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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 21:42:29 +0200
From: Moritz R <tiki@netsurf.de>
Subject: (exotica) thrift shop finds
Munich is always good for a surprise: Guess what: we have a real thrift shop now. the first one that I've ever seen in Germany, no, in Europe! And it's full of records. And today I carried 25 of them home, 50 c each.
Among them an album I have been looking for for 15 years: Latin Quarter "Modern Times" with "Radio Africa", a really sad and beautiful song, and the group's only hit. But the album contains some other nice pieces as well, "Toulouse", "America For Beginners", "Eddie" and No Rope As Long As Time". Extraordinary band - whatever happened to them?
(just to make Alan jealous:) Mystic Moods double album "Soft Touch", once again easy listening with diverse overdubbed (underdubbed?) sounds, like thunderstorm, frog pond, horse carriage, ship horn etc.
An incredible Columbian compilation from 1985 called "Llano Adentro" with original folkloristic music, distinctively different from similar stuff from Mexico and Cuba, sounds like the original latin equivalent of those great latinesque songs by Roy Orbison, like "Pistolero", really nice. Out on a label called Discos Perla, slogan: "disco es cultura"
A surprisingly great Samba double album, called "Quero Sambar" by an Orchestra Ipanema. Looked kind of cheap first, but is in fact quite jazzy and sounds amazingly good.
A "This is Raymond LefΦvre" sort of best-of album, the guy who composed the music for many Louis de FunΦs films. (Left a double album by him in the shop for you to find, Martin!)
"More Sex in Velvet" by Kookie Freeman & his Velvet Sound, also much better than it first looked.
A late album by Space, called "Deliverance". Not quite as great as their big hit "Magic Fly", but for 50 c I always like to check out, what happened to heroes of the past later. Hypgnosis cover.
A very strange disco album called "How Much, How Much I Love You" by Love and Kisses. I had to buy it for the cover alone: a naked girl on the back of a horse, taken in a soft David Hamilton style. Has only two songs, one on each side, but it isn't a Maxi single, it's an album and the songs are really 20 minutes each. I have always been looking for contemporary attempts to escape the usual song structure and go into composing an entire "opus" and this gets very close to it.
An album called "Munich Latin" and it really is a compilation with Latin bands from Munich from I guess around 1988 or so. Not a mindblowing record, but something for the Munichalia collection.
Well, all other albums are discoish stuff, that I don't want to bother you with, as except Jimmy B and Brother Cleve nobody in this list is really interested in disco. Just in short some highlights: "Guilty/Angel Eyes" 12"-45-medley by Lime, "Get Up!" 12"-45 by Technotronic, "Mind Warp" LP by Patrick Cowley (the first man who died of aids, even earlier than Klaus Nomi), "Can We Go" 12"-45 by Electric Mind and an album by a late 70s disco band from Tchecoslovakia, called "Discobolos", which is absolutely weiiiird.
George Duning's music brought charm and poignancy to such films as Picnic; Bell, Book, and Candle; Houseboat; Any Wednesday; The 3:10 to Yuma; and even Mr. Magoo's 1001 Arabian Nights. We hear from all those film scores on this program, which aired just a few days after Duning's death.
Film composer George Duning was born in Richmond, IN on February 25, 1908, later studying theory at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and composition under Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. After playing trumpet in a series of big bands, in 1939 he was tapped as the musical director for the NBC radio program "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge," and during World War II served as conductor and arranger with the Armed Forces Radio Network. Following the war Duning signed on with Columbia Pictures, notching the first of five Academy Award nominations for his work on 1949's Jolson Sings Again; he also earned Oscar bids for 1953's No Sad Songs for Me, 1953's From Here to Eternity, 1955's Picnic and 1956's The Eddy Duchin Story, but never took home the prize. From the 1960s onward Duning focused primarily on television, writing scores for series including The Big Valley, Naked City and Star Trek; he died February 27, 2000 at the age of 92. ù Jason Ankeny
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Ben Waugh <sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
Looks like I'll be heading back after work. Elvis's
Kissin' Cousins ST actually contains George Duning's
ST to "The World of Suzie Wong." Anyone know anything
about this ST?
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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:06:15 -0400
From: "Brian" <brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run
Somebody asked:
>Does american TV ever show documentaries of strange artists that live
>in the forest that make strange art?All we get over here from american
> TV is total crap. Except some occasional serial.
I do remember an episode of the show Weird Homes" on HGTV (Home & Garden
Channel) with some old guy that lived out in a remote farm in the woods and
made some very intertesting art out of used machine parts. Its that old
"folk" art thing and there's lots of it on this continent that's well
documented. The offerings get weider as you go further west . I think we
went over thsi one before and most American (and Canadian TV for that
matter) is crap, but you just have to be selective as there are gems hidden
within.
Brian
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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:36:08 -0400
From: "Brian" <brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca>
Subject: RE: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals
Marco wrote:
> I know exactly what you mean, Alan. I've been a member of *that* list for
> about 3 weeks and it was a very weird experience.
Well I know of one former member of this list that would find a good home
there. I think one of you members owes to that other list to make the
suggestion... before you leave...
Brian
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:28:40
From: jschwart@voicenet.com
Subject: (exotica) roaming films
On Wed, 30 May 2001 07:21:14 -0700, Kevin Crossman <kevin@kevdo.com> wrote:
>Is there any chance this could be a roaming sort of festival...? I'd
love to see these films to come to San Francisco.
Actually, I presented the first two parts of this series in San Francisco
in fall of 1999, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (along with a third
night of rock sitcom episodes). With any luck, I'll be invited back sometime.
And I'd be interested im bringing films to other places as well, if anyone
wants to help.
- - Jay Schwartz
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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 02:22:08 -0400
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mas Que Nada (sp?)
At 09:36 PM 6/2/01 -0400, clayton black wrote:
.> As I understand Islamic law, three "I refute you"s (or maybe it's
>"renounce"), and you're officially divorced. I got two. Is that a warning?
>I promise I'll listen to Chris Waxman again tonight.
You better hope I never renounce you. Refuting is different. If you don't
like the Chris Waxman, that's your business. But I won't take back the
refuting.
AZ
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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 12:06:25 +0200
From: Moritz R <tiki@netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "Maori challenge Lego over use of culture"
I read that in the paper today; these Maori sure are a very sensitive people. The disappointing part is, that the new Lego-series making use of these Maori names, doesn't have anything to do with Maori culture or Exotica.
