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exotica-digest Monday, November 6 2000 Volume 02 : Number 835
In This Digest:
Re: (exotica) with enemies like these...
Re: (exotica) soft pop
(exotica) ARChive of Contemporary Music record sale
Re: (exotica) Why Exotica?
Re: (exotica) soft pop
(exotica) Garage Sale Finds/Almost Perfect
Re: (exotica) Garage Sale Finds/Almost Perfect
Re: (exotica) Re: Gold! Silver! Eggplant!
(exotica) The Conet Project
RE: (exotica) Wanderlay for dummies and beyond
Re: (exotica) Bollywood voices and locations
(exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:49:19 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) with enemies like these...
>Our exotica obsessions even get referenced.
>
>Mom! They're writin' about us again!
At least Unterberger says some of the music was interesting, which
indicates that he actually LISTENED, as opposed to walked through a Borders
Bookstore, saw the word Lounge on three books, sniffed and wrote an article.
Besides m. ace, if he wrote about us nastily, then he's not a good friend.
Don't track mud on my nice clean floor and sit up straight,
Brian Phillips
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:53:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Jane Fondle <jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop
- --- alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com> wrote:
>
> We used to talk about Bacharach and soft pop and
> Free Design and High
> Llamas here. Not much anymore.
> It feels a bit silly to be recommending a young
> English rock band here but
> to be honest, I have no idea what this list is
> really about anymore.
> AZ
>
Here, here! I feel like I am drinking alone in the
cocktail nation!
Jane Fondle
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:56:17 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) ARChive of Contemporary Music record sale
Now that the WFMU record fair is over, what's a guy got to look forward to?
The ARChive of Contemporary Music is holding a record/cd sale on 12/9&10, at 54 White St., NYC.
http://www.arcmusic.org/html/arcis/news.html
Prices:
All new cassettes: $2.00 (12 for $20)
Most LPs: $1 - $3
Collectible LPs: prices way below book value
Hundreds of CDs at $1 & $2 each
Most new CDs at $4.
Just released NEW & HOT CDs are $5 - $10.
Never having been at one of their events, can someone say if it's worth a visit?
Lou
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:57:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Jane Fondle <jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Exotica?
- --- Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Ross Orr schrieb:
>
> > Alan wrote:
> > >The main reason I switched from [ X ] to easy
> listening was because the
> > >records were way cheaper and also way less
> predictable.
> >
> > That nails it! These are exactly the reasons I got
> into exotica.
>
> I got into it, because I liked it better than
> anything I had heard before.
>
> Mo
>
I am with Mo on this! Sometimes, I feel square these
days for liking Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Lalo
Schiffrin and not stuff with beats in it(though I like
that, too, just not as much.)
Still buyin the old stuff,
Jane Fondle
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:59:22 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop
>This cd sounds great! Any other modern soft pop cds out there
>you'd recomend?
Not too modern (1990), but I would take a listen to the Chills' "Submarine
Bells" for "Heavenly Pop Hit" at very least. Also, there is "Apple Venus,
Vol. 1" by XTC.
Easy plagiarizing someone in the Big Copy,
Brian Phillips
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:03:30 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <chuckmk@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Garage Sale Finds/Almost Perfect
Went to a garage sale by my house and sure enough there was a
Stillwater album. Stillwater are the mythical band in the movie
Almost Perfect. All the reviews and the writer say this is a
mythical band. Well allmusic guide also lists them. In a sense
they are mythical because I think the real Stillwater band did not
exist until the mid late 1970s.
Anyway the flip side of this album has a picture of the band and
their road manager. And its just like the band in the movie, where
their road manager played such a major part of their career. The
music on this lp sounds exactly like the same kind of music they
Movie Stillwater band played. Allman brother southern rock jam.
They even jam a long time on one of the cuts.
This movie was great for capturing the feel of the 1970s, I
especially enjoyed the Lester Bangs portrayal.
Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:14:10 -0600
From: Matt Marchese <mjmarch@charter.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Garage Sale Finds/Almost Perfect
chuck wrote:
> Stillwater are the mythical band in the movie Almost Perfect.
I don't mean to be pedantic Chuck, but the movie was called "Almost Famous."
> This movie was great for capturing the feel of the 1970s, I
> especially enjoyed the Lester Bangs portrayal.
Having spent some time as the music critic for my high-school newspaper back in
'75-76, I could certainly relate to the Cameron Crowe-like character (except
for the part about getting paid $1000s of buck to write articles). And yes, the
look of the Seventies was there, but having met a fair number of "band-aids" in
my time, I'd have to say that they generally weren't a) coherent b)
philosophers c) conscious. The mysogynistic attitudes towards women displayed
by the various band members were pretty authentic based on what I remember.
I loved the Lester Bangs character as well, but several of his contemporaries
have written articles after the film came out claiming that the portrayal
wasn't accurate. Lester had a serious drinking problem and this didn't come out
in the film.
So all in all, it seemed like the Seventies viewed through a particularly
strong pair of rose-colored prescription glasses.
- --
Matt Marchese
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:22:52 -0500
From: Ross Orr <mambofrenzy@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Gold! Silver! Eggplant!
Hey, so I think Francesco gets the award for "Exotica List Member Who
Asks the Most Provocative Questions"!
Johan wrote, in part:
>those green ones to live about 70 years, the
>gold ones more than 100 [...] the gold dye reacts the least to
>ultra-violet light, the
>green ones the most, the blue ones somewhere inbetween.
Just to back up here a little. . .
As far as I have ever heard or seen (and via the ExoticaRing I've
looked at a pretty wide range of CD-R brands), there are two kinds of
metallic backings, silver vs. gold; and basically two different dye
colors, blue vs. pale greenish yellow (with some variation between
brands in how dark it looks).
When you have the blue dye against a gold backing it appears more green.
So I think the "green" ones and the "blue" ones use the same kind of
dye, unless I don't understand what you're referring to.
I would be interested if someone had showed that the pale dye was
more permanent than the blue dye--but I have never seen any
definitive word about this.
We make an assumption that the silver backings are aluminum (which
might oxidize some day), and that the gold-colored backings are
actually gold (which would be more stable). But again, at this time I
think we have to admit that none of those assumptions are proven.
cheers,
--Ross
|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr <mambofrenzy@earthlink.net>
|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:17:47 -0500
From: Peter Ledebur <pledebur@channel1.com>
Subject: (exotica) The Conet Project
As I think someone pointed out here a couple of weeks ago, this interesting
box set has finally been reissued. I picked up a copy for myself and
noticed a couple of things worth mentioning.
First, one of the numbers stations documented in the booklet (alas, no
known recording exists) is cataloged as "G10 - Bert Kaempfert." A typical
broadcast is described thusly: "'Wunderland bei Nacht' by Bert Kaempfert
(actually played twice) followed by the other side of the same record,
'Dreaming the Blues' also by Bert Kaempfert (1961 recordings) - also
repeated. Message sometimes followed, but rarely."
Second, about a year ago, when this set was under discussion along with The
Ghost Orchid album, someone attibuted the sample in Stereolab's "Pause" to
The Ghost Orchid. In fact, the sample is taken from the very first track on
the first CD of The Conet Project, "The Swedish Rhapsody." I've spotted
other numbers station samples in songs on recent releases by J Church and
Cinerama.
Peter Ledebur
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:03:54 -0800
From: Jeff Phillips <jphillips@philharmonia.org>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Wanderlay for dummies and beyond
I heard "the Girl" introduce herself as Hil-berto a few years ago.
EZ does it,
Jeff Phillips
- -----Original Message-----
From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk [mailto:G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 3:09 AM
To: exotica@xmission.com
Subject: (exotica) Wanderlay for dummies and beyond
If you're going to get into this then theres also Astrud Gil-verto (but
not
apparantly Gil_berto Gil)
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:34:57 +0100
From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" <weirdomusic@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bollywood voices and locations
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Moritz R" <moritz@derplan.com>
To: "Exotica Mailing List" <exotica@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 1:04 PM
Subject: (exotica) Bollywood voices and locations
> The other night I heard an unbelievable story about those high female
> voices in Indian music, that everyone knows who ever saw a Bollywood
> film: Apparently there are only a very few women who can sing like that,
> just 3 or 4 of them, some of them very old already, and they seem to
> sing on ALL such songs.
Yep, Lata Mangeshkar is one of them. According to some sources she's the
most recorded voice in history. It's not only the ladies by the way. There
are also a couple of male singers that have sung in hundreds of movies.
Marco
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:06:27 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <quiet@village.uunet.be>
Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
A new update to the "eXotica Releases Overview" is available.
These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet
announced or reviewed in the Exotica List.
(If you would like to receive the unabridged updates on a regular
base by e-mail, just let me know you want to get on my " eXotica
Releases Overview updater")
- October 29: new, year 2000 releases, announcements & corrections -
* Accordion Beatles: "Out Of The Caverns"
o CD, Hammertone Music Industries Label, Limited hand-made edition
Only 200 copies available, USA, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: An Instrumental Album Featuring 10 Beatles Songs plus
2 Original Songs. Audio clips and sale at their site, see my
"Linquarium".
* Los Amigos Invisibles: "Arepa 3000: A Venezuelan Journey Into Space"
o CD, Luaka Bop/ Virgin, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: Venezuelan, kinda funky Esquivel
* Ray Armando: "Mallet Hands"
o CD, CuBop 31, USA, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: latin percussion
* Hot Butter: "Popcorn with Hot Butter"
o LP, Essential, UK, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: Very Good! Nutty Moog!
* Laika & The Cosmonauts: "Absurdistan"
o CD, YepRoc, USA, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: Good. This one has a more contemporary
sound, as opposed to the retro Brit 60's instro sound of
their other albums. Several tracks are much louder and garage
rock oriented, others have rhythm tracks that are influenced
by dub and drum 'n bass, and there's even 1 funky track!
* Jean Jacques Perrey:
"The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean Jacques Perrey"
o CD, KICP-753, Japan, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!! Not as groovy as Moog Indigo
with its "E.V.A." cult track, more in the lines of the
Kingsley collaboration: that means fun! But also a couple of
heavenly beautiful melodies with wordless vocals.
+ Jack Diamond Music: Originally released on Vanguard Records,
circa 1968. Most titles written and arranged by Jean Jacques
Perrey and Pat Prilly. Featuring Vinnie Bell on Electronic
Effects and Electric Guitars. Titles: Mary France, The Little
Ships, Island In Space, The Mexican Cactus, Porcupine Rock,
The Little- Green Girl From Mars, Mister James Bond, Frere-
Jean Jacques, Brazilian Flower, In The Heart- Of The Rose,
The Minuet Of The Robots, 4-3-2-1, Gypsy in Rio.
* Jean Jacques Perrey: "Moog Indigo"
o CD, KICP-754, Japan, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!! Source of cult hit "E.V.A.",
and "Gossipo perpetuo" which was featured on "Incredibly
Strange Music 2". Originally released on Vanguard Records,
circa 1970.
* Pastor John Rydgren and Peter Tork: "Silhouette Segments"
o Double LP, Silhouette Very Limited Reissue, Europe, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: Very Good! Originally issued as Weird-Oh
disc 002 in the 1960's
+ Stefan Kery of Subliminal Sounds: Wow, here's an amazing lost
masterpiece I thought I'd never see reissued! Incredibly hip
and over the top 60s recordings that has remained completely
unknown until now. Very few copies of the original double LP
known among collectors. In the style of Ken Nordine,
narration by Mr. John Rydgren but... he is backed by super
groovy music, sound effects, cut-ups, wild dj'ing from the
60s, to take you on an incredible turned on journey to
hipsville. The ultimate take on Music to Watch Girls By, A
natural phenomena...watching girls. A special
attraction...girls...designed for man by god. The Hippie
Version of Creation, Search It Out, the production dramatizes
were they are, where they search...cars, a Moonkee concert,
the surf, problems...represented by the train, elephants, a
trip, and in the middle of all this...the answer they have
found. The Happening, Dark Side of the Flower it's an
entertaining trip. You will never hear anything like it
again. DJ's, radio stations, sampling maniacs and 60's fans
take notice! 500 copies LTD edition only.
+ Basic Hip: A beyond description, late 60's double LP with
narration over groovy music by Pastor John of the American
Lutheran Church. Must be heard to be believed! Includes The
Bob Crewe Generation's "Music To Watch Girls By" and the
Brass Ring's "Disadvantages Of You", with amazing spoken word
on top. The kicker is the religious message at the end of
each and every track.
+ Jack Diamond Music: it's perfectly like ken nordine, but this
is about GOD and JESUS CHRIST and the NEW WORLD. The
psychedelic music turns into a psychedelic sound collage,
like the "Mesmerizing Eye" or some "Victims of Chance" or
60's Ennio Morricone stuff, f*in' killer weird shit, big
time. It's with a lot more psychedelic "Now Go Go Sound"
types of music behind THIS DEEP BEAUTIFUL BARITONE VOICE,
flutes, sitars, tabla, bass, weird percussion. It is too too
cool. This is 1 of the most amazing records I have EVER HEARD
in my life. This is Ken Nordine being a Jesus freak and a
totally cool beatnik Jesus freak at that! Psychedelic sounds,
rather than beatnik jazz, behind his voice, AND the music is
HUGE in this picture. Wait a second, there is a little bit of
a kinda cool vibe jazz sound and that un-f*ing-be-lieve-a-ble
voice. You have GOT to hear this thing. That totally melted
butter, deep dark maple velvety smooooooooooooooothe, deep,
deep, deep, OH DEEPER than that, VOICE! This is the shit
(That's good btw) Now Go Go Sounds, big blaring punching
power packed orchestra! yeah baby! Harpsichord! I love the
harpsichord and SOUND EFFECTS, like rustling newspapers,
these are really coooooooooooool stories, MAN! I can't
believe this, where have i been ??? "God made girls," he
says, "quite a design, it just might make girl watching mean
more" :-) limited to 500 LP copies world wide.
* Senor Coconut y Su Conjunto: "Gran Baile Con Senor Coconut"
o CD/LP, Multicolor, Germany, 2000
* Various Artists: "Bossa Nova. Exciting Jazz" (Samba Rhythms Vol.1)
o LP/CD, Rare Groove 2006, Italy, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: compiled by Phillipe Renault; with amongst others: Os
Cobras, Zimbo Trio, Roberto Menescal, Lalo Shifrin &
Orchestra...
* Various Artists: "Mondo Bossa - Swinga Sambaby"
o CD/Double LP, Premier, Italy?, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: 18 rare bossa tracks, with amongst others: Osmar
Milito, Rosinha De Valencia, Azymuth, O Quarteto, Nico Gomez,
Trio Mocoto...
* Various Artists: "One Of One" (Snapshots in soud)
o CD, Dish Recordings 002, USA, 2000
o comment:
+ Jack Diamond Music: Release from the same people that did the
"Sounds for Little One's". IF you are you familiar with, in
the "old days" how 1 could go into a record store and they
had a "make your own record" booth ? It's exactly what Elvis
Presley did, the record/45 he made for his mom that got him
discovered by Sam Phillips of SUN RECORDS BUT THESE ARE DONE
BY REGULAR PEOPLE, A.K.A FREAKS :-) like you and me :-)))
Well, they have collected a ton of those and they ware WEIRD,
FUNNY, ANNOYING AND FANTASTIC FOR SAMPLES, if you are into
that sort of thing or just WEIRD GOOFY messages that people
have made and sent to their respective loved one's as in a
message to GRAMMA or GRAMPA or whomever! It's like an audio
postcard type o' thang
* Various Artists: "Tropicalia Ou Panis Et Circencis"
o CD, Polygram, Brazil, deleted
LP, ? 9682480, UK, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: Compilation with the main artists of the Tropicalia
scene: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes,
and Nara Leao.
* Various Artists: "Wowsville!"
o LP, Monsieur, Australia, 2000
o comment:
+ Stefan Kery of Subliminal Sounds: From the same zany mind
that brought you the classic Born Bad series. This is a new
series of deranged 50s rock, mad beatnik and sloppo 60s
schlep. 16 cuts featuring Trig Williams (Hollywood Cat), Paul
Ott (Kitty Kat), Dave S trio (Devil's daughter), Spinners
(Boomerang), Duke Mitchell (The Lion), Visions (Cigarettes),
Bobby Warrren & the Reblettes (Motor Cycle Maniac), Shades
(Sunglasses) and more.
* SOUNDTRACK: "Fistful Of Sounds" by Ennio Morricone
o LP, 180 gram vinyl reissue, Germany?, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: 5 Fistful Of Dollars + For A Few Dollars More + Once
Upon A Time In The West
- October 29: other interesting finds I stumbled on -
* Jim Copp & Ed Brown: "A Journey To San Francisco With The Glups"
o CD, Playhouse 606, USA, 1997
o comment:
+ Reviewed in "Cool And Strange Music Magazine" issue 9
+ Jack Diamond Music: "For small fry sophisticates &
sophisticated adults". Fun for the whole family! Originally
created between 1958 & 1971, these recordings, in their
entirety, (writing, art work, sound effects, music, voices,
taping) were the feverish GENIUS work of two young men, Jim
Copp & Ed Brown. They are goofy, funny, entertaining, weird,
etc etc etc and there are LP's with games/game boards that I
will also have on CD, so you can play along by listening to
the CD and play on the LP, WITH the Gameboard
* Machito & His Afro-Cubans: "Cubop City"
o CD, Tumbao Cuban Classics TCD-012, Switzerland, 199?
* Machito & His Afro-Cuban Orchestra: "Tremendo Cumban"
o CD, Tumbao Cuban Classics TCD-004, Switzerland, 199?
* Tito Puente: "El Rey Del Timbal + Mambos With Puente"
o CD, Tumbao Cuban Classics TCD-011, Switzerland, 199?
* Various Artists: "Objective Exotic Directions"
o CD, ?, ?, 1996?
o comment:
+ Johan: with: Galt Macdermot, Henry Mancini, Klaus Wunderlich,
The Ambassadors, Harry Stoneham And Johnny Eyden, Armin
Rusch, Labi Siffre, Tonio Rubio, Fausto Papeti, The Mad Lads,
The Animated Egg, Performance, Sight & Sound, Carla Blay.
* Various Artists: "Pop Boutique Volume 3"
o CD/LP, Spinning Wheel , Germany, 1999?
o comment:
+ Johan: 14 TRACKS: ROLF KUHN-Casting Office, "Count Down" by
Roland Kovac Trio, "Safari Track" by Hardy's Jet Band, "Hot
Track" by Rex Brown Company, "Goukai" by Atilla Zoller, "Soft
Wind" by Gary Pacific Orchestra, "Straussmania" by Daniel
Salinas, "Super Baby" by Dusko Goykovich...
* Various Artists: "Wavy Gravy 2 - Psycho Serenade"
o CD, Beware?, Germany?, 2000?
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!! has 21 weird R&R and obscure
novelty songs from the 1950's and 60's! I guess this one
features all the tracks from the "Psycho Serenade" LP, plus
half of the tracks from the "Wavy Gravy - Four Hairy
Policemen" LP.
* SOUNDTRACK: "Star Maidens. The Girls From Space"
(TV series original soundtrack) by Berry Lipman
o CD, Volcano CPCB 5105, Japan, 2000?
o comment:
+ Johan: 4 To me, he sounds like a mix between Peter Thomas,
and (an instrumental version of) the Sparks or Blondy in her
disco period. The overall sound is funky, with some nice
synth and glockenspiel accents here and there. For a Japanese
release, you get a lot of tracks: 28! One of these is a bonus
track, another is a dance "radio remix" of the title theme by
Ali N. Askin, and the last one is an original composition by
this same "Ali". I quite liked all tracks, but definitely
missed that spark of brilliance, genius, that Peter Thomas
and Gert Wilden do have, but Lipman doesn't. So, very good,
but worth the high import price? Nah, I don't think so.
According to Dusty Groove: there's also a German release, but
I couldn't find it.
+ Mr. Unlucky: Barry Lipman is odd. He's done a lot of
arranging for pop stars. From what I've heard, both the Star
Maidens soundtrack and his track on Strassenfeger, he's kind
of in between Peter Thomas and Gert Wilden (for ease of
reference.) While I like Star Maidens, I'd say in reference
to the aforementioned composers, there are other albums I'd
reach for more often. You might really like it though. I
don't know what his other stuff is like though. I have a
feeling there's a huge stylistic spread with him. If you
want, I wrote a review of Star Maidens, maybe that will help
you more: www.supersphere.com/
- October 29: new, year 2000 releases, announcements & corrections -
* Accordion Beatles: "Out Of The Caverns"
o CD, Hammertone Music Industries Label, Limited hand-made edition
Only 200 copies available, USA, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: An Instrumental Album Featuring 10 Beatles Songs plus
2 Original Songs. Audio clips and sale at their site, see my
"Linquarium".
* Los Amigos Invisibles: "Arepa 3000: A Venezuelan Journey Into Space"
o CD, Luaka Bop/ Virgin, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: Venezuelan, kinda funky Esquivel
* Ray Armando: "Mallet Hands"
o CD, CuBop 31, USA, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: latin percussion
* Esquivel: "Latin-Esque"
o CD, RCA, Spain, announced for 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!!
* Hot Butter: "Popcorn with Hot Butter"
o LP, Essential, UK, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: Very Good!
* Laika & The Cosmonauts: "Absurdistan"
o CD, Warner/ Chappell/ Fazer Records, Finland, 1997
CD, YepRoc, USA, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: Good. This one has a more contemporary
sound, as opposed to the retro Brit 60's instro sound of
their other albums. Several tracks are much louder and garage
rock oriented, others have rhythm tracks that are influenced
by dub and drum 'n bass, and there's even 1 funky track!
* Laika & the Cosmonauts: "Laika Sex Machine"
o CD, Texicali Records TEXCD 34, Europe, 2000
o comment:
+ Jan-Erik Frigren: Twenty-six tracks recorded before a LIVE
audience! It contains a nice surf-version of Bernard
Herrmanns Vertigo and Psycho, the classic outer space secret
agent filmscore surf tunes plus many others. A real riot!.
They have also done a some versions John Barrys tunes. You
can order it on www.digelius.com/.
* Ed Lincoln: "Orgao e Piano Eletrico"
o LP, Musidisc?, Brazil?, 2000
o comment:
+ G.R.Reader: A new (well, a new re-release of) Ed Lincoln LP,
'Orgao e Piano Eletrico' turned up from Dusty Groove
yesterday. For those that don't know, Ed was the 'other'
great Brasilian Samba organist, alongside Walter Wanderley.
Dusty Groove reckon the LP was originally from the early
70's. There are a couple of tracks that are straight Ed
Lincoln, with the trademark odd arrangements, stopping,
starting, whistling and sound effects, but for a lot of it,
he seems to be branching out into other musical styles.
Instrumentally the lineup is again, organ, trumpet, (pedal?)
bass, drums and some guitar (as on the 'Ed Lincoln' LP), but
there is a lot more of a funk feel to the thing, riffing
brass, and a heavier rhythm section. Dusty Groove make a deal
out of a break on one of the tracks, but its only about a bar
long, and a fairly standard funky drummer break at that.
There is a lot of what sounds like Wah-wah organ, and some of
the vocal tracks are distorted and effected quite heavily. A
couple of ballads, a fairly lightweight batacuda, and a track
that veers between the British 60's psyche-pop group Nirvana
and samba. Some of the tracks were co-written by Orlandivo,
and i know that Ed Lincoln worked with him (her?) at some
stage, so there a chance that some of the vocals are
Orlandivo's. Probably copied from an old record, judging by
Dusty Groove's comments and the sleeve quality (with all that
that entails) but given how expensive and hard to find
outside South America his records are, its nice to see. I
just love organ records. I'll have sleeve pictures and a
review up on my Ed Lincoln site in a couple of days.
* Lollipoptrain: "Juniorelectricmagazine"
o CD/LP, Siesta, Spain, 2000
* Tony Mottola: "(unknown, Xmas compilation)"
o CD, SPJ, ?, 2000
o comment:
+ Robbie Baldock: a Xmas compilation of his Project 3
recordings is coming out mid-price on the label. It's
actually already listed at CDNow but I don't know what the
track listing is yet.
* Maria Napoleon: "Dreams And Reveries"
o CD/LP, Siesta, Spain, 2000
* Jean Jacques Perrey:
"The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean Jacques Perrey"
o CD, Vanguard Records VMD 79286, UK, 1996
CD, KICP-753, Japan, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!! Not as groovy as Moog Indigo
with its "E.V.A." cult track, more in the lines of the
Kingsley collaboration: that means fun! But also a couple of
heavenly beautiful melodies with wordless vocals.
+ Jack Diamond Music: Originally released on Vanguard Records,
circa 1968. Most titles written and arranged by Jean Jacques
Perrey and Pat Prilly. Featuring Vinnie Bell on Electronic
Effects and Electric Guitars. Titles: Mary France, The Little
Ships, Island In Space, The Mexican Cactus, Porcupine Rock,
The Little- Green Girl From Mars, Mister James Bond, Frere-
Jean Jacques, Brazilian Flower, In The Heart- Of The Rose,
The Minuet Of The Robots, 4-3-2-1, Gypsy in Rio.
* Jean Jacques Perrey: "Moog Indigo"
o CD, Vanguard Records 6549, USA, 1996
CD/LP, BGP, UK, 1996
CD, KICP-754, Japan, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!! Source of cult hit "E.V.A.",
and "Gossipo perpetuo" which was featured on "Incredibly
Strange Music 2". Originally released on Vanguard Records,
circa 1970.
* Perrey & Kingsley: "The In Sound From Way Out"
o CD, KICP-751, Japan, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!!
* Perrey & Kingsley: "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Spotlight on the Moog"
o CD, KICP-752, Japan, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!!
* Pastor John Rydgren and Peter Tork: "Silhouette Segments"
o Double LP, Silhouette Very Limited Reissue, Europe, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: Very Good! Originally issued as Weird-Oh
disc 002 in the 1960's
+ Stefan Kery of Subliminal Sounds: Wow, here's an amazing lost
masterpiece I thought I'd never see reissued! Incredibly hip
and over the top 60s recordings that has remained completely
unknown until now. Very few copies of the original double LP
known among collectors. In the style of Ken Nordine,
narration by Mr. John Rydgren but... he is backed by super
groovy music, sound effects, cut-ups, wild dj'ing from the
60s, to take you on an incredible turned on journey to
hipsville. The ultimate take on Music to Watch Girls By, A
natural phenomena...watching girls. A special
attraction...girls...designed for man by god. The Hippie
Version of Creation, Search It Out, the production dramatizes
were they are, where they search...cars, a Moonkee concert,
the surf, problems...represented by the train, elephants, a
trip, and in the middle of all this...the answer they have
found. The Happening, Dark Side of the Flower it's an
entertaining trip. You will never hear anything like it
again. DJ's, radio stations, sampling maniacs and 60's fans
take notice! 500 copies LTD edition only.
+ Basic Hip: A beyond description, late 60's double LP with
narration over groovy music by Pastor John of the American
Lutheran Church. Must be heard to be believed! Includes The
Bob Crewe Generation's "Music To Watch Girls By" and the
Brass Ring's "Disadvantages Of You", with amazing spoken word
on top. The kicker is the religious message at the end of
each and every track.
+ Jack Diamond Music: it's perfectly like ken nordine, but this
is about GOD and JESUS CHRIST and the NEW WORLD. The
psychedelic music turns into a psychedelic sound collage,
like the "Mesmerizing Eye" or some "Victims of Chance" or
60's Ennio Morricone stuff, f*in' killer weird shit, big
time. It's with a lot more psychedelic "Now Go Go Sound"
types of music behind THIS DEEP BEAUTIFUL BARITONE VOICE,
flutes, sitars, tabla, bass, weird percussion. It is too too
cool. This is 1 of the most amazing records I have EVER HEARD
in my life. This is Ken Nordine being a Jesus freak and a
totally cool beatnik Jesus freak at that! Psychedelic sounds,
rather than beatnik jazz, behind his voice, AND the music is
HUGE in this picture. Wait a second, there is a little bit of
a kinda cool vibe jazz sound and that un-f*ing-be-lieve-a-ble
voice. You have GOT to hear this thing. That totally melted
butter, deep dark maple velvety smooooooooooooooothe, deep,
deep, deep, OH DEEPER than that, VOICE! This is the shit
(That's good btw) Now Go Go Sounds, big blaring punching
power packed orchestra! yeah baby! Harpsichord! I love the
harpsichord and SOUND EFFECTS, like rustling newspapers,
these are really coooooooooooool stories, MAN! I can't
believe this, where have i been ??? "God made girls," he
says, "quite a design, it just might make girl watching mean
more" :-) limited to 500 LP copies world wide.
* Senor Coconut y Su Conjunto: "Gran Baile Con Senor Coconut"
o CD, Rather Interesting, USA?, 199?
CD/LP, Multicolor, Germany, 2000
* Stereo de Luxe: "Glam-o-rama"
o CD, Bungalow, Germany, 2000
o comment:
+ cheryl: Having heard the demo versions of many of these
pieces, I was quite surprised to hear how different many of
them sound on the finished CD - but I like both versions. The
music is a dance-oriented, but not overly so - fun to listen
to, and fun to dance to (I have a hard time sitting still
while listening to it!). And, as if it wasn't good enough on
its own, it even has a track, "Zweite Moeglichkeit",
featuring Peter Thomas ... The music is not technoid hard
beats at all - it just makes you want to get up and dance.
Stereo de Luxe's music (taken from their promo literature) is
described as combining "massive big beats, wild 60s samples,
basslines far in excess of the regular speed limit,
bongo-mania and inspired sound bites taken from cult trash
movies into a unique mondo sound." And that is a pretty
accurate description. I highly recommend it.
* World Standard: "Le Train Musical"
o Double CD, Polystar, Japan, 2000
* Various Artists: "Bossa Nova. Exciting Jazz" (Samba Rhythms Vol.1)
o LP/CD, Rare Groove 2006, Italy, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: compiled by Phillipe Renault; with amongst others: Os
Cobras, Zimbo Trio, Roberto Menescal, Lalo Shifrin &
Orchestra...
* Various Artists: "Latin Beats: A Tribute To Tito Puente"
o CD/Double LP, Mr. Bongo Rec. MRBLP17, UK, 2000
o comment:
+ Six Tito Puente tracks, plus 12 by Beny More, Jack Costanzo,
Gerry Woo, Sabu Martinez, Sahib Shibab, Louie Ramirez, Al
Escobar, Ray Barretto, Juan Pablo Torres, Los Van Van, and
Nuyorican Soul.
+ Martin Hemmel: Some outstanding 60s Latin Soul Classics like
RAY BARRETTO -Soul Drummer, JACK (Mr BONGO) COSTANZO & GERRY
WOO -Jive Samba, AL ESCOBAR & HIS ORCHESTRA -Tighten Up, TITO
PUENTE -Hit The Bongo ...and more
* Various Artists: "Mondo Bossa - Swinga Sambaby"
o CD/Double LP, Premier, Italy?, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: 18 rare bossa tracks, with amongst others: Osmar
Milito, Rosinha De Valencia, Azymuth, O Quarteto, Nico Gomez,
Trio Mocoto...
* Various Artists: "The New Testament Of Funk 2000"
o CD, Unique, Germany, 2000
o comment:
+ Brian Karasick: It's up there with Kinky Beats but it is all
new material. A breakbeat comp so you'll hear a lot of
different artists you've never heard yet.
* Various Artists: "One Of One" (Snapshots in soud)
o CD, Dish Recordings 002, USA, 2000
o comment:
+ Jack Diamond Music: Release from the same people that did the
"Sounds for Little One's". IF you are you familiar with, in
the "old days" how 1 could go into a record store and they
had a "make your own record" booth ? It's exactly what Elvis
Presley did, the record/45 he made for his mom that got him
discovered by Sam Phillips of SUN RECORDS BUT THESE ARE DONE
BY REGULAR PEOPLE, A.K.A FREAKS :-) like you and me :-)))
Well, they have collected a ton of those and they ware WEIRD,
FUNNY, ANNOYING AND FANTASTIC FOR SAMPLES, if you are into
that sort of thing or just WEIRD GOOFY messages that people
have made and sent to their respective loved one's as in a
message to GRAMMA or GRAMPA or whomever! It's like an audio
postcard type o' thang
* Various Artists: "Tropicalia Ou Panis Et Circencis"
o CD, Polygram, Brazil, deleted
LP, ? 9682480, UK, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: Compilation with the main artists of the Tropicalia
scene: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes,
and Nara Leao.
* Various Artists: "Wowsville!"
o LP, Monsieur, Australia, 2000
o comment:
+ Stefan Kery of Subliminal Sounds: From the same zany mind
that brought you the classic Born Bad series. This is a new
series of deranged 50s rock, mad beatnik and sloppo 60s
schlep. 16 cuts featuring Trig Williams (Hollywood Cat), Paul
Ott (Kitty Kat), Dave S trio (Devil's daughter), Spinners
(Boomerang), Duke Mitchell (The Lion), Visions (Cigarettes),
Bobby Warrren & the Reblettes (Motor Cycle Maniac), Shades
(Sunglasses) and more.
* SOUNDTRACK: "VIP" by Franco Godi
o CD, CAM, Italy, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan:
+ Piero Cavina: After "Signor Rossi", another soundtrack by
Franco Godi from a cartoon by B. Bozzetto
* SOUNDTRACK: "Mondo Candido" by Riz Ortolani
o CD, Dagored 113, Italy, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan:
+
* SOUNDTRACK: "Fistful Of Sounds" by Ennio Morricone
o LP, 180 gram vinyl reissue, Germany?, 2000
o comment:
+ Johan: 5 Fistful Of Dollars + For A Few Dollars More + Once
Upon A Time In The West
+
- October 29: more or less recent (1999) stuff -
* Various Artists: "Kidnap International"
o CD, Kidnap, Netherlands, 1999
o comment:
+ Brian Karasick: I found this one in Paris and only saw a copy
here in Montreal last month. Its made by a group of Russians
living in Amsterdam and is a weird mix of electronics and
exotica sounds and is totally unclassifiable!
- October 29: other interesting finds I stumbled on -
* Jim Copp & Ed Brown: "A Journey To San Francisco With The Glups"
o CD, Playhouse 606, USA, 1997
o comment:
+ Reviewed in "Cool And Strange Music Magazine" issue 9
+ Jack Diamond Music: "For small fry sophisticates &
sophisticated adults". Fun for the whole family! Originally
created between 1958 & 1971, these recordings, in their
entirety, (writing, art work, sound effects, music, voices,
taping) were the feverish GENIUS work of two young men, Jim
Copp & Ed Brown. They are goofy, funny, entertaining, weird,
etc etc etc and there are LP's with games/game boards that I
will also have on CD, so you can play along by listening to
the CD and play on the LP, WITH the Gameboard
* Machito & His Afro-Cubans: "Cubop City"
o CD, Tumbao Cuban Classics TCD-012, Switzerland, 199?
* Machito & His Afro-Cuban Orchestra: "Tremendo Cumban"
o CD, Tumbao Cuban Classics TCD-004, Switzerland, 199?
* Tito Puente: "El Rey Del Timbal + Mambos With Puente"
o CD, Tumbao Cuban Classics TCD-011, Switzerland, 199?
* Various Artists: "The Best Of Godzilla 1954-1975"
o CD, GNP Crescendo, USA, 19??
o comment:
+ Brian Linds: The song in Godzilla Vs. Mothra is sung by two
women who call themselves The Peanuts. The music is by Yuji
Koseki and lyrics are written by Tomoyuki Tanaka, Shinichi
Sekizawa,and Ishiro Honda. The song (as well as other music
from the films), is available from GNP Crescendo and is
called The Best Of Godzilla 1954-1975. It's great. I don't
have the later CD Best Of Godzilla 1984-195, so i can't speak
of it.
* Various Artists: "The Best Of Godzilla 1984-1995"
o CD, GNP Crescendo, USA, 19??
* Various Artists: "The New Testament Of Funk Collection"
o CD, Unique, Germany, 1998
o comment:
+ Brian Karasick: One CD collecting three 10" vinyl releases.
Try this one only if you like the 2000 edition.
* Various Artists: "Objective Exotic Directions"
o CD, ?, ?, 1996?
o comment:
+ Johan: with: Galt Macdermot, Henry Mancini, Klaus Wunderlich,
The Ambassadors, Harry Stoneham And Johnny Eyden, Armin
Rusch, Labi Siffre, Tonio Rubio, Fausto Papeti, The Mad Lads,
The Animated Egg, Performance, Sight & Sound, Carla Blay.
* Various Artists: "Pop Boutique Volume 3"
o CD/LP, Spinning Wheel , Germany, 1999?
o comment:
+ Johan: 14 TRACKS: ROLF KUHN-Casting Office, "Count Down" by
Roland Kovac Trio, "Safari Track" by Hardy's Jet Band, "Hot
Track" by Rex Brown Company, "Goukai" by Atilla Zoller, "Soft
Wind" by Gary Pacific Orchestra, "Straussmania" by Daniel
Salinas, "Super Baby" by Dusko Goykovich...
* Various Artists: "Wavy Gravy 2 - Psycho Serenade"
o CD, Beware?, Germany?, 2000?
o comment:
+ Johan: My rating: EXCELLENT!! has 21 weird R&R and obscure
novelty songs from the 1950's and 60's! I guess this one
features all the tracks from the "Psycho Serenade" LP, plus
half of the tracks from the "Wavy Gravy - Four Hairy
Policemen" LP.
* SOUNDTRACK: "Star Maidens. The Girls From Space"
(TV series original soundtrack) by Berry Lipman
o CD, Volcano CPCB 5105, Japan, 2000?
o comment:
+ Johan: 4 To me, he sounds like a mix between Peter Thomas,
and (an instrumental version of) the Sparks or Blondy in her
disco period. The overall sound is funky, with some nice
synth and glockenspiel accents here and there. For a Japanese
release, you get a lot of tracks: 28! One of these is a bonus
track, another is a dance "radio remix" of the title theme by
Ali N. Askin, and the last one is an original composition by
this same "Ali". I quite liked all tracks, but definitely
missed that spark of brilliance, genius, that Peter Thomas
and Gert Wilden do have, but Lipman doesn't. So, very good,
but worth the high import price? Nah, I don't think so.
According to Dusty Groove: there's also a German release, but
I couldn't find it.
+ Mr. Unlucky: Barry Lipman is odd. He's done a lot of
arranging for pop stars. From what I've heard, both the Star
Maidens soundtrack and his track on Strassenfeger, he's kind
of in between Peter Thomas and Gert Wilden (for ease of
reference.) While I like Star Maidens, I'd say in reference
to the aforementioned composers, there are other albums I'd
reach for more often. You might really like it though. I
don't know what his other stuff is like though. I have a
feeling there's a huge stylistic spread with him. If you
want, I wrote a review of Star Maidens, maybe that will help
you more: www.supersphere.com/
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