From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #366 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 Friday, April 9 1999 Volume 02 : Number 366 In This Digest: (exotica) Part one. (exotica) Part two. (exotica) Part Three. Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist [Charles Moseley: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update] Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Re: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist (exotica) 4 Piece Suit (exotica) Re: Kriminalfilmusik (exotica) Tiki's and Hula girls dolls in record store (exotica) new sixties comps (exotica) LP Questions (exotica) {news} wapin RE: (exotica) LP Questions Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Re: (exotica) LP Questions (exotica) (no subject) Re: (exotica) 4 Piece Suit Re: (exotica) Tiki's and Hula girls dolls in record store (exotica) The Bombay Beach Boys (exotica) The Thing About The Gap (exotica) Film Score,Mannix, Lalo et al Re: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Re: (exotica) LP Questions Re: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation" (exotica) Fwd: ROBERT DRASNIN in MINNEAPOLIS Re: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon (exotica) Looking for old vinyl album... (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Re: (exotica) LP Questions, Mottola Re: (exotica) While we're Mambo-ing Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts Re: (exotica) LP Questions, Mottola (exotica) obit: Bob Peck,Sam Shaw ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:04:27 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Part one. Bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum. # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:05:00 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Part two. Bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum. # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:06:46 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Part Three. As you may have gathered from parts one and two, I am on my way to San Jose' next week. Any cool and teenbeat stores I should keep my eyes peeled for? Deon Warwick # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:40:09 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist I hear there's also a new one with the "khaki kids" country line-dancing (to appropriate music), so I wouldn't take any of it too seriously. They're just systematically darting and tagging all possible demographics. Please let me know when they do the serialist composer version. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:45:06 +0100 From: Peter Hipwell Subject: [Charles Moseley: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update] > From: "Charles Moseley" > > Werner Muller's And the Strip Goes on is a good one. Body Building gets > about 9/10, Sex Machine 8/10 (very German), The Beat Goes on 8/10. The rest > of the tracks are not stone classics but the whole LP has that > easy/instrumental pop sound that I love. IMO, The Strip Goes On has all the > necessary criteria to be a killer LP and it comes with a nude on the cover. > My copy's on the Ace of Clubs label that also houses Mark Wirtz who I think > has a very similar sound. > My copy's on German Decca. "Sex Machine" I find pretty horrible, and horribly funny; but all-round this LP has to get very high marks. The laughter on the version of "The Stripper" freezes my blood... Mark Wirtz is all over the place. "Latin A Go Go" is on the Ember label (top album, BTW); "Ten Again" is on World Record Club; "Mood Mosaic" is on EMI Studio Two, "Teenage Dancing Made In England" is on German Decca, and that's all I'm aware of. What's the album on Ace of Clubs, "Teenage Dancing" or not? I'm going to have to hunt down that Wirtz CD. > And that Spaced Oddity 2069 looks crap. A poor mixture of funk/easy tracks > and a missing Serge Gainsbourg track they obviously had to remove from the > LP after the compilers got scared of reprisals from his record label. Oh well. # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:05:40 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist >Please let me know when they do the serialist composer version. Ha! That is a great suggestion. They could have six women and six men in different colored pants, faces painted white, moving about while Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" plays in the background and at the end a graphic could pop up and say, "The Twelve Tones of Gap". This is too easy, Brian PrettyCity # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:36:02 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist In a message dated 4/8/99 12:13:02 PM, cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU wrote: >This trend (of corporate culture and advertising co-opting non-mainstream > >culture for its effect) is not a new one I'm in total agreement.......Jimmy Chemicalbank Botticelli # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:11:24 -0400 From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) 4 Piece Suit Has the group 4 Piece Suit ever come up on the list? I just went ga-ga when I first heard these guys play last summer at the outdoor Boston Globe Jazz Festival. Their first album "Ready To Where?" a mixture of Surf, Spy Jazz, Mancini and originals. Their latest CD "Matinee Idylls" of mostly original compositions hitting all the lounge bases with only a few standards thrown in. DJJimmy mentioned on his program that they are playing in Cambridge MA this Friday and Br. Cleve is the host! # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:13:53 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: Kriminalfilmusik Moritz wrote: > I only wish I knew so much about German music as Brian does. I always > considered Martin Bottcher as a real lightweight, although he wrote the film > music of "Winnetou" and provided me with one essential childhood melody. But > anything else I heard since sounded really lame and sleepy-easy. Would > surprise me, if there was something hidden of real interest. Hmm...I don't know how to take that first comment... but in any case I used the term heavyweight to mean he's well known not to describe the musical style. It is true the Motor compilation of his music is lighter-easy sounding material as are the two LPs of his tv scores I recently found. These two new ones look promising at least if the cover art is any indication! Of course the Peter Thomas - Kriminalfilmusik isn't quite as "Kriminal" as say the Erwin Halletz album also of the same name, but I liked it nonetheless. I'm still not sure about that P. Thomas - Warp back to Earth set and am curious to see Johan's impressions once he gets it reviewed. There are sound clips at the BSC site but I can't seem to get them to work. Check out the site: http://www.bscmusic.com/artists.html Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:23:33 -0400 From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Tiki's and Hula girls dolls in record store I was in Newbury Comics in Burlington MA looking for more SEQUEL cut-outs and what do I see? Tiki's and dashboard ready hula girl dolls! Getting ready for 8 questions Domenic # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:39:40 +0200 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) new sixties comps >*****v/a-Land Of 1000 Dances (Ace cd). Do you >know how to Pony ?. Whenever I'm asked to man the "wheels of .steel" at a party or club this is exactly the kind o' stuff I bring along >to entertain the crowds, late 50s/early 60s dance tunes to get >those feets a-tappin' and those wings a-flappin'. It's all here, just >pick your fave; the Duck, the Shag, the Walk, the Stroll and 26 >other dancefloor fillers that are a sure cure from whatever it's called >that goes around for dance music these days. Are you ready >?.*****v/a-Twistin' Time vol.2 (Knight lp). And while we're out on the >floor why not twist the night away with Tyrone A'Saurus And His >Cro- Magnons ?, one of the 18 bands on here that took a stab at >bein' the next Chubby Checker. Most of this stuff is cheesy as >heck, but as King Curtis states here; "the Arthur Murray Twist >made me a hero, before I learned to twist I was a social >zero".***** 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:40:34 -0400 From: Risser Family Subject: (exotica) LP Questions Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is the same LP Jack D raves on and on about? Just wondering. Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good? It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola... >From 1965... Also, which Anita Kerr LPs are the ones to get? Just wondering. Thanks! Peter # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:07:19 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) {news} wapin CINCINNATI, April 8 (UPI) -- Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, played by University of Cincinnati piano professor Richard Morris, has been downloaded 350,000 times since January from an Internet web site -- making it the most popular composition on mp3.com. Morris told United Press International the 5-6 minute sonata was placed on the website that offers free downloads by about 7,000 musicians to demonstrate the Wapin -- a new invention by his colleague, former UC College Conservatory of Music piano tuner Mike Wathen. Wapin, which Morris calls ``the most important invention for the piano in the last century, combines Wathen's name and the word ''pin.`` It uses special vertical pins attached to piano strings to allow an improvement of tone clarity and a richer harmonic spectrum. - --------------------------------------------------- Has anyone heard (of) this wapin thingy? Can someone describe it? The description above makes it seem to be like a reverse prepared piano - a gimmicked piano that sounds more like a piano rather than less like one. - -Lou # 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: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:04:37 -0700 From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: RE: (exotica) LP Questions >=20 > Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is=20 > the same LP > Jack D raves on and on about? I forwarded the message to Jack, as I do not think he's been around the = list much. Dunno if this is the one that flips his lid or not.=20 As you probably know, There are two records with this title, One by J. = Dalgas Frisch, and one by Jim Fassett of "Strange to your ears" fame. In my estimation, both are worth having. They are both exceedingly odd - = as only a record comprised of songs that were constructed from the = calls of birds can be. It's an acquired taste. Both great for mixes, but = a bit hard to take in larger doses. Ron # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:12:34 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts In a message dated 04/07/99 8:53:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DJJimmyBee@aol.com writes: << In a message dated 4/7/99 8:33:37 PM, kevin@kevdo.com wrote: >I like Hawaiian shirts... I really hate to say this, particularly in light of all that has been said about the Gap, particularly from our resident optometrist, Robert Brooks, >> I know, I know. My disgust for the Gap is well known. And that makes it soooooooo hard to admit that I like their freaking commercials. Yes, the new Country Khaki one prompted me to write. Why can't they do something we/I really hate? Oh yeah, those freaking drawstring pants commercials for Old Navy. OK, I'm back to hating them. Robert # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:14:35 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts In a message dated 04/07/99 8:53:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DJJimmyBee@aol.com writes: << I'll admit it; I bought the two (shirts from the GAP) I liked and I just know the fellas are all gonna ax me can I get 'em one >> Yeah and get me a few pairs of those drawstring pants while you are at it. Send them to: Jack Diamond . . . . . . # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:34:53 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist At 11:41 AM 4/8/99 -0400, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > >Have you or anybody else on the list ever considered that maybe our "dirtly >lil secrets" about a lot of this music may not be so secret anymore, >because of this list,and mags like COOL&STRANGE and the popularity of >Combusitble Edison? Maybe we think we're so obtuse...but THEY could be >watching us! Nothing is secret. Or maybe something is. Actually it would be interesting to ask people if they think they have a secret little area of musical taste which they really believe is theirs and theirs alone. But once something is written about or re-issued on CD, it certainly isn't secret. One of the thing that's interesting to me, with something like the Gap ad in question, is the process by which the ad agency picked up on the "secret". And do they think that they're actually ahead of the curve or are they trying to ride a wave that they know is already headed for shore? The thing that's most interesting to me about all this is how "narrow" the trends they exploit can be. In other words, they can't think that a lot of people will "relate" to the go-go music ad. Not like it was hip-hop or even swing. Most of the people seeing that go-go ad wouldn't know that that kind of music is part of a narrow little trend right now. What's frightening is that the ad people don't seem to care. That's frightening because not caring is actually kind of cool and if they've become genuinely cool, then we are really in trouble. Or maybe I'm wrong and it's actually not that narrow a trend. It's "retro". Anything retro and sixties-feeling is part of the broad definition of "cool" right now. And if they're following that version of things, that would make them uncool. And if they're uncool then I can relax. Nat (wondering who "they" are, wondering if I am they) the way it's changed in my lifetime. When I was a teenager, it seems that they never got it and any attempt to be "hip" failed miserably. (The fact that those miserable failures now occupy the center of my taste is another issue.) Not only did they not get it but they were always picking up on things way too late and the things they picked up on were very..... broad (?). # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:48:03 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions At 05:40 PM 4/8/99 -0400, Risser Family wrote: > >Also, which Anita Kerr LPs are the ones to get? Her "We Dig Mancini" record. Another one called "Sounds" including a cool version of "The Beat Goes On". And on a whole other vein, apart from the Anita Kerr Singers, I quite like those Sea, Earth etc. spoken word collaborations with Rod McKuen in which Ms.Kerr did the orchestration and arrangement. But I might be alone on that. Nat # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:36:12 EDT From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) (no subject) >I'm not looking for music like Tito Puente or Perez Prado where the >tunes are usually shorter and tighter but more for the more sort of >"jazz-oriented" stuff with much longer cuts and a bit of soloing? If that >makes it clear... Nat, Fantasy has re-released some Mongo Santamaria material on CD which might be what you're looking for. You might want to check out Skins. Also on the Fantasy label, Ray Barretto's Carnaval CD is excellent material from the same period (early 60's) There is also a good CD compilation on Verve called 'The Best of Latin Jazz'' with good cuts by Machito, Willie Bobo, Candido Camero, Chico O'Farrill and others. Sean # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:50:52 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) 4 Piece Suit In a message dated 4/8/99 3:09:49 PM, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: >DJJimmy mentioned on his program that they are playing in Cambridge MA this > >Friday and Br. Cleve is the host! Its true--along with The Strangemen and some others I don't know yet. Well worth checking out. (At The Middle East Downstairs on Friday) # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:52:53 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki's and Hula girls dolls in record store In a message dated 4/8/99 3:22:17 PM, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: >Getting ready for 8 questions How about "13 Questions" (by Seatrain) # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:58:32 -0400 From: Peter Ledebur Subject: (exotica) The Bombay Beach Boys Does anyone know anything about a group called The Bombay Beach Boys? They have a sitar version of the surf chestnut "Pipeline" featured in the movie 200 Cigarettes, and apparently it was also released on a Rhino comp CD called "Tales from the Rhino" (1994). Did they ever put out anything else or was it just a one-off? Thanks in advance, Peter - ------ Music for Better Living Wed. 6-7pm -- WZBC 90.3fm Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:59:31 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap What these guys do is replicate in a more comfortable way all the threads we didn't have to dread when we boomers were coming up through the Army/Navy Surplus Stores dressing in acceptable hippie garb. So love 'em, heat 'em, but you can't ignore 'em toatlly. And you can get clothing there that doesn't have Sloganspeak and Corporatespeak smeared all over them..Jimmy ChemicalBank Botticelli # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:13:17 -0700 From: James G Subject: (exotica) Film Score,Mannix, Lalo et al The March 1999 issue of Film Score magazine (which i just discovered) says that Lalo's label will be reissuing Mannix soon, but it isnt out yet. Lots of his stuff is available relatively cheap at his web site: http://www.schifrin.com the guy that does Lalo's site does another one that covers Gabor Szabo, Boogaloo Joe Jones and Gary McFarland among others: http://siteworks.com/szabo/schifrin.htm BTW, the March Film Score print mag @$4.95 has a long guide to Jerry Goldsmith's scores of te 80's, a profile of Wendy Carlos, Hammer film scores, reviews and lots of cool stuff in 48 pages. Neat features are a list of record labels showing upcoming releases,and a list of composers and what films they are currently working on. (What? Angelo Badalamenti isn't working on Lynch's proposed "Mulholland Drive" TV series ? Well, I don't think they've shot the pilot yet supposedly with, gulp, Billy Ray Cyrus, I kid you not !!!) Film Score also puts out limited edition CD's (like "Fantastic Voyage" and have a website at of course http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/ JB , groovin to Jennifer Love Hewitt's "Let's go Bang" # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:47:04 -0700 From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap Just remember, my good meng Jimmy, that even if your Gap shirt sez MADE IN USA, it could very well come from the sweatshops of Saipan, technically a US territory, but with no oversight and appalling conditions, child labor, etc. I urge people not to support a company that profits off of human misery and robs kids of their childhoods. That's just a little TOO exotic if you ask me. And if Gap people ARE reading this--quit your fucking jobs, you dweebs. Now--back to da music! C. "Ratso" Russo www.ratso.net # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 21:55:45 -0400 From: Bump Subject: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist in the words of Bill Hicks... "If anbody here is working in the field of Marketing or Advertising... I only have two words for you....KILL YOURSELF!" Don't, Mind the Gap. bump # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:45:04 EDT From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions << Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is the same LP Jack D raves on and on about? >> No, this is not the one - the one he raves about is THE ARTEL ORCHESTRA "The Canaries". I have tracks from both of these LP's on my "Whistling For You" comp. Jack sold me the Johan Frisch LP and I continue to badger him for the other, which I only have a tape of. Until then, my daily routine includes typing keywords "Artel" and "canaries" into Ebay's search engine. I'd go out and get that Frisch LP right now, if I were you, Peter. Sukiyaki, Tico Tico, Emperors Waltz, Santa Lucia...it's all there in an incredibly strange (and beautiful) way. # 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, 9 Apr 1999 00:25:50 EDT From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation" I saw _The Beat Generation_ at the Roxie here in SF, on a double-bill of "Beatnik Noir" (with _The Rebel Set_ or _The Bloody Brood_). The cool cast is a smidge disappointing, as Ms. Nurmi is *not* in anything like Vampira gear (and is otherwise unrecognizable as a beat girl with rat), and Irish McCalla plays a cop's wife - very gal next door and not va va voom. Still, there were some cool coffee house bongo scenes and it looked lovely and ripe (even if their notion of beat jazz was Louis Armstrong and Ray Anthony.) - --David (collecting Beatnik exploitation at every opportunity) # 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: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 23:29:37 -0600 From: King Kini Subject: (exotica) Fwd: ROBERT DRASNIN in MINNEAPOLIS >"VOODOO!" >MCE LIVE WITH 3 LEGENDS OF L.A. MUSIC AND A MPLS ICON: >ROBERT DRASNIN, SKIP HELLER AND D.J. BONEBRAKE, WITH KING KINI > >Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis Minnesota >Friday, April 23rd 1999 - Doors open at 8PM >Tickets $13 advance / $15 day of show (available at all Ticketmaster outlets) > >Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble (MCE), called "one of the country's leading >advocates of the new in music" by the Dallas Morning News and "a 70 minute >blast of brilliance" by Pulse, will present three living legends of the Los >Angeles music scene accompanied by 14 members of MCE. > >Robert Drasnin, you have heard his music a million times! He was the head >of music at CBS Television for 17 years and scored episodes of Twilight >Zone, Mission Impossible, Man from UNCLE, Wild Wild West, I Spy, and many >MANY more! The 1959 album "Voodoo" is his only recorded work released under >his own name and is considered a masterpiece of the "exotica/lounge" genre. >With Robert Drasnin conducting, MCE will present the first ever live >performance of "Voodoo" in its entirety, a once in a lifetime opportunity!! > >If Robert Drasnin is California's old master, Skip Heller is it's new >vision! His set will focus on his patented 50's Hollywood noire and >feature his new release "Couch Los Angeles", a baffling eclectic overview >of vintage and contemporary space age pop. A journalist, composer, >guitarist, arranger, and producer, Skip Heller is the only living >contemporary composer to have worked with "exotica" masters Les Baxter, Yma >Sumac, Korla Pandit, and Robert Drasnin. His work shows influences of such >progressive figures as John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Gustav Mahler, and Don Byron >as well as works by American composers Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Allen >Toussaint, and Reverend James Cleveland. > >D.J. Bonebrake is the drummer of the seminal and legendary Los Angeles punk >band "X". He also performs with the Heller, Drasnin, Bonebrake combo and >is a percussionist with the Palisades Symphony Orchestra. > >In between sets, audience members will be treated to Minneapolis' own >"lounge/exotica" expert, King Kini, spinning vinyl from his truly unique >and unmatched collection of vintage recordings. > > > >************* >MCE >classcial music that doesn't suck > >515 Ontario St. SE >Minnepaolis MN 55414 >www.newmusicmce.org >MCE@NewmusicMCE.org >(612) 331-3785 >fax 331-2696 > visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.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, 9 Apr 1999 00:29:38 EDT From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon Yeah, I've got this collection. I actually like "Stained Glass Windows" even better than the single. Gary Zekley was the main move in this group (and several others like the Clique - he wrote "Superman" which REM covered). It also featured the actor who played Robbie on _My Three Sons_. Excellent feature on Gary Zekley in Dominic Priore's _Dumb Angel Gazette_ #3. - --David # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:50:24 -0400 From: Graham Newton Subject: (exotica) Looking for old vinyl album... Does anyone have a copy of an old vinyl album called FULL MOON by a group of the same name? It was issued around 1972 by Douglas Records, # KZ31904 I'll beg borrow steal or buy it if you have one. Please respond off list to: gn@audio-restoration.com ... Graham Newton - -- Audio Restoration by Graham Newton, http://www.audio-restoration.com World class professional services applied to phonograph and tape recordings for consumers and re-releases, featuring CEDAR processes. # 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: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 23:55:34 +0100 From: "paul moshay" Subject: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist > Or further, have any of you considered that the Gap people may lurk on this Trust me, if not on this list in actuality, "they" (their mrtkng ppl, ad adgency dir's) are "on" it figuratively. They are the un-easy latecomers toting up a mountain of import comp cds to the counter at your loca indie store, whisking away in a new 525i...they are the unbelievable 'insiders' whispering in the bouncers ear at the head of the line...and they are taking notes in hopes of shaping perceptions of their products to "meet your needs". Paul Moshay # 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, 09 Apr 1999 09:01:31 -0400 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions, Mottola Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good? It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola... >From 1965... YES!(x3)....It's groovy-ass NOW SOUND and it's fer you! Plus, look at the all-star cast of Cark, Dick and Tony, how can you go wrong! Speaking of Tony Mottola, I have two questions about him. First of all, in the heartbreak that befalls all thrift-store denizens, I bought the COVER of Tony's ITALY TODAY, and it had another lesser of his inside. Is ITALY TODAY as fab as I imagine? Also, is he related to record magnate Tommy Mottola, the late Mr. Mariah Carey? Quizically, Jane Fondle # 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, 09 Apr 1999 09:09:46 -0400 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) While we're Mambo-ing > Nat, Fantasy has re-released some Mongo Santamaria material on CD which might be what you're looking for. You might want to check out Skins. Also on the Fantasy label, Ray Barretto's Carnaval CD is excellent material from the same period (early 60's) There is also a good CD compilation on Verve called 'The Best of Latin Jazz'' with good cuts by Machito, Willie Bobo, Candido Camero, Chico O'Farrill and others. Sean Those same folks appear on two GREAT mambo CDs I have...One is called THE MAMBO KINGS(not the movie soundtrack..although I'd like to know mo' about the film and it's OST)...and the other is one of those TALKIN' VERVE-Mambo. Just stellar, killer stuff! OK, does anybody agree(perhaps disagree) with me that Billy May's mambo arrangements on Yma's MAMBO record just about knock a lot of the Latin arrangements out widda BANG? That's one of the best mambo records I've ever heard, faux-Latin or no! Jane Fondle # 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, 9 Apr 1999 10:46:52 -0400 From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts >Oh yeah, those freaking drawstring pants commercials for Old Navy. OK, I'm >back to hating them. > I *love* that commercial. The idea that Morgan Fairchild can actually type fascinates me. :>) # 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, 09 Apr 1999 14:59:28 +0100 From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions, Mottola Madame Fondle wrote: > Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good? > It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola... Ooh yes - it's good. The Discotheque series are among my favourite Command LPs. > Speaking of Tony Mottola, I have two questions about him. First > of all, in the heartbreak that befalls all thrift-store denizens, > I bought the COVER of Tony's ITALY TODAY, and it had another lesser > of his inside. Is ITALY TODAY as fab as I imagine? Much as I love Tony's contribution to Command all-star albums I've always found his solo LPs quite soporific but I don't know anything about this particular LP... > Also, is he related to record magnate Tommy Mottola, the late > Mr. Mariah Carey? My memory's hazy on this but I *think* I asked him about this and he said he wasn't related but I'm sure there must be a family connection somewhere in there... Robbie - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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, 09 Apr 1999 10:17:12 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) obit: Bob Peck,Sam Shaw *Bob Peck LONDON (AP) -- British actor Bob Peck, who played a game warden in Steven Spielberg's 1993 dinosaur adventure ``Jurassic Park,'' died Sunday of cancer. He was 53. During his career, Beck acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater and starred in more than 20 television dramas. He was best known in Britain for his role in the 1985 television series, ``Edge of Darkness,'' about the threat of nuclear pollution. He made his international debut as game warden Robert Muldoon in the hugely popular dinosaur movie ``Jurassic Park.'' Known as a highly adaptable actor, Peck had always been widely respected by his colleagues. http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?USR=9:47:04|AM&p=avg&sql=B55739 April 9, 1999 Sam Shaw, 87, Film Producer and Photographer (NYTimes) Sam Shaw, a film producer and photojournalist famous for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate with her skirt billowing, died on Monday at a hospital in Westwood, N.J. He was 87 and lived in Tappan, N.Y. Born and reared on New York's Lower East Side, Shaw's artistic talents were evident even as a young boy when, without money to buy supplies, he would gather up tar from the streets and make sculptures of animals. By the time he finished high school, he had turned to painting and was offered either a scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute or a studio in which to work. He chose the latter, which he sometimes shared with the artist Romare Bearden. After a brief stint as the art director for the Brooklyn Eagle, Shaw began his career as a photojournalist with Colliers magazine in the 1940's. Alongside the journalist Harry Henderson, he traveled through the United States to create memorable photographs of West Virginian miners, Southern sharecroppers and New Orleans jazz musicians at work in their environs. His name became synonomous with the covers of Life and Look in the 1950's and 60's. Gradually, he moved into film. In 1951, he created the photograph of Marlon Brando in a ripped T-shirt that came to symbolize "A Streetcar Named Desire." It was while shooting Brando on the set of "Viva Zapata!" in 1952 that he met Monroe. A struggling contract player, she had been assigned to drive Shaw to film locations, and their friendship quickly ignited. Her star had risen by 1955, when Shaw was hired to shoot a poster for Billy Wilder's "Seven Year Itch." Before a crowd of thousands, Monroe re-enacted the scene from Wilder's script in which she left the Trans Lux theater on Lexington Avenue and crossed a subway grate, as a rush of air from an oncoming train caused the skirt of her white dress to fly up. "You've got to give Marilyn credit, too," Shaw said in an interview years later of that moment. "She was very inventive. She loved the camera." In recent years, Shaw had filed a $100 million suit againist his son, Larry Shaw of Piermont, in which he claimed that his son, then acting as his agent, made deals to illegally reproduce images of Monroe and pocketed the proceeds. His son denied the accusations, saying he had permission. In 1961 Shaw tried his hand at producing with "Paris Blues," starring Paul Newman, Joan Woodward, Sidney Poitier and Louis Armstrong. He went on to produce films for John Cassavetes, including "Husbands," "A Woman Under the Influence," "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie," "Opening Night," "Gloria" and "Love Streams." His survivors include his daughters, Meta Shaw Stevens of Manhattan and Edith Shaw Marcus of Tappan, N.Y.; seven grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?USR=9:52:31|AM&p=avg&sql=B111056 # 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 #366 *****************************