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exotica-digest         Sunday, April 16 2000         Volume 02 : Number 689



In This Digest:

(exotica) Movie offerings
(exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...
(exotica) Hooray for Bollywood
Re: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...
Re: (exotica) Movie offerings
Re: (exotica) Movie offerings
(exotica) Yanni vs Tesh
(exotica) Exotica Pawns:  Michel Magne
(exotica) Exotica Pawns:  Michel Magne
Re: (exotica) Burt Movie offerings
Re: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh
Re:  Re: (exotica) Denny vs Baxter
(exotica) Ethiopiques
Re: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh
(exotica) le Notti di Cabiria
Re: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...
Re: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...
(exotica) [obit] Edward Gorey
Re: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh
Re: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...
(exotica) Re: "Beat Psichedelico", "Moisaico Psichedelico..."
(exotica) recent finds -- annotated
(exotica) Re: cardboard 7 sleeves
Re: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh

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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 22:33:53 -0400
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Movie offerings

In spite of a massive dump of snow in mid-April, living in Canada at least
pays off in the TV film offerings! Yesterday "Bedazzled", tomorrow: "Shaft",
"Superfly" and "Klute", later in the week "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"!
Fellow Canadians check out those TV guides! Had to go out and buy a whole
whack of videotape today to prepare. Don't need the long underwear though,
the snow's already gone..

Brian



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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:07:24 -0400
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...

I'm trying to struggle with the difficult music category I still seem to
call "electronica".
I say this as I keep hearing more and more stuff that I can't quite place...
A case in point is this new "Covert Operations" compilation on ESL. It's
funny as another ESL comp (Jet Society) first got me on to the whole
breakbeat rush (I can see Nat cringing here by this point...). But my first
interest has always been electronic music so it's a style I at least thought
I knew well.  Problem is I know what it is I like but I just can't figure
what to call it or how to describe it anymore.  Take just about anything on
the Covert Operations CD.  Lots of  Eastern/Indian/Dub references, smooth
sound, and some samples I know but can't place! It features Ursula 1000 and
lots of exotica sounding titles to boot. I don't know how this CD would be
categorized in a store but if I did it may help.  What I'm referring to here
is the stuff you routineliy find mixed into Acid Jazz/electronica sections
of most better stores and yet somehow never seems to find its way into the
dance music stores ( I always asked myself - is this a bad thing?).  I'm
talking of artists from what I call the the A-Musik crowd and related
labels: Pol, Schlammpfeitziger, L@N, Markus Schmickler, Howie B, Seefeel,
Kreidler, FX Randomiz, Console,  to name just a few.  So am I on to yet
another new thing (most of this isn't all that new actually) or do I just
need a little help with  the categories? So much overlap and so much
crossover these days.  It's exciting but a even for a long time music addict
a bit confusing! Any other opinions on "Covert Operations"? Certainly worth
a good listen IMHO and definitely a label I have to investigate further! Why
do I think I'm likely to be headed to the dance music stores though...


Brian



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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:27:50 -0700
From: "paul thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hooray for Bollywood

 While I was visitng Portland last weekend I picked up a brill cd called 'Bombay the Hard Way, Guns, Cars & Sitars.' It was one of those cds that you take one look at the cover and know it'll be well worth the money...and this doesn't have a bad track on it. It's like Ravi Shankar sits in with Isaac Hayes (or vice versa).

  ~~Paul~~


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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:36:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...

In a message dated 4/15/00 10:18:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Any other opinions on "Covert Operations"? Certainly worth
 a good listen IMHO and definitely a label I have to investigate further! Why
 do I think I'm likely to be headed to the dance music stores though... >>

I love the "Covert Operations" disk. I also just about love everything else
on the Eighteenth Street Lounge label -- it's quite a reliable one (even
though they haven't released a ton of discs).

Both "Jet Society" and its predecessor are must-haves, as is the Ursula 1000
debut. The "Easy Tempo" comp is great if you want to avoid buying all the
import discs (I'm in that group). I was less than impressed with Thievery
Corporation's "Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi," but have embraced their
"Abductions & Reconstructions" album, as well as their "DJ-Kicks" mix (albeit
on a different label, but it mixes Les Baxter!). The new Thunderball debut is
spy-oriented dub electronica.

Probably thanks to ESL, I've found myself infatuated with this type of
electronic music, whatever you call it. I'm not one for that thumping rave
crap that gets the kids all a-dancin', but give me a melody and tons of
atmosphere and I'm sold.

- --Rod
www.hitchmagazine.com


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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:09:04 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie offerings

In a message dated 4/15/00 11:18:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"! >>

If this is on commercial TV I bet it is going to be very short.


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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:23:22 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie offerings

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/15/00 11:18:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [e-mail] writes:
>
> << "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"! >>
>
> If this is on commercial TV I bet it is going to be very short.

No, it's not "commercial" TV - it's on Bravo (the Canadian station), and
as far as I know, they don't cut anything - they've played this one
before, and the running time was what it should have been.

cheryl


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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:44:51 -0700
From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh

Thought I'd share some communication I had off-list with BJ concerning
Yanni vs John Tesh:

<<<<<<<Jim,
John Tesh is a blonde Frankenstein created by the Illuminati and the
Trilateral Commission to make America's women and children turn to
drugs. Didn't you ever notice his glassy stare, or are you too busy
washing down your Xanax and Viagra with Zima, feeding your wife Prozac
and hooking your child on Ritalin instead of paying attention to what's
going on in the world???
BJ>>>>>>>

<<<<<Dear BJ,
That refugee-from-Three-Dog-Night Yanni needs a whole orchestra and a
pile of electronic gizmos and laser lights in a giant ampitheatre to get
his music across, while John Tesh works his magic at a simple piano in
the malls of America. How dare you call him a blonde Frankenstein!
John's head is more like an Easter Island stone carving, and while John
has much less hair than Yanni, he uses it more effectively, more
elegantly, and doesn't have to shake his wild mane like an animal. At
least John and Connie Selecca waited until their wedding night before
consummating their love, unlike that gold-digging publicity hound Yanni
who consorted shamelessly with John Derek's ex-concubine Linda Evans, an
older woman past her childbearing years with a six-figure plastic
surgery bill. And when John and Connie had relationship problems which
tested their love, they generously made a TV infomercial to help other
sincere couples cope in this sick world of ours. So comparing the two is
like comparing apples and oranges, or bitter melon and sour grapes. And
I will not dignify your comments about Kathie Lee Gifford with a
response.

Respectfully,
Jim>>>>>

Ok, I think I've beaten that dead horse enough. Time for my Shriner's
meeting anyway.

The other JB


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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 01:32:07 -0500
From: "Paul Wages" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica Pawns:  Michel Magne

I've been having a bit of trouble getting my posts to go through (MIME
content or something-or-other that I don't understand).  I tried to send
this earlier today so it may post twice.  Sorry if this is the case.

Earlier today I wrote:

While we are on the subject of lesser known exotica figures have any of
ya'll come across Michel Magne's TROPICAL FANTASY -- the album which "aces"
them all (at least according to The Wilds Scene)?

I'm sure that this has been covered in past times and would attempt a search
of the archives if only it weren't so damn hard.  In any case, I've been
looking for this for quite a while and am beginning to wonder if it is
indeed worth the effort.

http://www.wildsscene.com/music/exotica.html

A boy called...

Paul

AKA [e-mail]
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Ben wrote:

Pawns: Gene Rains, John Evans, The Surfmen, Johnny
Coco, Milt Raskin.

[e-mail] wrote:

If I was to rank them like chess pieces, Baxter
would be King, Denny a Rook,
Lyman a Bishop or Knight...who is the pawn?


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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:43:27 -0500
From: "Paul Wages" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica Pawns:  Michel Magne

I've been having a bit of trouble getting my posts to go through (MIME
content or something-or-other that I don't understand).  I tried to send
this earlier today so it may post twice.  Sorry if this is the case.

Earlier today I wrote:

While we are on the subject of lesser known exotica figures have any of
ya'll come across Michel Magne's TROPICAL FANTASY -- the album which "aces"
them all (at least according to The Wilds Scene)?

I'm sure that this has been covered in past times and would attempt a search
of the archives if only it weren't so damn hard.  In any case, I've been
looking for this for quite a while and am beginning to wonder if it is
indeed worth the effort.

http://www.wildsscene.com/music/exotica.html

A boy called...

Paul

AKA [e-mail]
- ---------

Ben wrote:

Pawns: Gene Rains, John Evans, The Surfmen, Johnny
Coco, Milt Raskin.

[e-mail] wrote:

If I was to rank them like chess pieces, Baxter
would be King, Denny a Rook,
Lyman a Bishop or Knight...who is the pawn?


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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 02:39:46 -0400
From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Burt Movie offerings

YOU CANADAINS ARE TRUELY FORTUNATE!!!

giving thanx and praise,

ONE GREEN BUMP  :[


>> << "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"! >>

 not "commercial" TV -
 they don't cut anything - they've played this one
>before, and the running time was what it should have been.

********************************
Bump
Universal DJ
Defective Records
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 03:04:09 -0400
From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh

if i could pipe in with a speech at the eulogy?

ok? (in my best mr. mackey voice) ok

i did enjoy this. ok?

<<<<<<<Jim,
John Tesh is a blonde Frankenstein created by the Illuminati and the
Trilateral Commission to make America's women and children turn to
drugs. Didn't you ever notice his glassy stare, or are you too busy
washing down your Xanax and Viagra with Zima, feeding your wife Prozac
and hooking your child on Ritalin instead of paying attention to what's
going on in the world???
BJ>>>>>>>



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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 01:00:43 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Denny vs Baxter

In a message dated 4/14/0 10:06:39 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>You surely must realize that while Baxter wrote "Quiet
>Village" it is Denny's recording which is the most recogniozed version. For
>this particular composition, in the arrangement department as Denny was able
>to create far more atmosphere among a five man group than Baxter did with an
>orchestra -- now that is something. Comparuing Baxter to Denny in this
>respect is like apples and oranges....or should that be papayas and passion

From:   Jim Botticelli
To:     LTepedino

Please re-write


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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 12:43:09 +0200
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ethiopiques

My daily paper had this review a few days ago.


A SOULFUL AND SWINGING EFFECT

Famine, civil war. Whenever Ethiopia hits the news it is seldomly cheerful.
Now and then that gloomy rule gets turnaround and we catch a glimpse of a
land of milk and honey.
Such a moment was two years ago when the cd-series Ethiopiques was
introduced. The French Ethipian connoisseur Frances Faceto collected here
recordings of dozens of big bandleaders and composers who were never heard
outside of their own country. At the time when African music became en
vogue, Addis Abeba groaned under a sinister junta who succesfully obstructed
living music for years and years.
Ethipiques shocked and not alone because it downsized all those global
village theories. Falceto got the world to know with far away music that
seemed close nevertheless : a hotblooded mixture of native traditions wiht
soul-, jazz- and ryhthm 'n' blues influences, performed by a range of
formidable singers.
In the best years of "Ethiojazz" (1969-1975) America and Africa were so much
intertwined together that source and echo were almost impossibly to make
out. Whoever hears  the incredible passion of Ethiopean singers will believe
even Al Green and Sam Cooke would have learned their trade by them.
The melancholy Mahmoud Ahmed, the only Ethiopean star who became known in
Europe, rightly gets all the room in the series. Recently volume 8,
"Swinging Addis - 1969-1975", was released, which as volumes 1 and 3
contains classic material by him. Besides Mahmoud has another two separate
volumes dedicated to him.
Volume 7 is a remastered reissue of his masterpiece "Ere Mela Mela" from
1975, Volume 6 contains his till now unknown lp "Almaz", with likewise
stirring recordings from 1971-1973.
Falceto made a very fine job of it. In the wake of his series more and more
Ethiopean music gets released on cd, not on the most accessible labels
however. You have to look hard for "Greatest Hits" by Tilahun Gessesse on
the poorly distributed Ethio Jazz label. Persistance pays off : the dark and
bluesy Mahmoud may have the name in Europa but for Ethiopeans themselves it
is Gessesse with his lighther and wilder voice is really the "King of All
Singers".
That popularity owes the singer, born in 1933, also to his courage : his
lyrics touched controversial public and political issues. But without that
knowledge the 15 songs are impressive. Due to frenzied arrangements where
the most ridiculous ideas get thrown together without concern. The effect is
always soulful and swinging, even in the silly "Sigibgib", where a
background choir stubbornly repeats the three syllables of the title.
How do Ethiopean ears listen to this music? With sadness undoubtedly.
According to sourced Gessesse got stabbed with a knife in his throat by a
woman after which his voice lost his fierce splendour.


Ethiopiques vol.1 - 8. Buda Musique
Tilahun Gessesse : Greatest Hits. Ethio Jazz (2409 18th Street, NW
Washington DC, 20009 USA)


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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 09:17:23 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh

In a message dated 4/16/00 12:46:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Thought I'd share some communication I had off-list with BJ concerning
 Yanni vs John Tesh:

 <<<<<<<Jim,
 John Tesh is a blonde Frankenstein created by the Illuminati and the
 Trilateral Commission to make America's women and children turn to
 drugs. Didn't you ever notice his glassy stare, or are you too busy
 washing down your Xanax and Viagra with Zima, feeding your wife Prozac
 and hooking your child on Ritalin instead of paying attention to what's
 going on in the world???
 BJ>>>>>>> >>


What's funny is that I am not sure if this is real or not.

Coulda' happened.

TB


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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:09:17 -0400
From: "wayno.com" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) le Notti di Cabiria

>Mimi wrote(a):
>
>But...Cabiria is unavailable. Even from CAM, the wellspring of Fellini/Rota
>OSTs. Years of fruitless questing have turned up nothing.
>
>I weep in despair.

It WAS available, but not on CAM. I have a CD on the Legend label (released
in '92) that contains the soundtracks to "Cabiria" and "La Strada." It
looks like a legitimate issue, although I'm not familiar with the label.
The booklet has several nice photos from both films.

I just did a search on the word "cabiria" at
http://www.footlight.com/shop.html and they have this very disc in stock
for $21.95.

Prego,

Wayno





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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:43:38 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...

In a message dated 4/15/00 10:18:01 PM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< I'm trying to struggle with the difficult music category I still seem to
 call "electronica".
 I say this as I keep hearing more and more stuff that I can't quite place...
 A case in point is this new "Covert Operations" compilation on ESL.

 But my first
 interest has always been electronic music so it's a style I at least thought
 I knew well.  Problem is I know what it is I like but I just can't figure
 what to call it or how to describe it anymore.

Brian, electronic music is an overall category which covers many styles. If
you think about it it is the same way with "rock," which is a category which
covers styles as diverse as Metallica, Gene Vincent, Queen,The Partridge
Family, Blood Sweat and Tears and the Dead Kennedys. So it should come as no
surprise that there is this kind of diversity of this lump-it-all-in-term as
"electronic." As you have sub categroies in rock so you have them in
electronic. Go into any store that specializes in electronic or dance music
and you will find titles divded into different sections such as drum and
bass, house, breakbeat, hip hop, etc. As the the Theivery Corp they are
usually lumped into the the "downtempo" section of these stores or "loungey
beats" if there is one.

Ashley


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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:12:48 -0400
From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...

I think (being a luddite curmudgeonly anti-categorization dude, AYVWK)
that Electronica, being defined by the instrumentation and media rather
than being a style-based category, is probably much broader than most
other 'categories.' I've got discs in my (for the sake of this
discussion only, and, as ged is my witness, it's only in my mind, not on
the shelves) 20th Century classical/composed section that are clearly
electronica (if i'm wrong just shoot me or something), and the pop
section, the foreign section (not just french but russian), country and
western, etc.

thanks for letting me share.

ck
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:24:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Edward Gorey

April 16, 2000
Edward Gorey, 75, Author and Illustrator
By TINA KELLEY, NYTimes

NEW YORK -- Edward Gorey, whose eerie black-and-white
cross-hatched drawings of hapless children and Victorian ministers
charmed and haunted readers, died Saturday in Hyannis, Mass. He was
75.

Gorey, an artist and writer who lived in Yarmouth Port, Mass., suffered a
heart attack on Wednesday and died in Cape Cod Hospital.

Gorey was known for writing at least 90 books, illustrating 60 others,
and designing sets for stage productions, including "Dracula" on
Broadway and "Amphigorey," an Off Broadway play he wrote. He won
a 1978 Tony award for costume design for "Dracula."

His best-known characters included the Gashlycrumb Tinies, one
woebegone child for each letter of the alphabet, from Amy, who fell
down the stairs, to Zillah, who drank too much gin. His work was
influenced by Ionesco and Buster Keaton, Goya and Matisse.

In the last two years he produced two books, "The Haunted Tea-Cosy:
A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas," and "The Headless
Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium."

In a 1996 book review of "The World of Edward Gorey," Steve Heller
wrote in The New York Times that the artist's satires "are not mere
commentaries on the manners and mores of a distant age; they are
inventive narratives about evil adults, mischievous children, illicit lovers
and improbable beasts."

Gorey grew up in Chicago, served in the Army, and attended Harvard
University, where he roomed with the poet Frank O'Hara. He graduated
in 1950, then moved to New York, working in the art department at
Doubleday, where he would stay in the office at night to create his own
books. His first book, "The Doubtful Guest," in 1957, won acclaim from
Edmund Wilson in the New Yorker. In 1962 he established Fantod
Press to publish his works.

He moved to Cape Cod in the late 1980s.




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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:28:34 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh

I have a friend of a friend who had a choice between going on the touring
road with The Flaming Lips or with John Tesh.

He chose Tesh because Tesh did more drugs.

- --Rod
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:00:42 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Is it Electronic or is it...

At 11:07 PM 4/15/00 -0400, Brian Karasick wrote:
>
>I'm trying to struggle with the difficult music category I still seem to
>call "electronica".
> So am I on to yet another new thing (most of this isn't all that new
actually) or >do I just need a little help with  the categories? So much
overlap and so much
>crossover these days.  It's exciting but a even for a long time music addict
>a bit confusing!

Why don't you do us all a favour and write down the categories you know
about, with a short description of what they represent?
At one store I go to, they have two separate racks with a number of
different categories on each rack.  The two racks are essentially slower
stuff - which they call "downbeat" I think - and faster stuff which I don't
know what they call.
I can enjoy pretty much anything on the slower rack, no matter what
sub-category it's filed in.  I don't even look at anything on the faster rack.
BTW, I found that Jacknife Lee CD used so I don't know what rack it would
have been in but I think it's a bit fast - in places - for an alte kucker
like me.  One night when I was in severe nicotine withdrawal and the person
on the phone was heaping stress on me, that CD did not help at all.  I
changed it to a Michael Penn CD of all things and the stress just drained
out of me. It's a bit nerve-wracking.  Not at all like that Tasca which is
my current fave.
Jacknife Lee kind of reminds me of sped up Human League. Or Kraftwerk.

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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:55:44 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: "Beat Psichedelico", "Moisaico Psichedelico..."

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/audioq/audioq.htm



        Johan

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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:51:19 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) recent finds -- annotated

some "exobitionism":

this is the best of the stuff i've added to my collection during the last
months:

* 18th Century Corporation: "Bacharach Baroque"
     o LP, Sunset SLS 50347, UK issue, 1969
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Nice Baroque pop cover versions, lots of Harpsichord, some
       wordless vocals. Among the artists: Siegfried Schwab and Manfred
       Hubler! Not to be confused with the LP of the same title by The
       Renaissance!

* Munich Concert Pop Orchestra: "It's All In The Beat"
     o LP, Amphonic AMPS 117, UK, 1976
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Nice & polished funk lite with strings and some Moog here
       and there.

* The Frank Barber Percussion Ensemble: "Percussion in Colour"
     o LP, EMI Studio 2 stereo TWO 203, UK, 1968
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: Light & playful percussion fun, a bit cheesy maybe when
       compared to similar US albums, goofy at times, a bit of circus
       style like Harry Breuer.

* Chico Arnez: "New Sounds of Chico Arnez"
     o LP, Contour 2870 153, UK, 1972
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: Killer upbeat Latin big band pop with funky leadings.
       Contains some really surprises: a sexy "Would I" - "for those who
       prefer to mix their thoughts and actions" - and Sound Gallery type
       covers of "Oh well", "Whole lotta love", "Aquarius" and "Delilah".
       One rather weak version of "Raindrops keep falling on my head"
       keeps it away from a 5 star rating.

* Les Masques: "Brasilian Sound"
     o LP, Dare Dare 007, Fance, 2000
     o note: Wonderful vocal French combo, making Brazilian music with
          Sergio Mendes like vocal stylings; I estimate they're 2 male and
          2 female voices. Mostly bossa nova-ish, but also with 1 fantastic
          happy Brazilian carnival sound. Reissue from 1969. Accompanied by
          Le trio Camara, and by strings and brass on a couple of tracks.
          Sounds as if remastered from a not too mint vinyl copy.

* The Men From S.P.E.C.T.R.E.: "With The Finger On The Trigger (It's
  Thrilling. It's Action. It's Transforming. And More...)"
     o LP, Sheep Records, Switzerland, 1999
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: James taylor Quartet on acid type Organ + guitar
       instrumentals, but not jazy at all, rooted in 60's garage punk
       rock. Sitar on 1 track, subtle electronic FX and spy movie dialog
       snippets on a couple of others. Each track is super good, but
       after a while it gets a bit monotonous.

* David Carroll and His Orchestra: "Let's Dance"
     o LP, Mercury CMS 18010 stereo, 1959
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Percussive cocktail jazz, often circus like or Comedy Capers
       like. A bit too old fashioned at times, with a rather thin Glenn
       Miller sound, but also fun.

* The Cavendish Orchestra: "Recorded Music For Film, Radio & television"
     o LP, Boosey & Hawkes (music library) SBH 3065 stereo, UK, 1975
     o appreciation: 2
     o note: Production music. Side A is great, but side B sucks.

* The Clebanoff Strings & Percussion: "Exciting Sounds"
     o LP, Mercury MMC 14077, 1961
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Includes a really good and slightly odd version of "Quiet
       village" with some bass drum or tomtom or whatever playing the
       base melody line that is usually played by the paino; also great
       harpsichord on 1 track. All in all better than one might expect
       from The Clebanoff Strings.

* Gershon Kingsley, Vienna State Opera, Vienna Akademie Choir, Jazz
  Rhythm Group: "Mozart After Hours"
     o LP, Fontana TL 524500 mono, UK, 1964
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Gershon Kingsley arranged, conducted and played Harpsichord
       on this album of nice & light jazz versions of Mozart pieces.

* Toots Thielemans and his Orchestra: "Contrasts"
     o LP, Command SCOM 104 stereo, UK issue, 1966
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: Toots whistles on 4 tracks, plays harmonica on 5 others, and
       plays guitar on all 12 tracks, backed by a band. Soulful light
       jazz arrangements by Don Sebesky.

* Les Baxter: "South Pacific"
     o LP, Capitol T1012 mono, 1958
     o appreciation: 2
     o note: Baxter gives music from the Rodger and Hammerstein musical
       so-called exotic arrangements. Only a couple of tracks are good,
       the rest is boring.

* Charles Camilleri: "Spectacular Accordians"
     o LP, MGM CS 6028 stereo, 1959
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: The opening track "Jungle fantasy" is incredible, fantastic,
       exotic accordion madness a la Three Suns. Two other tracks are
       also very Three Suns sounding. The rest is OK, but not spectacular
       at all. See Incredibly Strange Music volume 1.

* Xavier Cugat: "Dance Party"
     o LP, Brunswick STA 8647, 1965
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: Surprisingly great upbeat instrumental 60's beat pop with
       Latin touches. Includes Thunderball; Soul souce; Hang on Sloopy;
       Zip-a-dee-doo-dah; and a fab Cugat original: "Tabasco".

* David & Marianne Dalmour: "Strange enchantment"
     o LP, EMI Lansdowne SX 6005 mono, UK, 1966
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Very relaxed and smooth hawaii type of songs, sung by
       husband and wife duo, mixed with the sounds of sea waves and
       seagulls.

* Martin Denny: "Martin Denny's Exotic sounds from the Silver screen"
     o LP, Liberty LRP 3158 mono, USA
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: Denny's exotic sounds doing "Over the rainbow", "We're off
       to see the Wizard", "Singin' in the rain", "I'm in the mood for
       love" and more.

* Jack Emblow: "Accordian Fire"
     o LP, EMI Studio Two stereo 228, UK, 1968
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Too bad it includes 2 weak tracks, as the rest is very good
       accordion stuff! Arranged by Pete Moore, backed by Roger Coulam on
       Hammond, trombone quartet, string quartet, harpsichord (on 1
       track) and plenty of percussion.

* Dennis Farnon: "Dennis Farnon's Comedy Cuts"
     o LP, Conroy music library BMLP 084, UK, 1971
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Lots of different styles in 29 short tracks: cartoonish,
       circus, burlesque, latin, exotic, crime.

* Golden Leaves: "A Love Affair"
     o LP, London SHH 8341 stereo, 1967
     o appreciation: 2
     o note: Mediocre Ray Conniff style orchestral easy listening with
       sitar.
     o See Incredibly Strange Music volume 2 page 174

* Don Harper: "Strings Go Pop/ Brass And String Bag"
     o LP, Audio Background Music Publishers (music library) BMP139, UK,
       1971
     o appreciation: 2
     o note: Pseudo baroque with flute, flugel and (electric) violin.

* Ted Heath and His Music: "Fever!"
     o LP, Decca PFS 4082 stereo, UK, 1965
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: Highlights include a killer version of "fever", action big
       band jazz version of "more", and "moon river" with odd rhythm
       structure. Other tracks include "Misty", "Girl from Ipanema", "Fly
       me to the moon".

* Ted Heath: "The Instruments Of The Dance Orchestra"
     o LP, Decca SKL 4117 stereo, UK, 1960
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Fun & educational LP, on which Ted Heath introduces all
       instruments of a jazz dance band, with lots of musical pieces.

* Ted Heath and His Music: "Swings in Hi-Stereo"
     o LP, Decca SKL 4023 stereo, UK, 1958
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Acording to the back cover, this was the first stereo album
       to be recorded live in Great Britain, in july 1958. Jazz big band
       stuff.

* Ole Jensen & His Music: "Ole Jensen & His Music (Tearaway Brass)"
     o LP, Chappell music library LPC 1047, UK, 1972
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: This album is untitled, but to identify it and to distinguis
       it from another (untitled) Ole Jensen album, I gave it the title
       of the first track. Very rare for a music library album: it's good
       from start to finish, with only 2 weak tracks! Lots of variation,
       but always cool. There's punchy brass, bossa nova, wordless
       vocals, Hammond blues, jazzy pop, beat, ez, crime jazz, and 1
       exotica track with wordless voices.

* Ole Jensen And His Music: "Ole Jensen & His Music (Big Beat)"
     o LP, Chapell music library LPC 1038, UK, 1970
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: This album is untitled, but to identify it and to distinguis
       it from another (untitled) Ole Jensen album, I gave it the title
       of the first track. Very rare for a music library album: it's good
       from start to finish, with only 2 weak tracks! Lots of variation,
       but always cool. There's punchy brass, bossa nova, wordless
       vocals, Hammond blues, jazzy pop, beat, ez, and even a baroque
       track.

* Walt Rockman: "The Walt Rockman Moog Moods"
     o LP, Conroy music library BMLP 119, UK, 1975
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: "Popcorn" sound Moog record, with 7 very good compositions
       by T. Tape and Walt Rockman; each of these is also presented as -
       not that interesting - Moog solo variations.

* Horst Wende: "Oriental Caravan"
     o LP, Polydor SLPHM 237 567 stereo, Germany, 1960's
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Melodies from the Near and Middle East, adapted and arranged
       by Horst Wende to please Western ears, without losing the original
       oriental quality.

* Si Zentner and His Orchestra: "Themes From Thrillers"
     o LP, Liberty LBY 1204 mono, UK issue, 1964
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: Very good arrangements of some of your favorite crime move &
       TV themes: James Bond; Burke's law; Mr. Lucky; Dragnet; Third Man;
       Peter Gunn; M Squad; Charade; Fugitive.

* v/a: Club Morricone
     o LP, Studio Uno STN1007LP, Italy, 1999
     o appreciation: 4
     o note: Compiled by Paolo Scotti. All 4 soft and heavenly tracks of
       side A have been previously reissued on CD (on the compilations
       "Mondo Morricone" and "Canto Morricone", and on "An Ennio
       Morricone Western Quintet".) The B side offers more
       psychploitation like stuff that i haven't heard before, and 1
       beautiful wordless vocal piece by I Cantori Moderni.

* OST: Milton and Anne Delugg: "Gullivers Travels Beyond The Moon"
     o LP,  Mainstream stereo
     o appreciation: 3
     o note: Half of the tracks are great and "Barbarella" like, but the
       other half are your typical Disney et al. kiddies vocal thing -
       like "it's a small world" - it's as if they come from 2 different
       movies or records.


        Johan

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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:53:30 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: cardboard 7 sleeves

from my "Shoppinquarium" mailorder links page
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/shoppinq/shoppinq.htm,
"accessories for collectors" section:

http://www.protected.de/
a German company


        Johan














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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:28:55 PDT
From: "David Lewis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yanni vs Tesh

BJ wrote,

>  John Tesh is a blonde Frankenstein created by the Illuminati and the
>  Trilateral Commission to make America's women and children turn to
>  drugs. Didn't you ever notice his glassy stare, or are you too busy
>  washing down your Xanax and Viagra with Zima, feeding your wife Prozac
>  and hooking your child on Ritalin instead of paying attention to what's
>  going on in the world???

I appreciate the spirit of the humour here, and, until I met the man, once
wrote disparagingly about Tesh myself.  After meeting him, I came away with
the impression that here is a man who really cares about music, who is a
highly skilled instrumentalist/orchestrator and a decent composer, who loses
money on every tour he does (due to the large size of his ensemble and the
high price paid for the carck-sharp players he employs), who devotes a
portion of every gig played to help finance music education in primary
schools, etc, etc.  He is VERY tall, though I wouldn't describe his stare as
'glassy'; rather more at 'electric'- his eyes bore right through you.  Never
met a man who had a stronger handshake, and he believes thoroughly in what
he's doing.  He could stand to make TONS more money as a TV talking head,
and does so once in awhile still to make ends meet, but with him it's music,
music, music- he'd really rather lose money making music than live well
doing TV.
Do I like his music?  Not particularly.  Do I like his habit of shaking down
record store managers when they don't re-order his products?  No, I don't
respect that.  But Tesh IS a vital and extremely serious artist who does a
lot of good with his shows and patronage of charitable institutions.
I don't much care for Pierre Boulez either.  And Tesh and Boulez are truly
on the opposite ends of the musical spectrum.  But as personalities they are
very much the same: ever-confident, totally convinced in what they are doing
and very, very clear on their respective agendas.  And, speaking personally,
that is wholly worthy of my respect, whether or not I give a damn about a
note of their musics.

Uncle Dave Lewis
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