From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #516 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 Monday, October 11 1999 Volume 02 : Number 516 In This Digest: (exotica) Sabre Dance (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) (exotica) Classics Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Re: (exotica) Classics Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Re: (exotica) Classics (exotica) Uh Oh -- Death of Lounge Thing Again Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Re: (exotica) Classics Re: (exotica) Classics Re: (exotica) Classics Re: (exotica) Classics Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) SV: (exotica) Classics (exotica) Terry Baxter/Boots (exotica) Re: Rhino Handmade Early Warning #6 Re: (exotica) Classics Re: (exotica) Terry Baxter/Boots (exotica) Mystic Moog Orchestra (exotica) New Releases (Partch, The Monks) (exotica) Liner notes revisited Re: (exotica) Moai Eye (exotica) Tabu, the movie (exotica) Liner notes revisited [none] [none] [none] Re: (exotica) Mystic Moog Orchestra The Songs of Memories (was: Re: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi) Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Re: (exotica) Pepsi Ad Music (exotica) book recommendation Re: The Songs of Memories (was: Re: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi) Re: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie (exotica) weekend ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:36:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Carlson Subject: (exotica) Sabre Dance >Sabre Dance experience began with a version by... >uh... some English guitar >god rock band. Help me out here. It was Love Sculpture. The guitarist (extrodinaire) was Dave Edmunds, later a power-pop god with Nick Lowe and Rockpile. Craig ===== Craig Carlson Computer and Network Services Boston __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.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, 8 Oct 1999 23:54:11 -0400 From: "Karl Engel" Subject: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Apologies if the list has already covered this, but.... I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the New York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie. The movie is quite good and I think we'll see interesting things from Devor in the future, but the soundtrack will be a real joy to readers of this list; original music by Daniel Luppi along with many old exotica greats...Denny, Baxter, Yma Sumac to name a few....they're all on there and sounding great. After the screening, the director was asked if there would be a soundtrack CD....he "certainly hopes so." So do I. - -KE # 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, 09 Oct 1999 01:12:18 -0400 From: "Craig L. Carlson" Subject: (exotica) Classics Peter Risser wrote: >What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums So glad you asked! My top 1,000 lp's (in no particular order) are: Sabre Dance! Because it makes me want to spin plates on sticks in front of a live audience! Craig ccarlson@psn.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: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 01:21:52 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) At 11:54 PM 10/8/99 -0400, Karl Engel wrote: >I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the New >York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles >Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie. >original music by Daniel Luppi along with many old exotica greats...Denny, >Baxter, Yma Sumac to name a few....they're all on there and sounding great. Even if the great "lounge revival" is over in terms of the music business, it's still with us in the film business. And I suspect it will continue to be for a long time to come. There's probably a lot of reasons for it. Some kind of shared demographics in terms of people who bought lounge reissues and people who work in film and film music. The fact that soundtrack music has always been closely associated with lounge and/or exotica. The fact that this music lends itself to soundtracks so easily. The fact that things become "hip" about five years after they're finished. The fact that a lot of the DJ-types who sample this kind of stuff are producing CD's that sound like soundtracks for films that were never made. But any way you cut it, this music is coming up a lot lately. (Or maybe I just recognize it more than I used to.) Just the other day I rented "Office Space" - the first half of which I can recommend - and it begins with a classic Perez Prado cut, used to very humorous effect. Then there's Breakfast of Champions with all the Martin Denny stuff. And a couple of years ago there was "First the World then the Fireworks" (I think that was the name) with Pete Rugolo aping his own film noir scoring style. And of course, once upon a time there was Four Rooms where the music was by far the best part of the film. A film which could only have gotten worse if Roberto Benigni AND Robin Williams had been in it. I'm a Willeford fan and I'd like to see this film but this exotica soundtrack thing is getting a bit old, fast. And if that Esquivel biopic is ever made (or "lensed" as they say in the trades) then that'll just keep it going for another decade. (I shouldn't be so glib. The soundtrack to my own film is also heavily slanted in the same direction. My excuse is that these records are actually part of the story of the film itself.) # 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, 09 Oct 1999 11:32:44 +0200 From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Peter Risser wrote: > I had a little pet project ... > > What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums... "Little", eh? Wouldn't a Top 20 do as well? I mean, to know that "Hawaiian Swing" by Werner Mueller is the 87th favorite Exotica LP of altogether 20-30 people likely to participate in this poll, for, like, one vote that it got, does that really make sense? I mean, compared to the effort it takes to type 100 titles... Not that I don't want to know which are the favorite records of the members of this list, but don't you have some smaller change? Mo # 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, 9 Oct 1999 06:35:49 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) In a message dated 10/8/99 8:58:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cassiel@ix.netcom.com writes: << I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the New York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie. >> could a brief summary of the movie (with out giving away anything too major) be provided? what is the distribution of this thing going to be? and when? tb # 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, 9 Oct 1999 06:36:43 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics In a message dated 10/8/99 10:16:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ccarlson@psn.net writes: << Sabre Dance! Because it makes me want to spin plates on sticks in front of a live audience! >> but before that ladies and gentlemen: TOPO GEGEIO ! ! ! ! ! ! # 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, 9 Oct 1999 06:43:06 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Uh Oh -- Death of Lounge Thing Again In a message dated 10/8/99 10:19:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << Even if the great "lounge revival" is over in terms of the music business, it's still with us in the film business. And I suspect it will continue to be for a long time to come. There's probably a lot of reasons for it. Some kind of shared demographics in terms of people who bought lounge reissues and people who work in film and film music. >> and the same thing with commercials. Lounge music (loosely applied term here) and even strange music lends themselves so nicely to "background" music for commercials while not taking the attention away from the product. For instance, Esquivel's Sentimental Journey (you know -- the one with the guy whistling) plays for a Publix Grocery Store commercial here in the South. Baby elephant walk plays on a bathroom tissue commercial and there was a Combustible Edison cut on a Tide commercial that was mysteriously replaced by some other loungy like standard (reason Cleve???) We are going to continuer to hear the lounge, exotic, sapb, etc. but we are not going to get the reissues. i have always preferred smaller, more intimate parties if you will, anyway, tiki bob the swing stuff, and more particularly vocals, do not lend to good commercial background music. # 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, 9 Oct 1999 06:47:06 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) In a message dated 10/8/99 10:19:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << And if that Esquivel biopic is ever made (or "lensed" as they say in the trades) then that'll just keep it going for another decade. >> I like that Lensed phrase. I am going to use it in my trade (profession) too. As in "Have you lensed that patient yet?" Meaning have you put contact lenses on her. An old saying some optometrists would use is "hanging glass". As in when one optometrist asks another, "So what have you been up to lately." "Nothing, just hanging glass." Sorry for the non-related observations. Tiki Bob # 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, 9 Oct 1999 06:49:39 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics In a message dated 10/9/99 2:33:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: << "Little", eh? Wouldn't a Top 20 do as well? I mean, to know that "Hawaiian Swing" by Werner Mueller is the 87th favorite Exotica LP of altogether 20-30 people likely to participate in this poll, for, like, one vote that it got, does that really make sense? >> Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Christmas album is number 93 on my list. tb # 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, 9 Oct 1999 06:52:38 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Opps! What a fool I am, I meant to say 94. I know that everybody is interested in this information so I wanted to post a timely correction. Of course in the area of fairness, I will accept and carefully consider reasons it should stay at 93. Damn, now I am confused. I will be spending my weekend rearranging my albums in order of favorites. I have them lined down the hall, thru the den, into the kitchen and out the door. Tiki Bob # 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, 9 Oct 1999 06:56:00 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics In a message dated 10/9/99 2:33:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: << Not that I don't want to know which are the favorite records of the members of this list, but don't you have some smaller change? >> Yeah, why don't we just list our favorite album and then we can all shoot down each other. BTW, as EVERYBODY knows, my favorite album of all time is that Art Lyman album . . . oh I forget the title at the moment but you know the one I am taking about. Hawaiian something. tb # 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, 09 Oct 1999 15:10:39 +0200 From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > BTW, as EVERYBODY knows, my favorite album of all time is that Art Lyman > album . . . oh I forget the title at the moment but you know the one I am > taking about. Hawaiian something. Hawaiian pepper's lonely hearts club band. Marco (who is going to watch Monthy Python on BBC 2 tonight) - -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +------------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://weirdomusic.freeservers.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, 9 Oct 1999 09:32:15 -0400 From: "Karl Engel" Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) In a message dated 10/9/99 6:35 AM, Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes: > could a brief summary of the movie (with out giving away anything too major) > be provided? what is the distribution of this thing going to be? and when? They are still seeking distribution. They've been talking to a lot of people, but no deals are set yet. Apparently it will be showing at the Sundance Film Festival and the director wasn't yet sure if he would sell it before or after that. As for a summary....I always dislike revealing too much about a film, but with a a bit of a SPOLIER WARNING, here is what the NY Film Festival says about the film in their listings: "Debut writer/director Robinson Devor has crafted a film noir spoof as good as they get. our hero, Richard Hudson, on a quest for true meaning in his life, is played to deadpan, macho perfection by Patrick Warburton (Elaine's boyfriend, Putty on Seinfeld). Richard runs a crooked used car lot and lives with a family of misfits until the urge to make the great American movie thrusts him into new worlds. Like a ringleader engineering a crime, he eventually completes his grand opus but events soon take a monsterous twist. Devor has assembled a hilarious assortment of oddball characters struggling to make their mark in a low-down LA with glimpses of an unattainable glamour that cruelly beckons. " And I just stumbled upon this website about the movie: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jtlin/twc/ For any New Yorkers, it is playing at the Festival one more time at Alice Tully Hall today (Saturday the 9th) at 3pm. - -KE # 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, 9 Oct 1999 15:34:20 +0200 From: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: SV: (exotica) Classics philosphically: I would like to think that the best albums is still undiscovered, In = fact thats part of my ideology. Imagination creates. If you long for = something really much, sooner or later it will show up. However, I would like to be a part in choosing the 20 or 50 (not 100) = exotica classics rediscovered by most of us __until now__. It sounds = really interesting actually and would keep us occupied for a long time = to come. Magnus # 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, 9 Oct 1999 07:34:30 -0700 (PDT) From: d th Subject: (exotica) Terry Baxter/Boots Does anyone know the name of the Terry Baxter LP that has "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" on it? Trying to find it, can't. Darren! ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.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, 9 Oct 1999 12:47:46 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Rhino Handmade Early Warning #6 In a message dated 10/9/99 8:50:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mr.hand@rhino.com writes: << Greetings Earthling! This Monday, 11 October 1999, at Noon Pacific Daylight Time [1900 UTC], Rhino Handmade will begin taking orders for our sixth release. The Rhino Handmade Institute Of Petromusicology is very pleased to announce the release of MARK MOTHERSBAUGH's new Christmas album (yes, you can stop rubbing your eyes, a Christmas album) entitled 'Joyeux Mutato'. >> Has anybody on the List been buying these hand jobs? Any ideas/comments on the one above? tb # 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, 09 Oct 1999 18:57:10 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics At 06:56 AM 10/9/99 EDT, Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: >Yeah, why don't we just list our favorite album and then we can all shoot >down each other. I thought that was the point of the list. Oh well. Maybe the list has changed in the relatively short time I've been here but when I joined, you'd hear about certain records so frequently that eventually you'd have a de facto list of classic "must-have's" floating around in your head, even if such a list was never actually collated and presented. So if someone wants to actually write the thing down and present it, that's not too surprising... or threatening for that matter. He'd probably have had an easier time, for some reason, if he'd asked us for our favorite versions of "El Cumbanchero". (To which I would respond Eddie Osborn on "Organs and Bongos") Sorry if I can't remember who wanted the lists in the first place. I was planning to leave the first list to others. But I liked his question about the second list, the "lost classics" or "What are your favorite records that you'd like to give to every member of the list if you could?" I like the idea that people here have favorite records that they never hear about on the list. Somebody mentions Arthur Lyman and they think to themselves "If you like that, you should hear this.... Peter Appelyard record I have" I like the idea of finding some record in your local thrift and thinking you must be the only person in the world who has it or who values it. That's one of the cool things about this list; finding out that you aren't the only one. Sometimes. So I am going to respond to the lists request. But not in this post. # 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, 09 Oct 1999 19:05:13 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Terry Baxter/Boots At 07:34 AM 10/9/99 -0700, d th wrote: > > >Does anyone know the name of the Terry Baxter LP that >has "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" on it? >Trying to find it, can't. Geez, a Terry Baxter question. I've never seen a Terry Baxter LP per se. I have three of his "boxed sets", comprising eight LP's but surprisingly "Boots" is not on any of them. I'd be interested to know about his individual LP's if they exist. Too bad you weren't asking about "Psychedelic Shack". That I could have helped you with. # 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, 10 Oct 1999 10:22:41 -0700 From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Mystic Moog Orchestra Does anyone know anything about the Mystic Moog Orchestra, or heard their CD? I like the clever name but am curious what they actually sound like. Thanks. Brad # 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, 10 Oct 1999 13:08:19 +0200 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) New Releases (Partch, The Monks) More New Releases in this week at Forced Exposure: http://www.forcedexposure.com. - ------------------------------ INNOVA: PARTCH, HARRY: Enclosure Six: Delusion of the Fury CD (INNO 406). Finally, the major missing piece of the Partch discography has been reissued! "To mark the 25th anniversary of the composer=B9s death (on September 4, 1974), and just in time for his centenary (June 24, 2001), Delusion of the Fury, the monumental work of ritual-theater that propelled Harry Partch into the limelight, is being released on CD. Originally recorded for Columbia Masterworks and long-since out of print, Innova, in conjunction with Sony Music Special Products, has reissued this central item of American musical history. With the appearance of this recording, the complete works of Harry Partch (1901-1974), one of the most important of American artists, are available for the first time (the remaining works are published largely by innova=B9s Enclosure series and the CRI Partch Collection). Like composer Conlon Nancarrow, Partch had to wait until late in life for his radical contributions to the arts to receive wide attention. With the 1969 production of Delusion he was 'discovered', idolized, and gurufied, as a 43-tone-to-the-octave, ex-hobo, eccentric, maverick, iconoclastic instrument-builder, and a 'philosophic music-man seduced into carpentry.' Hippy hyperbole notwithstanding, Partch was a genuine far-out radical whose time has come. Again. Delusion of the Fury is a 72=B9 totally-integrated, corporeal, microtonal, elemental work of ritual theater, incorporating almost all of Partch=B9s hand-built orchestra of sculptural instruments. Using mime, dance, music, vocalizations, lighting, and costume, Partch presents two tales concerning reconciliation of life and death, one after a Japanese Noh drama, the other after an Ethiopian folk tale. The vidoe release Enclosure Four: Harry Partch (Innova 404) features the film version of Delusion, but this is the first time that the high-quality stereo sound version is available on CD. Perhaps the most astonishing, seductive and compelling of Partch=B9s works, Delusion stands as the 'Choral Symphony' or 'Ring Cycle' do to other composers: a culminating testament to a lifetime of 'doing your own thing.' The 16-page illustrated booklet features Partch=B9s introduction and a new text by conductor Danlee Mitchell." $13.00 _____________________________________________ OMPLATTEN: MONKS: Five Upstart Americans CD (FJORD 005). "Five American GI's are stationed in West Germany in 1964. They form a rock group to entertain their fellow soldiers at their army base. They name the band the Five Torquays and play a selection of cover songs. In 1965 the band members are discharged from the army. Something very odd happens to their artistic pursuit. The band declares themselves the anti-Beatles, they start dressing in black, wearing heavy work boots, shaving tonsures on their heads, wearing nooses around their necks, reducing their music to a throbbing, rhythmic noise. The lyrics are chanted: "I hate you with a passion baby", "Shut up don't cry", "We don't like the army, what army, any army, Pussy Galore is coming down and we like it". The band name is the Monks. They tour Germany for two years, fueled by amphetamines and a monk-like discipline. In 1966 they play 364 dates, in 1967, 362. This lead to the implosion of the band. "We'd go from town to town to town, jumping up and playing two sets and off to the next one. We got attacked: People would jump up onstage and try to hit us -- try and kill you. These were young working class men, thinking that their religion had been smeared, or maybe they thought we were Americans taking advantage of their disadvantage." The sessions restrained within this shiny compact disc were recorded at Hilversum in Germany in 1965, almost a year before the Black Monk Time album. They are more primitive, more Back From the Grave sounding, but no less handsome than the versions on Black Monk Time. As pointed out by Mr. Burger and Mr. Shaw in the sleeve notes, they were demos the band cut with the hope of getting a deal, which as we know fell into place with Polydor Records. What is beat? What is beat today? And what is over-beat? And who the hell is going to melt the hot and cold worlds of tomorrow? Listen as Roger beats, Gary plucks, Dave pummels. And Eddie dreams hell's bass part. And Larry fingers the keys of the day after tomorrow. The Monks believe in nothing. The Monks believe that everything is possible. The Monks give everything. The Monks demand everything. Words are the outline of lies. Lying is the art of pleasing others. -- The Monks, 1966/Sleeve notes for Black Monk Time. $13.00 # 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, 10 Oct 1999 14:03:37 -0700 From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Liner notes revisited While scanning a Dick Contino LP that I have more for the cover than the music, I came across this in the biographical liner notes: "At the tender age of 7, after much begging, Dick was allowed to follow his strongest desire, to play the accordion. The family later moved to San Francisco and it was there that Dick decided he wanted a better accordion. This request would not be granted by the parents, however, until it was decided that young Dick had "what it takes". The family discovered an old master accordionist, Angelo Cagnazzo, who said he'd find out if Dick had the "stuff". This was a crisis in Dick's young life, for if he failed to impress the teacher he would have to return to the butcher shop where he had been working and learn the meat-cutting trade. The instructor was not only impressed, but it wasn't long after that Dick actually moved in with the instructor in order that he may study full time, a move that literally assured him of success." That is just...so...beautiful . And they say show biz can be so cruel. ;) - -- Brad # 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, 10 Oct 1999 21:55:27 +0200 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye Anyone familiar with a CD called Rapa Nui - Osterinsel (TP9012)? Music from the most mysterious place on earth apparently, it's on a German label. I know Tug Records (www.tug-rec.de) sells it. 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: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:03:41 +0200 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Some more exotic advice needed. Murnau's "Tabu" has a one off showing later this month at a local cinema, with accompanying real live music no less. Is this worth catching at all cost (hate to give up my chess night for it!) ? I don't know the movie at all I'm afraid. 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: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 14:03:37 -0700 From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Liner notes revisited While scanning a Dick Contino LP that I have more for the cover than the music, I came across this in the biographical liner notes: "At the tender age of 7, after much begging, Dick was allowed to follow his strongest desire, to play the accordion. The family later moved to San Francisco and it was there that Dick decided he wanted a better accordion. This request would not be granted by the parents, however, until it was decided that young Dick had "what it takes". The family discovered an old master accordionist, Angelo Cagnazzo, who said he'd find out if Dick had the "stuff". This was a crisis in Dick's young life, for if he failed to impress the teacher he would have to return to the butcher shop where he had been working and learn the meat-cutting trade. The instructor was not only impressed, but it wasn't long after that Dick actually moved in with the instructor in order that he may study full time, a move that literally assured him of success." That is just...so...beautiful . And they say show biz can be so cruel. ;) - -- Brad # 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: From: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:52:37 +0200 From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Mystic Moog Orchestra B. Yost wrote: > Does anyone know anything about the Mystic Moog Orchestra, or heard > their CD? I like the clever name but am curious what they actually > sound like. > > I only know the Mystic Moods Orchestra... they're OK, if you like strings. Mo # 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: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:48:48 +0200 From: Nicola Battista Subject: The Songs of Memories (was: Re: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi) >Has anyone out there (especially the Italian list members) heard of this >series of CDs? Are there any more volumes besides the 5 I bought? Any info >would be appreciated, per favore. uhmm my ram memory can't find any bit of info on this... can you tell me on which label are they? bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # 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: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:19:32 +0200 From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Arjan Plug wrote: > Some more exotic advice needed. Murnau's "Tabu" has a one off showing later > this month at a local cinema, with accompanying real live music no less. Is > this worth catching at all cost (hate to give up my chess night for it!) ? I > don't know the movie at all I'm afraid. I'd say yes, especially if you know the story behind it. I wrote about it here on the list some time ago, as quoted below. It's an old film, so if you can't stand old silent movies at all, you better not go. There was in fact a documentary about the filming of Tabu and Murnau, which might be interesting to you. Mo (exotica mailing list, 19.7.1999:) ..."OK, I hope I remember all of this correctly: When you transform the native languages of Tonga, Hawaii and other South sea cultures into Western Latin letters, you have to do this based on how the sounds are spelled in a specific Western language. If you take English for example as the reference language you have to spell the word "taboo". However Hawaii, Tonga etc. chose German as their reference way back; the word pronounced as the English "taboo" would be spelled "Tabu" in German, which is how Hawaiians etc. actually write this word in their own languages today. In the special case of the actual word "Tabu" another fact might be interesting: The word came into Western culture by mistake: When Murnau made his film "Tabu" in Bora Bora in 1931, a little island next to Bora Bora played a significant role: It was the island of the gods and no man was allowed to enter it. It was called Tapu. Despite native threats Murnau did enter the island and built a house for himself on it. Because he did not die immediately he was seen by the natives as a kind of god after that. Later though, the hut burnt down mysteriously (none of the natives admitted having done it, they claimed "it was the gods"), and after his return to America Murnau died in a car crash soon after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however became a synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."... # 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: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:31:06 +0100 From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Pepsi Ad Music Phil Clark: > > Jane said, about a Pepsi promo song: > > ">>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND > GALLERY, eh? Does anybody remember that song being > used in an ad? Can Ashley fill us in on this a bit > more? > Prefers Coke, Jane Fondle" > > WOW I need a tape of that Italian pepsi song!! Pretty please ?!?!?!? > > Meantime I can fill in a bit about the cut on the Sound Gallery album for > ya: it's "Shout about Pepsi" and it was taken from "Non-Stop Pepsi Party" by > (I think) veteran EMI session muso Alan Hawkshaw, released on UK budget My brain has been straining to recall... wasn't it by "Denny Wright and the Hustlers"? That doesn't sound right. But that's what I'm thinking. > label MFP c.1976. I found this LP in a junk (thrift) store for 25 pence, > which is about right. The cover features the usual dolly bird in garish pose > and the vinyl is AFAICR less than essential listening. Mighta bin some > promotional tie-in or soemthing but then I'd have expected it to have been > on a custom label rather than MFP. > It's not really distinguishable from any other run of the mill non-stop partying party dance party-non-stop kind of album. Last week I found a 7" of Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg performing their own "Ski Full-of-Fitness Theme". From about 1971, this is a jingle for Ski yoghurt, informing you over and over again about the virtues of Ski in a nasty little jingle. Pretty scary thing, on the Ski label (naturally!). # 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: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:26:38 +0200 From: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: (exotica) book recommendation Last month I read a book of Arthur Grimble called "a pattern of Islands" = about his adventures as a colonial worker on the salomon islands = 1915-55. Firstly, I recommend it for Mr Grimbles descriptions of the = natives on the islands, which is full of love and sympathy, probably = quite uncommon in those days among the sent out europeans. secondly for = the religious content. The englishman calls himself an agnostic, but has = a hard time explaining what he himself faces among the natives. The word = Tiki gets mentioned several times, mostly when black magic is involved. = But Tiki doesnt mean a sungod, The sungod has another name among these = people. Unfortunately the preparations of the dead isnt described, which is = scary, because the preparations is crucial when it comes to pass the guy = with the big net while the soul is on its way to paradise.=20 Oh, this was written in the 50s and I dont know if its still available, = but since I read it in a swedish translation it most certainly was a = bestseller, so a little effort in some used books store would probably = get result. (Read while listening to any record with the name "Withcraft", "Voodoo", = "Exotic" in the title. ;) Magnus # 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: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 08:28:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: The Songs of Memories (was: Re: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi) On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Nicola Battista wrote: > > >Has anyone out there (especially the Italian list members) heard of this > >series of CDs? Are there any more volumes besides the 5 I bought? Any info > >would be appreciated, per favore. > > uhmm my ram memory can't find any bit of info on this... can you tell me > on which label are they? The box states: "Warner Fonit, A Division of Nuova Fonit Cetra S.p.A., A Warner Music Group Company" The volumes I have (and the label numbers) are: Vol. 1 - Ma l'amore no (CDM 2083) Vol. 2 - Venezia la luna e tu (CDM 2084) Vol. 3 - Pippo non lo sa (CDM 2085) Vol. 4 - Abbassa la tua radio (CDM 2086) Vol. 5 - C'e un' orchestra sincopata (CDM 2087) Hope this helps... - -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # 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: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:41:14 -0400 From: Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie >after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however >became a >synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."... The film wasn't the cause of this. "Taboo/tabu" was first used in English in the late 18th century (1777) and had become fairly common--at least among naturalists and historians, which at that time of course included a good bit of the literate public--during the 19th century. And check Anger's "Hollywood Babylon" for a lurid story about Murnau's death which may or may not be true. LT # 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: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:40:33 +0100 From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) weekend I got the Blow up OST at the weekend, mainly for 'Bring down the Birds', which had the bassline sampled for 'Groove is in the heart'. Its still a great track, theres only one other track with anything like that sort of groove. So it was a bit of a disappointment. Enjoyed the Yardbirds track though. and only ten pounds so it could have been worse. Then the gods continued to smile as I found a mint copy of 'Uniquely Mancini' worth having for the way he gets 'Green Onions' to sound just like the Pink Panther theme, If nothing else. But the rest of it is enjoyable indeed. Also got a copy of 'Beyond the Reef' by Wout Steenhuis. Its from '74, and I found a lot more enjoyable than other LPs by him. Bit more lush. Nice cover (that is if anyone out there appreciates covers without unclad women on them). I'm out to get the Frank Comstock boot tomorrow, and a copy of Harry Stonehams 'Solid Gold Hammond' if the gods will only keep them in stock for me. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #516 *****************************