Hi everyone, no problems have I had with the Kriek and you definently need
to drink some Gueuze-as for cool places (though not exotica nor space age) =
I
liked La Mort Subite. Also, maybe you already know this, but you must
absolutely positively go to Atomium. its on the Metro-ohh I forget the
stop, but its slightly north of town on the site of the 1958 worlds fair-a
100 M high replica of an Iron molecule. You get to go inside, up to the top
and then ride the escalators down. there are little exhibits in each atom,
including extensive cartoons featuring my favorite, Gaston LaGaffe.
speaking of Bandes Desin=E9es, you have to visit the museum of La Bande
Desin=E9e. Not only is it fabulous and probably the only place for miles
designated to comics, but it is housed in a building designed by Victor
Horta. This leads me to the next thought, there is much Art Nouveau to be
appreciated in Bruxelles-faut en profiter!! Mais, La Gueuze-c'est super.
Also recommended, Faro. oh I am so damn thursty writing this
bon voyage et, s'il te plait, =E9cris-nous toutes de tes nouvelles de cette
jolie ville!!
christine
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:25:29 +1100
From: Philip Jackson <pdj@mpx.com.au>
Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip
on 14/2/01 4:45 PM, basic hip at basichip@home.com wrote:
> The thing is, they never come up, nobody ever asks.
> the fact is, there are quite a few darn good ones out there, many with
> exotic and space age pop tunes and Fred Lowery really was quite a
> significant star in his day
Ford/Basic,
A couple of those Lowery and Marcellino mp3's you had available a while back
have become firm favourites down here. I have a young neice who loves birds
and I made a Cd for her from those tracks and some bird call stuff from you
and other sources. Great stuff.
I recall you saying a while back you were going to do a full whistling CDR.
Did that ever happen? I'd be veeery interested.
Philip
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:00:46 +0100 (CET)
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <m.sandberg@telia.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip
citerar Philip Jackson <pdj@mpx.com.au>:
>
> I recall you saying a while back you were going to do a full
whistling CDR.
> Did that ever happen? I'd be veeery interested.
>
> Philip
> --
>
I have got it, its called "Whistling for you". BEAUTIFUL STUFF! It is
one of my favorite CDs!
Basic Hip, you have also mentioned an all 78s whistling CDr, I would
love to get a copy of that too.
magnus
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:58:03 EST
From: Pearmania@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) introductions
It's rare for me to post more than a couple sentences, but it's been
interesting reading the testaments of people that I've been corresponding
with but really knew very little about. My name is Sean Pearman. I have
lived most of my life in my home town of South Bend, Indiana, which is about
90 miles east of Chicago. It's a frozen nowhere of a place, but maybe that
helps stimulate my interest in things exotic. I am 38, married, and have
three children. I manage software development projects for a large finance
company. It's a stressful occupation, but my musical pursuits have helped
keep me from going insane. I have been collecting music since I was about
14 and it's more of an addiction now than ever. When I was in high school, I
played a lot of piano (especially 20th century classical music) and composed
music, too. I had made up my mind that I would study music but found the
academic music scene to be full of cold, arrogant, pedantic people. I have
been rebelling against all things academic ever since. Exotica was something
I didn't know existed until about 1992 or 93 when a friend of mine 10 years
younger than I introduced me to Martin Denny. I'm not positive, but I think
he had heard about Denny from his interest in Throbbing Gristle who were big
Denny fans. He had made a tape for me with Death In June on one side and
Martin Denny on the other. Around the same time, my wife's grandmother was
clearing out her attic and asked if I wanted any of her records which
included one called Persuasive Percussion. These two acquisitions led me to
seek out records wherever I could. 80 percent of my collection falls into
the territories discussed on this list. I listen to everything from
electronica to blaxploitation to truck driving songs. My new addiction is
making CDRs which I have been trading with several list members. James
Brouwer introduced me to Jonny Yuma (Richardson) with whom I've traded
several great, rare titles. I have found the people on this list to be the
nicest people I have never met . I also have a Hawaiian shirt collection
and a largely cannibalized web site which shows just how erratic my musical
tastes get <http://members.aol.com/Pearmania> Much of what I have learned
about this music I have gleaned from the internet in the past 3 or 4 years.
Brad Bigelow's site, while not as flashy as Will's Show and Tell Music or
King Kini's site, is probably the most informative I have come across. I
struggle with the idea of an exotica top ten but some of my favorites include
Kenyon Hopkins, Lalo Schifrin, A.C. Jobim, Attilio Mineo's Man In Space With
Sounds, the I Love You Alice B. Toklas soundtrack (thank you Two Little
Kooks), Johnny Richards' The Rites of Diablo, Mort Garson's Black Mass, the
Barbarella soundtrack, and Les Baxter's entire career (except for the syrupy
pop albums). My favorite comp has got to be Rhino's Beat Generation box.
Sean
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:45:20 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: (exotica) Mad Mad World of Soundtracks
the thing with these albums was that they were published together with a book of record covers, which according to general agreement in this list is really fabulous. I know the guys who compiled and designed both the book and the CDs. One of them runs a label called Marina, well-known for its soft pop albums. You gotta check that out too! http://www.marina.com
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:51:58 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) HI MY NAME IS... Brad
Will Straw schrieb:
> Brad Bigelow's message -- with the news that he was moving to Brussels this
> summer -- prompts me to ask: is there anything worth seeing in Brussels,
> exotica-wise?
You lucky guy!
The main attraction of Brussels these days is the free-living colony of parrots at Place Guy d'Abrezzo. You just gotta make it there; take your video camera with you!
Then they have this nice old colonial ethnological museum, which aside from the fine artefacts it buries, displays "decorative" sculptures on the walls, that are *really" colonialistic: they show scenes of white masters and their slaves kneeing in front of them and stuff like that. Most people just don't note these things, but in "correct" terms they should long have disappeared. So unvoluntarily this is a secret museum within the museum - for the one who can see it: the museum of colonialistic art.
The old botanical gardens should also be quite nice for the architecture alone.
That's about it. I've never heard about an exotic bar or something. maybe you find one.
Before you leave - don't forget to learn the new European language at http://www.neuropeans.com/topic/europanto
oh, and somewhere near Brussels there lives a strange record collector, named Johan Dada Vis, or so...
