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exotica-digest          Friday, June 11 1999          Volume 02 : Number 414



In This Digest:

FW: Subject: (exotica) um... ok...
FW: Subject: (exotica) Argentinians
Re: (exotica) Targeted!
Re: (exotica) Targeted!
(exotica) Sony & Digital On-Demand
(exotica) [obit] Rosy McHargue
FW: Subject: (exotica) Argentinians/Brazilians
Re: (exotica) um... ok...
(exotica) And another thing . . . .
(exotica) review: Hans Reichel: Shanghaied on Tor road (Daxophone)
(exotica) testies
(exotica) So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star...
(exotica) Shag-this
Re: (exotica) san diego finds, recent finds
Re: (exotica) um... ok...
(exotica) Samuel Beckett - Early days in Foxrock
Re: (exotica) Shag-this
(exotica) Soul Trade
Re: (exotica) Morricone translation + various!
(exotica) Record player
Re:  (exotica) Mel Torme' Picture
(exotica) back to the casino via cathode ray
Re: (exotica) Shag-this
RE: (exotica) She Had a Taste for Music
(exotica) Re: my little record player

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:54:57 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FW: Subject: (exotica) um... ok...

> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:22:16 -0500
> From: [e-mail] sai
>
>
> someone sent me this last night...  thought you all may like to see.
> maybe someone can explain it to me!
>
>
> >Originally posted by goth-lounge-lizard in
> soc.cocktail-nation.die.die.die:
> >
> >   I am not writing to agree or disagree with King Kini. What I have
> to
> serious snip>
>
> This puts me in mind of an article I saw on Salon magazines site a
> couple of months back about the life cycle of mailing lists,  quoting
> examples from a war that broke out on a Jack Kerouac (oh dear my
> spelling, I've tried it several ways) site.  It looks like cocktail
> nation is in the same state,  long rambling letters from two camps,
> while everyone else leaves in frustration.  You want to watch these
> cross postings though,  they might end up here......
>
> I really couldn't guess what its all about though,  but King Kini,
> you have weird enemies.
>
>
> El Maestro Con Queso
>
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
> http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm
>
>
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:15:44 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FW: Subject: (exotica) Argentinians

> Those Argentinian albums are hard to find out about,  I bought a
> wonderful LP by Ed Lincoln (called 'Ed Lincoln') on a label based in
> Buenos Aires and I've been trying to find out more ever since.  I now
> think he may be Brazilian,  and when I got in touch with
> Brazilmusic.com they referred to him as the 'great Ed Lincoln',  but
> were no other use than that. Maybe it'll be easier now that we seem to
> have someone on the list with South American links.  I'm still after
> info on Ed, by the way,  if anyone knows of any other records I'd be
> delighted to hear of them.
>
> Also, on Gionni's list of tapes is a compilation of Music to Watch
> Girls by,  he tells me it was compiled by Brad Bigelow,  so maybe
> thats your man for this info.
>
>
> El Maestro Con Queso
>
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
> http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm
>
>
> "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
>
>
> Bit of a long shot this, but does anybody know an LP by Renny somebody
> called Music to Watch Girls By? The record is from Argentina and is
> Prado-ish.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
>
>


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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:10:54 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Targeted!

>>After rolling her eyes at me, my girlfriend slapped two pastel colored
Henley shirts in my lap, "Here!"  (But on the way out, I also snagged a
"50's hoodlum" cotton button-up, black with "V" front in white piping.)

Crazy Nate

>>>Wow!  I didn't see most of the ones you mentioned...HENLEYS!  I am
APPAULED!
Jane Fondle,not caught dead in a Henley...;^<>




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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:27:22 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Targeted!

>>> <[e-mail]> 06/10 10:10 AM >>>



>>>Wow!  I didn't see most of the ones you mentioned...HENLEYS!  I am
APPAULED!
Jane Fondle,not caught dead in a Henley...;^<>

Well........I must admit I look cute in those pastel yuppie shirts!!!

Just need to keep the lil' lady happy!!!

- - Nate




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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:47:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sony & Digital On-Demand

Sony To Pipe in Hard-To-Find Music
>            SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Sony Music Entertainment announced an agreement
Wednesday to bring 4,000 hard-to-find albums to record stores via a high-speed digital
network.
>            In an agreement with Digital On-Demand, record stores will be outfitted
with equipment allowing customers to find music not currently on the shelves and have
it transferred to a CD in the store while they wait.
>            ``This technology aims to minimize lost sales at retail while extending
the reach of our artists' music by providing consumers with an all-access pass to the
Sony Music catalogue,'' said Ron Urban, senior vice president of Sony Music.
>            Customers would be able to receive the music in a variety of formats,
including CD, DVD, MiniDisc, or have it installed directly onto a digital music player.
 The back-catalogue access provided by Sony includes material that may not sell enough
copies to merit store space, but that retailers may want to make available on demand.
>            The program will start in September in unspecified stores in the New York
and Los Angeles areas.
>            Digital On-Demand, a Carlsbad, Calif.-based company, is a distributor of
digital entertainment content to retail outlets using point-of-sale systems.

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:47:08 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Rosy McHargue

                       *James Eugene McHargue
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Eugene ``Rosy'' McHargue, a prolific jazz
clarinetist, saxophonist and singer died Monday. He was 97.
    The musician played with the bands of Benny Goodman and Kay Kyser. He
recently performed for his 95th birthday at an event sponsored by the New
Orleans Jazz Club of Southern California. President Clinton, who also plays
the saxophone, sent McHargue a letter for the occasion.
    He got his musical career start playing with bands in Chicago. His first
recording, ``Wow Blues,'' was made in 1922. He went on replace Benny Goodman
in the Seattle Harmony Kings and later toured with the Ted Weems band from
1935 to 1942.

See also: http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=11:22:49|AM&p=amg&sql=B11161

Although he is somewhat obscure, Rosy McHargue (who turned 95 in 1997) is
the third oldest active jazz musician in history, behind Eubie Blake (who
made it to 100) and Benny Waters (just a month older than McHargue and still
active as of this writing). Always associated with Dixieland and 1920s jazz,
Rosy McHargue in his later years developed into a singer with an
encyclopediac knowledge of lyrics (including verses and alternate choruses)
from many forgotten songs from the 1920s and before. At the age of 15 in
1917, he worked at his first professional engagement (with the Novelty
Syncopators) and made his recording debut in 1922 playing "Wow Wow Blues"
with Roy Schoenbeck's Orchestra. Other early recordings included dates with
the Seattle Harmony Kings (1925), Frankie Trumbauer (1931), Ted Weems (1934)
and Jimmy McPartland (1936). McHargue worked with the Wolverines in late
1925 after Bix Beiderbecke had departed, spent a year with the Seattle
Harmony Kings and played with Ted Weems from 1934-42. After moving to Los
Angeles, he worked briefly with Eddie Miller and Benny Goodman before having
longer stints with Kay Kyser (1943-46) and Red Nichols (1947-51). McHargue,
who took the purposely cornball clarinet solo on Pee Wee Hunt's unlikely hit
version of "Twelfth Street Rag, " played and recorded with Pete Dailey, and
has been active in Los Angeles's Dixieland scene up until the present time,
still appearing at jazz festivals in 1997. He recorded as a leader for Jump
(1947 and 1952), Fairmont, Audiophile, Protone (1957) and, much more
recently, Stomp Off (1992). -- Scott Yanow, All-Music Guide




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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:00:12 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FW: Subject: (exotica) Argentinians/Brazilians

> This is more information already than I've managed to unearth in a
> year.  I've not managed to find a thing on-line except a mention in =
an
> article on a Brazilian guitarist.  Do you know of any discography, or
> any idea who he played with?  I guessed from the picture on the =
sleeve
> it was probably a 60's LP,  but you never know.  It's wonderful stuff
> though,  sounds so fresh and inventive, someone having real fun.
>=20
> Thanks again
>=20
> Geoff
>=20
> PS my spellchecker keeps throwing out Argentinian replacing it with
> Argentinean.  Any comments?
>=20
> ----------
> From:     christian courtis[SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:     10 June 1999 16:32
> To:     [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject:     RE: Subject: (exotica) Argentinians/Brazilians
>=20
> well, ed lincoln is actually brazilian -the big brazilina
> organ derby of the 60s was walter wanderley vs. ed lincoln
>=20
> but it=B4s not strange that some of his works were edited by
> an argentinian label -lots of lounge/exotica had its own
> sub-markets during the 50s/60s/70s. you=B4d be surprised
> to know how many unknown esquivel cuts could you
> find in his arranger facet -his orchestra, while still in mexico,
> was a very popular studio orchestra for bolero and even mariachi
> singers
> lounge/muzac was extremely popular in latin america during
> the 50s/60s/70s, so you may find argentinian/uruguayan/peruvian/
> mexican reprints of the weirdest stuff out there. i got two original
> arthur lyman lps printed in argentina in the early 60s. same with
> brazilian stuff. you should come down here and hunt!
>=20
> cheers,
> christian
>=20
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:19:25 PDT
From: Robert McKenna <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) um... ok...

>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: (exotica) um... ok...
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:22:16 -0500
>
>
>someone sent me this last night...  thought you all may like to see.
>maybe someone can explain it to me!

i didn't  finish it but i noticed this line:
Kini can pervert any established ideology.

you bastard! i'd pay good money to have someone say something that nice
about me.
rob


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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:22:30 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) And another thing . . . .

I will not waste my time criticizing or insulting this Exotica List as 1) it
is unlikely to change, and 2) it's members probably revel in the letters of
shock and repulsion that are regularly received. Instead, I will focus on
theimpertinent propositions, which, after all, are the things that seek
temporary tactical alliances with the worst classes of nefarious party
animals there are in order to fan the flames of antidisestablishmentarianism
into a planet-spanning inferno. For starters, I, for one, have noticed of
late a very strong undercurrent of spineless fascism among malignant scamps.
I might add: The tone of this List'ssentiments is eerily reminiscent of that
of supercilious crybabies of the late 1940s, in the sense that I have avoided
engaging in open debate with conniving rash paranoiacs -- or even
acknowledging their existence -- for fear of lending them any form of
legitimacy. I won't pull any punches here: We can't stop the Exotica List
overnight. It takes time, patience and experience to get the facts out in the
hope that somebody else will do something to solve the problem.

The complaint letter generator is great!  Ya gotta try it.

http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint

Thanks Allen,

Tiki Bob


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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:52:19 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) review: Hans Reichel: Shanghaied on Tor road (Daxophone)

Hans Reichel: "Shanghaied on Tor road" (The world's 1st operetta performed
on the Daxophone)
CD, FMP CD 46, Germany, 1992

Read about the daxophone (and marvel at the pictures) in "Gravikords
Whirlies & Pyrophones". This experimental wooden instrument produces an
incredible amount of hilarious, different sounds. Sometimes it sounds like
a musical instrument (kazoo, trumpet, flute, bassoon, cello, xylophone,
horn, rasp...), but most of the times it resembles animal noises (sheep,
elephant, camel, duck, lion, donkey, dog, cat). Several daxophones playing
together in a clownesque way create the ilusion of an circus-like orchestra
on a planet at the other side of the galaxy. Highly recommended! A rare
chance to hear experimental music that is actually pleasant to hear.

        Johan


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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:28:38 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) testies

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:41:42 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Evel Knievel says celebrities should enjoy their  fame.

``You can be famous for a lot of things,'' the daredevil says in  the July
Esquire magazine.
``You can be a Nobel Prize winner. You  can be the fattest guy in the
world. ... Whatever it is, enjoy it.  It don't last forever.''

Another pearl: ``Heaven is a place you can go and drink a lot of  draft
beer and it don't make you fat.''

``You can cheat on your wife and she don't get mad. You get a  beautiful
female chauffeur ...
There are motorcycle jumps you never  miss. You don't need a tee time.''
or, in the words of Johnny Termain:
"Bitch, fame has a PRICE"
Jane Fondle....thanks for all who helped me today! :)
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:02:24 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Shag-this

Ooo...here I come, being a wetblanket on your "dry-look" hair...but with
all this hype about THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME...well, I just GOTTA be a
n'erdowell and bitch a out the Godawful OST!  90% is just garbage...with
all the cool moderne groups like Fantastic Plastic Machine, Combustible
Edison, Joey Altruda or even garage groups-a-go-go...you THINK they could
put some cool music on this thing...but...NNNOOOOOO...Here we go:
1. Beautiful Stranger - Madonna

MADONNA!?!??!  Since when was she anything but yuck-a-delic?!?

2. My Generation - The Who

Gee...I've never heard that song...

3. Draggin' The Line - R.E.M.

they're really cool, huh?


4. American Woman - Lenny Kravitz

there was no point in making this song over...what does this have to do
with MOD?

5. Word Up - Melanie G (aka Scary Spice)

Uh, Clark Scheffy, should I comment on this one? ;)

6. Just The Two Of Us (Dr. Evil Mix) -Dr. Evil
 7. Espionage - Green Day
8. Time Of The Season - Big Blue Missile With Scott Weiland

It doesn't get any better than this, folks! ;oP

9. Buggin' - The Flaming Lips

Well...I do like those guys, actually

10. Alright - The Lucy Nation

who?

11. I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Burt Bacharach/Elvis Costello
12. Soul Bossa Nova (Dim's Space-A-Nova) - Quincy Jones And His Orchestra

So, the last two are cool...but this is by no means an aces soundtrack!
Headed to a cutout bin near you
once the hype subsides!
%$(W^%$)(0@#@$@-Jane Fondle


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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:17:48 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) san diego finds, recent finds

>Stop right there.  Go no further.  Enjoy the CD and buy other things if and
>when you see them.  But do NOT go out looking for this stuff.  First of
>all, you'll have to kiss a lot of frogs to find the best stuff and in
>general - if we're talking LP's - even the frogs will be ridiculously
>expensive.

Although, of what was mentioned, a quick smooch on "Mandrill Is" (just
recently reissued) will reveal a prince of no fixed ethnicity (thinking of
the bands lineup).  I saw a new copy for six dollars!  Also recommended are
"Just Outside of Town" or "Composite Truth".

Small trivia note: on American Bandstand, they were asked about the band
name and the answer was:

"We were walking in the Bronx Zoo saw this animal and asked what it was.
The zookeeper said, 'It's a Mandrill' and we said, 'Far out!'

Ah, the '70's.

Not a fellow to go about kissing princes (notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat),
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:20:48 -0400
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) um... ok...

- --->you bastard! i'd pay good money to have someone say something that nice
>about me.

Kini,
I thought some friend of yours went to a lot of trouble to send you a joke.
All in good fun. But having that web page hacked doesn't fit.

Technologically confused,
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:25:03 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Samuel Beckett - Early days in Foxrock

These three texts is from a publication I got copied from a local =
publication called "Samuel Beckett - Early days in Foxrock" found at =
Foxrock library outside Dublin two years ago.=20

(childbeckett)
...On Sunday mornings Mrs Beckett and the boys walked the short distance =
from Cooldrinagh to Tullow Parish were they owned a pew. Beatrice Orpen, =
who was then a prominent painter in Dublin, sat with her family in a pew =
opposite the Becketts and remembered Sam frowning at her, week after =
week. She discovered that his dissatisfaction was nothing personal -"it =
was towards the whole cosmos rather than me in particular".

(youngcrazywildbeckett)
He started drinking; careered madly about the countryside in the Wicklow =
Hills on his Motor Bike. He was a reckless driver and had been involved =
in several serious accidents, ruining his machine but not seriously =
harming himself...

(beckettcountry)
...There is too, I think, for those who seek it, a Beckett Country that =
ranges over the area South of Dublin, centered in his native area of =
Foxrock.


I decided before going to Ireland that I wanted to see Foxrock railway =
station, because I had read in a bio that it was the one Beckett =
described in the beginning of his novel "Watt" and I had made a =
imaginary painting of the station at an occasion. Unfortunately when =
finding myself on the spot, I was told that the station had been =
destroyed some time ago.  Standing there, me slightly disappointed not =
knowing what to do, my father, who was with me told me to go to the =
local library he had seen nearby and ask the way to Becketts childhood =
home (called Cooldrinagh) instead. So we did. The Librarian didnt seem =
well aquainted with Foxrocks most leading celebrity, and went away for =
some book search. On her return she drew a little map of how to find the =
house, and my smart dad told her to copy the little publication she had =
shown us before. It was a hot day, and I was feeling some kind of =
nervous sensations, because Beckett was very important to me at the =
time. We moved on. We found it somewhat strange that the neighbourhood =
seemed to consist of mainy luxurious villas and not empty dusty country =
roads because we had both thought of Foxrock that way. Suddenly I saw =
it, "Cooldrinagh". A big house. The tennis court was still there. I was =
satisfied with just standing outside and my father took a photo of me in =
front of the house.=20

On our way back we talked with a guy I imagined to be a servant of some =
kind... -A pub? No! There's No pubs here! You have to go that way! My =
throat was dry, and me and my father didnt speak much. After a while we =
find the pub and i had me a Jameson and a pint o Guinness and a =
cigarette. I felt melancolic.

(Some days later I had my father photograph me getting a stone thrown in =
my forehead. But unlike Watt I had to throw the stone myself.)

This story maybe doesnt mean anything, and I know that some events may =
have been altered in time and memory, but my father and I often talk =
about our Foxrock walk to Cooldrinagh so to me its important.

and here's.... The EXOTICA CONNECTION!

On the same evening I took a bus downtown and went at a club called the =
"Ultra Lounge". No lie! No 50s exotica was spinned, mostly spyjazz and =
70s lounge and blaxpo stuff. I had a nice time talking and drinking with =
the local dubliner DJs. If you're on the list and remembers: Hi!

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:50:03 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Shag-this

Jane Fondle wrote -

>>5. Word Up - Melanie G (aka Scary Spice)
>>
>>Uh, Clark Scheffy, should I comment on this one? ;)
>
OK - I love the Spice Girls and think they are the greatest thing in girlie
pop since <censored to avoid further argument from JF  ;-)  >

*but* that song blew when Cameo did it, and it blows
worse in Mel G's version. I'm with Ms. Fondle on this one.

I was bummed by the first Austin Powers OST as well - how can they so miss the
mark when comps like Sound Gallery are out there to literally draw a map to
the
sounds that symbolize "shagadelic?" It's beyond me, and the sound people on
that movie should have their heads examined.

Mel G (as with the others on that OST save for "Q") have no business being
there.

But, as with many movies these days, screen time is money, and product
placement is a big money-maker. Just like with commercial radio (which is just
that - a *commercial* for the albums of artists the record labels are
pushing),
movies are pushing products - a Reese's Pieces-eating E.T. was just the
beginning. The artists on the Austin Powers OST are there not for reasons of
their musical appropriateness, but for their commercial positioning for the
demographic that is expected to see the movie.

Incidentally, does anyone remember the movie "Mac and Me?" It came out just
after E.T., and was funded almost in its entirety by MacDonald's. The
E.T.-like
alien eats Big Macs instead of Reese's Pieces. Great flick.

At least Spice World had good music. <grin>

Clark



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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:44:24 +0200
From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Soul Trade

...forgot to say that Mariella's label can be found on the web at
http://www.soultrade.com
bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista



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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:46:16 +0200
From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Morricone translation + various!

Hello hello!
I'm Dj Batman, I'm new to this list, I'm from Italy and I listen to lots of
weird music ;)

I just noticed this message:

>I'm listening to this heavenly beautiful CD that my friend just lent me.
>It's a Morricone soundtrack but I don't know if it's the original
>soundtrack.  In fact, it's all in Italian and I don't know anything.
>The title of the film might be "Metti,una sera a cena l'assolute naturale"

there are a lot of Morricone reprints featuring two or more soundtracks in
one cd. Some of there reprints were made by my friend Roberto Zamori (from
Prato) and his english partner Lionel Woodman. Both of them are into
reprints of rare film music from italian composers.
I don't know whether this one is on their labels (Film Music Arts
Studio/Soundtrack Deletions)... but anyway, I'm sure that "Metti una sera a
cena" was a movie title (eerrr... now how do I translate that??!? ;)) ...so
the other bit must be a separate movie... I've seen similar titles like "La
stagione dei sensi / Vergogna schifosi".

>Or "l'assulute naturale" might not be part of the title.  (Does that mean
>"original soundtrack"?  Am I going to be embarrassed?)

hehe. Probably it was spelled "l'assoluto naturale" (?) and should sound
like "Natural absolute" (?) :)

>No wait.  I think those are TWO separate film titles.

exactly-

>I can get my friend to burn me a CD copy but if there's more of this I can
>get or if anyone can tell me what the film is...
>
>I have a fair bit of Morricone.  I thought I knew Morricone.

>But this is different, yet somehow the same and really beautiful.

ehm... now the (er) promotional bit. ;) I have digital rights to some
Morricone tracks and other compositions all performed by Alessandro
Alessandroni. Alessandroni was a composer and conductor who was often
associated with Morricone (I pratically have the same tracks that are
contained in his compilation album "El Puro"), conducting famous spaghetti
western soundtracks like "For a fistful of bucks" (with that
charachteristic Morricone whistle...). He also had a choir called "I
cantori moderni di Alessandroni" (Alessandroni's modern singers).
I had this stuff sold in mp3 format on Nordic Records
(http://www.nordicdms.com/nordicrecords), but as they recently restructured
the site (they have just been bought by Goodnoise.com) most of the tracks I
had there have been put offline and I dunno if they will put them online
again.
I'm thinking of putting them for free on www.mp3.com (and also on sale as
DAM CD on their site). Meanwhile, another site (http://www.freerecords.com)
will have the mp3 files published soon. Oh, and of course all of these are
LEGAL mp3 sites! :)

>Then again, there are these lovely female voices on the CD and I have been
>listening to all this soft pop as you know, so maybe I'm not in the best
>position to judge...

Probably you may have encountered some vocals by Edda Dell'Orso, a lovely
voice that appears on various Morricone albums; she is also featured in the
Alessandroni album I just mentioned (she sings on three tracks from a
"Sindbad" movie).

Ok... what else?
Ah, I write music reviews for a site... if you take a look here
http://www.all-reviews.com/music/emanuellesgroove.htm

you will find a review of a cool soundtrack cd collecting songs from the
Black Emanuelle softcore movies from the '70s... :)
Incidentally, I believe this is on Dagored/Abraxas... the same label that
published the "She had a taste in music" cd that someone mentioned.



bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista



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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:44:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Mr.Drakes)
Subject: (exotica) Record player

i have a compleat dj system,with technics
1200's etc. but my favorite are my
Magnavox Consols!  I have 3 of them
one is about 7 feet long with legs,slide top.
and one floor model anout 6 feet long,then a 3
foot slide top..anyway,i realy feel good playing my exotica records on
them alot! I also have a
califone record player ,looks like a suite case.
i guess it came from a school,anyway,i painted
it all gold and coverd the inside in leopard.
all my friends say it looks realy cool!! yall should
try doing the same if you have an old portable.

What is your favorite record player?

Daniel



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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:36:15 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Mel Torme' Picture

One of the pictures is of me at my computer and you can see the picture of
Martin in the background.  A fellow optometrist friend of mine saw the
article and the picture and emailed me asking why I had a picture of W. C.
Fields in the background.  You bet I set him straight!



Dang! Good Job Bob.
You are a card carrying member of the Exoticats and a member in good standing
of Tiki News for protecting our forfather Martin

aloha
Otto


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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:25:16 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) back to the casino via cathode ray

One more airing:
Casino Royale (1967)
AMC - Sunday afternoon, 1:15pm (eastern)

A couple more Peter Sellers numbers later that night:
What's New Pussycat? (1965)
TCM - Sunday night, 8:00pm

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
TCM - Sunday night, 10:00pm

Greenwich Village (1944)
AMC - Sunday morning, 6:05am
features not only Carmen Miranda, but also the rare experience of William
Bendix doing a song & dance number. In a toga at that.

TCM also has 4 Elvis movies in succession beginning at 11:00am Sunday
morning, plus "Viva Las Vegas" Monday at 6:00am.

Documentarily, there's:
Mysteries Of Easter Island
History - Monday night, 8:00pm, Midnight, 4:00am

m.ace  [e-mail]
more here:  http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/


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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:34:22 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Shag-this

The soundtrack to "The Spy Who Shagged Me" could have been better. Some of
the artists featured in the movie that aren't on the disc include They Might
Be Giants, Walter Wanderly, Fantastic Plastic Machine and Propellerheads.

Maybe they'll do a vol. 2.

- --Rod


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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:35:35 +0200
From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) She Had a Taste for Music

christian courtis" wrote:
>there=B4s also a new label, soultrade, which put out the two Aperitivo
>compilations

I know the lady who owns Soul Trade... Mariella Reitano. Or better, I
talked to her on the phone various times because we both were collaborating
with a guy who owned another label... they're actually interested in
releasing pop music with an eye to new electronic stuff... but meanwhile
they've put together this Aperitivo line that has been licensed to King (a
Japanese label) for release in Japan, too!
The Flabby/Mambo Italiano stuff is a reworking of a 1960's song with vocals
by carla Boni (italian singer from that era that now lives in south
america); iI believe the original was sung by Sophia Loren in some movie.

The Right Tempo series is quite good, with lots of obscure stuff and
classic film and tv composers like Roberto Pregadio and Stelvio Cipriani
(whose "Mark il Poliziotto" -Mark the Policeman- soundtrack was defined by
someone in a web page as "Shaft on acid" ;)))))

>finally, the Stone label, even if not editing italian music, has a great
>sense
>of putting amazing stuff together. the jazz a-go go and the haschisch party
>compilations
>of the mood mosaic series are really something

hmmmm I've never seen any of them...! hm! will have to check with my local
record pusher ;)

bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista



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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:05:07 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: my little record player

BasicHip wrote:

>I picked up a portable record player this week.  An industrial strength
>classroom model, a Newcomb Audio.  You carry it like a suitcase.
>
>Mostly I got it to play these 78's I've been slowly accumulating.

Newcomb Brother!

I got the exact same thing, for more or less exactly the same reasons.
Gotta love that beige tweed! It's also our official "porch system."

(If I can digress into a rant here briefly, mine was some thing the Ann
Arbor public library was selling off, because they had deemed vinyl
"obsolete"--Grrrr!)

>My records sound better on this little
>machine than on my modern stereo.  How could this be?

Did you get a real old tube model, or one of the 70s transistor ones?

The first thing that comes to mind is that the ideal for a new audio system
is that it have a ruler-flat frequency response, extending well into the
treble. Whereas I just tried out the Newcomb, and it rolls off the bass and
treble pretty severely, while putting a huge peak in the midrange.

There are probably plenty of other idiosyncratic peaks and wiggles in the
frequency response, too. But this doesn't always sound bad: Isn't the
whole reason a cello has a body is to "distort" the frequencies of the
string, adding its own resonances? I had a weird old pair of British
speakers that had a strong "coloration" which happened to make a lot of
vocalists sound *great*--even though in some technical sense int was an
innacuracy.

The first thing that happens with the Newcomb's kind of shaped frequency
response is that this brings the melody intruments (horns, etc.) way
forward in the mix--which for some kinds of music can sound quite exciting.
And of course all those crackles (which are quite fatiguing to the ear on a
system flat out to 20 kHz) are mellowed out dramatically.

It may also be that producers of the 50s era created their mixes *knowing*
they would be played on consumer systems with responses like this, and
balanced the EQ accordingly to sound good on them.

The other thing I notice is that this heavy tone-arm sure plows past the
skips better than my ultralight modern one. . .


Nat wrote:

>(That's not to say that I haven't heard 78's sound wonderful on stereo
>systems that were essentially "dedicated" to playing 78's exclusively.  A
>serious 78 collector can have anywhere from a half dozen to dozens of
>different needles in order to "correctly" play all his records.)

Yeah, it gets even crazier with 78s--it's not just the different stylus
shapes, it's that the correct RPM for any given disk can be all over the
place from 70 to 90; there are, like, 7 different equalization curves (had a
URL about this but I can't find it. . . . )

cheers,

 --Ross

|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr  <[e-mail]>
|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA




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