Jed Parish and his extreme voice: http://jedediahparish.home.mindspring.com/
<http://jedediahparish.home.mindspring.com/>
CD INFO: The new disc is called "Somewhere In This Town," & you can find a
few new MP3's at our site www.bomba.com <www.bomba.com> (or Amazon.com,
Boston.com) or just buy the damn thing at Tower Records, Other Music,
Newbury Comics & other fine retailers.
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:30:55 +0800
From: "William" <king8egg@ms60.url.com.tw>
Subject: (exotica) name that movie!
hi all,
does anyone know what the name of this movie is? i only caught a part of
it but then had to leave the house and have no idea what it was. the music
reminded me a little of bernard herrmann(sp?). the film was black and white
and was about this young woman in a wheel chair who's mother and best friend
have recently died so she moves back in with her father and her stepmother
who she has never met. when she arrives her father is not there, and there
are conflicting stories about him having been sick. that night she notices a
light on in a room near the pool, so she wheels out there and the room is
filled with all these preserved/stuffed animals and right in there staring
back at her is her father - completely stuffed/preserved! she freaks out and
tries to return to her room but ends up wheeling herself into the pool. she
is rescued, but then i had to leave. anyone know what this might be? and
who did the music?
william in taipei.
ps. have you guys seen this? scary.
http://www.eugenemirman.com/
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:56:42 -0400
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Soft Pop: The High Llamas
I guess it's a little silly to chime in with a late "me too" post, but oh well... Me too! Don't forget "Hawaii" (2-disc version)! That's the only one I have. For some reason, I felt like it was the only High Llamas album I needed, and it sounds like maybe I was right. Very nice, anyway, especially from this list's perspective. Actually, moreso than the Beach Boys or Beatles, I heard echos of post-Abbey Road, 70s British art pop like 10CC or Supertramp. Which was pretty disconcerting for me (having revolted against that sort of thing in the late 70s). But I guess that provided the "challenging your tastes" fun factor that's part of this little game.
Though I still refuse to reconsider Supertramp.
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 21:17:40 -0400
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) compilation for a newcomer
Some more useful beginner comps (I have no idea of current availability):
Of course, there's Ultra Lounge Volume 1: "Mondo Exotica" on Capitol. Ultra-Lounge went on and on with volume after volume built around increasingly tenuous themes (I'm floitin' wit' controvoisy here, ain't I? (imagine that line delivered by Bugs Bunny... I spent a lot of time with Cartoon Network's weekend-long Bugs marathon last weekend and haven't quite recovered)), but this one is a well-focused "gateway drug" to classic exotica.
Less heralded, but equally worthwhile is "Music For A Bachelor's Den, Volume 2: Exotica" from DCC. Includes fine tracks by less-hyped artists, such as Frank Hunter, South Sea Serenaders, Sunny Lester, Irv Cottler. The other "Bachelor's Den" volumes are good too.
Rhino's "Cocktail Mix" series has good stuff. Volume 1, "Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" is loaded with primal Space Age Pop (compiled by former list member Irwin Chusid).
And as mentioned, RCA's "History Of Space Age Pop" discs are loaded with, er, Space Age Pop.
Single artist comps... Capitol's 2-disc sets devoted to Les Baxter and Martin Denny. The Esquivel comps on Bar-None and RCA. A couple of Yma Sumac comps floating around out there from some label or other (as well as album reissues of these various artists).
"Incredibly Strange Music" Vols. 1 & 2. Based on the books that set a lot of this off. Not so focused on exotica, but they'll give you a lot of tangents to shoot off on.
The "Jungle Exotica" discs on Strip document the raunchier side of things.
Scamp's "Sound Gallery" and "Music For TV Dinners" volumes are dynamite intros to "library music."
The "Easy Tempo" series on Right Tempo will ease you into the Italian film soundtrack scene.
Drifting further from classic exotica, Arf Arf's "Only In America" remains a genius comp of oddball records.
For the "soft pop" we tend to go on about, the "Sunshine Days" series on Varese Sarabande is an easily available source. I don't even know how many there are now.
Me out of gas. For even more ideas go to Johan's mighty Disquarium:
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:37:55 EDT
From: Dlsmay@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) compilation for a newcomer
m.ace covers most of the better compilation choices.
I also very much like the Crime Jazz compilations on Rhino, the Kinky Beats
collection, the Blow Up collections, and Espresso Espresso.
Individual collections of Mancini, Esquivel, Martin Denny, Les Baxter are
also de rigeuer.
- --David
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:45:27 -0700
From: "F. Cobalt" <fcobalt@lycos.com>
Subject: (exotica) cheap lps chicago
AZ, Well, there are a lot of lps here, and a lot of them can be had cheap -- save for places like Dusty Groove -- but you can score some good cheap lps all over the place, it's just a matter of taking the time to hunt them down and being willing to get your hands really dirty. What we call the "south side" has a lot of thrifts that can yield some great things. I'm actually constantly surprised at the vinyl I come across.
There used to be a great record store on the "south side" near Midway airport called Frank's. He was this really cool guy who knew everything about records. He would challenge you to put on a record from the store without showing it to him, and then he would try to guess the artist and date of its release, and he almost always got it right. He would spend his free time thrifting records and his house became so full his wife was like, Me or the records. So he opened a store. And, he would sell records for unbelieveably cheap, and was incredibly picky about condition, so you could get even more incredible deals. Plus he was really into soundtracks and jazz and strange things. I built a huge foundation of my soundtrack collection just through him. I found out at some point that some of the local used record stores would go buy records at his store and then sell them for way marked up prices in their stores -- you know, like when exotica became very trendy, these stores were buying
up everything Frank had and selling them to the hipsters for a lot. The sad news is that he decided that since he wasn't making enough of a profit, he decided to switch to record fairs only -- well I mean sad for those of us who knew about his store.
Mr. Unlucky
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:56:37 -0400
From: "cheryl" <cheryls@dsuper.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) compilation for a newcomer
And while we're on the subject of Karminsky compilations (Espresso
Espresso), "Inflight Entertainment" and "Further Inflight Entertainment" are
also excellent compilations. And then there are the 4 Motor "Get Easy"
comps. And while not a compilation of artists, Esquivel's "Space Age
Bachelor Pad Music" and "Music From A Sparkling Planet" on Bar/None are
must-haves. And the Crippled Dick "Beat At Cinecitta" (all 3 of them) are
worthy additions to any music library. Oh, and the list goes on and on and
on...once you get hooked, that's it...
cheryl
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 19:04:40 -0700
From: "F. Cobalt" <fcobalt@lycos.com>
Subject: (exotica) more Chicago record stores
The Jazz Record Mart is the place downtown that sells pretty much only jazz. Their CD selection is great, their LP selection is so-so and sometimes the prices seem not exactly in line with condition. They also have 78s though, which is pretty cool if you ask me. They also do mailorder too. I think the site is <http://www.jrm.com>.
I also agree about Hi-Fi. One of the owners is in a group called Cattivo, who do a variety of things from bossa to pop, with back-up singers, and sometimes pretend to be from Italy. He tells me the basement is full up of old classical records -- you have to ask and they'll maybe let you go rummage around. They're also good about soundtracks and soul, but it's a heavily trafficked area, so they move an awful lot of vinyl. I'm still mad about the pile of Saba records they picked up and kept for themselves!
Another record store here with a notorious rep is called Beverly. There used to be two of them, but now there's just one. They not only deal in vinyl but costumes too! The now-closed store used to have weird costumes and wigs and things scattered amongst racks of old dusty vinyl. It was very peculiar but always a really great treat to go there. The other store is in a part of town called Beverly. But they're really strange about pricing. They do this thing where they set like this baseline of prices, and then round them out as they go up, like $10, $15, $20, like that. Also they seem pretty, uh, I'd say, inconsiterate about condition. Another problem is that they do this thing where they'll have covers to certain records separate from the vinyl itself, but then they'll lose the vinyl in the stacks. I've had some bad times there, finding great albums but then they wouldn't be able to find the vinyl. Still, considering their silly pricing system, I have found an awful lot of amaz
ing records there, especially when looking for some really hard to find items. They do a lot of mail order as well -- I think you call them up with a list and they spend a few hours looking around for the things you want.
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:38:48 EDT
From: Tipsydave@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Soft Pop: The High Llamas
I really like a lot of the High Llamas' songs, too, but some of them are a
little too twee or supertrampish for me. They're pretty amazing live, though,
and Sean O'Hagen's a real nice, friendly guy.
And I'm not surprised Mike Love is still as much of a weenie as ever.
- -dave
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Date: 7 Jun 2001 20:10:40 -0700
From: bag@hubris.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) Brother Cleve & His Lush Orchestra
At 11:24 AM 6/7/01, JB wrote:
>the voice of Liberace furnished by yours truly ( "and now, we return to the
>classsicssss" ), the cha cha of Liberace furnished by Byron in Oregon I
>believe (right Byron?)
Yes, I was glad to contribute what I could. Thanks for sharing the info
about how that cut came together. You did an excellent job...I could have
sworn that was actually him!
Byron
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 21:48:31 -0700
From: Kevin Crossman <kevin@kevdo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Combustible Edison Comp?
I'm embarrased to say I'm in the same boat - haven't yet kicked in for
Combustible Edison album either. Are there any plans to release a
"greatest hits" or somesuch comp for those of us interested in getting started?
- -Kevin
Moritz R wrote:
> Also I (uhumm!) got a copy of Combustible Edison's "The Impossible World" CD today and for the first time in my life I listened to it! I can't believe how this could happen, it's so unlikely. I mean, I listen to this kind of music half of my life, I'm in the same mailing list with one of the band members and the cover designer of the CD is a friend of mine... and still it could happen that this album didn't get in my way until this very day.
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:27:46 -0700
From: bigshot <bigshot@spumco.com>
Subject: (exotica) Compilations
exotica-digest wrote:
>Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:15:18 -0400
>From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
>Subject: Re: (exotica) compilation for a newcomer
>
>As someone who avoided the compilations, I have to say that I didn't "hate"
>them. They just didn't do it for me. And it's not some inherent response
>to the idea of a compilation. It's about context. Or if you will,
>"decontextualization".
>You could say that I didn't like the music enough - on its own - to be able
>to appreciate it divorced from the original context in which it was
>released. I needed the object - the pictures, the album cover, the liner
>notes, the warm crackle of slightly used vinyl. You could say I needed to
>touch the past. The music wasn't enough for me.
Don't blame it on the music! It isn't the music's fault.
The problem is that the people who cobbled a lot of those
collections together pulled *just* the aggressively goofy
cuts with very little of the real atmospheric swing music
that lies at the heart of the exotica and percussion styles.
The Capitol collections are the biggest disappointments,
because the Capitol library has so much good stuff in it.
And most of the Capitol albums were carefully programmed
with a variety of moods to take the listener on "a musical
journey to exotic lands". There was always a progression
from languid to mysterious to exciting to strange on those
records. Never the same sound twice...
You would never know that from the relentless ping pong,
outright second rate performances and coney island hoochicoo
razmatazz crap that they picked for the Capitol compilations.
The only one of those I find myself listening to any more is
the organs one, and even that has a few cuts that make me
reach to click over them.
Even the two CD Les Baxter collections suffers from poor
pacing. A Les Baxter LP is like watching a movie... that
CD is like a monitor of a security camera in comparison.
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Steve
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:59:56 +0200
From: Moritz R <tiki@netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Soft Pop: The High Llamas
alan zweig schrieb:
>
> I'm still trying to figure out what happened to make Mo zoom in out of
> nowhere with a review of the High Llama "oeuvre".
That's really easy to explain: I borrowed a couple of CDs from a friend for my insatiable home burning factory and I happened to pick all the Llama records he had. Of course it was stupid to assume that the first Lamas album I knew should be the first they ever made. Looks like there's more behind that man O'Hagan than I thought. Thanks to everybody for the info!
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:00:35 +0200
From: Moritz R <tiki@netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) compilation for a newcomer
Colleen Pyles schrieb:
> Some of us love comps, some of us hate them.
and some of us like anything with good music on. If you want to get some essential music quickly you can't walk to thrift shops and yard sales for years to find all the original albums, especially since we all bought them away anyway a long time ago. I guess by this time we have given Randy too many tips for compilations; I think the idea of asking was to reduce the number of choices, not to get a full report of anything that's availbale in record stores these days. Maybe it's easier to sort out what he should not buy, like Stephen did. I recommend, if possible, to give a listen to the CD before you buy it, and not just to the first two tracks; some comps start really nice and the rest of the CD is a lot of boring elevator music.
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:36:51 -0400
From: "R. Schultz" <randy.schultz@juno.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) compilation for a newcomer
Thanks alot! This is very helpful...
<shakes you up a virtual martini>
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 21:17:40 -0400 "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com> writes:
>
> Some more useful beginner comps (I have no idea of current
> availability):
>
> Of course, there's Ultra Lounge Volume 1: "Mondo Exotica" on
> Capitol. Ultra-Lounge went on and on with volume after volume built
> around increasingly tenuous themes (I'm floitin' wit' controvoisy
> here, ain't I? (imagine that line delivered by Bugs Bunny... I spent
> a lot of time with Cartoon Network's weekend-long Bugs marathon last
> weekend and haven't quite recovered)), but this one is a
> well-focused "gateway drug" to classic exotica.
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:26:37 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Brother Cleve & His Lush Orchestra
In a message dated Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:14:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bag@hubris.net writes:
<<
At 11:24 AM 6/7/01, JB wrote:
>the voice of Liberace furnished by yours truly ( "and now, we return to the
>classsicssss" ), the cha cha of Liberace furnished by Byron in Oregon I
>believe (right Byron?)
Yes, I was glad to contribute what I could. Thanks for sharing the info
about how that cut came together. You did an excellent job...I could have
sworn that was actually him!
clarification: I furnished the Liberace voice as a pre-recorded item. It was NOT, repeat NOT me!...also from Mo's post saying the Brother Cleve Lush Orchestra was on the cover of House Industries....that is the actual House Industries crew, it is not a band. And Cleve's CD does not cost $125.00 American. The Vegas Font Program complete with Clip Art costs that much. And you get the CD as a bonus along with the Font Program...JB/couldn't possible mimic Liberace...or....could I?
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:57:30 -0500
From: Mimi Mayer <mimim@texas.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Combustible Edison Comp?
At 10:07 AM 6/8/01 +0200, Mo wrote:
>Why not get the original album? It's really worth it.
Agreed. Plus Impossible World one of the best recent concept lps I can
think of. Worth seeking out in vinyl too if you can find it. Oh that rich
sound!
Mimi
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:59:43 -0400
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) compilation for a newcomer
At 11:00 AM 6/8/01 +0200, Moritz R wrote:
>
>some comps start really nice and the rest of the CD is a lot of boring
elevator music.
"boring elevator music"???? Hello?
You use such terms on this list?
AZ
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 13:12:21 -0400
From: "R. Schultz" <randy.schultz@juno.com>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki talk
Exotica seems to have various themes associated with it (space age
themes, perfectly understandable given the time) but one thing that
intrigues me about it is its fascination with Tiki culture. I was
wondering if anyone had ideas as to why this theme took hold so strongly
during this period of time. My guesses are the maturing of the middle
class in postwar America (those career climbers of the late 40s were
reaching the salaries where they could afford to travel to tropical
locales, or at least reasonably dream of doing so), the events leading up
to the statehood of Hawaii -- maybe exotica helped it become a state ;-)
...or maybe it's just the way certain things just spontaneously take hold
in popular American culture. Any thoughts as to why Tiki culture became
all the rage?
Randy
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