Speaking of books... well, someone was not too long ago -- or someone else will before too long... there's a new Richard Meltzer comp out: "A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer" (Da Capo Press). Collects material beginning in the 60s -- looks like he selected it himself... new introductions to all of the pieces. Haven't had a chance to do more than a bit of skimming, but looks good to me. (For me at least) he *nails* the specialness of punk in just 2 pages in one of the introductions. If you liked "Gulcher" or "Aesthetics Of Rock" you should like this (if you hated them, you probably won't like this).
I doubt there is much that is exotica-related, but there is a 40ish-page ramble through his record collection, written in 1998.
One mention of Les Baxter: "(cousin of the late -- and great -- Les Baxter)"
[pg. 390, you find the context]
m.ace ecam@voicenet.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 00 20:36:11 -0700
From: "Michael D. Toth" <mtoth@neo.lrun.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silhouette Segments
BasicHip@aol.com wrote:
>A beyond description, late 60s double LP with narration over groovy music by
>Pastor John of the American Lutheran Church. Must be heard to be believed!
Brother John is soooooooooo cool.
I've described him before as "the mod media intersection of Ken Nordine,
Marshall McLuhan, and Jesus Christ." He's actually out-Ken-Nordined Ken
Nordine in my book. (Also *amazing* are his weird Negativland-esque
sound-byte collages)
The only real historical record of the guy I've found was his primary
role in pioneering a progressive radio format called "Love" for ABC Radio
in 1968 -- what I've dug up related to "Love" shows just HOW educated,
media-savvy, and culturally "with it" he really was. (McLuhan seemed just
a notch or two below Jesus to him) He was very much in on the joke with
these tracks and knew full well what he was doing. A truly hip total
*genius* in my eyes.
Since this record was a series of radio spots and not made for retail,
it's insanely rare. My copy is really rough. There are at least a couple
of other John Rydgren LPs out there, including one called "Worlds of
Youth," that has some tracks with this deadpan Laurie Anderson-esque
female sidekick voice talent he plays off of.
>Go here and enjoy!
>
>http://www.metro.net/basichip/ss.htm
Indeed.
Michael David Toth
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Date: 19 Apr 2000 17:54:55 -0700
From: bag@hubris.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) "Private Girl"
At 01:50 PM 19-04-00 -0400, Nate wrote:
>The music's everywhere! Everywhere!
That is for sure. It seems I have lost count of the number of television
commercials which use music I want to play full out without voice overs or
accompanying video. Maybe "exotica" never really took off as a sales
phenomena, but it sure has invaded Madison Avenue.
I wish they had an MTVish tag line for musical content on every ad!
Byron
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:48:44 -0400
From: itsvern@ibm.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) Italian Lounge-Beat Party
> anyone want to comment on this one?
> "Italian Lounge-Beat Party"
> Double LP/CD, Black Cat BCR 0100, Italy
I bought this while on vacation last week in Paris, and although I haven't
listened to both discs yet, I am very happy with how it all sounds. The music
reminds me the most of (in my limited non-dj worldview) is the 'Vampyros
Lesbos' soundtrack, which means buy it, I guess.
One of the composer's, Alessandro Alessandroni, is perhaps best known for
supplying the whistles in the Morricone's 'Fistful of Dollars' soundtrack,
which for me is cool enough reason to buy this set (although no whistling has
appeared yet on this collection) I think I need to search out more of this
Italian stuff - I really like it.
This was my first time in Paris, and I did the following things 1) visited
Serge Gainsbourg's grave 2) stopped and looked around and took pictures in a
Paris accordian shop (would have loved to have a conversation with the clerks,
but I don't speak French) 3) visited several CD and used record stores 4)
visited Eurodisney and went through the 'It's a Small World' ride twice because
the first time through I wasn't able to get a picture of the dancing hula girls
in front of the giant tikis. 5) bought used 45's of Gainsbourg's 'Lemon
Incest' and the 'Emmanuelle' soundtrack and lots of other neat CDs (one
features a drawing by Robert Crumb of a dancing girl, an accordian player, and
a fez wearing guitar player - Crumb is in the band also)
Somehow, I never got around to visiting the Louvre or any of the other art
museums/galleries.
Vern
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