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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:18:19 +0100
From: Charles Moseley <charlesm@mdi-uk.com>
Subject: (exotica) Soulful Strings? I think.....
A recent purchase of Dorothy Ashby's Afro Harping LP reminded me that
someone on the list mentioned the producer is also the producer of the
Soulful Strings. Is that right? And if so, what are the Soulful Strings
LPs of note and did the man do anything else in a funky/easy/black vein?
Thanks all.
Charlie
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:31:26 EDT
From: RLott@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thievery Q
In a message dated 10/25/00 5:33:08 AM, G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk writes:
<< I've got The Mirror Conspiracy by Thievery Corporation, which definitely
has its moments, what's their other stuff like? >>
Their debut, "Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi," has its fans, but I was never
really engaged by it.
I am, however, a fan of their remix album, "Abductions and Reconstructions,"
which includes songs from Stereolab, Hooverphonic, Ursula 1000 and Pizzicato
Five. Also, their "DJ Kicks" album is very good, too. I'd recommend it only
if you're into a global feel, but it does include artists like Karminsky
Experience and Les Baxter among the mix.
In my opinion, "The Mirror Conspiracy" is their most polished work to date.
- --Rod
www.hitchmagazine.com
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:02:42 +0200
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: (exotica) Andrew's story
This happened to a friend of a friend of mine, who works in a record shop in S.F., on monday night:
Dear friends,
Last night after we closed the doors at the record store, three men came to the door. Two looked like gay guys dressed in dark clothes and moussed hair. but, the third guy was dressed up like an Arab sheik, covered from head to toe. He had sunglasses on and he had a cotton veil pulled across his face. He was in all white. The one guy was asking us to let them in. We began to brush him off, but then he insisted, "It's very hard for him (the sheik) to shop." Anyway, it was starting to seem weird, so Mike let them in and they wanted to know right away where the spoken word section was. I showed them to the back of the store and when the veil came away and I saw that incredible caricature of a face, I thought it was a gag. His facial hair looked like stage hair and he had a bandage on his incredibly thin nose. But, when I heard that voice ask, "Do you have any more Edgar Allen Poe," I knew that it was really and truly the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
Anyway, that began an hour and a half of my night with Michael Jackson. a night in which I shared with him some of the songs which I love the best and shared with us his inimitable boyish presence. I still feel really weird, but I assure you, I shit you not! I'll just have to get to the memories randomly, as the magic really hasn't had time to coalesce in my mind. He kept singing that line from "The City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie, "Good morning, America, how are you." He smelled kind of like a Catholic priest. (They all were wearing cologne, of course). We played one of his favorite songs for him at his friend's request: "Lightning Strikes" by Lou Christie. We didn't have any records by the band that does his favorite song, The Cowsills. He asked for Free Design but we didn't have it. He also wanted 101Strings. He bought a lot of Harry Belafonte, Sarah Vaughan, and a lot of 60's pop. He also bought a bunch of old nude stuff...clipped out pictures from nudist magazines an!
d old shots of posed nude women. I asked him if he wanted any of these old TV theme paperbacks and began to read off the titles. "I'll take the Brady Bunch!" he said. He also bought a big poster of Burt Bacharach.
At one point when we had taken him down to the basement to look through all of the junk, he turned and asked me, "Do you like Diana Ross and the Supremes' music?" I said that I did and I asked him what his favorite song was by them. He said "Stop In the Name of Love", I think. I told him that mine was "I Hear A Symphony", and he said that he loved that one, too. He said he thought it was a shame that their reunion tour that was supposed to happen didn't because they couldn't get along. At that point, he told me that he really wanted an old portable record player and I said that I had one at home that I would sell to him. He asked me, "Can you get it?" So, I ran home to get it and brought back a Wandering Stars CD to give him, as well. I sold him the record player for $15. He payed with a $100 bill. All he had were $100 bills. Then he asked me, "Does it work?" I told him it did and he asked me, "Can you plug it in?" I played him Bertha Tillman and Walter Jackson and "Can You !
Hear Me" off of David Bowie's "Young Americans." I called him Michael and he would avert his eyes and smile. When I gave him the WS CD, he asked, "Is it copyrighted?" I said, "Yes." And, he said, "Good."
As Michael and his friends were getting ready to leave, they were cleaning all of the record dirt off of their hands with wet paper towels. I said to Michael, "Yeah, I have to wash my hands about 20 times a day here." He replied, "You should get some HandiWipes. They're great. Not as good as Baby Wipes..."
He autographed a record for each of us that worked there. You know, his skin was super white. And, his eyes were really strange. The crazy thing was, indeed, that we were hanging out with Michael Jackson, but even more, that he was dressed up like a sheik the whole time! Also, we were really hanging out with him. It wasn't like we just shook hands backstage or something. I was bugging him about whether he liked the songs that I wanted him to like just like I do my friends! Super. He was super sweet; hard to stress that enough. They bought about $1000 worth of stuff. Anyway, I'll probably remember more, but I will say that, after they left, they were going to a Mexican restaurant in Hayward. A night to remember, and I share it with you now.
Andrew R., San Francisco
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:03:54 -0700
From: "Benito Vergara" <sunny70@sirius.com>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Friendly Persuasion Radio spotlights Siesta RecordsThis Week!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Christine Karkow
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 11:27 PM
> Speaking of siesta Records, where is the best place to purchase any of the
> fine discs that I heard on Friendly Persuasion? I don't know
> that I want to
> order them from Spain...
http://www.darla.com (Darla)
http://www.tweekitten.com (Twee Kitten)
http://www.3000.com/mediumrare/ (Medium Rare)
If anyone else knows more, let me know -- I believe Darla is actually their
main distributor in the US, but I'm not sure.
Later,
Ben
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:17:35 EDT
From: BasicHip@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Soulful Strings? I think.....
<< A recent purchase of Dorothy Ashby's Afro Harping LP reminded me that
someone on the list mentioned the producer is also the producer of the
Soulful Strings. Is that right? And if so, what are the Soulful Strings
LPs of note and did the man do anything else in a funky/easy/black vein? >>
That's right, it's Richard Evans. Dorothy Ashby also plays her harp on the
highly recommended Soulful Strings Xmas album, "The Magic Of Christmas". One
of my favorite tracks on that LP is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, which
features a beautiful sitar solo.
Others in my collection are:
Paint It Black
String Fever
Another Exposure
Groovin' With The Soulful Strings
In Concert
Missing is one other that I know of, called Music Of Gamble Huff, or
something close to that. They are all good, I like everything on that Cadet
label.
Also in the "funky/easy/black vein", check out Odell Brown and the
Organ-izers, also on Cadet. The do a version of Quiet Village on their
Mellow Yellow LP.
Here in the SF Bay Area, I very rarely see Soulful Strings albums in the
record stores. Maybe once! Not sure why, really. Except for one, I picked
all of mine up over ebay.
Ebay heads up on scoring Magic of Christmas:
If the seller puts the name Dorothy Ashby in the title or description, expect
a good amount of bidding - the record will sell well.
If the seller does not put her name in there, chances are you'll pick it up
for the minimum bid.
It's all about keywords, baby!
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:17:32 -0500
From: "Robert Blahut, Jr." <robertb@asapnet.net>
Subject: (exotica) GG allin
this is going back to the discussion of gg allin (was it last week? i am
so far behind in reading these posts - - i've been depressed and it is very
hard to do anything) anyway... in yesterday's (10/24) milwaukee
journal/sentinel there was an article about "shock rockers" of yesterday
and today. they had some great headlines. ozzy osbourn was titled "the
geezzer of oz" and for the piece on gg allin the title was "rest in feces"
the small blurb mentioned a gg performance in milwaukee (at the odd rock
cafe which is sadly missed) in which mr allin threw some of his own butt
mud at the audience and was subsequently arrested
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:41:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <chuckmk@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Finding Siesta releases on the www
Hi Christine
My alltime favorite place to buy Siesta releases was from
Roundabout Pop a one man store specializing in Siesta and Marina
releases. Plus a ton of other modern soft pop / underproduced
indie pop. Whats great about this genre of music is much of it is
released on VINYL!!!! Its amzing that this vinyl preference has
been going on since 1982 in the soft indie pop world. Below are
the links plus a sample order I made. The prices are low!
- --- roundabout records <roundaboutpop@hotmail.com>
There is a new catalogue link on the web at the link here:
http://www.indiepages.com/roundabout/
Aquadays CD 13.50
> > > Barry Gemso Experience CD 13.00
> > > Red Sleeping Beauty cdep 6.75
> > > Red Sleeping Beauty Singles CD 13.00
> > > Trembling Blue Stars Dark Eyes 6.75
> > > Free Design - Umbrellas CD 13.00
> >
Roundabout Records
International Pop Mailorder
Post Office Box 76302
Washington, DC
20013-6302 USA
202/543-5465
roundaboutpop@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/roundaboutpop/
http://www.indiepages.com/roundabout/
Also good ole http://www.othermusic.com carries Siesta and I've
purchased my last few releases on Siesta from them. I think their
price for Siesta is about the same.
cdnow carries a couple of siesta releases.
I don't understand why Siesta, Marina and the great new Italian
labels like Irma don't get distributed better in the US???
Really if it wasn't for Dustygroove, OtherMusic and Roundaboutpop
my collection would be a third its size.
Does anyone have a clue as to why Irma, Siesta and Marina have such
