From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #1006 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Sunday, July 1 2001 Volume 02 : Number 1006 In This Digest: (exotica) Little Marcy - The Website (exotica) [obit] Chico O'Farrill (exotica) Re: Gentle People/new purchases (exotica) Little Marcy (exotica) jazz and weed (exotica) fwd: Google Image Search (exotica) Aperitivo downloads + yes I am still alive... (exotica) Aperitivo downloads + yes I am still alive... Re: (exotica) Little Marcy Re: (exotica) [obit] Chico O'Farrill RE: (exotica) Little Marcy (exotica) Re: Little Marcy (exotica) w.o.w. Re: (exotica) Little Marcy (exotica) by the numbers...? (exotica) Hava Nargile & The Botticelli Family (exotica) library music (exotica) denny vs. baxter in the bins (exotica) Barbarella / Bob Crewe in Person (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour (exotica) NYTimes review of Exit Art's "The LP Show" (exotica) Asian Takeways ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 07:38:49 -0700 From: "Mr Fodder" Subject: (exotica) Little Marcy - The Website It's open. The Little Marcy Website! http://www.thebranflakes.com/marcy/index.html With a reprint of the article/interview with Marcy Tigner (Little Marcy), a gallery of record cover scans and a sound gallery to open later this week. Check out the site and if you can help by submitting material (such as record cover scans) please get in touch. Enjoy, Otis and the gang! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mofo@thebranflakes.com www.thebranflakes.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:37:46 -0400 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Chico O'Farrill http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B7cc1z83a8yv8 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chico+O%27Farrill%22 June 29, 2001 Chico O'Farrill, Musician and Leader in Afro-Cuban Jazz, Dies at 79 by BEN RATLIFF,NYTimes Chico O'Farrill, the composer, arranger and onetime trumpeter who was one of the primary creators of Afro-Cuban jazz, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 79 and lived in Manhattan. In one of the happiest career-restoration stories of popular music, Mr. O'Farrill received more recognition in the last six years of his life than ever before, thanks to a series of albums produced by his record manager and producer, Todd Barkan, for the Fantasy label. They were "Pure Emotion" (1995) and "Heart of a Legend" (1999) — both nominated for Grammy Awards — and "Carambola" (2000). As his 18-piece big band, conducted by Mr. O'Farrill with his son at the piano, became a success, with a weekly engagement at Birdland in Manhattan for the last three years, his name jumped from footnote to boldface. Mr. O'Farrill's obscurity stemmed from his unassuming personality but also from his perfectionism. He was willing to serve as a writer and arranger, in the 1940's and 50's for Dizzy Gillespie, Machito, Count Basie and Stan Getz, among others. Later, after living and recording in Mexico, he was an arranger for American television commercials. But he said the big band was his instrument; if he could not make big- band records with the appropriate time, care and money, then he would not have a bandleader's career. And he almost did not. Arturo O'Farrill was born in Havana to an upper-middle-class family; his father was from Ireland and his mother had a German background. His parents sent him to military school in Georgia, where he learned to play trumpet and heard big-band jazz for the first time. His parents, horrified that he was consorting with black musicians instead of pursuing a career in law, did not share his excitement, although his father arranged for Mr. O'Farrill to study arrangement with the Cuban composer Felix Guerrero. He plunged into Havana's nightlife, which was teeming with American jazz, and played trumpet with several dance bands, including Orquesta Bellemar, Armando Oréfiche's Lecuona Cuban Boys and Los Newyorkers. At the time he was mainly interested in jazz. In a recent interview he recalled that he found Cuban music boring. "There was only one phrase that repeated itself ad infinitum," he said. "Same over and over. There was no richness, and no notes to go to." He did not grasp the possibilities of fusing jazz with Afro-Cuban music until he arrived in New York in 1948. It was the watershed moment for the fusion of bebop and Afro-Cuban music, or Cubop, as it came to be called. The bandleader Machito had been in New York since 1938, playing big-band Cuban music, and was beginning — with the help of the arrangers René Hernández and Mario Bauzá — to add more and more modern jazz to it. Mr. O'Farrill, who had studied arranging in Cuba, used his knowledge in a job with the Benny Goodman band, writing "Undercurrent Blues," a popular number for Goodman's bebop-inspired ensemble. (It was Goodman who bestowed the nickname Chico.) But most of Mr. O'Farrill's work, as he recalled, was ghostwriting for ghostwriters, writing arrangements for arrangers like Walter (Gil) Fuller, Quincy Jones and Billy Byers, who already had too much work on their hands. Soon he connected with the impresario Norman Granz, who helped put together a Machito recording session including Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips and Buddy Rich. "The Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite," the piece they recorded on Dec. 21, 1950, was Mr. O'Farrill's first masterpiece as a composer, an ambitious work that took the graduated crescendo of Latin big-band music and applied to it a classical sense of contrasting themes and sophisticated harmony. That became the beginning of an association with Mr. Granz's record labels Clef and Norgran, and the LP's recorded between 1951 and 1954, including the original "Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite" as well as a quieter sequel, "The Second Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite," were recently reissued on a two-disc set, "Cuban Blues: The Chico O'Farrill Sessions," on Verve/Universal. He worked with Gillespie as well, writing "The Manteca Suite." In 1955 Mr. O'Farrill left New York, ducking marital and legal trouble, ending up back in Cuba and, two years later, Mexico. He stayed in Mexico City until 1965, recording albums there with Cuarteto D'Aida, the pianist and singer Bola de Nieve and the percussionist Gírardo Rodriguez. He also composed another of his major works, "The Aztec Suite," for the trumpeter Art Farmer, as well as "Six Jazz Moods," a 12-tone piece. Returning to New York, he made records with Miguelito Valdes, Cal Tjader, Count Basie, Gato Barbieri, Dizzy Gillespie and others. He became frustrated that he was generally called on only to write or arrange Afro-Cuban jazz when he had a background in most major styles of the music. In 1975 he rejoined Machito and Gillespie for an album, "Afro- Cuban Jazz Moods." After 1975, for 20 years, the only recorded music he made was for television commercials. He arranged a few pieces for David Bowie's 1993 album "Black Tie White Noise," but did not return to recording until 1995, with "Pure Emotion." He was featured in a Jazz at Lincoln Center program in 1995, which included a piece commissioned for him, featuring Wynton Marsalis. And he was a part of the recent Latin- Jazz film "Calle 54," directed by Fernando Trueba. In March he stopped leading his band at Birdland, leaving the conducting chores to his son, Arturo, who survives him along with his wife, Lupe, and a daughter, Georgina, of Los Angeles. The mixture of jazz and Afro-Cuban music, Mr. O'Farrill once said, is "a very delicate marriage. You can't go too much one way or the other. It has to be a blend. But you have to be careful with how different styles come together. Otherwise music labeled Latin jazz could end up being like Glenn Miller with maracas, or Benny Goodman with congas. Latin jazz is much deeper than that." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:55:05 +0800 From: "Jonny Perl" Subject: (exotica) Re: Gentle People/new purchases I have both Gentle People albums. The first is definitely more to my taste. One song has a sample which I'm pretty sure is from the Peter Thomas Sound Orchester version of Marcos Valled 'Gente', featured on the same 'easy listening' polydor double LP which was mentioned a few weeks ago (the same one which features the Gunter Kalleman choir's 'Daydream'). There are also lots of nicely layered string samples; the whole thing is very atmospheric. The second, 'simply faboo' isn't bad, but the production isn't quite as nice and dreamy, and I think there's more of an 80s influence, with more vocals. I just got a bargain collection of 3 italian LPs from ebay. Umiliani's 'today's sound', Cabilido's three - 'Yuxtaposition' and the Paolo Achenza trio - 'do it'. The Cabildo's Three looks particularly interesting- 'imprisoned for more than 25 years and used for movie soundtracks, background music, commercials, station breas etc... the compositions of this album were suddently 'set free' thanks to the interest of an admirer named Gerardo Frisina...' Has anyone heard this? cheers jonny www.psychedelicado.com - -- tell us about your favorite songs! http://musicaltaste.net _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.lycosmail.com Powered by Outblaze # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:14:28 -0700 From: "Mr Fodder" Subject: (exotica) Little Marcy Actually... The Little Marcy website is not created to poke fun in the least. It is a documentation of her on the web done in a genuine way. The site is not just me, but is a site with others (anyone who wants to) contributing their collections so others can enjoy seeing pictures of covers and sounds. Watch out... Maybe next there will be a Little Markie website. Uh.. on second thought, no way. ;-) - - Otis "elitist" fodder > Maybe you mean that the people who created the website are cultural > elitists. After all, Little Marcy was created to sell Christian messages > to a Christian audience. Is that what the website will be about? The > Marcy Tigner who spread the message of our Lord Jesus throughout > the world? > Or will it be Marcy the freak who had a doll and pretended that her > childlike voice was coming out of the doll even though she made no effort > to hide the fact that her lips were moving? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:43:40 +0200 From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) jazz and weed hey, Stephen, this's one for you: Chant of the Weed Sat, 30 Jun, BBC Radio 3, 1800-1830 (BST) Brian Morton explores the strange relationship between jazz, the creative process and mind-altering substances. 1: `The Weed Smoker's Dream'. Marijuana was one of the drugs which fuelled Chicago's jazz scene and indeed the whole of the jazz scene during the 1920s and 1930s - and it wasn't even illegal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/ (thanks to Ton for this link) Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:23:10 -0400 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) fwd: Google Image Search From today's Scout Report comes this info: Google Image Search http://images.google.com Google has unveiled a Beta version of its new image search engine, which claims to be the most comprehensive on the Web, indexing over 150 million images. Keyword searches produce return pages with 20 thumbnails, each of which includes image size information and the URL of the source page. Clicking on a thumbnail produces a framed page with a larger image of the thumbnail above the full page on which the image was found. Users can turn off the frame using a button on the top right. All of the advanced search commands are available with image search, and users can also limit their search to a specific file format. There is an adult content filter option (default is on), but Google warns users that some adult content may potentially slip through. [MD] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:22:38 +0200 From: Nicola Battista Subject: (exotica) Aperitivo downloads + yes I am still alive... phew haven't been around in a while... I really need a break... been doing too many things at a time, as usual... a little update about the mp3 sites I collaborate with... there are some new downloads on Mp3.com from Aperitivo Vol.1... and they're all free. :) http://www.mp3.com/aperitivo More of them will be available on the same page at a certain time... meanwhile both albums (Volume 1 and 2) are already on Emusic. Each of them includes a track by Flabby. Remember: the first 100 downloads are free then you need a subscription for these: http://www.emusic.com/affiliate1000/sourceid=00251722643887396247/artists/18 207 (I subscribed a few months ago to get all those weird Godzilla themes ;))) talk to you soon Nicola DjB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:23:09 +0200 From: Nicola Battista Subject: (exotica) Aperitivo downloads + yes I am still alive... phew haven't been around in a while... I really need a break... been doing too many things at a time, as usual... a little update about the mp3 sites I collaborate with... there are some new downloads on Mp3.com from Aperitivo Vol.1... and they're all free. :) http://www.mp3.com/aperitivo More of them will be available on the same page at a certain time... meanwhile both albums (Volume 1 and 2) are already on Emusic. Each of them includes a track by Flabby. Remember: the first 100 downloads are free then you need a subscription for these: http://www.emusic.com/affiliate1000/sourceid=00251722643887396247/artists/18 207 (I subscribed a few months ago to get all those weird Godzilla themes ;))) talk to you soon Nicola DjB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:33:52 -0400 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy At 09:14 AM 6/29/01 -0700, Mr Fodder wrote: > > >Actually... The Little Marcy website is not created to poke fun in the >least. It is a documentation of her on the web done in a genuine way. Okay. I'll accept that. It's hard to believe but in honor of the upcoming birthday of my country, I will be nice and give you the benefit of the doubt. I have a little Marcy question. Like I said, I made this Little Marcy CD from the four or five of her records that I'd found. When I first made it, I thought I wouldn't be able to stand 74 minutes of her just singing so I finished the CD with side one of her semi-spoken word record with Smokey the Bear. Now I wish I'd made it all singing. But maybe I'll remake it someday when I find more records. My question is this. When I first made the CD, I listened to it a bunch of times. I think I genuinely enjoyed it. I don't think I was just tolerating it. I don't think it was all about ironic enjoyment. I think it was genuine. But it doesn't really make sense. She's not "good". In fact she's bad. But she's bad in a way that I seemed to enjoy. And I wouldn't say "she's so bad, she's good". She's never really good. On the other hand, on some tunes the guitar playing - and the band in general - is pretty good. Kind of very simple "Sun-sounding". If you think she's genuinely talented and a good singer and musician, I'm not sure we can talk about this. I want to know why I like her records in spite of her "bad-ness" (and I don't mean James Brown badness.) Listening to that CDR kind of reminded me of listening to Gavin Byrar's "Jesus Blood". But maybe it also reminded me a bit of the Shaggs. (In a similar vein, I think I can hear why Don Lonie's records sold so many more than other motivational speakers. When is his website coming?) So anyone have any theories of Little Marcy's listenability. I know I wasn't the only one on this list who played that CDR repeatedly. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:49:24 +0200 From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Chico O'Farrill >In one of the happiest career-restoration stories of popular music, Mr. O'Farrill received more recognition in the last six years of his life than ever before, thanks to a series of albums produced by his record manager and producer, Todd Barkan, for the Fantasy label. They were "Pure Emotion" (1995) and "Heart of a Legend" (1999) =97 both nominated for Grammy Awards = =97 and "Carambola" (2000). incidentally I was downloading one of these albums today... they're all on Emusic. http://www.emusic.com/affiliate1000/sourceid=3D00251722643887570246/artists/= 17 558 DjB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:35:12 -0700 From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) Little Marcy > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of alan zweig > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:34 PM > I thought I wouldn't be able to stand 74 minutes of her just singing so I > finished the CD with side one of her semi-spoken word record with Smokey > the Bear. > Now I wish I'd made it all singing. I really liked the Smokey the Bear part. I liked the image of a slightly malevolent-looking doll, hand in hand with a bear, walking in the forest and talking to birds. > So anyone have any theories of Little Marcy's listenability. I know I > wasn't the only one on this list who played that CDR repeatedly. I listened to it a fair amount. Part of my enjoyment of the disc had to do with a forced childhood plunge into the cold waters of Sunday school, and Daily Vacation Bible School during summers. Ugh. But in any case I was familiar with many of the songs. I suppose Little Marcy's listenability can also be chalked up to ironic enjoyment. But I honestly can't think of any other kind of music that exudes such earnest, wide-eyed innocence but with a current of creepy malice running underneath. I think that's what makes Little Marcy so unique. I guess that's not exactly "enjoyment" per se, but there's a different kind of engagement with the material that transcends just the "bad" and the "good." Later, Ben np: morton feldman, "works for piano 2" http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:55:12 -0700 From: PjB Subject: (exotica) Re: Little Marcy az said: >If you think she's genuinely talented and a good singer and musician, I'm >not sure we can talk about this. but alan.... when this situation was precisely reversed, and it was you who liked a record that i had disparaged, you also felt that we could not talk. where then, is there room for discussion on this discussion list? >I want to know why I like her records in spite of her "bad-ness" (and I >don't mean James Brown badness.) do you think you will find an answer to this here? just curious... .02 pb/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:12:12 -0700 From: PjB Subject: (exotica) w.o.w. good? ... no bad? ...arguable exotic? ..probably strange? ..unquestionably http://www.eugenemirman.com/ have your sound up. .02 pb/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:01:20 -0400 From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy > > So anyone have any theories of Little Marcy's listenability. I know I > > wasn't the only one on this list who played that CDR repeatedly. I like the CD - Little Marcy definitely grows on you. But then, I also play my Mrs. Miller CDs repeatedly, so... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:56:13 -0700 From: PjB Subject: (exotica) by the numbers...? hi all..... i was just reading an interview with jazz pianist dave brubeck, one that was done in '95 or so. at one point, he starts talking about what the jazz scene was like in eastern european communist countries in the 40s and 50s. he starts talking about a system that was used to pass messges around by using the serial numbers on jazz records. here's the paragraph: DB: "Yeah. Sure... even part of the underground, in World War Two. The underground had a code that had to do with serial numbers on the recordings, and if you knew what music was on the recording you could piece together a message from the titles. And then jazz was forbidden in Germany, and all the countries that they occupied - but it was played underground. " has anyone here ever heard anything at all about this? i sure haven't. sounds very interesting, tho. in another paragraph, he talks about doctors using x-ray screens to make bootleg copies of his music, taken off the VOA radio programs. very strange..... sounds incredible. here 'tis: DB: "My music and a lot of jazz was taken off of the Voice of America when it was broadcast, by doctors and technicians in a hospital, on X-ray screens. They could make a copy some way on an X-ray screen and make that into a recording. A lot of my music was done that way." comments? additions? anyone..? .02 pb/ ps---sorry if this seems OT.... i thought it would be of some interest to vinylophiles... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:54:01 -0700 From: "jim gerwitz" Subject: (exotica) Hava Nargile & The Botticelli Family Re the Other Music releases: As the incredible Incredible String Band sang, "when i was a young man, back in the 1960's," some friends had a cat named Nargile, because it meant: Hookah tookah my soda crackah......... While on the JB/BJ subject, I saw an album by The Botticelli Family called "For Mama," with a wizened Italian grandmotherly type smiling on the cover. Ever seen this one DJJimmyB? Ya need it? Curiously, Another JB, formerly JB LeNoir, JBTwist and nicks long-forgotten. To avoid confusion maybe I'll start using nedflanders@simpsons.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 18:51:05 +0200 From: Edward Subject: (exotica) library music True, but sometimes you will find a gem that's so great, it's worth all the duds you end up with. Take for example the electro exotica track 'Dr. witch-wot' by P. Willsher and K. Chesher, from 1969. A very loosely played tribal rhythm, a wailing synth, a repetive shout the kind that hip hop and house music would use 20 years later, bizar sound effects (farting etc.) I had this track on a De Wolfe LP, lent it out to a girlfriend who tragically got run over by a bus. Not only a dear friend lost, but also a great record. Only 13 years later did I find this track again, now featured on the CD Morphine - Mambo Jazz Club on the italian Plastic Records. Strangely the track doesn't really fit with the rest of the CD, which is more uptempo crime jazz. A great CD, all tracks are from the De Wolfe library, very soulful and very sleazy. http://www.plastic.it/morphine.html If anyone knows which De Wolfe LP 'Dr. witch-wot' was originally on please let me know. I have forgotten the title. The cover was white, I think it said Electric Banana on the cover.(I know De Wolfe was discussed here recently, but that was before I got the name of the track) Michael Jemmeson wrote: > I often find Library music doesn't lives up to the hype. ...[snip] > ...I think listening to a whole lp of library music can be tiring - > the production often sounds too clean for the styles they're playing > (latin, jazz, funk etc), and it sounds (cliche ahoy!) soul-less. > alan zweig wrote: > > > I also loved the idea that music like this was > > once "library" music. But the record is a bit disappointing. It's > > basically fair to middling straight ahead jazz. Not quite the sleazy > > listening fake jazz I was hoping for. Too many solos. And I don't believe > > that it was actually library music. It's all done by this trumpet player > > Cicci Santucci who apparently played on a bunch of Italian soundtracks. I > > wish the record were more like a soundtrack. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:31:51 -0700 From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) denny vs. baxter in the bins I had a chance to swing by a couple of Berkeley stores yesterday, Amoeba and Rasputin's. Each have "lounge" sections, which continue to shrink with every visit. On the other hand, certain artists that were once empty or did not exist at all are on the rise. I'm actually seeing Esquivel records now. And there were multiple copies of Martin Denny records, including Primitiva, with that gorgeous cover. $1.95 for a very clean mono. The others, Quiet Village and all three volumes of Exotica were priced in the same range. A few years ago, these would be hanging on the walls with $20-40 prices on them. Les Baxter's section was empty, except for that one that I always see - I can't remember the title - Baxter's Favorites, or something like that. Certainly not one of his great exotica ones like The Sacred Idol. Maybe some guy just cleaned out all of the top Baxter LP's the day before at two bucks each, but I doubt it. Then I stumbled upon a major score, Tony Schwartz's NEW YORK 19 - a 1954 Folkways field recording of the people and sounds from a postal zone of Manhattan (19) for a grossly underpriced 11.99 and was on my way with a big smile on my face. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 13:10:53 -0700 From: "Kevin Leeeeee" Subject: (exotica) Barbarella / Bob Crewe in Person people in LA, the American Cinematheque is doing their annual "mods and rockers" film festival and showing Barbarella today, saturday, at 5pm. there was a sign last night saying that Bob Crewe will be at the showing, presumably to talk afterwards. and i'd assume he'd love to sign stuff though that's just postulation on my part... anyway, if you're accessible to hollywood, go for it. it's at the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Blvd. between cahuenga and highland. www.americancinematheque.com last night i saw Girl on a Motorcycle and Beat Girl. Girl on a... was really really good. nice score too. kind of in the vein of the Sound Gallery or In Flight comps. Marianne Faithful was a revelation to me. she's like the british brigitte bardot. totally hot. kevin leeeeee _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 15:28:25 -0500 From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour This week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast previews "Shake Those Hula Hips!", the new CD by Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack. It's a swingin' mix of big band tunes, Hawaiian songs, TV themes and Vegas lounge. Also, during the first hour we'll be giving away free copies of the CD to lucky listeners, courtesy of Concord Records. Tune in for the live webcast at 7:00pm Central USA time and maybe you'll win some free music! You'll find the real time webcast tonight at: http://kanu.ku.edu/realaudio/index.htm The on-demand show (sans CD giveaway) will be available shortly after the real time show at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Elsewhere on this week's show -- classic exotica from Robert Drasnin, Les Baxter and Kip Anderson and the Tides; zany crime jazz by Martin Bottcher and Peter Thomas; bossa nova on the bellzoukie (thank you, Vinnie Bell); Nelson Riddle gets funky; new stuff by Les Hommes, Sam Paglia and Hollywood Party; plus tunes by Fritz Maldener (a.k.a. Maurice Pop), Ed Lincoln, Armando Trovaioli, Warren Kime and Esquivel. As always, comments and requests are welcome. Next week: Read My Hips! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:37:55 -0400 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) NYTimes review of Exit Art's "The LP Show" July 1, 2001=20 ART / ARCHITECTURE For Six Decades, a Colorful Mirror of Popular Culture By EDWARD M. GOMEZ SINCE its birth more than 60 years ago, the album cover has mirrored popular culture's obsessions, from jazz crooners to hot pants, from tattoos to all things digital. Now "The LP Show," one of the summer's most unusual and daunting exhibitions, surveys more than 2,500 of these cardboard icons from the past six decades. It remains on view at Exit Art in SoHo through Aug.= 17. Organized by Carlo McCormick, a senior editor at Paper magazine, "The LP Show" took three years to assemble. It is, Mr. McCormick said, "an homage to a dying art form" as well as a tribute to the nearly 60 collectors who loaned material from their highly specialized holdings. "Music and how it's packaged, they've evolved along with the popular culture =97 they're part of it," Mr. McCormick said. "So there are covers here that refer to drinking, drugs, religion, seduction, sex. To those who collect them, they're precious bits of history." Lenders to the show included the guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth; the Swiss-born artist Christian Marclay, whose audio and visual works have long taken recorded sound as their subject; and David Garland, the host of "Spinning on Air" on WNYC-FM in New York, a program whose offbeat fare has included music about robots and Moog-synthesizer versions of Broadway show tunes. It comes as no surprise that many of popular music's best-known album covers are not included in this dizzying display of rarities and oddities. The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," with its memorable front-cover photo of wax dummies arranged by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, is not on view. But Jackie Gleason's "Lonesome Echo," with a cover painting by Salvador Dali, is.=20 So is Tom T. Hall's "Saturday Morning Songs for Children of All Ages," which shows white and black youngsters in their pajamas, sprawled out on the floor, where they draw with crayons on big sheets of paper. And then there is "Highlights From the Modern Chinese Revolutionary Ballet: `Red Detachment of Women,' " which shows a female soldier poised like a flamingo on point, aiming a pistol menacingly above her head. The covers are divided by theme and musical category. "There are no wall labels," Mr. McCormick said. "No names, dates or explanatory texts, which would have weighed down the experience of this kind of art. The designs speak for themselves. You can draw your own associations." The critic J=F6rg Heiser, comparing rock music and painting, recently wrote= of "a turmoil of signification." That description could apply to "The LP Show," in which a viewer's eyes might, for example, flit across op art and circular forms (disco balls figure prominently in this section), mirrors, insects and animals, comics and superheroes, birthday parties, carnivals, flying carpets, taxis, eyes and the backs of people's heads. Reflecting on this last category, Jeannette Ingberman, one of Exit Art's co-founders, appeared both delighted and flummoxed by the scope and specificity of Mr. McCormick's classification system. "It's not just heads, it's what's going on inside people's heads," she said, pointing to the cover of a recording of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. In its expressionist portrait of the composer, tempestuous brush strokes suggested the explosive energy of a tormented artist's mind. Ms. Ingberman moved on to examine a group of covers that can be viewed with 3-D glasses, including Grand Funk Railroad's "Shinin' On" and the Cramps' "Off the Bone." To represent categories like Christian ventriloquists' children's songs, exotica, space-age music and early electronic sounds, Mr. McCormick and his collaborators have assembled what they say are some of the most coveted album covers in those very specialized fields. Mel Torm=E9's "Swingin' on= the Moon" offers a picture of a leggy lounge lizardess sashaying across a lunar landscape in a red one-piece (space age). On Yma Sumac's "Fuego del Ande," Sumac advances furtively, through jungle shadows, while a vaguely Hawaiian vixen beckons from her perch amidst palms and ferns on Andre Kostelanetz's "The Lure of the Tropics" (exotica). Elsewhere, Tiny Tim's "With Love and Kisses," a record of a "concert in Fairyland," helps hold up the mantle of psychedelia with a trippy illustration of the fey singer in paisley-like swirls of color; John Wayne's "America, Why I Love Her" does the same for covers portraying flags, with a close-up of Hollywood's icon of ruggedness flanked by Old Glory. "The LP Show" includes a selection of works by Alex Steinweiss, the inventor of the professionally designed album cover as we know it. Working for Columbia Records in 1939, Mr. Steinweiss created a printed- cardboard sleeve for a collection of Rodgers and Hart songs performed by the Imperial Orchestra, conducted by Richard Rodgers. Bearing a photo of a theater marquee identifying the artists and contents, Mr. Steinweiss's clever design ended the era of multiple 78-r.p.m. discs packed in brown-paper sleeves in bulky, booklike bindings (hence the term "albums"). Graphic designers treasure Mr. Steinweiss's pioneering covers, with their broad, flat colors, novel typographic ideas and skilled painter's touch. (Now in retirement, Mr. Steinweiss is an avid painter and collage-maker.) "They were mini-posters that reflected my interpretation of the music," Mr. Steinweiss, who is 84 and lives with his wife in Sarasota, Fla., said during a visit to Exit Art. "For me, designing an album cover was always about making something attractive that would appeal to consumers and also say something about the music inside." He lamented the rise of photography, which eclipsed his generation's illustrational style, and the limitations of compact-disc packaging. Many contemporary designers share that dissatisfaction, remembering a time when a strong album cover could become the emblem of a style or inspire a new one. For devotees of that age, "The LP Show" offers a fascinating look at the ever-permutating creativity that flowed for so long from a fruitful intersection of art and commerce. =20 Edward M. Gomez is the author of "Roberto Cort=E1zar," a monograph about the contemporary Mexican painter, to be published next month by Landucci. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:00:55 +0200 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Asian Takeways I noticed this compilation in the local recordshop yesterday, recommended? It's on Normal Records (http://www.normalrecords.de/QDKmedia.htm ) tracklist: QDK LP/CD 038 Various Artists Jing Ting - the joke Yoon Il-Loh - guitar boogie Chung-Ae Ahn - no mercy blues Yao Su-Yong - good bye in spring Chang Loo - at three springtime Chang Siao Ying - i miss you forever Che-Hong Beck - blowing the whistle Traditional (Japan) - shojojii Yao Su-Yong - love is blooming Chang Siao Ying - come back to me Chang Loo - when will you come back again? Thu Su Yung - you can be anything in life Yao Su-Yong - bridge of lovers Yoon Il-Loh - a moody person`s life Thu Su Yung - what a sound Yiu Peng - don`t say i`m silly Wang-Li - my husband run away Thu Su Yung - great love Chung Sister - romance family Yao Su-Yong - scared wind in spring Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #1006 ******************************