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exotica-digest        Wednesday, April 28 1999        Volume 02 : Number 383



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) In defense of Burt's sweaters
(exotica) Movie of the Week debacle
(exotica) ABC themes and lots more
(exotica) pearl and dean
(exotica) RE: residents live
(exotica) spike Jonze - Esquivel
(exotica) Dick Shory.....
(exotica) re: Burt
re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
(exotica) [obits] Bert Remsen,Al Hirt,Kemistry,Roger Troutman
(exotica) Playboy Playgirl
(exotica) Jungle Sounds released from captivity......
(exotica) A Bullet in the Head
Re: (exotica) A Bullet in the Head
(exotica) Tomita
(exotica) Movie of the Week debacle
Re: (exotica) Tomita
Re: (exotica) Tomita
(exotica) Exotica I've missed
Re:  Re: (exotica) In defense of Burt's sweaters
(exotica) Vertigo/Douglas Gordon's 'Feature Film'

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 99 23:50:54 -0500
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) In defense of Burt's sweaters

>I do think, you will have to admit, however, that the self-same "big ugly
>white sweater" sorta __Defines__ Burt's look!  Burt fits a description that
>I believe I made up...he looks very "ski lodge," or like the kind of guy
>who'd be just hanging out at a ski lodge, with a cable-knit sweater, some
>sherry, a tight 70s perm, perhaps...I know SOME of you know what I mean,
>here!
In the BBC documentary about Dusty Springfield, Burt is indeed
interviewed on ski slopes, looking very dapper.

Will the cast album of Promises, Promises *ever* come out on CD?

Elisabeth


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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 02:03:47 +0000
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Movie of the Week debacle

OH NO!  I read the posting of a Realplayer video of the ABC movie of the
week theme, heard the tune in my head, and rushed off to see it....

No sooner does it pop up then...GAG...I was remembering the WRONG TUNE.
The trouble is that the tune I remember is far more precious to me: the
4:30 Movie (is that what it was called??) theme.  OK, now, who remembers
it, and WHERE is THAT video clip???

I was watching the 4:30 movie when Watergate was ruining my weeks, when
Reagan was shot, and lots of other lightly stoned afternoons.  Mmmmmm.
Help me with my jones.

Keith


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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:19:52 +0300
From: "David Gross" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ABC themes and lots more

I invite us all to visit David Shield's authoritative site on
early TV themes and other composers of interest to
exoticoids.

www.classicthemes.com

ABC listing:

www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/abcColorMovi
es.html

(if this URL wraps in your email reader it might not paste
properly in your browser)

David Gross
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:49:53 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) pearl and dean

Asteroids was heavily sampled in GoldBugs' version of A Whole Lotta Love
that was released 3 years ago(ish).  They kindly put the full track on
the B Side, going on at great length about how it was the first official
release of it,  and how hard it had been to convince the composer that
they weren't taking the piss.

Charles very good impression,  have you thought of a career in
advertising.


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:00:30 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) RE: residents live

I saw the Residents live about 15 years ago,  when samplers first came
on the market.  I cant remember what they (the samplers) were called
then,  but the rental was phenomenal at the time.  Anyway,  it was the
first tour they had done (the Mole Tour), as they had apparantly not
been able to tour before due to technical limitations.

They hid away in mole masks for the first part of the show,  but for the
second part came on in the eyeball masks and dinner suits that we love
so much.  A bizarre conceptual evening.  Spoilt only by the fact that
they did an encore,  but I seem to remember that they had Snakefinger
join them for it,  so it was not all doom and gloom.  If any one is
interested one of my friends has a tape of this experience and does
swaps,  I can find the URL for his list if anyone wants to contact me
off list

Another thing that evening was that Deiter (?) Meyer of Yello was there
holding court at the end.  that mans head was nearly as big as my entire
torso,  and I'm not talking ego here.  Physically he has an enormous
head.  And the bloke sat next to me in the auditorium spent the whole
evening looking at things through a multi faced crystal ball.  It was
that sort of night.



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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:42:51 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) spike Jonze - Esquivel

I taped a Chow Yun Fat film about a week ago, and being my normal
paranoid self set the vid up to start a little early.  I settled down to
watch it last night and caught the end of a programme on Spike Jonze, a
video director who has worked with the Beastie Boys and Fat Boy Slim
etc.  More street vignettes than visits to Rio or Lip synching.  However
one of the videos they showed was a short film of an episode in a novel.
two people dancing down different sides of the street, to Esquivels
Sentimental Journey.  Great,  totally unexpected,  funny,  short and as
it was a wordless film about something else,  without any trappings or
attempts at being hip.  just two people doing silly dancing at each
other across the street.  I liked the Fat Boy Slim video for Praise Me
as well.  More silly dancing.  I like that.


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:16:21 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dick Shory.....

Does anyone know if "Music for Bang Barroooom and Harp" was released in =
both a mono and stereo version?

Thanks.

- - Nate




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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:40:44 +0100
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: Burt

     On the subject of Burt, this track 'Nikki' is also on the German
     compilation, 'EASY LOUNGIN': Burt Bacharach', which I honestly
     believe is the best compilation by any artist I have ever bought.

     20 tracks, all of them absolutely brilliant, with that warm
     orchestral sound.  All the recordings are late 60s/early 70s, so I
     guess the version of 'Nikki' on it will be the one from 1971.  Even
     'Raindrops keep falling on my head' sounds good on this CD!

     Anyone know if this CD is still available in Germany?  I picked up
     mine used here in Holland, and would love to buy extra copies, but
     have never found it again...

     regards, Jonny


     >It's on the eponymously titled album Burt Bacharach, A&M 3501 The
     >one with Burt  on the front cover in a big ugly white sweater.


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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:33:37 +0100
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks

     >Verve CD release of Quincy Jones soundtracks to The Pawnbroker and The
     >Deadly Affair

     I was lucky enough to find this used a couple of years ago.

     The soundtracks themselves are mostly very jazzy and dramatic; slightly too
     much so for my taste.

     Hence the most memorable songs on the cd for me are the bossa nova version
     of the pawnbroker theme with Sarah Vaughan, and Astrud Gilberto's rendering
     of 'Who needs forever', the 'deadly affair' theme.  Both these are great,
     and hard to get anywhere else.

     Any news on a CD reissue of that 'Heist'/'$' thing?
     It's annoying me!  I've heard so much about it, yet I don't know
     how to go about searching for it, since it seems to have several
     different names...

     regards, Jonny


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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:31:13 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Bert Remsen,Al Hirt,Kemistry,Roger Troutman

    LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI) -- Prolific character actor Bert Remsen, who
appeared in films including ``Brewster McCloud,'' ``McCabe & Mrs. Miller,''
``California Split'' and ``Nashville,'' is dead at the age of 74.=20
    Family members say Remsen died of natural causes in his sleep at his home
in the San Fernando Valley on Thursday.=20
    The versatile performer was severely injured in August of 1964 when an
84-foot crane toppled onto the set of ``No Time For Sergeants'' and broke
his back and one leg.=20
    Thorough months of surgeries, chronic pain and repeated hospitalizations,
Remsen decided to alter his career, becoming a casting director while still
accepting acting roles for himself.=20
                            *Bert Remsen    =09
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bert Remsen, an actor whose long list of movie credits
included ``Pork Chop Hill'' and the current ``Forces of Nature,'' died
Thursday of heart failure. He was 74.=20
    He thought he was finished in show business in 1964 when an 84-foot crane
toppled on the television set of ``No Time for Sergeants'' and broke his
back. He then decided to become a casting director.=20
    Remsen was casting the part of a psychotic cop in the film ``Brewster
McCloud'' in 1970 when director Robert Altman suddenly looked at him and
said, ``You.''=20
    He later worked in other Altman films, including ``McCabe & Mrs. Miller,''
``California Split,'' ``Nashville'' and ``Thieves Like Us,'' and he soon
abandoned the casting business.=20
    Other credits included ``A Wedding,'' ``Fast Break,'' ``The Sting II,''
``Places in the Heart,'' ``Miss Firecracker,'' ``Dick Tracy,'' ``Only the
Lonely,'' ``The Bodyguard,'' ``The Player'' and ``Maverick.''=20
    He was also known for his TV work: ``Gibbsville,'' ``The Adventures of
Brisco County, Jr.,'' ``Melrose Place'' and the TV movies ``Lansky,''
``Crime of the Century'' and ``Road Ends.''=20
         =09
    NEW ORLEANS, April 27 (UPI) -- Trumpet great Al Hirt has died of liver
failure at his home in New Orleans, where he had been a part of the jazz
scene and entertainment culture for more than 50 years.=20
    The 76-year-old Hirt returned home from the hospital just a week ago after
doctors concluded there was little hope for his recovery.=20
    The famed musician had performed at Chris Owens' Bourbon Street club until
he was first hospitalized last month.=20
    Hirt's close friend, clarinetist Pete Fountain, today called Hirt, ``one of
the greatest trumpet players ever to hit the national scene and one of the
finest musicians I have ever known.''=20
    Hirt was nominated for 23 Grammys during his career and won for ``Java'' in
1964. Other hits included ``Candy Cane,'' ``Sugar Lips'' and ``Fancy=
 Pants.''=20
         =09
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Al Hirt, whose power and technique made him ``The King
of the Trumpet'' in the 1960s when he won a Grammy for his hit ``Java,''
died Tuesday. He was 76.=20
    Members of his family said he died at home, where he has been in failing
health since leaving a hospital a week ago. Cause of death was given as
liver failure.=20
    Hirt's virtuosity led him to 21 Grammy nominations in a career spanning
more than 50 years. In 1964, he won a Grammy for best non-jazz instrumental
for ``Java.''=20
    At his peak in the 1960s, he played for John Kennedy's inauguration,
starred at Carnegie Hall, and headlined numerous television variety shows,
including his own ``Fanfare'' program on CBS.=20
    In all, he recorded more than 50 albums -- four gold and one platinum.
``Honey in the Horn'' reached No. 3 on Billboard's Popular Music Album Chart
in 1963; ``Sugar Lips'' won Billboard's favorite instrumentalist of 1965. In
1962 he was named `best trumpeter' in the Playboy jazz poll, a prize he won
for 15 subsequent years.=20
    ``He represented a certain particular style of New Orleans music -- not
just Dixieland or traditional jazz,'' said George Wein, producer of the New
Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.=20
    ``It was a side of New Orleans entertainment best personified by Louis
Prima -- the waving handkerchief, the dancing, the whole showbiz aspect, all
the time playing good music. It was unique to New Orleans.''=20
    ``He was one of the best trumpet players all around the world,'' said
clarinetist Pete Fountain, a longtime friend who also kept his home in the
Crescent City. ``He had everything -- technique, stamina, education.''=20
    Hirt and Fountain started out together with day jobs as exterminators,
killing rats and roaches by day and playing music at night. In those days,
whoever landed the job would be called leader and wore a bow-tie on the=
 stand.=20
    They played together off and on for more than 50 years, and in recent years
their bands, along with the Preservation Hall Band, toured as a package in
the summers. Hirt missed the trip in 1998 because of bad health.=20
    Born Alois Maxwell Hirt in New Orleans in 1922, he got his first trumpet
when he was 6. Clasically trained at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,
he spent three years in the U.S. Army as a company bugler, then began his
professional career in 1946 as a member of Benny Goodman's Orchestra. He
later worked with other big bands, including the Dorsey Brothers and Ray
McKinley.=20
    His first big break came in 1950, when he won second place in Horace
Heidt's National Youth Opportuntiy Contest and was named solo trumpet in
Heidt's band.=20
    Real national fame came in 1960 when Hirt's Dixieland Six booked into a
luxury hotel in Las Vegas. As much a showman as a musician, the 6-foot-2,
300-pounder's joyous music caught the attention of Dinah Shore and he became
an instant success on TV.=20
    Hirt didn't call it jazz, although he said he was influenced by Louis
Armstrong, Harry James and Frank Sinatra. His driving power, packed with
dazzling virtuosity, seemed to blow the curtains at the back of the
auditorium, but when the tempo slowed the honey-toned melodies flowed with a
style all his own.=20
    ``I'm a pop commercial musician, and I've got a successful format,'' Hirt
once said. ``If you have the ability to perform your musical idea, you
become a good jazz player. Any performer can think of a musical idea. Only a
well-schooled artist can produce the idea on his horn.''=20
    A real homebody, Hirt tried to arrange his career into short tours so he
could stay put in New Orleans with his wife and eight kids, near good
fishing grounds for sea trout. His base became his club on Bourbon Street.=
=20
    In 1983, he provoked controversy when he said he had had enough of the
crime and filth of the French Quarter and closed the club he had operated
since 1960. He later apologized, but did not reopen the club.=20
    Later in his career he mostly toured and performed on television, with
occasional local appearances at ``Jellyroll's'' in the French Quarter.=20
    He considered one of his most important performances the 1987 solo of
Handel's ``Ave Maria'' for Pope John Paul II during the pontiff's visit to
New Orleans.=20
    Hirt's death coincided with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival,
which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Quint Davis, festival producer,
said a special commemoration will be added on the closing Sunday in memory
of Hirt and other musicians who died this year.=20


Al Hirt, 76, Jazz Trumpeter Who Symbolized New Orleans
By NICK RAVO, NYTimes
Al Hirt, the portly Dixieland jazz trumpeter who was a symbol of the
exuberant laissez-faire way of life of New Orleans, died Tuesday at home in
New Orleans. He was 76.=20

Hirt had been hospitalized until last week at East Jefferson General
Hospital in Metairie, La., with liver ailments, said his personal assistant,
Peggy Stegman. He had used a wheelchair for the last year because of edema
in his leg, she said.=20

One of the nation's most recognizable performers in the 1960s, Hirt,
recorded 55 albums in his career and won a Grammy award in 1963 for the song
"Java."=20

Genial, bearded, sometimes topping 300 pounds and known to some friends as
Jumbo, Hirt was a ubiquitous figure in his home town. He had roles in
several motion pictures, was a minority owner in the city's Saints football
team and ran a popular club on Bourbon Street in the city's French Quarter
for 22 years; it closed in 1983.=20

"He's part of New Orleans, like Louis Armstrong," said the clarinetist Pete
Fountain, a fellow New Orleans resident who knew and played with Hirt for 55
years. "When you say Al Hirt, you say New Orleans. When you say New Orleans,
you say Al Hirt. We're just lucky enough to be from here."=20

Alois Maxwell Hirt was born on Nov. 7, 1922, in New Orleans, the son of a
police officer. A child prodigy, he got his first trumpet from a pawnshop at
age 6 and played his first gig in 1938 when he was hired to blow the horn at
a local race track. Besides earning young Hirt $40 a week, the job also
started a lifelong and often -expensive passion for the ponies.=20

Hirt attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music from 1940 to 1943 and,
after a three-year stint in the Army, started his career as a trumpet
player, bandleader and songwriter, touring with big bands, including those
led by Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman.=20

He started his own band in 1950 and a combo with Fountain in 1955. In 1960,
he signed with RCA Records, which released his first album the following
year. His most popular albums included "Greatest Horn," "He's the King" and
"Bourbon Street." He also had a pop single hit with "Cotton Candy."=20

Hirt continued to play at local clubs until recently, even though he had to
be wheeled on to the stage. It was a tribute to his feisty spirit. Indeed,
Fountain recalled the time in 1970 when Hirt, riding on a float during Mardi
Gras, was reportedly hit in the lip with a brick thrown by a rowdy
spectator. "I think I was bent over, looking up, about to throw some
doubloons to some kids when the lights went out," he said. "I always told
him I think he fell on a Courvoisier bottle," Fountain recalled. He said
they last played together about two months ago at Fountain's Night Club in
New Orleans.=20

"He sat in and that was a good time that night," Fountain said. "He was
having trouble getting around because his legs hurt him, because he's so big
his knees gave out. But otherwise, he was all right. He played. He tooted
with us, all the old favorites that we have done together through the years
- -- 'Muskrat Ramble,' 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' 'A Closer Walk With
Thee,' 'Struttin' with Some Barbecue' and 'Jazz Me Blues.' We played all of
those that night."=20

Though he was adept at many musical genres, Hirt was sometimes derided by
critics and jazz purists for injecting rock into jazz numbers and pandering
to mass tastes.=20

He often responded by saying he was nothing more than a crowd-pleaser. "I'm
a pop commercial musician," he said in a New York Times interview in 1984.
"I'm not a jazz trumpet, and never was a jazz trumpet. When I played in big
bands for Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey and Ray McKinley and Horace Heidt, I
played first trumpet. I led the trumpet section. I never played jazz or
improvised."=20

"Hirt's playing style was never progressive, but more of a swing type,"
Fountain said. "But Jumbo could play anything. That's how schooled a
musician he was. He was a good musician, very good. He could read all the
notes off the page."=20

Hirt is survived by his wife, Beverly Essel Hirt, and six children from a
previous marriage: Mary Lee Russo of Bethesda, Md., Rebecca Dickerson,
Bridgid Mearns, Stephen Hirt, Rachel Caron and Jennifer Sammons, all of New
Orleans; a sister, Rosemary Hirt Rost; a brother, Gerald; 10 grandchildren,
6 step-grandchilden and two great-grandchildren.=20

The trumpeter, who was often also called the "Round Mound of Sound,"
considered one of his most important performances to have been his 1987 solo
rendition of Handel's "Ave Maria" for Pope John Paul II during the pontiff's
visit to New Orleans.=20

See Also: http://elvispelvis.com/alhirt.htm

- ----Nicer News from N.O.:
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Fats Domino has patched up things with his old partner,
trumpeter Dave Bartholomew.=20
    Domino, 71, and Bartholomew, 78, haven't played together since they had a
disagreement about 12 years ago, but they got together for a performance
Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.=20
    Domino played many of his standards, including ``Blueberry Hill'' and
``Shake, Rattle & Roll.'' He closed his set with ``When the Saints Go
Marching In.''=20
    As the song played out, he bumped the grand piano across the stage with his
thighs, just like the old days. When someone tried to take away his
microphone, Domino mouthed, ``We're not done.''=20
    Domino played a little longer, then headed to his trailer as Bartholmew
urged the crowd to call him back.=20
- ----------------------
Drum- And- Bass DJ Kemistry Dies In Car Accident=A0=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20
Kemistry, drum- and- bass DJ and co-founder of the=A0famous Metalheadz=
 record
label and club,=A0 died in a tragic car accident early Sunday=A0 (April 25)
morning in England.=A0=A0=20
See: http://elvispelvis.com/kemistry.htm

April 28, 1999
Roger Troutman, 47, Influential Funk Musician
By NEIL STRAUSS,NYTimes

Roger Troutman, a renowned funk-music innovator who recorded with his
brothers in the band Zapp in the early '80s, died on Sunday at the Good
Samaritan Hospital and Health Center in Dayton, Ohio. He was 47 and lived in
Dayton.=20

Troutman had been shot several times on Sunday and died during surgery, Sgt.
Gary White of the Dayton police department said. Troutman's older brother
Larry, a former bandmate and business partner, was found dead of an
apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound the same day in a car nearby. Police
said they were investigating the possibility of a murder-suicide.=20

Zapp is probably best known for its use of the vocoder, or talkbox, a device
that makes vocals sound robotic, and for influencing musicians from rockers
like Lenny Kravitz to rappers like Tupac Shakur. The group's music has been
sampled on dozens of hit rap singles.=20

Roger Troutman grew up in Hamilton, Ohio. Influenced by James Brown, Jimmy
Reed, Duke Ellington and Jimi Hendrix, as well as by the thriving regional
funk scene, he formed Zapp in the late '70s with three of his brothers --
Lester, Larry and Tony (who changed his name to Zapp). Troutman used to say
that he began using the vocoder in concert in order to sing hits originally
performed by women.=20

In 1980, the band's mentors, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins of
Parliament-Funkadelic, took Zapp to Detroit to record its first record for
Warner Brothers records. "Zapp" is considered a sprawling funk masterpiece
and generated the robotic party anthem "More Bounce to the Ounce." Before
recording his next album, Troutman appeared on the Funkadelic album "The
Electric Spanking of War Babies" and recorded a solo album.=20

As the eccentric singer and guitarist became the musical leader of the
family band, his brothers helped turn Zapp into a family business with Larry
in charge. By the end of the '80s, Troutman Enterprises encompassed a
construction company, a bus company, a recording studio, a touring
operation, a booking agency and a music production company. The family's
strategy for long-term success was to avoid crossing over to a white
audience, to use the vocoder on as many singles as possible and to deliver
rousing live shows. In concert, the band's members were master showmen,
working crowds into feverish excitement as Troutman donned flashier outfits
and guitars with nearly each song.=20

Though Troutman's and Zapp's records alternately flopped and generated hits
(like "Computer Love"), he never faded from the pop eye. In the late '80s,
new-wave bands like Scritti Politti recorded hits with him. And in the early
'90s, he was embraced as a rap and rhythm-and-blues father figure. He lent
his computerized vocals to popular songs for 2Pac ("California Love," the
video for which he appeared in); H-Town ("A Thin Line Between Love and
Hate"); Johnny Gill ("It's Your Body"); and Eazy-E ("Eternal E").=20

Troutman had been touring with Zapp and working on an album for Reprise
Records in the months before his death.=20

He is survived by his mother, three brothers and two sisters.=20







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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:43:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playboy Playgirl

Here's another review of Playboy Playgirl album from the premiere
issue of Nylon Magazine...

On Pizzicato Five's previous American albums (some of which have been
compliations of various Japanese releases), the duo established
themselves as mostmordern take on '60s lounge pop. Like many other
shibuya-kei acts, they heat up breathy vocals and jazzy glissandos
with feverish drum 'n' beast and hyperkinetic edits.

      But on this, their newest album, they sound more like a '60s Las
Vegas lounge act complete with a kickline of chorus girls and a smarmy
announcer. This time out, the percussion takes a backseat to the
pumping piano, orchestral swells, exuberant horns, and Maki Nomiya's
dewy cooing. But while this description might make it seem otherwise,
Playboy & Playgirl isn't really such a radical departure from their
previous work. Though the album is more cohesive, the tracks are
danceable, this would work just fine as a dinner party soundtrack or
midnight-tour listening session. While the la-las and tom-tom rolls
fly by, you can imagine yourself in a high-backed horseshoe banquette,
taking in a glitzy revue where Pizzicato Five is surrounded by leggy
dancer dressed in lame'. Another round of highballs for all of my
friends!


Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:49:30 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jungle Sounds released from captivity......

Well, last night was the Moment of Truth as I sped up the road at 9pm to =
meet the flea market guy who sold me the Les Baxter "Ritual of the Savage" =
for $3.

Here's what I got (all $3 each, vinyl in *great* shape):

1. Laurindo Almeida - sound track to "Maracaibo": Lots of guitar solo =
stuff, some tracks with backing latin sound.

2. Jackie Gleason "Merry Christmas" - yes, *that* album, the prozac =
Christmas in all its sluggish glory.

3. Danny Guglielmi "Adventures in Sound": Alternating tracks with vocals =
by Dena (yeah, she uses *words* but it's ok.....) and instrumentals.  Good =
arrangements but nothing to "adventurous."

4. "Moon Dog" -  A very *weird* LP put out by "Moon Dog" with his Japanese =
wife on some tracks.  Experimental beats per measure in every track - wide =
variety from "Frog Bog" with frog sounds and jungle rhythm to a flipped =
out lullaby accompanied by the couples' crying kid.  The cover has a pic =
of him in a robe and elf shoes....definitely a 60's kinda thing.......anybo=
dy else have this?

5. Yma Sumac "Legend of the Jivaro": Now, I've never been a big fan of =
Yma's....er.....singing - but the cover is great.  Liner notes are a howl =
too.  Does anyone listen to entire LP's of hers in one sitting!?!?!

6. Les Baxter "Tamboo!"

7. Les Baxter "Skins!" - These two were worth the trip alone.....

8. Esquivel "Other Worlds Other Sounds" - Was there a mono and stereo =
release of this????

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:41:38 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) A Bullet in the Head

While I'm thinking about Hong Kong movies, I watched John Woo's
excellent A Bullet In The Head recently,  and it started with a cracking
version of a Monkees tune, that I would imagine to have been recorded by
a Chinese pop group even though it was sung in English.  Unfortunately
the credits were all in Chinese characters so I've no idea who it was,
can anyone help out?


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:48:20 +0100
From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Bullet in the Head

[e-mail] wrote:

> While I'm thinking about Hong Kong movies, I watched John Woo's
> excellent A Bullet In The Head recently,  and it started with a cracking
> version of a Monkees tune, that I would imagine to have been recorded by
> a Chinese pop group even though it was sung in English.  Unfortunately
> the credits were all in Chinese characters so I've no idea who it was,
> can anyone help out?

Lou'll probably beat me to this one ;-) but the Internet Movie Database
(http://uk.imdb.com/) has this:

> Original music by:
> Romeo Dφaz
> James Wong (I)

Don't know if that helps.


Robbie

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:06:59 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tomita

While browsing the records at the "flea guys" house, he put on some albums =
by Japanese musician Tomita.  This guy uses the moog to great effect, =
creating ominous, moodyn renditions of Debussy, and Holsts' Planets........=
.interesting.

Anybody have comments?

- - Nate




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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:26:26 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Movie of the Week debacle

Keith opined:
>No sooner does it pop up then...GAG...I was remembering the WRONG TUNE.
>The trouble is that the tune I remember is far more precious to me: the
>4:30 Movie (is that what it was called??) theme.  OK, now, who remembers
>it, and WHERE is THAT video clip???

Is this the movie opening that had the fellow sitting in a chair holding a
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:39:01 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tomita

Tomita - records everywhere in the electronic section of second hand record
shops. They are interesting and well done but so middle of the road and so
common that you might as well ignore them. I have a Star Wars one and I
never play it to myself, never play it to anyone else and never put it on
tapes for anyone. Tomita is the Dire Straits of electronic music. Maybe if
Dick Hyman/Mort Garson/Richard Sear had taken over the project and kicked
the self indulgent Tomita out, we would be raving about those records.

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:25:34 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tomita

>

While browsing the records at the "flea guys" house, he put on some albums
by Japanese musician Tomita.  This guy uses the moog to great effect,
creating ominous, moodyn renditions of Debussy, and Holsts'
Planets.........interesting.
Anybody have comments?
>Maybe if
Dick Hyman/Mort Garson/Richard Sear had taken over the project and kicked
the self indulgent Tomita out, we would be raving about those records.
Charlie

I do beg to differ.  While Tomita's albums are not my absolute fave MOOGs
of all time....I think to call him "self-indulgent" and "pedestrian" is
certainly stretching it.  I rather like his treatments of Holst and
DeBussy.  Also, I am never one to complain about a MOOG album being easy to
find!  How many of those are there anymore, especially for under $25!?!
Jane Moog

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:32:04 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica I've missed

>>Well, gang, that's it......maybe you can share some of your depressing
      'recent history being mowed over' type stories.
      Lee Joseph



Lee...that story choked up even an old cynic like I...My sad tale is that
      *****Tiki Gardens*** existed within a half-hour from my Tampa
      home,and I was probably taken there when I was little...but by the
      time I emersed myself in tikiana...IT HAD BEEN MOWED DOWN INTO A
      PARKING LOT! :(...The worse part is I NEVER heard of any %#(@(^
      liquidation sale, either.  Ah well...at least I have the rekkid and
      the View Masters from Tiki Gardens! :)

Whilst in Boston, proud home to several Tiki restuarants, I've still missed
      some music!  Robert Moog was in town to do a demo/lecture at Berkeley
      School of Music...and I read about it THE NEXT DAY...Then, there's
      the woeful missing of me and every other Boston-list member, of the
      Spagetti-supper performance of Sam Butera last summer.  Count your
      blessings, tikis, and rekkids, kids, we can't win 'em all...

:( - Jane Fondle...crying in an imaginary beer in a downtown office....

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:21:53 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) In defense of Burt's sweaters

In a message dated 4/27/99 11:50:16 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Will the cast album of Promises, Promises *ever* come out on CD?

Hopefully it will. As the owner of an LP copy I can attest to its
guru-vi-ness. It also features a very tentative Jerry Orbach singing "I'll
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:26:51 +0100
From: Steve Morgan <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Vertigo/Douglas Gordon's 'Feature Film'

For those of you into soundtrack music, I can strongly recommend this
installation by video artist Douglas Gordon. It's a re-presentation of
Hitchock's 'Vertigo' in an enormous, dark, cavernous space, in which its
separate elements are divorced and their roles distorted. While the dialogue
is relegated to a distant murmuring in the cathedral-like acoustic,
Herrmann's (re-recorded) score is sent booming across the space from an
array of huge speakers. Eerie, suspenseful, close-up footage of James Conlon
conducting his synchronised performance is back-projected onto a huge screen
hung from the roof, with the film itself being displayed in one dark corner.
It's a great place to spend an hour or more if you happen to be in the Brick
Lane area of London between now and the 3rd of May (I guess it's re-opened
again after the bomb). Its free, and is open between noon and midnight on
Thursday,  Friday and Saturday and thereafter noon-9pm.

Atlantis Gallery
146 Brick Lane
0171 336 6803
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