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exotica-digest          Monday, March 6 2000          Volume 02 : Number 642



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Great News!!!!!
(exotica) Record show, DC
Re: RE: (exotica) Great News!!!!!
(exotica) Minneapolis Exotica
RE: (exotica) Great News!!!!!
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Re: (exotica) The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" and Exotica connectio
Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues
(exotica) Re: CD burners
(exotica) The Liquid Room 3/4/00
(exotica) Hawaiian Jazz
RE: (exotica) Great News!!!!!
Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues
(exotica) Comments on the Luxuria site......
Re:  Re: (exotica) Ferrante & Teicher homepage
(exotica) NEW BOOK RELEASE TODAY!
Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Jazz
RE: (exotica) How do I make CDs from LPs?
RE: (exotica) How do I make CDs from LPs?
Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues
Re: (exotica) Re: CD burners
Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues
Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues
(exotica) Incantation and Dance

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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:59:25 -0500
From: "Bradford Ross-MacLeod" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Great News!!!!!

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
To: "EXOTICA digest" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 4:35 AM
Subject: (exotica) Great News!!!!!

> GREAT NEWS to tell you all.  I'm beginning work, with Scott Smith,
Ferrante
> & Teicher's manager, on the first and only Official F&T Website!!!

    I was at a local flea market when I came across a booth with loads of
"Easy Listening" LPs.  Lots of F&T and some other gems...."Switched on
Bacharach" included.

    If anybody has anything they're looking for, let me know.  Most of them
were pretty cheap ($2 or so, some as much as $10).  I live out in the middle
of nowhere and so I think there's less demand for these things.  So maybe I
could find something you've been looking for....

    Just a thought....

    Brad



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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:37:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Record show, DC

Did anyone local to DC attend the record convention at
the Westpark Sunday? I saw very nice copies of
list-specific lps for reasonable prices (Bernie
Green's Futura, $10, e.g., and my currentfavorite
synthesized cheese, Rudy Rosa at the Hammond/ARP: $5).
Scored a nice copy of Joe Maphis's Fire on the Strings
for $3, Panics' Panicsville, etc. Nice little
cheerleaders' convention there, too. SWB.

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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:56:00 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: RE: (exotica) Great News!!!!!

>"Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>>I would love to see a picture of the inside of a prepared piano!!

Yeah! And I love Lou's idea of an interactive keyboard so we could make the
sounds ourselves. You could supplement the keyboard by designing the
prepped piano with mouseover events. Invite people to run their cursors
over the entire prepped piano body then surprise them by sounding off the
tones when they hit the strings or the pedals or whatever was the source of
specific sounds.

And for these pages, instead of Mo's giant ears, you could have disembodied
hands and a bunch of mallets, picks, bows, brushes, kitchen sponges, or,
what the hell, gardening tools--whatever F&T used.

Before Charles suggested the graphic, I went a bit nuts dreaming up a
scavenger hunt on the site--a sort of make-your-own-F&T-style music thingy
as a navigatation strategy. An alternative to Mo's penthouse metaphor.

And I've love to see graphics of F&Ts favorite records so we could get a
history of the musical influences that wacked their ears throughout their
careers. Show record spines or graphics of sleeves--click to open and hear
sound samples. You know, the same principle as bookshelves in Myst.

On second thought, most this stuff would probably require a CD-ROM.

How much input will F&T themselves have on the site, Keith? And does anyone
know how they feel now about their prepped piano stuff? Shame? Pride?
Chagrin? Apathy? And anyone want to recommend some good F&T sites? Lou?
TIA.

Mimi




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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:40:32 -0000
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Minneapolis Exotica

This looks like a real treat. I got my first listen to Drasnins 'Voodoo'
only recently and it is a beautiful piece of music, truly a Great Exotica
Classic, (no genre quibbles here I trust).

And so cheap too,  apart from the 500 quid or whatever it is return fare to
the US.  Very envious.  Very Envious Indeed.


El Maestro Con Queso

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Subject: "THE SON OF VOODOO!"

MINNESOTA CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
with
THE VIENNA SAX QUARTET
VANESSA TOMLINSON
VIC VOLARE
JANET GOTTSCHALL-FRIED
and
KING KINI

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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:01:00 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) Great News!!!!!

Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]> wrote:
>  And anyone want to recommend some good F&T sites? Lou?
TIA.

I think that's the point of Keith's proposed site - there aren't any other
good F&T sites out there now.
While looking for one, though, I stumbled across an Australian
Christian EZ cocktail radio station with an on-line feed.
Check this page!:
http://www.4crb.com/Audio.html

Oh, here's another idea for the F&T site - F&T paper dolls. Picture, if
you will, 2 hairless F&T's standing there in their boxers. Surrounding
them are drag&drop outfits (tuxes, spacesuits, nehru jackets, etc.) and
hair (both scalp & facial). F&T varied their appearance with the times,
and it would be a beautiful thing to rummage through their virtual-closets.

- -Lou




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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:01:57 -0600
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour

We've got tunes for comic book heroes on this week's Retro
Cocktail Hour webcast!  We'll hear Billy May's "Green Hornet
Theme" from the new Japanese CD reissue, plus music from
"Comic Book Heroes" by the Capes and Masks.  Irrelevant trivia:
didja know side 2 of "Comic Book Heroes" is really tunes from
Irving Joseph's earlier "Murder, Inc" album?  They simply stuck
different titles on for the "Comic Book Heroes" release.

Also, goofy cha-cha records by Don Swan and Jackie Davis;
underrated exotica from Frank Hunter's "White Goddess" and Mike
Simpson's rare "Jungle Oddysey";  the chimes, they are a-
swinging, with Dick Schory, David Carroll and Henry Mancini;
music for teenage rebellion from "The Wild One" and the ultra-rare
soundtrack from "Hot Rod Rumble"; plus tunes by the Three Suns,
Peter Thomas, Les Baxter and chanteuse Linda Lawson.

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, it's:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html

Requires a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer.  If
you tune us in, drop us a line and let us know!

Thanks for the space.

Darrell Brogdon
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The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU FM 91.5
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html
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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 00 09:59:15 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" and Exotica connectio

>Well you can imagine my pleasant surprise that while exploring the 4 CD "Pet
>Sounds" box set earlier this evening I discovered in the sessions personel
>listing that it was in fact Martin Denny's vibe player Julius Wechter who in
>fact plays the vibes on "Let's Go Away For A While." Not only that, but
>Wechter also provides percussion touches on other "Pet Sounds" album
>tracks:
>"You Still Believe In Me" (the finger cymbals) and "I Know There's An
>Answer"
>(tambourine).
>
>What a fascinating family tree this makes!

I just played the instrumental tracks from the mono version of that CD
that came out in 1990 (I don't own the boxed set).  While "Let's Go Away
for a While" is a very nice instrumental track, I personally prefer the
instrumental "Pet Sounds" track more.

Quite coincidentally, the subject of Julius W. playing vibes on this
album came up within the past week on another music discussion forum,
though no other comments on it have been posted.

My opinion:  I think we have to draw the line on the family tree,
somewhere.  If you include this album as "Exotica" because of the
presence of Julius Wechter, then by association you also have to include
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass as well--because many of those same personnel
played on Wechter's own Baja Marimba Band albums (of which Wechter was
the leader).  I don't know how others feel about this, but to me the TJB
and the BMB don't fit in as part of "Exotica"!

Regards,
- --bj
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 00 09:33:18 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues

>Exactly.  It's vague.  The very concept of the "exotic" is vague.  It's an
>image, a feeling.  It's about an idea more than it's about strict musical
>influences.  So how can you say that the sounds influencing TJB and BMB
>were NOT exotic?

I said that because the music those two groups made doesn't put me in
mind of any music I've read about here so far on the Exotica list.  I
also originally read here that exotica was about music that everyone else
no longer bothers with.  I can assure you that the TJB and BMB are very
much alive on fan sites and other music discussion forums on the web and
that therefore there are many others "bothering" with their music!

>If these bands do not qualify as "strictly" exotica, they
>were certainly extensions of the concept that originally created exotica.

As extensions of exotica, I'd give a big "maybe" to that, though I still
have my reservations about their inclusion at all.

>>Further, you qualify exotica as being jazz-ish at its base.  From what
>>I've seen talked about and mentioned on this list, Hawaiian music and
>>Tiki music are definitely exotica, but I don't consider either one a form
>>of music based on what is standardly known and thought of as "jazz".
>
>What would you call the sound of Martin Denny or Arthur Lyman if not at
>least "jazz based"?  They're basically cocktail jazz piano quartets with
>something extra.  They're not a whole hell of a lot different than those
>earlier "latinesque" George Shearing records which I'd call jazz.  It's not
>bebop certainly.  It's more what I'd call "polite" jazz.  But it still
>ain't rock n roll.

I never said that those people you mention above weren't jazz based.  I
said that by your own definition, you called Exotica "jazz-ish at its
base".  I then replied that Exotica takes in Hawaiian/Tiki/Tropical music
as well--and those are certainly *not* jazz based.  Jazz means one thing
and one thing only to me--improvisation.  So, Exotica is taking in two
different worlds here--one jazz based and the other not.  Therefore, you
cannot call all of it jazz based.

I'm really not interested in splitting hairs over this or getting into
discussing different folks' musical tastes that influence what they like
& collect.  All I want is a workable definition of Exotica that is clear
about what it includes *as well as* what it excludes.  The definition as
it now stands does NOT take in everything that people have so far said is
within the realm of Exotica (school band records being a prime example).

Regards,
- --bj
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http://members.xoom.com/bjbear71/Wanderley/main.html
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:31:43 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: CD burners

James wrote:

> I do, though, have a further question: why do some of my CD burns get
> "rejected" by my CD player? I put them in, and can here the Cd player trying
> to do its thing but it just doesn't catch. I've got two burns that are
> unplayable (they aren't scratched either), and one that is a bit dicey at
> times. NONE of my regular CD's do this. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
> Anyone know if it can be fixed?
I can't say for sure but the laser in older CD players often have
lower output (I have an old and not at all shabbby California Audio
Labs Icon, complete with new laser assembly that suffers from this
problem) and the blue/green discs have a lower reflectivity index.
End result is they often can't be read-in. For me at least 2 of 3
blue/green burns are unplayable yet they all play fine on the
computer CD drive. The solution is simple - Use only gold or silver
backed blanks. I've never had a problem with them. I use Kodak but
there may be others, I think Mitsumi?  They cost a bit more ($2.25 -
 $2.50 apiece here in Montreal) but worth it in the end. Not all
machines, burners, or blanks seem to be equal.  Another case of a
lack of standards in the industry.  I'm beginning to more and more
understand (and appreciate) the Apple approach to computing. I
hear Moritz giggling in the background!


Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:02:15 -0800
From: "Ponak, David" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Liquid Room 3/4/00

The Liquid Room airs every Saturday Morning (Friday night) from 3-6 on 90.7
FM KPFK. (98.7 in Santa Barbara County).

Also check out my show  The Nice Age at  http://www.spikeradio.com on Sunday
afternoons from 3-6 PM, PST.

The Liquid Room-3/4/00:

1.The Association-Come On In
Birthday (Warner Bros.)

2.Great 3-From The Motion Picture 'Without Onion'
Without Onion (EMI-Japan)

3.Pau Mauriat-Get Back
L.O.V.E. (Phillips)

4.Mouse On Mars-Albion Rose
Niun Niggung

5.The Wiseguys-Start The Commotion
The Antidote (Ideal)

6.Aretha Franklin-Satisfaction
Aretha Arrives (Rhino)

7.Yoshinori Sunahara & Mars Art Lab-Preview
Pop Tics (Bungalow-Germany)

8.Cambodian Rocks-A2
Love, Peace & Poetry-Asian Psychedelic Music (QDK Media-Germany)

9.J-Welk-This Is A Soul Vibration
Heartbeat-Sunday Sessions IN Reykjavik (Uniform-Eu)

10.Hugo Montenegro-Caravan
Others By Brothers (RCA)

11.The Ananda Shankar Experience & State Of Bengal-Alma Ata
Walking On (Realworld)

12.Jenka-You (Be My Sweet)
Be (Epic-Japan)

13.Eternity's Children-Lifetime Day
Eternity's Children (Rev-ola-UK)

14.Riviera-Veruschka
Wir Im All (MP3.com)

15.Tom Jones With Portishead-Motherless Child
Reload (Gut-UK)

16.Jungle Brothers-Sounds Of The Safari
Straight Out Of The Jungle (Warlock)

17.Flaming Lips-Race For The Prize/Everyone's Gone To The Moon
UK radio live performances

18.Angelo Badalamenti & Orbital-Beached
The Beach Soundtrack (London)

19.Mongo Santamaria-Working On A Groovy Thing
Working On A Groovy Thing (Columbia)

20.Billy Stewart-Sitting In The Park
One More Time (Chess)

21.Arto Lindsay-Resemblances
Prize (Righteous Babe)

22.The Beach Boys-Let The Wind Blow
Wild Honey (Capitol)

23.The Wondermints-Bali
Bali (Neosite-Japan)

24.Brian Wilson-Love And Mercy
I Wasn't Made For These Times (MCA)

25.Beachwood Sparks-Silver Morning After
Beachwood Sparks (Sub Pop)

26.Lloyd Cole-There For Her
Don't Get Weird On Me Baby (Capitol)

27.The Supremes-I Keep It Hid
The Supremes (produced by Jimmy Webb) (Motown)

28.Masaru Satoh-Son Of Godzilla (The Readymade Retouched Mix by Konishi)
Destroy The Monsters (Triad-Japan)

29.Oasis-Who Feels Love
Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (Epic)

30.The Free Design-Canada In Springtime
There Is A Song (Tokuma-Japan)

31.Papas Fritas-Girl
Buildings And Grounds (Minty Fresh)

32.Mellow-Sundance
Another Mellow Winter (Atmospheriques)

33.Thomas Dolby-Screen Kiss
The Flat Earth (Capitol)

34.The MiGs-Honolulu
Debut (?)

35.Rupert Holmes-I Don't Want To Get Over You
Singles (Epic)

36.Rocky Chack-Change
Single (Midi-Japan)

37.Terry Callier-Ordinary Joe
Occasional Rain (Chess)

38.Bootsy's Rubber Band-What's A Telephone Bill?
Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy Baby (Warner Bros.)

39.Susan Rafey-The Big Hurt
Hurts So Bad (Verve)

40.The Blue Nile-Saturday Night
Hats (A&M)

41.The Sandpipers-Come Saturday Morning
A&M Digitally Remastered Best (Polydor-Japan)

42.Paul Williams-Morning I'll Be Moving On
Someday Man (Reprise)


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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:22:54 -0800
From: "Stephen W. Worth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Jazz

>Date: Sun, 5 Mar 00 14:59:36 -0800
>From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues
>
>Further, you qualify exotica as being jazz-ish at its base.  From what
>I've seen talked about and mentioned on this list, Hawaiian music and
>Tiki music are definitely exotica, but I don't consider either one a form
>of music based on what is standardly known and thought of as "jazz".

As long as it's been recorded, Hawaiian music has always
been influenced by Jazz. Just listen to Sol Hoopii. Those
Hawaiian cats dug Django and Charlie Christian as much as
they dug Pele and Princess Papoolii.

See ya
Steve

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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:24:10 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Great News!!!!!

Don't forget an info-rich/low-bandwidth version (or section) for those who
lack cable modems and high horsepower computers.




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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 00 09:33:18 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues

>Exactly.  It's vague.  The very concept of the "exotic" is vague.  It's an
>image, a feeling.  It's about an idea more than it's about strict musical
>influences.  So how can you say that the sounds influencing TJB and BMB
>were NOT exotic?

I said that because the music those two groups made doesn't put me in
mind of any music I've read about here so far on the Exotica list.  I
also originally read here that exotica was about music that everyone else
no longer bothers with.  I can assure you that the TJB and BMB are very
much alive on fan sites and other music discussion forums on the web and
that therefore there are many others "bothering" with their music!

>If these bands do not qualify as "strictly" exotica, they
>were certainly extensions of the concept that originally created exotica.

As extensions of exotica, I'd give a big "maybe" to that, though I still
have my reservations about their inclusion at all.

>>Further, you qualify exotica as being jazz-ish at its base.  From what
>>I've seen talked about and mentioned on this list, Hawaiian music and
>>Tiki music are definitely exotica, but I don't consider either one a form
>>of music based on what is standardly known and thought of as "jazz".
>
>What would you call the sound of Martin Denny or Arthur Lyman if not at
>least "jazz based"?  They're basically cocktail jazz piano quartets with
>something extra.  They're not a whole hell of a lot different than those
>earlier "latinesque" George Shearing records which I'd call jazz.  It's not
>bebop certainly.  It's more what I'd call "polite" jazz.  But it still
>ain't rock n roll.

I never said that those people you mention above weren't jazz based.  I
said that by your own definition, you called Exotica "jazz-ish at its
base".  I then replied that Exotica takes in Hawaiian/Tiki/Tropical music
as well--and those are certainly *not* jazz based.  Jazz means one thing
and one thing only to me--improvisation.  So, Exotica is taking in two
different worlds here--one jazz based and the other not.  Therefore, you
cannot call all of it jazz based.

I'm really not interested in splitting hairs over this or getting into
discussing different folks' musical tastes that influence what they like
& collect.  All I want is a workable definition of Exotica that is clear
about what it includes *as well as* what it excludes.  The definition as
it now stands does NOT take in everything that people have so far said is
within the realm of Exotica (school band records being a prime example).

Regards,
- --bj
The Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography:
http://members.xoom.com/bjbear71/Wanderley/main.html
http://bjbear3.freeservers.com/Wanderley/main.html


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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:30:06 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Comments on the Luxuria site......

Snipped from Cowabunga surf newsgroup:

<<This www.luxuriamusic.com is one incredible site!  Broadband transmission=
 in all audio formats (RealAudio, QuickTime, MS whatever, MP3).  These =
guys got it figured out.  Interesting music as well (well, most of it).

Rev.>>





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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:23:33 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Ferrante & Teicher homepage

In a message dated 3/6/0 9:31:50 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Oh man - was that great!!!!

>Great imagination!!!

SECONDED!~


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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 15:40:16 +0000
From: Michael Zadoorian <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) NEW BOOK RELEASE TODAY!

Hey Exotica folks-
Here's a press release for my just-released novel, SECOND HAND.  I
mentioned this quite a few months ago, but am mentioning it again
because it's actually happening.  In fact, today's the official
publication date.
    If you're interested in old stuff and junk culture-- objects,
clothing, music, books, etc,  you might want to read this press release
(pulled from the extremely enthusiastic jacket copy.)  Or check out my
website:
www.secondhandnovel.com.
Best,
Michael Z

Now, let the hyperbole begin!

Press Release for SECOND HAND: A Novel

At last, the novel for everyone who has ever loved something
secondhand--the High Fidelity of garage sales, the On the Road of thrift

shopping, The Moviegoer of the flea market. SECOND HAND by Michael
Zadoorian from publisher W.W. Norton & Company will be available at
booksellers on March 6.
     SECOND HAND is peppered with insight as unpretentious and
satisfying as the unexpected garage sale find. Junk, narrator Richard
tells us, "has taught me that to find new use for an object discarded is
an act of glistening
purity. I have learned that a camera case makes a damn fine purse or
that 40 copies of 'Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream and
Other Delights' may be used to cover a wall of a bedroom. . . . Junk has
taught me that
all will come to junk eventually, and much sooner than you think."

The book has been heralded by a diverse mix of people :

"A fine and wonderful novel about one of the most unusual of subjects:
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:24:41 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Jazz

> >of music based on what is standardly known and thought of as "jazz".
>
>As long as it's been recorded, Hawaiian music has always
>been influenced by Jazz.


Seconded.  Also, thirded by Columbia Records, who included King Benny
Nawahi on their 50 Years of Jazz Guitar comp.  If you wish to split hairs,
though, I (in my limited experience) would agree that some Hawaiian musics
are influenced, as opposed to based on Jazz.

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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:28:16 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) How do I make CDs from LPs?

Everything in the world about burning CDR's is on this FAQ and I recommend
going through it!

http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/

Here are some tips on burning CDs of Records..

You need to first start with 44.1 khz WAV files..  to do this, you will need
some software..
I use COOLEDIT.  You can get different versions of cooledit from places on
the net like www.hotfiles.com
or www.download.com.

You must have an amp or mixer because you can not hook a turntable with a
ground wire up to a computer directly!
So run the phono to your amp, and your amp to your computer using RCA to
Mini-Din (headphone size) cable.
Then you start COOLEDIT recording while you play your record. Make sure you
Line-In is set to ON and the Volume is UP (use the speaker icon to bring up
properties)

You will have to stop cooledit after each song is recorded, or if you want
to go for it, you could record and
entire album at once. I wouldn't recommend it.  Once you record each song
you just need to cut off the silence
at the beginning and end if desired and save the .WAV file to hard drive.

Then use Adaptec CD burning software to make an audio CD using those WAV
files you created.  Just name them so that they are in order like track01,
track02, etc.  Once you get that going, you can look in to software that
removes pops and clicks and static (if you so desire).

Avoiding bad CD burns...  make sure there are no other programs running on
your system before burning a CD.  Kill background tasks with Control-Alt-Del
task manager.  Make sure you have the session set to "Close CD after
finished". If you don't, you probably won't be able to read it.  You may
need to try some different brands of recordable discs.. I have had success
with Memorex and also with the Comp-USA brand which are cheap too. I hear
good things about Imation and Verbatim also.  If all else fails, your hard
disk may not be keeping up with the burner..  you might set the burn speed
down if you can.. or.. make an "image" file so that it is easier for the
hard drive to write the file to the CD burner.. check adaptec help files for
how to do that.

Hope that helps!
Zach D. -=- Radio Frank Stays Crunchy in Milk -=-
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:48:55 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) How do I make CDs from LPs?

>Avoiding bad CD burns...

Yeah!  What he said and also, it would also help to run defrag on your hard
drive first as well (Start - Run - Defrag) or for you Mac Folks, run Norton
Speed Disk if you have it, but make sure that your version won't wreck your
disk (MAN, do I hate Performa 6220's!) and you can use Adaptec's Toast.

Also, make sure that before you burn you have a BIG hard drive (mine is 13
GB and hey, it's how you use it that counts).  One three minute song is
about 30 MB , therefore and an album's worth of tracks can add up.

If you have a lot of scratchy records (aimless whistling and averted gazes
start NOW), then you may also wish to buy Easy CD Creator Deluxe, which has
Spin Doctor to ease over some of the rough spots, although I haven't gotten
it to perform too well just yet.

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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 01:10:22 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues

B.J. Major wrote:

>  I then replied that Exotica takes in Hawaiian/Tiki/Tropical music
> as well--and those are certainly *not* jazz based.

Hawaiian: Hawaiian music was Swing influenced long before the times of a Martin
Denny, but not very much present in Martin Denny's own music, as funny as this
may seem.

Tiki: What is Tiki music?

Tropical: This must be the most diverse category: Tropical is anything
Brazilian, Carribean, South-East Asian, South Seas Islandish, Indian, even
Arabian and African, Mexican. That's really not a musical category. It's a
category like "exotic".

The parallel notions of 'Exotica' and 'Primitiva' do the best job in defining
what it is all about for me. Has anyone really read this book "Exotica"? I must
admit I have given up somewhere in the first third of it. Wanna read it
entirely in my next holydays (which will hopefully bring me to the Estremadura
of Central Spain for an encounter with the most diverse and interesting *bird*
population of Europe, btw...); I think the book is the attempt to write about
Exotica as something that is defined by many things, not only musical. And I
don't know other. I think Exotica is impossible to explain if you don't include
all kinds of psychological, behaviouristic, esthetic, visual, sexual, social,
religious and what not elements. F.i.: One of the important pieces of the
mosaic of Exotica, the original meaning of it, is "the far away", "the being
outside" and, as everybody will immediately admit, this is a very relative
thing.
The idea of an exotic world is connected to the imagination of a paradise very
often - which is also relative - but it may be the reason why we tend to see
Exotica music as something soft and peaceful and "easy" instead of the hectic,
dancable, shrill, urban ways that Jazz also went. Nor cool,  rather warm.

Just some thoughts

Mo


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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 01:11:32 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD burners

Brian Karasick wrote:

>   I'm beginning to more and more
> understand (and appreciate) the Apple approach to computing. I
> hear Moritz giggling in the background!

I must admit I have cleaned my glasses before reading this a second time. It
sounds a bit like the pope talking about the advantages of contraceptives...

(giggle!) Mo



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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 01:12:04 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues

Nat Kone wrote:

> What would you call the sound of Martin Denny or Arthur Lyman if not at
> least "jazz based"?  They're basically cocktail jazz piano quartets with
> something extra.  They're not a whole hell of a lot different than those
> earlier "latinesque" George Shearing records which I'd call jazz.

Cal Tjader. The album Cal Tjader recorded in 1954 is like Martin Denny's
'Exotica' (1956) without the bird calls. "Mambo with Tjader" is the title.
Martin Denny was honky-tonking in Brazil at the time. All of this was covered
in an extensive thread on this list about a year (or 2?) ago. BTW: On 'Exotica
3' you hear the whole-jazz Martin Denny sound.

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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 00 16:24:50 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Issues

>B.J. Major wrote:
>
>>  I then replied that Exotica takes in Hawaiian/Tiki/Tropical music
>> as well--and those are certainly *not* jazz based.
>
>Hawaiian: Hawaiian music was Swing influenced long before the times of a
>Martin
>Denny, but not very much present in Martin Denny's own music, as funny as
>this
>may seem.

I'm not (and never was) referencing modern Hawaiian music, but
*traditional* Hawaiian music--music that existed in Hawaii long before
jazz was invented.

>Tiki: What is Tiki music?

I'm sure the people into Tiki music can answer that for you.

Regards,
- --bj
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 20:47:35 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Incantation and Dance

> we played a tune called Incantation and Dance.
> But now I can really appreciate what it was.. almost a clear cut exotica
> piece!

Boy, talk about bringing back memories.  I also played 'Incantation and Dance'
while in my high school band.  Our band director tore out much hair trying to
get a bunch of 15-16 year olds with no sense of rhythm (and who happened to be
in the percussion section) to play their parts correctly.  I played tympani on
the piece, and I loved the piece because I was encouraged to play as loud as I
could during the finale.

I remember loving 'Incantation and Dance' so much that I asked my band director
at the time whether it was available on LP anywhere.  He said that the companies
selling musical scores to high schools would often have 'sample' LPs that the
band directors could order to hear the arrangements before actually paying money
for the actual sheet music.  I went to one music store at the time and asked
about it, but got nowhere quick.

I never thought about it, but the percussion section had definite exotica
elements to it.  Here's a short audio clip I found, its performed by the
Sammamish High School Band in Bellevue, Washington, which proves a real link
between high school bands and exotica.
http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/sammamish/sounds/incantation.aiff

Perhaps my long hours in percussion class working on this piece back in 1979 was
what really initiated me into exotica - and it just remained in dormant stage
for 15 years before breaking loose again.

'Incantation and Dance' was written by a composer named John Barnes Chance in
the year 1963, so he must have definitely been influenced by the flair of
exotica flourishing at the time.  Chance was killed when electrocuted in his
backyard in 1972 (at age 40) - not quite as exotic as a lava wall falling on top
of him, but still a little bit more exciting than dying in your sleep.

More web searching found this piece of information put out by the Yale
University music department - which could be appled to half of Martin Denny's
songs also....

"The title of this piece suggests a religious orientation, but not toward any of
the established religions of  Western or Eastern culture. To the standard
deities one offers prayers.  Incantations are uttered in rituals of magic,
demonic rites, and the conjuring up of spirits both evil and benign. When the
spirit comes and the worshiper is possessed, there is wild and abandoned
dancing. The opening Incantation is full of mystery and expectation; wandering,
unstable, and without tonality. In the Dance, percussion instruments build a
rhythmic tapestry of incredible complexity and drive. The dance grows wild and
frenzied. The brass hammer out ferocious snarls and the woodwinds fly in
swirling scales. The pretty tune is abandoned to leave a paroxysm of rhythm, a
convulsion of syncopation that drives on and on, to the shattering climax of
exultation. Then the dance is over and the worshiper is fulfilled."

'Incantation and Dance ' still appears to be a popular concert piece - my web
search found many sites that showed various high school/college bands listing
the piece in their concert programs. Nice to know exotica is reaching the
unsuspecting masses in some form.

The Harvard University Wind Ensemble performed 'Incantation and Dance' last year
(1999) and has available a mp3 recording of the entire piece.  The percusiion is
definitely exotica, but I'm also reminded of Ravel's 'Bolero' listening to the
piece 20 years later.
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hwe/sound.html

And if you want an actual CD recording of 'Incantation and Dance', you  can
order it from this site -- it's a Norwegian site, which somehow seems
appropriate in this world-wide ever-expanding love of exotica influences.
http://hjemmesider.gs.bergen.hl.no/~khe22/NM-CD1998.html

I can't believe I got so excited about hearing about 'Incantation and Dance'
that I found all this info to share with you all

Vern




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