifties, evolving to British
television by 1968 (in black & white). The song was originally
released at the height of Rupert's popularity around 1972 and was
performed by Jackie Lee (achieving the UK chart position of no 45)

'Different' was written by the famous songwriting team Charles Fox and
Norman Gimbel for the Syd and Marty Krofft film production of
'Pufnstuf' that starred Jack Wild and was popular on both sides of the
Atlantic following the sucessful and long running   Pufnstuf series.
'Different' is the class and type of song that bands seem to find
impossible to write today.asong about individualism asperation and
optimism.

'1910 cotton candy castle' (so miraculously performed on 'algebra
spaghetti' by Monday Sinclair) was originally recorded by the USA
bubblegum outfit 1910 fruitgum company (of 'Simon says' fame). 'Jelly
jungle of orange marmalade' is of the same genre having originally
been a hit for the Buddah records sister group The Lemon pipers. Both
songs combine teenage tease with a particular kind of playful
psychedelic imagery.

'Mandalay cow' and 'Estridentistas' are evidence of the quality of the
original writing of Shazna Currie whose husband Momus has provided
vocal accompanyment and instrumental backgrounds here. I don't know
how to describe Maria Napoleon. In some ways comparisons can be drawn
with Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra but it's stranger. More baroque.
Very indian in some ways. I do know that the writing has a toytown
fantasy quality that is charmingly incomprehensible to me and
thoroughly appropriate to the reverie world.

'Pussycat balance' is the tale of a young girl's entirely wholesome
preoccupation with her pet cat and has a curious scatalogical quality
that works as the end of 'algebra spaghetti'.

The instrumental textures performed by Mild euphoria and vocalaise
from Today's pop symphony were inspired or derived almost entirely
from cinema and promises to be so in the future. On this occassion
there is reference to Dudley Moore ('30 is a dangerous age Cynthia')
and Alfred Hitchcock's 'Marnie'.
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:48:59 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Shorty!!!!!

At 09:33 AM 10/27/98 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Shorty Rogers is indeed someone I look forward to finding...because I enjoy
>his  West Coast jazz, but also because he tends toward the exotic
>occasionally.  ...and there aren't that many Shorty Rogers LPs
>that have that exotic touch to the degree you mention here.

The first few Shorty Rogers records I heard were okay but there wasn't
anything space-age-poppy to them.  You know, I have "Chances are it swings"
and I keep it for the cover more than anything else.  I guess it's an okay
West Coast jazz thing but that's not the kind of jazz I like either.
And then I have "Voodoo Suite" which he did with Perez Prado.
And as much as I love Perez, I was kind of disappointed.
And then there's "Afro Cuban Influences" which is a lot like the Voodoo
Suite thing, in that it's cool that they did it but there's really not all
that much going on there.

But the thing is, I do know what you're talking about with Shorty Rogers
and that space age bachelor pad sound.  I've been seeing his producing
and/or arranging credits on a lot of records lately.  Records that sound
nothing like that "jazzy" thing I've associated with him.

Trouble is I can't think what any of those records are. I just looked but
with no luck.  Maybe someone here can figure out what I mean.

Nat



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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:40:40 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Desmond K. Hill)
Subject: Re: (exotica) moog continued

>> HENRY, PIERRE-Messe Pour Le Temps Present
>
>  Parts of this album were "sampled" by JJ Perrey on
>  a track of his Moog Indigo album.

That simply is untrue.  None of Pierre Henry's work features on ..__any.__
of Perrey's compositions.  An opinion presented as fact remains an opinion.

d e s




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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:25:41 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Shorty!!!!! (not long!)

I guess that since he recorded for WB, that it was to secure his services
for "Three Little Bops" cartoon, a Jazz re-telling of the "Three Little
Pigs", with vocals by Stan Freberg.

This post will have to suffice for the meantime. I just got back from LA
and I scored a few things.  More details when I get caught up with work.

Rogers and out (I bet he NEVER heard THAT one.  I'm a-laughin' already!),
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:29:14 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kahiki Recap

Otto wrote:

> This is a short story of Baby Doe and Otto's Tiki trip to the Midwest. If you
> are not interested please delete and if you don't want to receive further
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I (predictably) liked your report and I only hope that these precautions
are not neccessary. We are still in the Exotica list, aren't we? And
that's not just a list of record titles.

Thank you and my heartfelt condolence to the demise of your mugs. No
chance to repair them?

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:50:57 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) It The Terror From Beyond Space!

When I was young I saw this movie and remember the creepy outerspace
soundtrack. The movie was about a monster that climbed abord the
earthlings's spaceship on Mars and terrorized the crew on their voyage
back to earth.  It was a prototype for the movie Alien.   Does anyone
own this or know if it was ever released as a soundtrack?

Any other suggestions for creepy monster outerspace soundtracks?  I
guess the halloween season has inspired me not to mention the movie
Mars Attacks.

Easy Listening in the Big Easy
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:22:41 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cheap Thrills

A always informative Exoticat suggested this site:

<< Title: Cheap Thrills:  Yard Sale Tips and Freebie Links
 URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/7678
 Description: Visit http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/7678 for FREE
 tips on having a successful garage sale / yard sale. Learn the tricks
 to becoming a smart yard sale shopper. Learn what you should never buy
 at a yard sale. >>

I hate to say it but the site was lame (at least to me) but funny enough so I
wanted to pass on these IMPORTANT, OBSCURE RECOMMENDATIONS OF YARD SALE
SHOPPING (all of these are from the list, and as Dave Barry says, "I swear, I
am not making this up.")

╖ Put a cardboard box or tote bag in your car to hold your purchases. It will
keep them from rolling around in your car. It also it will make it handy to
carry your purchases in your house.

╖ yard sales that are held in better neighborhoods normally have the nicer
stuff.

╖ When I am going "major" yardsaling, I wear a fanny pack and don't carry a
purse. It saves time when I jump out of my car and rush over to a great find

╖ Be wary of items that may have been recalled by the manufacturer.

╖ Be careful when digging through a box of used kitchen utensils - so you
don't get cut by an old rusty knife.

Man, I wish I would have know all this before I bought that used Pinto.  How
was I to know the damn gas tanks were faulty -- and right after I cut my hand
on a rusty kitchen utensil too!

Just having fun (with a bloody knub!)

Robert


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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:44:39 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Lew, Frank and Warren

Just got two albums today.  Love 'em!

Strange Interlude   Lew Davies  Command RS 829 SD.  Great stereo!  This one
has some Halloween type cuts...Riders in the Sky (with some use of a
theremin), Old Devil Moon and The Witching Hour.  The theremin is featured
in Gone With The Wind.  Other little used instruments are the contrabass
clarinet (which is so tall it requires two instruments to record properly),
the cymbalum (sort of a dulcimer) and the ondioline.  Lew Davies can do no
wrong! Is it true that there are absolutely no pictures of this man?

How to Get the Most Out of Your Stereo  Various  Warner Brothers WB XS 1400
Now, I didn't like everything, but this is a good stereo record.  Start
with a lovely on the cover wearing a stethascope that splits left and
right, the back illustration of a grammophone with two cones and the gold
vinyl record.  Then go to the 12 cuts chosen from other WB releases.  I
already have two of the LPs excerpted, so I already knew of The Don Ralke
Orchestra's wonderful interpretation of "How Long Has This Been Going On"
and the Spike Jones Orchestra's "Two Heads Are Better Than One" (less music
than comedy routine). However, the Theme from "Micky Mouse Club" by the
Frank Comstock would cheer up any crime jazz lover and a wonderful exotic
tune "Carnavalito" by Warren Barker is just the thing.

Oh, by the way, in addition to my search for a picture of Lew Davies, I am
also wanting pictures of Warren Barker, Charles Magnante and Frank
Comstock.  Anyone seen their mugs?

Byron



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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:01:46 -0400
From: Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jim Flora Gallery

After 8 months of design, Irwin Chusid and Jack Fetterman proudly
inaugurate the Jim Flora Gallery, devoted to the 1940s-50s surrealistic
album artwork of the late Jim Flora (1914-1998).

The site consists of:

      - all available Jim Flora album covers
      - several of his magazine cover illustrations
      - interviews with Flora
      - quotes from well-known artists paying tribute
             to Flora's inspiration
      - articles written about Flora
      - a 1943 Flora gallery exhibit invitation
      - discography of Flora album covers
      - a personal letter from Jim Flora

Tour the gallery at: http://www.inhi-fi.com/flora/

And please FWD the link to interested parties and newsgroups.





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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:11:52 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jim Flora Gallery

At 09:01 PM 27-10-98 -0400, Irwin wrote:
>After 8 months of design, Irwin Chusid and Jack Fetterman proudly
>inaugurate the Jim Flora Gallery, devoted to the 1940s-50s surrealistic
>album artwork of the late Jim Flora (1914-1998).

I happened into it at least a month ago and it was very impressive!  It is
well designed and can run on pretty much anybody's computer (unless you are
running
Mosaic on an XT, perhaps).  The interviews and illustrations are just
superb and will stay with you.  Just a week ago I ran into a Jim Flora
illustration on a 10 inch record from RCA, I believe...perhaps a Dorsey
record.  It is most probably in the gallery...but it was the style I
recognized.  Jim Flora did many of the Sauter-Finnegan covers...I knew his
style long before I knew the name.

Now, if someone would do the same thing for some of the other great album
cover artists.  How about that guy who does pen and ink drawings of jazz
musicians...often found on early Fantasy albums I believe, certainly on
Gene Norman labels?  Or, even Jack Davis?

Byron

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:37:27 -0000
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) St. Frances E./Psychic T.V.

There is a PTV mail list at

 http://www.onelist.com/

With Archives and everything,  you should be able to find a wide range of
inaccurate information on the song and Frances E Dec (possibly a woman with
that spelling of Frances/Francis,  but then again probably not).  As for the
LP,  with all these things,  they are available but only if you are in the
right place at the right time.
The description of the song sounds typically Genesis P Orridge.
Coincidentally after they left the UK I believe that the P Orridges settled
in California.
Gen would be pleasred to know that its been very hard to send this e-mail.
several attempts,  crashed systems and a message that basically said "I
can't send that!"  How bizarre.


El Maestro Con Queso

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http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm

reply to:
A few years back the local campus radio station had a show every
Thursday midnite whose theme music was a song called St Frances E.,
by a band called Psychic T.V. The album was called Ultra House.
The song was an extremely creepy rant about the world being delivered
into Frankenstien slavery, CIA agents beat me bloody , etc etc.
I have never been able to find this album.
Can anyone tell me about Frances E. Dec? Was he a real person?
TIA




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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:05:28 +0100
From: Yves Dewulf <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) moog continued

>>> HENRY, PIERRE-Messe Pour Le Temps Present
>>
>>  Parts of this album were "sampled" by JJ Perrey on
>>  a track of his Moog Indigo album.
>
> That simply is untrue.  None of Pierre Henry's work features on ..__any.__
> of Perrey's compositions.  An opinion presented as fact remains an opinion.
>
>  d e s

   Think of it what you want.
   Reasonable people may want to compare the rhythm track
   (drums,guitar and bassline) of "Jericho Jerk" from
   Messe pour le temps Present (by Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier,1967)
   and "Cat in the Night" from Mood Indigo (J.J.Perrey,1970).

   YVes

   P.S. for a similar use of Musiqe Concrete techniques in
        more Popular Music, you can check out pre-Oxygene
        Jean-Michel Jarre (for instance: the rarities compilation).
     Jarre studied with Pierre Schaeffer of the GRM and I
        believe also Perrey had some contacts with thes guys.




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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:41:05 GMT
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Nat Kone: Re: (exotica) Michel,belle!]

> From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
>
> My first Michel Legrand record was STRINGS ON FIRE.  On the surface, it's
> just another lush, string-laded exotica record.  But the strings are SO
> HEAVY and they attack with such "verve" (can I use that word?) that the
> record is elevated out of the pack.

Is this the American version of "Violent Violins"? Does it have "Come
Ray and Come Charles", "Motor City" and "Due Gue Ding" (not sure of
the exact name of that last one). Because if so, I second the
recommendation. It has a great cover pic as well, a leather clad woman
with a mini-whip in her mouth surrounded by violins.

I really like this "extreme" string sound. Another great one is
"Strings On Fire" by Clebanoff (with the fantastic "Bobsled" track); I
think this may also have been issued as "Like Paganini".  Also, "Wild
Strings" by Werner Muller is well worth checking out. Real mutants!

- -- Pete H.



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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:16:23 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Who was bemoaning the fact that...

They were unable to find the LP, "How to Speak Hip"?  Contact me off-list.



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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:50:17 GMT
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) moog continued

>
> >>> HENRY, PIERRE-Messe Pour Le Temps Present
> >>
> >>  Parts of this album were "sampled" by JJ Perrey on
> >>  a track of his Moog Indigo album.
> >
> > That simply is untrue.  None of Pierre Henry's work features on ..__any.__
> > of Perrey's compositions.  An opinion presented as fact remains an opinion.
> >
> >  d e s
>
>    Think of it what you want.
>    Reasonable people may want to compare the rhythm track
>    (drums,guitar and bassline) of "Jericho Jerk" from
>    Messe pour le temps Present (by Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier,1967)
>    and "Cat in the Night" from Mood Indigo (J.J.Perrey,1970).
>

I know what you mean: the same passage also appears at some place on
the Tipsy album, if I'm not mistaken... damned if I can remember the
track... I was listening to it and I thought "Aha -- that's taken from
Pierre Henry". The next album I listened to was "Moog Indigo", and
there it was again. I haven't actually A-B'ed them, but in the mind's
ear they sound identical.

That's my opinion.

- -- Pete H.



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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:18:21 +0000
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) It The Terror From Beyond Space!

> When I was young I saw this movie and remember the creepy outerspace
> soundtrack. The movie was about a monster that climbed abord the
> earthlings's spaceship on Mars and terrorized the crew on their voyage
> back to earth.  It was a prototype for the movie Alien.   Does anyone
> own this or know if it was ever released as a soundtrack?

You can hear the original trailer for this movie on this week's Retro
Cocktail Hour webcast.  It's an outer spacefest, filled with lots of
classic "outer space exotica", including Fantastica, Music Out of
the Moon, Space Escapade and more.  There's even a rare RADIO
adventure by Captain Video!

The music for It! was by old reliable Paul Sawtell (who also wrote
music for The Fly, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and many others)
and Bert Shefter.  To the best of my knowledge, there was never a
soundtrack release.

> Any other suggestions for creepy monster outerspace soundtracks?

Check out both volumes of Monstrous Movie Music, featuring suites
from Them, It Came from Outer Space and several others. Great stuff!

Darrell Brogdon
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:31:21 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hi-Fi Jazz goes to the movies

Don't you just love it when your favorite Hi-Fi Jazz combos show up in
motion pictures?  What's out there?  We know Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne
are in MAN W/GOLDEN ARM, Gerry Mulligan in I WANT TO LIVE, and Chico
Hamilton Quintet in THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS...
Your turn, talk to us!

Jane "Susan Heyword" Fondle
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:04:53 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fantastic Plastic Machine & Club Pop

I went to http:villagevoice.com  and put in the search words Fantastic
Plastic Machine and up came this interesting article "busy listening"
club pop music by a list memeber. to go directly to the article click
on:

http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/9841/vincentelli.shtml



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