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exotica-digest       Saturday, November 27 1999       Volume 02 : Number 556



In This Digest:

(exotica) Re: Michael Polnareff
(exotica) Steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago
(exotica) Quadfather scam....
(exotica) CDs for sale
Re: (exotica) The Doopies
Re: (exotica) Re: Another re-echo-cord explanation
(exotica) more Disney music!
(exotica) crashing with Herb Larson
(exotica) skeewif?
Re: (exotica) crashing with Herb Larson
(exotica) Re:  J J Perrey Dynamoog
(exotica) Re: The Future Sound Of Lesiman
(exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management
Re: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management
Re: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management
Re: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management
Re: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management
(exotica) Tiki Tones Saturday Nov 27
(exotica) Rod and Frank
Re: (exotica) The Doopies
Tomita (was Re: (exotica) The Doopies)
Re: (exotica) Rod and Frank
(exotica) Record voodoo finds/Los Indios Tabajaras
Re: (exotica) Quadfather scam....
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, November 28

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:17:52 +0100
From: "Kristjan Saag" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Michael Polnareff

=20
 [e-mail]  wrote.Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:01:42=20
=20
>I have a couple of albums by him ... one on CD called "Le Bal Des Laze" =
(no
>idea what that means) and another on record fropm Japan, which opens =
out
>into a book, with photos of Polnareff, Bowie, Bolan!
>"Le Bal Des Laze" is a really great album from start to finish, with =
the
>catchiest melodies you've ever heard ... when i first heard it, i was =
even
>sure that i'd heard some of them before, in perhaps an instrumental =
form,
>but can't be sure
- ---
A Michael Polnareffs song, _Soul Coaxing_ (don't know the original =
title) was recorded as an instrumental by Norrie Paramor and his Strings =
in the 60:s and used a a theme song on one of Radio Luxemburgs British =
programmes. (208 m  MW ). The song is featured on the Norrie Paramor =
album _Soul Coaxing_ (Br Columbia TWO 207) and on the compilation  =
_Impact - The Breakthrough ToThe Exciting world Of Stereo Sound_ (Br, =
Columbia STWO 2) from 1968. This album also features recordings by Frank =
Pourcel, Ron Goodwin, Norman Newell, Manuel and His Music of the =
Mountains etc.
BTW: the English services of Radio Luxemburg will be on the air again =
soon...
Kristjan

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:51:21 +0100
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago

http://www.seetobago.com/trinidad/pan/bands_tt.htm


Arjan





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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:28:47 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Quadfather scam....

>>If you really want to know, I'll ask my friend "The Quadfather"

Oh, Nat, I'm so disappointed...

Unless your buddy's name is Hugo, don't fall for his flimsy nickname.  There
was and will always be only one Quadfather...Montenegro himself.  His liner
notes bear it out.  ;-)

Keith

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The Artwork and Workshops
of Keith E. Lo Bue
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 21:24:28 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) CDs for sale

All discs listed below are in excellent to a-hair-shy-of-excellent condition
(including packaging and booklet). All have been owned only by me, and most
are duplicates in my collection.

Prices range from $6 to $12, with the high end reserved for imports and
double-disc sets. Prices do not include shipping, which depends upon number
of CDs ordered.

E-mail me off this list ([e-mail]) with any questions or orders, first
come, first served. All discs will be shipped out within three days of
receipt of payment; add seven days if paying with a personal check, to give
it time to clear the bank.

Thanks!  --Rod

Air: Premiers Symptomes (original import) (Source) -- $10
Air: Sexy Boy (5-cut single with mixes from Beck, Cassius; "Jeanne" w/
Francoise Hardy) (Source) -- $6
The Avengers and Other Top Sixties TV Themes (60 cuts, 2 discs) (Sequel) --
$12
Best of Mission: Impossible: Soundtrack (GNP Crescendo) -- $6
Bossa Brava 3 (Instinct)  -- $8
Brave Combo: Group Dance Epidemic (Rounder) -- $8
Cape Verde (Putumayo) -- $6
Carlos, Wendy: Tales of Heaven and Hell (w/ "Clockwork Black") (East Side
Digital) -- $6
Esquivel: More of Other Worlds, Other Sounds (Reprise) -- $8
Fair, Jad and Yo La Tengo: Strange But True (Matador) -- $8
Future Sound of Jazz (Instinct/Compost) -- $8
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (vintage storybook w/ techno songs) (Drive
Archive) -- $6
Hollywood Hi-Fi (Brunswick) -- $8
Instrumental Gold (40 cuts, 2 discs, Denny, Kaempfert, Lyman, Mancini, etc.)
- -- $12
Jones, Quincy: The Reel Quincy Jones (Hip-O) -- $8
Jones, Tom: Live Caesar's Palace (Varese Vintage) -- $8
Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Halloween (Rhino) -- $8
Kerouac, Jack: Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (Rykodisc) -- $6
Kraftwerk: Computer World (Elektra) -- $8
Lounge Legends (Tom Jones, Jack Jones, Sammy Davis, etc.) (K-Tel) -- $6
Lyman, Arthur: The Legend of Pele (Rykodisc) -- $8
Maracas, Marimbas & Mambos: Latin Classics at MGM (Cugat, etc.) (Rhino) -- $8
Mo'Plen 2000: Acid Hip Tracks from Italian Cocktails (import) (Irma La Douce)
- -- $10
Montenegro, Hugo: More Music from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (import) (BMG
Spain) -- $10
Montenegro, Hugo: Original Music from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (import) (BMG
Spain) -- $10
Morricone, Ennio: Canto Morricone Vol. 1: The 60s (import) (Bear) -- $12
Never on Sunday: Soundtrack (Rykodisc) -- $8
Ninja Cuts Vol. 3: Funkungfusion (2 discs) (Ninja Tune) -- $10
Paris Combo: Paris Combo (Tinder) -- $8
Perrey-Kingsley: The In Sound from Way Out! (Vanguard) -- $8
Pimp Daddy Nash: Private Leftfield Downtempo Fuzz (World Domination) -- $8
Pizzicato Five: End of the World (Matador) -- $8
Propellerheads: Dive! (import single) (Wall of Sound) -- $10
Propellerheads: Spybreak! (import single) (Wall of Sound) -- $10
Sailor Moon: Lunarock Soundtrack (Kid Rhino) -- $6
Scoctopus: The In Sound from Octopus Records (import) -- $10
Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Blondes (DCC) -- $8
Sounds Orchestral: Sounds Rare (Sequel) -- $8
St. Etienne: Places to Visit (Sub Pop) -- $6
Wall of Sound Presents Bustin' Loose (Propellerheads, etc.) (Wall of Sound)
- -- $8
West, Mae and others: Mae Day (Dionysus) -- $6
Yule B' Swingin' (Christmas w/ Prima, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, etc.) (Hip-O)
- -- $8
Zappa, Frank: Son of Cheep Thrills (Rykodisc) -- $6


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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:33:14 +0100
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Doopies

>> Yann Tomita (not to be confused with Tomita, the electronic classical guy).

ahhhhh... sorry for my extreme ignorance but I didn't know of the classical
Tomita until now... heh... this explains what someone said on
http://musicians.riffage.com/djbatman commenting a track of mine which is
basically a reworking of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata... he/she wrote
something like "Tomita did the Firebird Suite which was hot... this is
uhmmm - not."

;D


bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief"
(Bono)



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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:33:17 +0100
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Another re-echo-cord explanation

>Has anyone actually played a record that has this pre-echo to see if the
>echo lines up at the same point as the music starts? This would prove the
>vinyl overlap theory and disprove the tape echo theory.

this huge thread is confusing me more and more as it grows... the ponly
thing I know is that I have a 12" vinyl of "Disco dance classics", a legal
house mix (with tons of illegal samples) ;) of a bunch of disco music
tunes, made by Ben Liebrand circa 1990. It has an instrumental by obscure
dj Kut Master Shokk which is basically one of the best rip-offs of the
James Brown "funky drummer" beat. At the beginning you have the overused
sample "one, two, three, four, hit it!" and you can clearly hear it coming
in pre-echo about one revolution before the actual track starts...

bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief"
(Bono)



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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:33:35 +0100
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) more Disney music!

>Now I am really looking for more of this stuff, especially the songs from
>Splash Mountain with words and singing.  Does this music exist outside of the
>Magic Kingdoms??

a few years ago Disney put out a deluxe set with 3 cds and a book... quite
expensive but it had Diisney music from cartoons/movies (from Steamboat
Willie to recent stuff... I think it stop with Little Mermaid... I could be
wrong anyway).
Btw, it has lots of themes from Disney tv shows like Mickey Mouse club or
more obscure/exotic stuff ("The wonderful world of color", "You are a human
animal" and stuff like that :)))))) plus some Disney park themes.
You have the original Baroque Hoedown from the Main Stree Electrical Parade
(basically a a weird synthetic medley of baroque music and Disney tunes)...
one of the most interesting pieces is a theme from Epcot sampling the
voices of JFK, Martin Luther King and the first Man on the Moon.
I've seen a sequel, comprising only stuff from recent movies like Lion King
but I don't have it; I've heard this one was a flop.


bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief"
(Bono)



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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:02:45 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) crashing with Herb Larson

I was looking for information on Herb Larson because of his Command LP,
"Sax Appeal" that I just found.
But Netscape crashed everytime I tried to get on to Robbie's Spaced Out site.



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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:03:38 PST
From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) skeewif?

sorry, someone posted about a 12inch from someone called, i think, skeewif,
and some italian funk of a similar nature, i took the details down and
deleted, but lost them. could anyone oblige with the data so i can go to a
vinyl excitement emporium forthwith to purchase (or more likely, order) my
copies.
love
rob

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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:35:57 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) crashing with Herb Larson

<< I was looking for information on Herb Larson because of his Command LP,
 "Sax Appeal" that I just found. >>

Not bad, not bad at all.  Check out the great sitar version of Dizzy, which=20=
I=20
included in a collection of 22 pop sitar tracks that I just wrapped up.  Her=
e=20
is the rest of the line-up.  If interested in this CD-R, drop me a line.  If=
=20
a particular album in it's entirety is of interest, that can be arranged as=20
well.  DJ Jimmy Bee, I've already got one with your name on it, bud.  :)=20

1.  BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN  Lord Sitar
Lord Sitar

2.  DIZZY  Herb Larsen
Sax Appeal

3.  WITHIN YOU, WITHOUT YOU  The Soulful Strings
Groovin' With The Soulful Strings

4.  FLOWER POWER  Rajput And The Sepoy
Flower Power Sitar

5.  CARAVAN  Enoch Light
Future Sound Shock

6.  SAN FRANCISCAN NIGHTS  Living Guitars
San Franciscan Nights

7.  HEY JOE  The Folkswingers
Raga Rock

8.  SHE'S LEAVING HOME  Big Jim Sullivan
Sitar Beat

9.  ENDLESS DREAM  The Ventures
Super Psychedelics

10. THE WORLD WE KNEW  Vincent Bell
Pop Goes the Electric Sitar

11. MARAKEESH EXPRESS  Enoch Light
Permissive Polyphonics

12. LET IT BE  Living Guitars
Let It Be And Other Hits

13. HYPNOTIQUE  Martin Denny
A Taste Of India

14. GURU-VIN  Don Sebasky
Distant Galaxy

15. THE LOOK OF LOVE  Bill Plummer
Bill Plummer And The Cosmic Brotherhood

16. THE SEASON OF THE WITCH  Enoch Light
Brass Menagerie 1973

17. PAINT IT BLACK  Living Guitars
Living Guitars Play Hits Made Famous By The Rolling Stones

18. LIGHT MY FIRE  Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar

19. BLUES FOR THE GURU  101 Strings
The Sound Of Today

20. YESTERDAY  Jackie Gleason
The Now Sound=85For Today's Lovers

21. WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL  Chim Kothari
The Sound Of Sitar

22. ELEANOR RIGBY  Marty Gold
Moog Plays The Beatles




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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:47:09 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  J J Perrey Dynamoog

    A really nice Moog LP that grows.  it's quite different from his
better known albums. Three tracks are funny in a tipically Perrey way,
others are more ambient. Besides Moog & Moog sequencer, also used are:
Ondioline, Ondes martinot, electric piano, "Eminent" organ, Clavinet, and
guitar & drums.

        Johan


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Charles wrote:

>Just saw a copy of Jean Jacques Perrey's Dynamoog LP - French (or maybe=
>
>Canadian) library LP in Reckless Records in Soho.
>
>Anybody got it?
>
>=A360 is a little bit toooooo much for me.




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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 15:12:58 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: The Future Sound Of Lesiman

Very artistically ambitious and a bit experimental production music.
Impossible to categorise; "difficult easy listening" maybe? It's jazzy -
but not of the easy kind, rather complex at times -  funky, and futuristic
- - but not in a gimmicky way; sounds like film music, but it isn't. About 7
(out of 22) tracks are as good as the one featured on "Easy tempo 5"; about
12 are between good and OK, but not that special, and the remaining 3 were
just too experimental for my EZ taste.

        Johan


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William wrote:

>Any thoughts?
>
>I like the tracks on Easy Tempo Vol. 2 alot (this lad is a sucker for
>Echoplex feedback), but am wondering if those cuts are the highlights, and
>the rest of the album is mediocre.
>
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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:25:41 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management

Just returned from a first visit to a Disney park (Florida) and have
had time to digest the experience.  Since the Enchanted Tiki Room has
recently come up for discussion again, I figured it an opportune time
to share my experience:

I can't help but being impressed by a lot of the original
attractions, given the time at which they were made.  You still see
that mix of innocent yet often not terriblty 'politically correct for
our time' characterisation, an extension of  both Walt Disney's
imagination and his own sterotypical view of the world.
You don't see this in the new attractions though, and that's where
the magic seems to fizzle and it just becomes another amusement park.
I see this as one of the real struggles that must have gone on after
Walt Disney's death and one which it appears obvious the successors
still haven't come to terms with. A favourite attraction: "It's a
Small World" - One can't help but feel from this ride the magic and
the innocence of Disney as at least I (would like to) remember it.
The kids still love it too which says something after all this time!

As for the Enchanted Tiki Room, I listened to the original record at
home and we decided to take our 3 yr old to it, a bit suspicious
about the 'Under New Management' tag it now carries.  The new show,
which I could swear uses the voice of Don Rickles for one of the new
parrots, is loud, the music and effects harsh and seemingly intended
to increase the thrill level.  I didn't get to see it properly as the
thunder, lightning and the red eyed Tiki goddess that sprung up in
the middle was the single most terrifying think our son remembers
about the entire trip.  Consequently, I spent a lot of our visit
listening to him shrieking and clinging to me. None of that old magic
left in this place, though at least you could still sense what it
was like.  Should it be saved - I have to ask at what cost to its
integrity? I continue...

The new Animal  Kingdom park has replicas of African and Asian
buildings, etc, detailed to the level of having painted cracks in the
plaster on the African buildings for 'authenticity'.  They even went
to the effort to 'stock' the park with real live Africans and Asians,
who are employed selling coke, ice cream & burgers!  The park
pushes the conservation angle in order to justify its existence and
seemingly make it educational, but I saw it more as a cultural
embarrassment and I just wanted to look for a place to hide!

Epcot Centre is a cultural experience on another level.  Aside from
the science and Y2K 'stuff' there is a series of pavilions from a
number of countries offering food, drink, displays, etc. To credit
Disney, it's done tastefully (well the least tasteful is our own
Canada, but I'm not so sure I fault Disney...) and the food
offerings are real and quite good at that.  Still, it's hard to
produce something like this without stereotyping and each pavilion
was done with varying degrees of success. I guess for those that will
not, or cannot visit the real places, it is at least reasonably
educational although kind of like a real short bus tour but without
the bus. However, the place also acts as a tremendous advertisement
to entice people to visit the real country. I'd sure like to know how
the countries themselves are involved and who pays who for what in
this equation.

The Disney MGM studio to me was the least interesting of all and I
didn't have the opportunity to visit the other one, Univeral Studios.
I'm not a fan of Hollywood films and special effects at the best of
times so seeing how they make these films holds little interest.

However, the most interesting and exotic "attraction" in the Disney
park was the real live town of Celebration, the community that Disney
created and I believe runs. Being an urban planner, I was naturally
intrigued to see it and I won't bore you with my observations on
this level as it is a pleasant enough place in spite of its being
located within a Disney park.  But, on another level, here's a place
that would easily fit into your David Lynch image of a perfect  town
and it has an eerie surreal appeal to those with wild imaginations,
(think X-Files or The Stepford Wives). I can't quite imagine living
here but I had half expected its downtown to look like Main Street
USA so I was pleasantly surprised although still just a little bit
frightened...

So here you have one take on the Disney experience.  My
conclusion, the real America is infinitely more "exotic" and worth a
closer look, in spite of its continuing erosion by national chains
and mall strips!  As for the rest of the world, well, I'll let you
decide for yourselves!

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:12:51 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management

In a message dated 11/26/99 11:26:16 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< The new show,
 which I could swear uses the voice of Don Rickles for one of the new
 parrots, is loud, the music and effects harsh and seemingly intended
 to increase the thrill level.  >>


Don Rickles and Phil Hartman provide the voices of the two birds in the Tiki
Garden, which is the pre-show area.  This is the area that now plays a little
Martin Denny music then the two birds start to talk about how the Tiki Room
has the potential to be a real cash cow.  The Hartman bird says he represents
the "Morris" agency and "his" bird is coming in to liven the place up.

When you go inside, the regular show starts and then is quickly interrupted
by "Yago" (I think that spelling is right) which is the bird from Aladdin
voiced by the ever irritating Gilbert Godfrey.  He says that the show can be
"saved" and lots of "crackers" can be made if they just update.  Which he
says he is going to do.
(It is absolutely horrible when Fritz, the German bird says, "But we have
done this like this since 1993!" and Yago sings back, "We'll, my time flies,
GET A LIFE YOU GUYS -- YOU ARE ANCIENT HISTORY!")

I have a rare digital version of this new show  beginning that I have been
trying to figure out how to upload to Ron's or www.click2send's web site so
all on the list can "enjoy"??!!!??  Ron explained it to me but somehow I have
not grasped it yet.

There is discussion here about how the Disneyland show is the original show.
It really is not technically the original show.  They eliminated the
Offenbach number to shorten the show.

The whole Tiki Room show change in WDW really has me depressed.

Tiki Bob


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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:31:04 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management

I don't know if this was discussed, but apparently since Oct. 15 at
Disneyland Tokyo, they have a new updated Tiki room, like Chapter two where
the old birds sleep and new birds RAP. Shit. That sounds pretty scary. I
don't think they are the same birds that are at WDW, but who knows. Maybe a
tiki room expert will tell. I will give a full report next month when I get
back from Tokyo.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:58:23 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management

In a message dated 11/26/99 3:31:32 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I don't know if this was discussed, but apparently since Oct. 15 at
 Disneyland Tokyo, they have a new updated Tiki room, like Chapter two where
 the old birds sleep and new birds RAP. Shit. That sounds pretty scary. I
 don't think they are the same birds that are at WDW, but who knows. Maybe a
 tiki room expert will tell. I will give a full report next month when I get
 back from Tokyo.

 Jill "Mingo-go" >>


this may be a dumb question, but at the Tokyo Tiki Room, do the birds sing in
English or Japanese?

i am trying to upload the mp3 of the updated version intro song to Ron's site
so maybe one of our Japanese List members (are they any????) can tell us if
this is there new version too.

TB


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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 02:07:51 +0100
From: Mo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room - Under New Management

[e-mail] wrote:

> this may be a dumb question, but at the Tokyo Tiki Room, do the birds sing in
> English or Japanese?

It's not! They sing in Japanese. It was really a fine Tiki Room; but what Jill
said about changes, scares me too. Somehow though I trust these Japanese, maybe
the Rap version is good.

Mo



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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:42:14 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Tones Saturday Nov 27

just to clarify
The Tiki Tones will be in SF THIS sat
Hi Ball lounge on Braodway near Kearny
Sat night two sets

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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 06:45:12 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rod and Frank

I seem to remember being the only Rod McKuen appreciator from the last time
I brought him up.
The main reason I have as many Rod records as I do is because I keep seeing
them.  But there is something I like about him.  There's the Jacques Brel
feel which obviously Jacques himself saw, given that they collaborated.
There's the relentless melancholy, the metaphors about the past, the places
he's been, the women he's loved, the love that he's lost.  The words
"lonely" and "alone" come up again and again.
And traditionally that's my favourite subject for a song.
If you like Nick Drake or Leonard Cohen or the Tindersticks etc but you've
ignored Rod, maybe you should give him a try.

ANYWAY, for a while I've been looking for Rod's collaboration with Frank
Sinatra.
"A Man Alone", not an easy record to find around here.
I'm not really much of a Frank fan but somehow I believed that this would
be a record for me.
This is supposed to be the big embarrassment in Frank's discography.
That's not exactly why I thought I would love it.  Everyone puts down the
Leonard Cohen/ Phil Spector collaboration and I agree with them in that
case.  So it's not like "they" are always wrong when they declare an
"embarrassment".

But I finally found it and I quite like it.  I think it has a lot to do
with the fact that it's basically a ballad record and does not allow Frank
to do any of his "swinging schtick" that usually annoys me.
Frank's voice and Rod's melancholic sentimental regret-drenched music are a
perfect match.

So I finally love a Frank record and there's finally a Rod record that I
can cautiously recommend.
And it wasn't a sixth sense.  It was pure logic... like all my purchasing
decisions.

Nat



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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:28:11 +0000
From: M H Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Doopies

Jan Fornell wrote:
>
> backing loops, and not least an environmentally controlled synthesizer
> (it reacted to sunlight, if I remember correctly).

This reminds me of a record I heard once by some scientist (on Nonesuch
possibly), who used measurements of the sun's intensity, number of
daylight hours etc throughout one year to feed into a computer to
generate synthesiser music. Different characteristics altered different
parts of the music, e.g. pitch, note length, volume etc.

Unfortunately this (and a load of other albums on the same label) were
all pretty scratched and the shop wanted about 7 or 8 quid each when I
was young and penniless, so I passed on them all.



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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:15:49 +0000
From: M H Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Tomita (was Re: (exotica) The Doopies)

Dj Batman wrote:
>
> >> Yann Tomita (not to be confused with Tomita, the electronic classical guy).
>
> ahhhhh... sorry for my extreme ignorance but I didn't know of the classical
> Tomita until now... heh... this explains what someone said on
> http://musicians.riffage.com/djbatman commenting a track of mine which is
> basically a reworking of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata... he/she wrote
> something like "Tomita did the Firebird Suite which was hot... this is
> uhmmm - not."

Opinions on the list vary on Tomita, but a good one to get is the
Debussy one 'The Snowflakes are Dancing', which is pretty spacey. It has
a blue cover with a scary face on it (Debussy? It looks more like Ming
the Merciless or someone)




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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 07:21:13 -0800
From: paul <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod and Frank

> I seem to remember being the only Rod McKuen appreciator from the last time
> I brought him up.

Heya   no you're not alone in your appreciation of Rod.  For some
sick reason, possibly just to torment our own Tosh 'Tam Tam Books',
I started picking up his Lp's at goodwill in the early 80's.   Songs for
a Lazy Afternoon and Beatsville are oddly entertaining, though I'm
a sucker too for his later schmaltzy Home To the Sea et al, as well.

Rod does a very admirable job of manning his own web site;
<http://www.mckuen.com>

He'll answer questions rather personally in public forum.  It seems
to be  an oddly absent dynamic to find web wise from most any
commercially successful performers that happen to be on the web.

The Sinatra/McKuen recordings mostly don't work as FS material,
in the opinion of this mega FS fan.  The recordings are interesting, if only
to contrast what it is about FS's identity that would preclude him from
effectively rendering such lyrics.   It isn't FS to be self effacing and
doubting in the way McKuen is wont to do.  It was another one
of FS's experiments' that further his stature in my mind even if it
didnt work.

In closing this FS aside, I'll offer again my two 'must have' FS Lp's
"Ring A Ding Ding"   1961    Kind of FS's Uptempo "Never Mind The Bullocks"
        if he ever had one !

"Point Of No Return" 1961   Forget others dismiss this as a throwaway
        because it was his last for Capitol...    Its his most positively
        chilling saloon album... I dont doubt Bryan Ferry is playing
        somewhere...right now.

Returning you to your regular programming,


Paul Moshay


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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:34:09 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Record voodoo finds/Los Indios Tabajaras

My pal Judy and I were walking off the turkey and mincemeat pie from T-day
when I had that Go find records vibe--at a Goodwill near our route.

Note: I avoid shopping of any kind on the day after Thanksgiving--I don't
want to get mauled by the mobs on their orgy of Xmas buying.

Went to the record bins and, since I didn't want to hold up my friend,
scanned the records the front of 16 stacks. Nothing. Then thumbed through
two piles at random....

Score! F & T's Fireworks in stereo, a record I'd craved for a long, long
time. Vinyl nm, little played, not a skip, pop or scratch on it. And what
music! Prepped piano arrangements of Caravan, Flight of the Bumblebee, Blue
Moon, That Old Black Magic...every band a prize.

Thumbed more through second pile....

Score! Viva Bossa Nova by Laurindo Almeida and the "Bossa Nova All-Stars":
Sr. Almeida's guitar and cavaquinha backed by Howard Robert and Al Viola.
Shelly Manne, Milt Holland, Chico Guerrero percussion, Jimmy Rowles playing
an electronic organ with a sound that owes a lot to Walter Wanderly, and
some brass/reed players I don't know: Bob Cooper, t sax, Don Fagerquist,
trumpet, breezy flute Justin Gordon. Another great song list: A fabulous
Route 66 Theme, Naked City Theme, Maria, Mr. Lucky, Petit Fleur, Desafinado
and One Note Samba. You who love de stuff from Brazil--look for this
record. Drawbacks: copy is mono and a bad skip mars Desafinado. But that
Route 66 is sensational!

Plus some trivia in the liners courtesy of Sr. Almeida: "Bossa nova" comes
from "nova," "new" in Portuguese...but "bossa" was coined by Brazilian
performer Joe Carioca to mean "dig," like the beatniks' "dig" in English.
Joe Carioca would say a hot tune had a lot of bossa. Once the term spread
among Brazilian musicians, it came to mean samba updated with dig jazz.

Back to the tale...Judy had to split. Saw her off and spent an hour pawing
through the remaining bins. Came up with Montenegro's Mammy Blue, one of
his synth records with his son's blah playing but some tasty arrangements
of the title track, Hugo's own Movin' On, Yo-Yo, Zingaro, and a fab If I
Were a Rich Man/Fiddler on the Roof medley.

Also found the first three LPs from Los Indios Tabajaras, a duo not
mentioned on the list and I've wondered why; RCA's PR blather gives them
very exotic origins. LIT are two Indian  brothers who lived in a remote
corner of the Amazon forest. One day some white travelers passed through
their tribal lands, leaving a guitar behind them. The brothers picked it
up, and found the medium for their musical genius. Learned to play, went to
Rio, got known in town then elsewhere in Brazil, then through Latin
America. RCA recorded their first record, Sweet and Savage in 57. The
record languished until, in 63, a DJ on a popular NYC station started
playing cuts as instrumental filler between show segments. It caught on and
Maria Elena became a national then an international hit. Smash tours
throughout Europe and North/South America.

I think Maria Elena was LIT's only huge hit...anyone know differently? It's
the title track for their first LP. Was the title track from their second
record (64) Always in My Heart also a hit? I'd had a RCA Europe version of
ME and play it often when I get a hankering for tender, very quiet, simple
music. I think ME is superior to Always and their third LP, The Mellow
Guitar Moods of LIT. Really love their sound and I wonder if they retained
it or if fame spoiled Los Indios Tabajaras. Can anyone recommend or does
anyone know of other LIT records worth seeking out?

I left a copy of the Cowsills Live record at the store--not my cuppa. But
will happily pick it up for any Cowsills fans out there. OK vinyl. Just
contact me offlist.

Record voodoo comes and goes but right now it's hittin'. So grateful I got i=
t.

Weird Sister Mimi




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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 06:23:45 -0500
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quadfather scam....

At 10:28 AM 11/26/99 +1100, Keith E. Lo Bue wrote:
>
>Unless your buddy's name is Hugo, don't fall for his flimsy nickname.  There
>was and will always be only one Quadfather...Montenegro himself.  His liner
>notes bear it out.  ;-)

I don't think anybody actually addressed Hugo as "Hey Quadfather" and I
don't address my buddy that way either.  Especially since he started asking
us to address him as "Hey King of Pop!"

Nat




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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 18:44:06 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, November 28

Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal,
Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at:=20

http://www.ckut.ca
=20
As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome.

Space Bop #73   Bimbo Paris

All of this week's music is from Bimbo Tower, a wonderful little music
store in Paris.  The co-owner is one of the members of Dragibus.  All of
these are not necessarily easy to find outside of Paris, but can be
highly recommended.  For more info please contact us.

Mami Chan:  Mon p=E8re communiste et ses amis =E0 la patinoire (mix)  "Lo=
ve
& Beauty"
Dragibus:  Sur la route de Louviers/Edina/Arr=EAtez, =E7a suffit  "Rhythm=
=E9
brut"
Les hauts de plafond:  Intro  "Les hauts de plafond"=09
    =09
Mami Chan:  Pilolo  "Otonamop=E9e"
Dragibus:  Mr. Penchinello  "Papriko"
Dragibus:  La ronde des escargots  "Papriko"
Les hauts de plafond:  =C7a c'est dr=F4lement arrang=E9  "Les hauts de
plafond"=09
    =09
Pik:  B.K para tax y deviation  "What's That?"
Pik:  Trash flash kilometre  "What's That?"
Space Invader:  Alert Side  "Crash/Alert"=09
    =09
Pik:  Howard Hughes =E0 la cod=E9ine  "Compilation Blokhiton"
Skal Mark:  Contrat sur le petit jour  "Compilation Blokhiton"
Guinea Pig:  In memoriam: J F Sebastian  "Compilation Blokhiton"
Dragibus:  Fais bien attention  "Compilation Blokhiton"        =09
    =09
Mami Chan:  Mon p=E8re communiste et ses amis =E0 la patinoire (face-off
remix) "Love & Beauty"
      =09

Thanks for reading. =20


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