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exotica-digest       Thursday, February 4 1999       Volume 02 : Number 312



In This Digest:

(exotica) Drasnin in Minneapolis
Re:  (exotica) tiki
(exotica) Styrotiki!
(exotica) FW: [coil] White Rainbow-portable vinyl
(exotica) Sound Lounge 2/3/99
(exotica) sound lounge II
(exotica) New Classic Singers
(exotica) Black Emmanuel's Groove
(exotica) DJ Dimitri
(exotica) Re: DJ Dimitri & Sampling
Re: (exotica) DJ Dimitri
Re: (exotica) Re: DJ Dimitri & Sampling
Re: (exotica) Music hounds of lounge
(exotica) The Untamed World!
Re: (exotica) RE: Splitting Hears
Re: (exotica) Black Emmanuel's Groove
Re: (exotica) Re: DJ Dimitri & Sampling
Re: (exotica) DJ Dimitri
(exotica) (Obit) Lili St. Cyr
(exotica) (Obit) Lili St. Cyr (addenda)
(exotica) Prado, Cugat, Time label and Bobby Rosengarden
Re: (exotica) Prado, Cugat, Time label and Bobby Rosengarden
(exotica) Arthur Lyman MP3 downloads
(exotica) Billy Jack, tikis and contests!
(exotica) Moog Question
(exotica) Who sounds like CE ?
(exotica) Re: The Napoleon Complex
(exotica) Re: Motor Obit
(exotica) Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide

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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:48:23 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Drasnin in Minneapolis

for anyone who plans to attend the historical Robert Drasnin "Voodoo"
performance in Minneapolis here is

"a page of "cool things to do in Mpls" on my webpage"

http://members.aol.com/beangrrl

people on AOL - Keyword to: http://members.aol.com/beangrrl

Lor

(if you don't know what the "Voodoo" performance is go to www.tikinews.com and
check out
What's Happening

aloha
Otto)


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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:48:40 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) tiki

www.tikinews.com


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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:46:23 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Styrotiki!

Behold the styrotiki at http://members.xoom.com/mojoworkin/styrotiki.gif

What is this thing? Anyone? This guy was hanging in the backyard of an =
acquaintance's grandmother.  It is cast styrofoam spraypainted black - =
the chemical action of the painting gives it a lava-like look. It's been =
pretty badly beaten up over the years, and I had to remove the remains =
of a wasp nest from one of the nostrils.

Apparently, it is the only surviving artifact of a genuine 50's backyard =
tikiscape.
Anybody ever see anything like this? Are there more to be had?  If =
anybody in this world has the 411 on this guy, it would be someone on =
this list.

Thanks.

Ron



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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:29:30 -0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) FW: [coil] White Rainbow-portable vinyl

Something from the Coil mailing list.  Roll on technology is what I say.

> >GM tried to make a portable vinyl player for cars in the 50's. It
> worked
> >too. The only problem is that to keep it from skipping they had to
> make the
> >arm so heavy it actually shaved off some of your record each time you
> played
> >it.
>
Perhaps this is what did for the record used as the Eclectic Electric's
master.

El Maestro Con Queso

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


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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:32:28 -0700
From: jonathan <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sound Lounge 2/3/99

THe SouNd LouNge KPSU 1450am Portland Oregon 2.3.99
****all cuts from Vinyl except where noted******
ArTisT              SonG                 AlbUm
Ethyl Azama        Mountain High       Exotic Dreams
Arthur Lyman
Quiet Village         Bahia
George Cates        Bali Hai           Polynesian Percussion
Bill Irwin and Group   Desert Sands        Seduction
Yma Sumac             Jivaro              Legend Of Jivaro
Chaino             Jungle Chase           Jungle Echoes
Esquivel            Baia                 Infinity in Sound vol.2
Surfmen           Taboo                  Exotic Island
Curd Duca           Bounty               Easy Listening 5 (CD)
Russ Garcia        Lost Souls of Saturn      Fantastica
Elisabeth Waldo      Saluca               Realm of the Incas
Johnny Pate         Headman              Shaft in Africa S/T
Sondi Sodsai       Sondi             Paradise Found Vol.1 (CD)
Sonny Lester      Turkish              How to Bellydance FYH
Combustible Edison   Veldt            I Swinger (CD)
John Evans          Eso Es El Amor      Exotic Percussion
Martin Denny       Mumba            Afro-Desia




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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:46:40 -0700
From: jonathan <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) sound lounge II

THe SouNd LouNge with DJ FLint KPSU 1450am Portland Oregon 2.3.99
In an Exotic Mood
****all cuts from Vinyl except where noted******
ArTisT              SonG                 AlbUm
Ethyl Azama        Mountain High       Exotic Dreams
Arthur Lyman
Quiet Village         Bahia
George Cates        Bali Hai           Polynesian Percussion
Bill Irwin and Group   Desert Sands        Seduction
Yma Sumac             Jivaro              Legend Of Jivaro
Chaino             Jungle Chase           Jungle Echoes
Esquivel            Baia                 Infinity in Sound vol.2
Surfmen           Taboo                  Exotic Island
Curd Duca           Bounty               Easy Listening 5 (CD)
Russ Garcia        Lost Souls of Saturn      Fantastica
Elisabeth Waldo      Saluca               Realm of the Incas
Johnny Pate         Headman              Shaft in Africa S/T
Sondi Sodsai       Sondi             Paradise Found Vol.1 (CD)
Sonny Lester      Turkish              How to Bellydance FYH
Combustible Edison   Veldt            I Swinger (CD)
John Evans          Eso Es El Amor      Exotic Percussion
Martin Denny       Mumba            Afro-Desia


Oops-ee, I forgot to say thank you for listening and that I am going to be
in NYC on march 9-13 and am looking for a cheap hotel, or some inexpensive
lodging of that sorts in Manhattan or nearby for this poor Oregon boy. Also
if anyone has any recommendations for hot night spots, record stores,
bookstores,  etc etc.......
please email offline so as not to bore fellow list members.

and I thank you....

- -jonathan






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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:18:52 -0500
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Classic Singers

Did these guys become, or spawn from, the Swingle Singers?

Anyone want to comment on the Swingle Singers in general?
Me, I like 'em.  Their song "Little David's Fugue" used to be the intro
music to a show I did that preceded, but touched on, my new-found love for
"exotica".

Peter


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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 10:24:46 -0500
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Black Emmanuel's Groove

Someone mentioned this in a show playlist.
Anyone know what it's like or what it's about?

Just wondering,
Peter


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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 10:27:15 -0500
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) DJ Dimitri

I too agree that he pounds his samples into salt.
I was pretty disappointed with the whole disc except the Stylophone ditty
and the vocal piece.
The rest was fairly mediocre loungey techno.  Or techno-y lounge.
Basically, the same samples repeated over and over.

I grow weary of that style very quickly.
Sukia and Tipsy have the same problem for me.

If you want to hear the right way to sample,
listen to the lead samples on the Eno/Byrne My Life in a Bush of Ghosts.
Long samples that take the place of soloing, but they still have themes and
returns and choruses.
Completely well done.
But that's my two cents.

Peter


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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:21:44 -0500
From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: DJ Dimitri & Sampling

There are many examples of good sampling, but I think one of the best is DJ
Shadow, even though he doesn't really do so-called "lounge" samples. In my
experience, these artists (Dimitri, Tipsy, et al) that do use easy,
exotica, lounge, now-sound, etc. all seem to repeat them a little too
much...they quickly become monotonous.

- -bryan c.

PETER WROTE:
>If you want to hear the right way to sample,
>listen to the lead samples on the Eno/Byrne My Life in a Bush of Ghosts.
>Long samples that take the place of soloing, but they still have themes and
>returns and choruses.
>Completely well done.
>But that's my two cents.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Bryan J. Cuevas
Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:47:25 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) DJ Dimitri

In a message dated 2/4/99 7:55:00 AM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< If you want to hear the right way to sample,
 listen to the lead samples on the Eno/Byrne My Life in a Bush of Ghosts. >>


I'll take Dimitri over the "I'm an Artiste" pretentions of David Byrne any day
of the week! Besides comparing this album to Dimitri's is an apples to oranges
comparison. Dance music is based on a repetitive beat and the inclusion
repetitive elements so if you don't like that don't use that as a valid
criticism for your dislike. That's like a painter being critical of sculpture
because no acrylics or brushes are used.

Ashley


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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:11:30 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: DJ Dimitri & Sampling

In a message dated 2/4/99 8:16:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> There are many examples of good sampling, but I think one of the best is DJ
>  Shadow, even though he doesn't really do so-called "lounge" samples. In my
>  experience, these artists (Dimitri, Tipsy, et al) that do use easy,
>  exotica, lounge, now-sound, etc. all seem to repeat them a little too
>  much...they quickly become monotonous.
>
>  -bryan c

It seems to be the nature of the beast. It's a dance music hybrid, so it needs
a beat , but that doesn't mean it needs to be a static break beat.  It's real
easy to over indulge a loop when you're piecing together a song.  Hey if the
loop sounded good one time it will sound even better if I let it ride for 30
seconds or use it through out an entire song.  It's a fine line because
sometimes the trance-ish element actually makes an otherwise mediocre loop
sound real good or get boring real fast.

DJ Shadow has a great sense of timeing and knows when to shift gears.
Coldcuts on the other hand tends to be shifting every 10 seconds, which seems
to work well, too.  Also DJ Food generally has a decent feel for when it's
starting to get old.  DJ Cam does some nice stuff, too.

Peter had mentioned Eno/Byrne My Life in a Bush of Ghosts and it's a great
example of using weird chunks of audio in place of solos.  That kind of thing
really breaks up the piece and depending on the audio used it can move the
song in a totally new direction.

I'm working on a couple of songs right now that have heavy exotica/lounge
elements and it's real easy to let them go trancy and not put the work in to
keep them more vital and edgy, but trancy can be good, too - apart from the me
slipping into epileptic seizures every few minutes.

That's it for now.

- -Roy G. Biv


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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:20:41 -0500
From: Tom Karches <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music hounds of lounge

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2/3/99 12:47:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [e-mail] writes:
>
> << The included UltraLounge sampler is pretty good and makes
>  the book quite a good deal if you don't have any of the UL cd's; I think
>  it has at least 17 cuts.
>   >>
>
> This sampler is the one that I expect was to be packaged as the "Tiki
> Sampler".  Can anyone confirm that this sampler that came with the Music
> Hounds book has 2 cuts from each of the UL Vol. 13 thru whatever???

It contains at least 2 cuts from a number of the UL cd's. Munsters theme
was from "TV Town". There is a Julie London cut and "Boy from Ipanema"
by Peggy Lee. I THINK there is a Sergio Mendes Trio track and the theme
from Mr. Lucky. That's all I can remember offhand.

> I am under the idea that this "Tiki Sampler" is not tiki at all and just a
> continuation from where the Leopard Skin Sampler left off.

It is definitely NOT a tiki themed sampler (unless you consider the
"Theme from the Munsters" to be tiki....Maybe this and the Tiki sampler
are two different CD's?. I'll try to remember to post the track list, if
someone else doesn't do it first.

Tom


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Tom Karches
Systems Programmer, Information Technology
North Carolina State University
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:39:31 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Untamed World!

This was a TV series, narrated by Philip Carey, which was on from 1969 to
1975.  It had a distinctive theme, which my brother believed was composed
by Mort Garson.  Firstly, did he and secondly, is the theme available?

Brian Phillips



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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:44:20 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Splitting Hears

> >From the TV one, where they didn't include the albums:
> The Ventures "One Step Beyond Fear" and "Twilight Zone" - These are so well blended, I thought they had to be a medley

Nope, they are two separate tracks, both from "Ventures In Space".

cheryl


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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:58:42 -0500
From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Black Emmanuel's Groove

Peter asked:

> Someone mentioned this in a show playlist.
> Anyone know what it's like or what it's about?

Here's a brief review I originally posted to the Soundtracks list:

Nico Fidenco: "Black Emanuelle's Groove". Abraxas Records/Dago Red [Red
101].

The original themes from the Italian "Emanuelle Nera" films that were
directed by Psychotronic magazine fave Joe D'Amato. Most of the tunes were
written in the mid-seventies so they lack the 60's/early 70's now sound
cocktail funk that is featured on many of the other Italian soundtracks
currently circulating. As a result, the recording isn't as cheesy in that
fun way.

The material is in the lounge-jazz style, and is enlivened
by the exotica-style elements which make tracks like "Hawaiian Sand" or
"Samba Safari" stand-out.

Good, but not great.

Hope this helps,

Allan
++++Unusual Music+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Mondo Bongos" Wednesdays 9 - 10 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario,
Canada
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Unusual Music++++



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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:51:34 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: DJ Dimitri & Sampling

> > There are many examples of good sampling, but I think one of the best is DJ
> >  Shadow, even though he doesn't really do so-called "lounge" samples. In my
> >  experience, these artists (Dimitri, Tipsy, et al) that do use easy,
> >  exotica, lounge, now-sound, etc. all seem to repeat them a little too
> >  much...they quickly become monotonous.

About the last thing I would call Dimitri, Tipsy and Sukia are
monotonous.  I still love those CDs.  Eno & Byrne are good, too, but in
a much different way. I guess we all have different tastes - each to his
own - but I still wouldn't trash these artists - at least they're out
there, doing interesting stuff, as opposed to top-30 rock or new age
or... (you get the picture!).

cheryl


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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:30:12 -0500
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) DJ Dimitri

At 08:47 AM 02/04/1999 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/4/99 7:55:00 AM EST, [e-mail] writes:
>
><< If you want to hear the right way to sample,
> listen to the lead samples on the Eno/Byrne My Life in a Bush of Ghosts. >>
>
>
>I'll take Dimitri over the "I'm an Artiste" pretentions of David Byrne any
day
>of the week! Besides comparing this album to Dimitri's is an apples to
oranges
>comparison. Dance music is based on a repetitive beat and the inclusion
>repetitive elements so if you don't like that don't use that as a valid
>criticism for your dislike. That's like a painter being critical of sculpture
>because no acrylics or brushes are used.
>
>Ashley

Not necessarily.
Just because it's supposed to be repetitive, doesn't mean that if I repeat
it, I've done a good job.  Maybe I am reading too much into it, because I
have to say, I don't like much techno music for exactly this reason, but I
think Dimitri does a poor job repeating.  I think you can repeat and
develop, like good minimalists do.  (Or, well, scratch "good", and insert
"minimalists that I like".)  Or repeat and don't develop (like "White
Horse" by Laid Back, or anything by Kraftwerk, or "James Brown Is Dead" by
LA Style; so, yeah, I'm behind the times in techno).  But the seemingly
random insertion of three or four sampled bits to me is very... immature,
style-wise, and sounds weak and careless.  At least to these ears.

I didn't mean to compare the bang-whiz-pop electro music of Byrne and Eno
with the lounge stylings or techno beat of Dimitri, more the sampling
style, the stuff that goes on top.  But I think the Eno/Byrne thing is
similar in structure, if not style, with a constant, repetitive beat
underneath and a layer of spoken samples on top.

And, to follow your analogy, I'm saying I don't like Dimitri's sculpture
because he used a jackhammer instead of a chisel.

Really, it's all about prefences.  And what I'm trying to say is, I'd like
to express a different opinion from the all-positive reviews I've seen on
the list so far.  Just so people know that not everyone loves Dimitri.

That's all.





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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 10:23:49 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) (Obit) Lili St. Cyr

Lili St. Cyr, the striptease artist of the 1940s and '50s who mesmerized
audiences with her onstage bubble baths and then moved to Hollywood to star in
B movies and sell mail-order lingerie, has died. She was 80.

St. Cyr, a sexy blond vamp who served as a role model for Marilyn Monroe, died
Friday in her Los Angeles home, said her sister, Rosemary Minsky.
Born Willis Marie Van Schaack in Minneapolis, St. Cyr studied ballet and worked
as a chorus girl before making her breakthrough in vaudeville as an ecdysiast.
Her exotic stage name and fame ranked with those of Blaze Starr, Tempest Storm
and Gypsy Rose Lee.
Brian Macdonald, the director and choreographer of "Gypsy," the Broadway hit
musical about Lee, befriended St. Cyr in the early 1950s. She was dazzling
Montreal at the Gaiety burlesque house, and he was a music critic for the
Montreal Herald.

"She was an extraordinarily glamorous woman with a very, very beautiful body,"
Macdonald said in 1993. "And she had this wonderful haughtiness. After she'd
taken a few things off, she'd half cover herself with the curtain and say,
'That's it, boys. You're not gettin' any more from me.' "

When the Gaiety was reopened in 1996, the Montreal Gazette recalled St. Cyr's
opening performance in her geisha mode: "This midwinter night in 1944 was the
beginning of Lili St. Cyr's seven-year reign as Montreal's most famous woman,
the city's femme fatale, a person whose name invoked sophistication, mystery,
sin and--for many males--instant arousal."
St. Cyr also created her seductive imitations of about 25 famous
women--including Carmen and Scheherazade--at the Old Howard Theater in Boston
and in burlesque houses in Seattle. When she stripped at Ciro's in Hollywood,
she was arrested and tried for indecent exposure--and acquitted, thanks to the
talents of show business lawyer Jerry Geisler.
The stripper said she played various characters to present herself in
interesting roles, and created acts like "Suicide," in which she tried to woo a
straying lover by revealing her body, and "Jungle Goddess," in which she
appeared to make love to a parrot.

St. Cyr also worked briefly in films, most notably in 1958 in the classic World
War II motion picture "The Naked and the Dead," based on the Norman Mailer
novel.
Her less memorable films included "The Miami Story" in 1954 with Barry
Sullivan, "Son of Sinbad" in 1955 with Dale Robertson and Vincent Price, and
"I, Mobster" with Steve Cochran in 1958.

One of St. Cyr's many husbands was sometime actor Ted Jordan, who managed her
career in the 1950s and wrote the 1989 book "Norma Jean: My Secret Life With
Marilyn Monroe."
It was Jordan who said the brunet Monroe turned herself into a sexy blond by
mimicking St. Cyr.
Liza Dawson, editor for William Morrow, which published Jordan's book, told
Newsday in 1989: "Marilyn very much patterned herself on Lili St. Cyr. Her way
of dressing, of talking, her whole persona. Norma Jean was a mousy,
brown-haired girl, with a high, squeaky voice, and it was from Lili St. Cyr
that
she learned how to become a sex goddess."
Long before Victoria's Secret came along, St. Cyr operated a mail order
firm out
of Los Angeles, selling such items as "scanti-panties" and "exotic hip-length
opera hose."




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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 10:26:50 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) (Obit) Lili St. Cyr (addenda)

This was from
Lili St. Cyr; Captivating Striptease Artist of '40s and '50s
By MYRNA OLIVER, Times Staff Writer





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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 23:55:30 -0500
From: "Tom Karches" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Prado, Cugat, Time label and Bobby Rosengarden

Some finds and a some questions...

I had a good weekend at the flea market : 2 Perez Prados (Havana 3 A.M and
Prado goes Pops). "Prado Goes Pops" has a cha-cha version of "Carolina in
the Morning (Nothing could be finer....). If I ever get to do a radio show,
it would be the perfect intro song (I live in North Carolina). The "Pops"
album also had a version of "Heigh-ho" (The 7 Dwarves marching song). No
comment.

I also found Xavier Cugat's "The King Plays Some Aces". It includes 2
selections from the Nutcracker suite. (Imagine an entirely latin version of
the Nutcracker....but I digress).

The last was most interesting..."Spanish Guitars" on the Time Series 2000
label. Very cool woodblock cover. I picked it up mainly as I recognized Al
Caiola as one of the players (also the arranger and conductor), and Jack D.
had some good things to say about Al's playing. One of the spanish guitar
players is listed as "Mr. X". I've been a fan of Mr. X since I saw him on
the "Speed Racer" show....

"Spanish Guitars" is in the "Persuasive Percussion" vein; as I was playing I
noticed the names "Bucky Pizarelli" and "Dick Dia". I have 2 albums by Dick
Dia; one is "Magnificent Mandolins" (more like the overwhelming mandolins)
and an album I previously mentioned,  "TV Potpourri" with "interesting"
versions of TV theme songs.

Finally, the questions..

I noticed in the credits of "Spanish Guitars" that Bob Rosengarden does all
the percussion (including the Chinese Bell Tree). This has to be Bobby
Rosengarden who does the percussion on the Walter Wanderley albums. Is
anyone familiar with his own albums or his work on other artists records?

Now the label...this is the first record on the Time label that I have
bought. Are these generally good? Any to be avoided?

Thanks,
Tom


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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 15:51:43 +0000
From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Prado, Cugat, Time label and Bobby Rosengarden

Tom Karches wrote:

> Finally, the questions..
>
> I noticed in the credits of "Spanish Guitars" that Bob Rosengarden does all
> the percussion (including the Chinese Bell Tree). This has to be Bobby
> Rosengarden who does the percussion on the Walter Wanderley albums. Is
> anyone familiar with his own albums or his work on other artists records?

Bob Rosengarden (alongwith percussionist compadre Phil Kraus) was one of
the regulars on all the Command and Project 3 LPs for Enoch Light.  He
no doubt also recorded on hundreds of other peoples records as most of
those musicians seem to have done!

More recently, in fact just last year(!), he appeared on an Enoch Light
tribute album as part of a band of former Light musicians calling
themselves the "Lounge Brigade".  The CD is called "Put Some Style in
It" and is on Shanachie.

I have to say it borders on the "hokey" (thanks M Toth!) but deserves to
be bought if for no other reason than to hear a bunch of musicians in
their 60s, 70s and 80s playing, amongst other things, a Nirvana cover
(Heart Shaped Box)...!

I'm sure Brad Bigelow's Space Age Pop site will have more info on the
man: http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/


Robbie

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 08:14:13 PST
From: "Steven Reed" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Arthur Lyman MP3 downloads

The internet record company Goodnoise has reached an agreement with
Rykodisc to distribute some of Rykodisc's catalog in MP3 format.  Of
particular interest to everyone here would be tracks from four of Arthur
Lyman's albums (originally released on Hi-Fi Records I believe).  Each
track costs 99 cents and I assume payment is made by credit card.  Check
it out...

http://www.goodnoise.com/music/ryko/arthur_lyman/index.html

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 11:28:33 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Billy Jack, tikis and contests!

Three items on my blue plate today:
   Geez!  The things you learn...I had no idea Mundell Lowe did the
   sountrack to BILLY JACK!  Besides ONE TIN SOLDIER(the most dreaded), is
   the incidental music good?
   Also, does the Eurovision song contest still exist?
   Finally, I used to see on ze web this page that sold these sandstone
   tiki necklaces and keychains...  I checked Tiki Trader(I think that's
   the name), and it wasn't them... Do you, dear reader, know where it is?

   Tiki-keychainless,
   Jane Fondle---ah, go ahead, hate your neighbor, cheat your friend...


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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:45:36 -0500
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moog Question

Okay, here's a real collector-geek question--

I got this copy of _Switched On Bach_ and it just looked funny to me
somehow. I realized that instead of the cover photo of the Bach-alike guy
standing looking all aloof, this was an alternate photo where he's sitting
and looking kind of insane. His face is all puffed up like he's holding his
breath or having an anyeurism or something.

Anyone seen that? What's the deal?

On another note:

>"Yeah but one day, one of
>those guys is going to be the new Skitch Henderson and he'll make
>background music like everyone else".

Sadly, being famous once is no guarantee of a continued income. I never
quite got over it when I realized that one of the Firesign Theater (heros
of my teens) was the voice doing the narration on some PBS nature film. . .


I remain, love child of Mitch and Mrs.,

 --Ross

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:48:16 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Who sounds like CE ?

I know MANY of you are fans of Combustible Edison:)

And, I think it's a very sad day when I hear people, no one in particular
now, don't want anyone to get their dandruff up like I'm "attacking" them
or anything, compare CE to sounds from the past in saying "this album
sounds like CE or that album sounds like CE", when the reality is, is that
CE sounds like them and not the other way around.

The original guys like Enoch Light, Esquivel or whomever created the
original sound, not CE:)

IMO, CE hasn't created anything new or original and I (just might) bet
dollars to donuts, Cleve won't have any problem whatsoever with this
statement, here:-)

Get it straight

Jack


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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:36:55 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: The Napoleon Complex

Compilation of 21 cuts, starting with Napoleon XIV's classic novelty hit
"They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!", followed by 19 rare answer and
cover songs including "I'm Happy They Took You Away, Ha-Haaaa!" by
Josephine XV (together with 1 more track taken from Napoleon XIV's LP too,
which has been reissued on CD by Rhino, BTW), Henry The IX "Don't Take Me
Back, Oh-Nooo!". Most of the covers are just remakes with little new
elements brought in. Only 4 of them really offer a different arrangement: 1
funk version by Mad Dog Society, 2 rap versions, and 1 that is impossible
for me to describe or categorize, other than "alternative". I liked the
foreign language versions the best: 1 in German, 2 in Spanish, 2 in Dutch,
and 1 in Italian. The mystery bonus track is the B-side of the original 7"
single, a backwards version of "They're coming.". Available from Trash
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:16:12 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Motor Obit

>From: [e-mail]

>Can someone list some of the awesome CDs that came out on Motor, for our
>information?



* Martin B=F6ttcher:  "Sound kaleidoscope"
      CD, Motor 539 107, Germany, 1997

* Chico Buarque:  "Chico Total"
      cd, Motor 536 364, Germany, 1998

* Luis Frank:  "Tropical Christmas"
      CD, Motor 557 422, Germany, 1998

* Luis Frank y su tradicional Habana featuring Sandra Granados:
  "Tropical Christmas"
      CD, Motor, Germany, 199?

* Horst Jankowski:  "Black forest explosion!
  (The fantastic piano sounds of Horst Jankowski;
   his very best recordings 1968-1973)"
      LP/CD, Motor 537 392, Germany, 1997

* Gary McFarland:  "latin lounge (the best of his Verve recordings)"
      cd, Motor Verve 533 912, Germany, 1998

* Maurice Pop:  "Power pop"
      LP/cd, Motor 539 659, Germany, 1998

* Dieter reith:  "Reith on!"
      cd, Motor, Germany, in preparation, 1998

* Lalo Schifrin:  "Mission: Impossible... and more!
   The best of Lalo Schifrin (1962-1972)"
      CD, Motor Music 535 495-2, Germany, 1996

* The Singers Unlimited:  "Magic Voices"
      7 CD box, Motor MPS 539 130, Germany, 1998

* The Singers Unlimited:  "Masterpieces"
      cd, Motor 523 521, Germany, 1994, deleted?

* V/a:  "A Trip to Brazil - 40 years of Bossa Nova"
      2CD, Motor Collector 565 382, Germany, 1998

* v/a:  "Barjazz 3"
      CD, Motor 555 747, Germany, 1998

* v/a:  "Get Easy! vol.1: The Classic Collection
  (Tempo Easy Listening Collection 1)"
      CD & LP, Motor 525 618-2, Germany, 1995

* v/a:  "Get Easy! vol.2: The Future Collection
  (Tempo Easy Listening Collection 2)"
      CD & LP, Motor 525 617-2, Germany, 1995

* v/a:  "Get Easy! vol.3: The French Pops Collection
  (compiled by DJ Maxwell)"
      CD & 2LP, Motor 553 739, Germany, 1997

* v/a:  "Get Easy! vol.4: The German Pop Collection
  (compiled by DJ Maxwell)"
      CD & 2LP, Motor 553 598, Germany, 1997

* V/a:  "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz vol. 1"
      cd, Motor 515 704-2, Germany, 199?

* V/a:  "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz vol. 2"
      cd, Motor, Germany, 199?

* V/a:  "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz vol. 3"
      cd, Motor, Germany, 199?

* V/a:  "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz vol. 4"
      cd, Motor, Germany, 199?

* V/a:  "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz vol. 5"
      cd, Motor, Germany, 199?

* V/a:  "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz vol. 6"
      cd, Motor, Germany, 199?

* V/a:  "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz vol. 7"
      LP/CD, Motor 565195, Germany, 1998

* v/a:  "Snowflakes
  (the incredible mood music of Germany's legendary MPS label)"
      cd, Motor, Germany, in preparation, 1998

* v/a:  "The Mad, Mad World of Soundtracks"
      CD & LP, Motor 553 499, Germany, 1997

* Walter Wanderley:  "Boss of the Bossa Nova"
      2CD, Motor Music 535 585-2, Germany, 1996



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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:35:15 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide

* V/a:  "Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide (vol.2 in the Celluloide series)"

      I'm drowning in the Easy Tempo series, they all start to sound
alike... and then arrives this wonderful CD, with a totally NEW sound from
Italy, not yet featured much on other comps. This is not funky or jazzy
music, but - as the title sugests - BEAT, the late 60's, instrumental kind.
Not really very Psichedelico I think, but very bright and fun, with great
catchy, mostly uptempo "pop" melodies that sound like they were all used as
TV themes. Everything played by small bands, with very little use of
electric guitar as front instrument, but plenty of electric organs. The
sound constantly reminded me of Vic Mizzy's "Addams Family" soundtrack,
because there's lot's of harpsichord here. Neil Hefti's 2 Batman LP's also
came to mind, but without the jazz element. A bit of spaghetti influence on
1 track, another sounded a bit like Duke Of Burlington on his "The Pressed
Piano" LP. Just like in the "Schulmadchen Report" CD, there's also a lot of
plagiarism here, which seems to be an essential part of late 60's-early
70's "loungecore". The best Italian comp I've heard so far, highly
recommended, and it really deserves better distribution channels! (Jack,
Preston, Stefan, include this one in your sale catalog, that's an order!
;-) contact: <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>

      my rating: 5 on 5

        Johan


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