From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #635 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 Wednesday, February 23 2000 Volume 02 : Number 635 In This Digest: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion (exotica) Re: Take it off.... (exotica) Snake Handling Music Re: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion (exotica) Otto Klemperer Re: (exotica) Snake handling music (exotica) Air Re: Re: (exotica) the world's greatest mystery Re: (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative/Pernicious Percussion Platters Re: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion Re: (exotica) Air Re: (exotica) Snake Handling Music Re: (exotica) Re: Take it off.... (exotica) Fidelity inTime Re: (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative/Pernicious Percussion Platters Re: (exotica) Re: Take it off.... (exotica) Senor Coconut Re: (exotica) Senor Coconut (exotica) infinity album covers (exotica) leaving list Re: (exotica) the world's greatest mystery Re: (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative Percussion (exotica) Valvola (exotica) Ilsa, Victor Mature & the East-West Shrine Game Re: (exotica) Valvola (exotica) scotland connection (exotica) [obits]Husam el-Din Mustafa,Barney Childs,Newt Arnold (exotica) Pair of "Wild Parties" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:07:47 -0500 From: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion >5. Anyone heard of "Exotica 1970"? There's a record by that name by the Kokee band, on Solid State. I like em though I like their other record "Hawaii and other exotic themes" better. Nice to know they made another one. I have "Exotica 1970" but it's not a knockout. This was produced by Sonny Lester. The guy who did the record "How to Strip for your Husband". 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:31:59 -0500 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Re: Take it off.... <<"How to Strip for your Husband".>> Speaking of that album, anyone have "How to Belly Dance for Your Husband?" = Didn't feel like paying the whopping dollar each for vinyl on that = particular day.=20 Also had one called "Now Sound of Hawaii" or something like that. Comments on either? - - Nate # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:29:10 -0500 From: Peter Gingerich Subject: (exotica) Snake Handling Music I contacted my friend who is knowledgeable (g0d what an ugly word) in these christian matters for some info. Meanwhile I've got 'snake charmer music' from India from one of those old labels like Monitor or Everest (you know, the cool cover and absolutely no liner notes), on tape. Loud reed and percussion, and it roques. Let me know if interested. (There is also a video on snake handlers, from Shanachie I think, seen it at the library. More interest in the subject lately as a handler recently died from being bitten...) pg >>>Okay, here's another "surprise genre" that I couldn't believe actually exists. Evidently, those wacky serpent worshipers from the deep south have a very unique blend of "Christian rock-a-billy" with synth organ, tamborine and the like that are part of the church service. And this stuff is now available.....anybody know what the hell I'm talking about - or was it another one of my weird dreams??? :-0 - - Nate # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:39:21 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion At 10:07 AM 2/22/00 -0500, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: > >Nice to know they made another one. I have "Exotica 1970" but it's not a >knockout. >This was produced by Sonny Lester. The guy who did the record "How to Strip >for your Husband". Sonny did a lot more than that. He produced tons of stuff on Solid State. And his "After Hours" series is pretty good. But the "AH" installment called "Middle East", is in my opinion one of the great "surfin exotica" records ever made. In fact, it's the only record that got used twice for my exotica-ring tape. # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:45:34 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Otto Klemperer In a message dated 2/21/00 8:50:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << I also wonder if a Hogan's Heroes completist would have to collect records with orchestras conducted by Otto Klemperer. >> there was some guy on the list about 3 or 4 years ago who met Klemperer in NYC on a street corner (or out side of Klemperer's building). does anybody remember this? 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:49:16 +0000 From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Snake handling music Nathan Miner wrote: > > Okay, here's another "surprise genre" that I couldn't believe actually exists. > > Evidently, those wacky serpent worshipers from the deep south have a very unique blend of "Christian rock-a-billy" with synth organ, tamborine and the like that are part of the church service. Isn't there a snake/church band scene in the film Vanishing Point? Is this the 'serpent worshipping' you mean? - -- http://moreover.com : The Webfeed Company - --> free newsfeeds in one minute # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 00 16:54:29 +0100 From: Bissia Subject: (exotica) Air Can someone send me a jpeg or an url displaying the very first Air 12'inch ? I'm not sure i have that one (but it could be) I have Casanova 70 (blue swiming pool sleeve if i remember well) but i never seen one with an autobhan on it =B0-) Thanks in advance # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:18:51 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) the world's greatest mystery In a message dated 2/22/0 5:02:57 AM, itsvern@ibm.net wrote: > Micheal Bolton is back in the news, >trying to wrestle the royalties away from the Isley Brothers. My wife grew up in New Haven CT with that sack of shit and she says he was a pompous egotist from the git-go and she isn't the type to be judgemental...His real name is Bloton. # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:22:00 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative/Pernicious Percussion Platters In a message dated 2/22/0 7:09:35 AM, spaceagepop@earthlink.net wrote: > I'm pretty positive this prostrates the >poll of perdurable percussion platters. Will pandemonium persist if we parse this potpourri while placating pondering pedantics yet pander to previous percussive com-Pleatists? # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:24:14 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: prepubescent percussion In a message dated 2/22/0 10:17:47 AM, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: >This was produced by Sonny Lester. You can read all about how little is actually known about Sonny Lester in Eddie Gorodetsky's liner notes in Rhino's "Strip Classics" # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:22:17 +0000 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Air Its a golden brown colour, and it has AIR in stylized 3D letters in th= e centre. The brown background is a sun drenched road/motorway. JPEG? Dre= am on. >>Can someone send me a jpeg or an url displaying the very first Air 12'inch ? I'm not sure i have that one (but it could be) I have Casanova 70 (blue swiming pool sleeve if i remember well) but i never seen one with an autobhan on it =B0-) +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message may contain confidential and/or privileged | | information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to | | receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, | | disclose or take any action based on this message or any | | information herein. If you have received this message in | | error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail | | and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ = # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:46:57 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Snake Handling Music peter.gingerich@wcom.com wrote: > (There is also a video on snake handlers, from Shanachie I think, seen it at the library. More interest in the subject lately as a handler recently died from being bitten...) pg ====== That would be: Beats of the Heart - Chase the Devil: Religious Music of the Appalachians http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301686802/qid=951237367/sr=1-1/102-4567288-4449635 "Beats of the Heart" is a fab series of world music docs. There's also a great OOP book, which expands on the docs, by the director of the series: Beats of the Heart : Popular Music of the World by Jeremy Marre http://pfo.org/succumbs.htm - -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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:11:54 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Take it off.... At 10:31 AM 2/22/00 -0500, Nathan Miner wrote: > ><<"How to Strip >for your Husband".>> > >Speaking of that album, anyone have "How to Belly Dance for Your Husband?" Didn't feel like paying the whopping dollar each for vinyl on that particular day. Is this a Sonny Lester record? Sonny had an interesting take on "middle eastern" music, as evidenced on the "After Hours: Middle East" record that I already referred to once today. In the same vein, I have another good record by him with the same sound and even some of the same tunes called "The Belly Dancer". That day Sonny and the boys called themselves "Abdul Alexi Freeman and his Enquirers" (or something like that). So if it's Sonny and it's belly dancing, I'd go for it. Then again, the strip record is pretty mediocre and doesn't have that middle eastern sound at all. But for a buck... 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:57:53 -0500 From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: (exotica) Fidelity inTime Does anybody know? After getting reel-to-reel copy of Persuasive Percussion I thought of something. What were the political and or technical issues behind = rock bands in the late 60s and early 70s that made the record companies = release the recordings with such low-fidelity? My vintage 1959 recordings by Enoch Light have more dynamic range and a wider spectrum of sound than very many of the records and CD reissues I = have of some rock music from the late 60s and early 70s, like Spirit--"I got = a line on you" and Jimi Hendrix--"Manic Depression" and most Iron = Butterfly records and the list goes on and on.=20 I know that the good equipment was around, alebit a bit pricey. Some = bands, like the Doors, had access to good stuff. =20 Certainly by the end of the 60s, the rock influence had become = significant enough in the industry to afford the high quality recording and = duplicating equipment afforded to the "biggies" 10 years previous. Why is it that = SO many of our "classic" rock records have poorer sound than some = mid-fifties jazz/lounge/exotica? =20 Anybody byte? visit=20 THE BRIMSTONES Eternal Surf and Garage Damnation=20 at http://www.brimstones.com =A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,= =B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4 surfing the chaos, Charlieman cdr@brimstones.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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:16:01 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative/Pernicious Percussion Platters not sure if this is within the strict parameters, but a fun percussion lp is The Rene Paulo Group's Tropical Heat on Life records. Great stereo sound, bongos, bass and piano (and great cover too: nude woman obscured through the net-mesh of the hammock in which she is sprawled, languorous and glowing...). This lp kicks the crap out of Black Coral, which I assume is a later effort, on the Liberty label (nice cover art there as well). I have included a sample on the tape I have sent some. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:07:03 -0500 From: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Take it off.... >Speaking of that album, anyone have "How to Belly Dance for Your Husband?" I like the Belly Dance one a lot more. More ethnic/exotica.The other one is, well, as the name suggests, too burlesque. BTW, Sonny Lester's name came out on a CD called "How to Strip for your Lover" unless you like smooth jazz stay away from it. Sonny, or whoever he is, came out of retirement in Florida to make this. 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:31:50 +0100 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Senor Coconut Anyone heard this? - ------------- SENOR COCONUT German Dance (Kraftwerk Covers) CD (AMCT japan). Japanese only release by Senor Coconut (aka Atom Heart), whose previous album was on Rather Interesting; file under simulation. Tracks include "Neonlights (chachacha)", "Trans Europe Express (cumbia)", "Tour De France (merengue)", "Man Machine (baklan a la prado)", "Radioactivity (rhumba)", "Autobahn (drum 'n' cumbia)", "Numbers (mambo)", "Sex Object (salsa)", "The Robots (salsa)", "Pocket Calculator (merengue)", "Showroom Dummies (chachacha)", "Music Non Stop (cumbia)". "When Kraftwerk came out of cryogenic storage in the late90s to play a few shows, I wasn't one of the privileged who actually got to see them, but I did read a number of reviews of these concerts, and I swear that in at least three of them the reviewer said that people in the crowd were crying when the group hit the stage, tears of joy, and oddly enough that doesn't surprise me at all. If that doesn't surprise you either, then this CD might be for you. While it looks like we might have to wait another decade for an actual brand new Kraftwerk album, Atom Heart (Rather Interesting records, aka Lisa Carbon aka Lassigue Bendthaus aka LB) tops last years Pop Artificelle record by a long shot, an entire record of Kraftwerk tunes seamlessly reconfigured as cha chas, meringues, rumbas, etc. Their songs actually lend themselves quite well to this treatment, and unlike records by dozens of artists out there these days who crank out shamelessly inferior Ralf and Florian-styled product, you'll probably find yourself playing this a lot more than once, at least to see your friends jaws drop when they hear "Radioactivity" done with trumpets and marimbas..." -- Billy Kiely."The tingle of torrid trumpets...the simmering of sensuous saxes...the clicks of the claves and the magic of the maracas...and underneath it all the buoyant beatings of the drums and the tom toms. Here is great sound and great music - A tribute to all great dancers..." 33.99 # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:39:36 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Senor Coconut Arjan Plug wrote: > Anyone heard this? SENOR COCONUT German Dance (Kraftwerk Covers) CD (AMCT japan). Japanese only release by Senor Coconut (aka Atom Heart). ========== I haven't heard it, but I did search amazon.com for it after reading your post. Strangely, it's listed twice under slightly different titles and with two different prices! Go figure!! Imports: Baile Aleman (Kraftwerk Covers) [IMPORT] Senor Coconut / Audio CD / Released 2000 Our Price: $34.49 Eel Baile Aleman (Kraftwerk Co [IMPORT] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Senor Coconut / Audio CD Our Price: $31.49 # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:15:37 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Kingsley Subject: (exotica) infinity album covers I was in a record store this past weekend and the clerk was showing me some albums he had just received. One of the ones he pulled out - I forget who it was by - had a cover image of a woman holding an album jacket that had the same image on it, which in turn had the same image on it (I hope that description makes sense). I've seen a few of them (an example being "Music to Recline By") but I've never really paid them much attention. The guy called it an infinity cover and said that people collect comic books that have these types of covers and I was curious if anyone on the list collects records with covers like these. Were they very common? regards, mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:49:01 CST From: "Belzar salgado" Subject: (exotica) leaving list ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 02:02:15 +0100 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) the world's greatest mystery >in scotland we have freemasons and it just looks like a >drinking club to me (which is not necessarily a bad thing). Ah, Scottish Freemasons, I was wondering when they were going to turn up. A while ago I read a tiny item about the sale at auction of the "Benison Bowl", used by Beggars' Benison of Anstruther, a secret society founded in the 18th century in Scotland, it involved a group of well-to-do men (possibly royalty too) drinking and undergoing rituals including measuring their penises in the "Benison Bowl", I would imagine that some form of wanking went on as well ("an auto-erotic secret society"). Some woman did research on this and when she went to look at old papers on the subject, the curators either professed total ignorance or seemed embarrassed that anyone else knew about it. I am intrigued, especially as it's one of the few things I've tried to research that I haven't been able to get any information on through the internet, not even Lou was able to find more than a few practically meaningless passages (except for a possibly revealing book at a London antiquariat, that is in the proces of being ordered by a London friend), which leads me to think that there isn't anything to be found on the net. That's to say, if on this improbable list we don't have an expert for those jolly beggars as well... Cheers, Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:29:03 -0800 From: "B. Yost" Subject: Re: (exotica) Persuasive/Provocative Percussion Aaah...I've long been interested in this: > >There were 5 Persuasives and 4 Provocatives on Command: > >RS 800 SD Persuasive > >RS 806 SD Provocative > >RS 808 SD Persuasive Vol 1 > >RS 810 SD Provocative Vol 1 > >RS 817 SD Persuasive Vol 3 > >RS 821 SD Provocative Vo1 3 > >RS 830 SD Persuasive Vol 4 > >RS 834 SD Provocative Vol 4 > >RS 895 SD Persuasive 1966 > >There was also a "Passionate Percussion" on Directional Sound, two volumes > >of "Perspectives in Percussion" on Somerset, arranged by Skip Martin, and > a > >"Predominant Percussion" on Crown. > > Not to mention > > "Potent Percussion" Don Catelli Directional Sound DS-5010 > "Polynesian Percussion" Chango and the Polynesians Directional Sound > DS-???? > "Persistant Percussion" Maxwell Davis Kent KST-500 (same as Crown?) > > and, if you would allow: > > "Pertinent Percussion Cha Chas" Enoch Light Command RS 814 SD And don't forget: Pervasive Percussion (Omega) Pervasive Percussion (Sutton) hmmm..need to see if these are same music Process 35 Percussion (Spin-O-Rama) Progressive Percussion (Modern) The Pinnacle of Percussion (Pirouette) and winner of best "P" alliteration in my collection: Passionate Paris in Ping Pong Percussion (Coronet) Somebody needs to document this with cover scans on a website. - -- 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:33:48 -0800 From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Valvola Curious about other peoples' reactions to the Valvola CD, "Teenagers Film Their Own Life." They're from Florence, play vintage synthesizers, use lots of reverb, sound to me like "Autobahn"-era Kraftwerk meets The Doors meets Low, with some cinematic qualities to the sound. Funky detached ennui. Kinda low key, but I'm liking it. - -- 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:16:12 -0800 From: Jim Gerwitz Subject: (exotica) Ilsa, Victor Mature & the East-West Shrine Game The category is potpourri, Alex, for $10. 1. Mondo Digital lists 3 Ilsa movies due on DVD in may. I'll slo-mo and look for Schultz. Shows 10th Victim also due in May, and Candy listed with no release date. 2. Victor Mature never takes his fez off during von Sternberg's "The Shanghai Gesture," which takes place in Mother Gin Sling's Casino in Shanghai, a MUCH more exotic joint than the Blue Gardenia recently mentioned. Tagline: 'People Live in Shanghai for Many Reasons... Most of Them Bad!" And 3AM sat night out of the blue again came Mr. Mature in 1953's "The Veils of Baghdad" on one of those obscure digital cable channels. He rassled Jim Arness and romanced B-movie beauty Mari Blanchard, who did TWO great exotic dance numbers, music credited to Henry Mancini & Herman Stein!!! Good mindless exotic fun, now if i could only find my tape of that mummy movie Les Baxter scored. 3. Sometime in the late 70's I went to the annual East-West Shrine football game at Stanford. The fezzes and tassels and crescent moons were out in force on the thousands of Shriners, and it was very strange. However, at halftime we all enjoyed the Kilgore Rangerettes, about 200 lovely Texas junior college girls in white boots and hot pants doing precision drillwork and high kicks. Yow! Kinda like Brazilian tv star Xuxa's majorette assistants, if you ever caught her "kids" show on the spanish channel. aaaa ohhh aaaaa ohhhhh aaaaa ohhhh! The Remote Control Maniac # 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, 23 Feb 2000 00:24:23 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Valvola I liked this CD. (some mildly shameless self-promotion here) I actually reviewed it in "Cool & Strange Music" #14 - I described it as "electronica-influenced psychedelic lounge ballads". It's very much in line with the other new "now" sound stuff coming out of Italy. "(One Love) Le Blues Ermetique" can also be found on Irma's "Ultradolce" compilation. Recommended. cheryl "B. Yost" wrote: > > Curious about other peoples' reactions to the Valvola CD, "Teenagers > Film Their Own Life." > > They're from Florence, play vintage synthesizers, use lots of reverb, > sound to me like "Autobahn"-era Kraftwerk meets The Doors meets Low, > with some cinematic qualities to the sound. Funky detached ennui. > > Kinda low key, but I'm liking it. # 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, 23 Feb 2000 11:04:00 -0500 From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: (exotica) scotland connection Is this off topic?? Scotland connection: The Masons or a related group were created or surfaced in the court of Robert the Bruce as a nucleus of politcal opposition against the British Crown. As he was King of the Scots in the early 13th century (1316-1329 I think) the bowl must have been very old and grungy by the time the 18th century rolled around. # 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, 23 Feb 2000 14:31:01 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits]Husam el-Din Mustafa,Barney Childs,Newt Arnold *Husam el-Din Mustafa CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Husam el-Din Mustafa, an American-trained film director who created about 100 films and dozens of popular Egyptian soap operas, died Tuesday. He was 64. Mustafa died in his Cairo home from a stroke, according to the Middle East News Agency. He began his career as an assistant to American director Cecil B. De Mille. Mustafa graduated from the University of Southern California in 1951 before assisting De Mille in the film ``The Greatest Show on Earth.'' On his return to Egypt in 1956, he directed his first film, ``Enough, My Eyes,'' a tragedy that introduced him as a serious director and producer. Among his prize-winning movies are ``The Bullet Still in My Pocket,'' about the 1973 Arab Israeli War, along with ``Enemy Brothers'' and ``The Devils.'' ``By himself, he was a school in the movie art who advanced Egyptian cinema,'' said actress Nadia Lutfi, who starred his 1963 film, ``The Black Glasses.'' Mustafa earned the wrath of many pan-Arabists when he visited Israel several times after the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace accord. He urged fellow artists to visit as well, a a move he said would encourage peace between Arabs and their Jewish neighbors. His soap operas were mostly historical, dealing with events in the early centuries of Islam. Hid better-known soap operas included: ``The Knights,'' ``The Heroes,'' ``Ibn Hazm'' and ``The Age of The Imams.'' Mustafa had been working on a popular television series, ``The Eagle of the East,'' about the Muslim military leader Saladin, who drove back crusaders from the holy land in Palestine in the 12th century. A funeral was held Tuesday in Cairo. Mustafa is survived by his wife, Nadia, and a daughter, Jihan. ============= Friedensreich Hundertwasser NYTimes obit at: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-f-hundertwasser.html ============ February 22, 2000 Barney Childs, 73, a Composer Interested in the Experimental By PAUL GRIFFITHS - NY Times Barney Childs, a composer and teacher, died on Jan. 11 at his home in Redlands, Calif. He was 73. The cause was Parkinson's disease, said his friend and colleague, Phillip Rehfeldt. Born in Spokane, Wash., Mr. Childs grew up there and in Palo Alto, Calif. He studied at the University of Nevada and at Oxford and Stanford Universities, taking courses in English as well as music. Later he taught in both fields. In composition, though, he was self-taught until he was in his late 20's when he studied with Aaron Copland and Carlos Chávez at Tanglewood and Elliott Carter in New York. By the late 1950's his music was gaining national recognition. Meanwhile he had begun teaching at the University of Arizona, where he worked from 1956 to 1965. He became the dean of Deep Springs College in California, and composer in residence at the Wisconsin College Conservatory before taking a post at Redlands University in California. In 1989 he was a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. His musical enthusiasms were broad, and they all left a mark on his compositions, which embraced the mainstream masters of his early years, like Hindemith, along with Ives, Cage and jazz. Cage's influence was a particular liberation, leading Mr. Childs to engage the performer in more or less free music making. Among Mr. Childs's many works are two symphonies, concertos for clarinet and timpani, quintets for wind and brass, string quartets and other chamber pieces. He wrote numerous articles and was a co-editor, with the composer Elliott Schwartz, of one of the central sourcebooks for music of the late 20th century, "Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music." Between 1964 and 1982 he also ran Advance Recordings, which provided an outlet to experimental composers like Richard Maxfield, Harold Budd and Robert Ashley. He is survived by two daughters, Dirje Smith of Flint, Tex., and Margaret Childs of Las Vegas. ======= Roger Vadim's last production: Five wives and a funeral SAINT-TROPEZ, France, Feb 18 (AFP) - Roger Vadim's five wives joined a 300-strong congregation of friends, children and lovers in a cemetery overlooking the mediterranean at the French film-director's funeral Friday. Vadim's widow Marie-Christine Barrault was met at a church service in Saint-Tropez by his former wives Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Catherine Schneider and Anette Stroyberg. ======== Tuesday, February 22, 2000 Newt Arnold; Award-Winning Filmmaker By MYRNA OLIVER, L. A. Times Staff Writer Newt Arnold, director and winner of the Directors Guild of America award for his work as first assistant director of the motion picture "The Godfather Part II," has died of leukemia. Arnold, who would have been 73 today, died Feb. 12 at his home in Encino, said his wife, Judy. The filmmaker's career spanned 45 years and ranged from acting in the 1983 film "Table for Five" among others, to writing for television's "Bonanza" and other productions to directing motion pictures, television movies, miniseries and commercials. He won another DGA award nomination for his work in "Twelve Angry Men" for television in 1997 and critical acclaim for his directing efforts on "Masada" and the miniseries "Peter the Great." A director in his own right for such films as "Bloodsport," Arnold was perhaps even more sought after as a first assistant director, working with such legendary Hollywood helmsmen as Francis Ford Coppola, Blake Edwards, Sam Peckinpah, Carl Reiner and Steven Spielberg. Among Arnold's credits as first assistant over the past decade were the motion pictures "A Simple Plan," "Jade," "A Walk in the Clouds," "Blue Chips" and "The Abyss." In earlier years, he was an assistant director on such films as "The Ballad of Josie," "The Way West," "The Devil's Brigade" and "The Green Berets" directed by and starring John Wayne. Born in Palo Alto, Calif., Arnold earned a bachelor's degree at Stanford and won postgraduate scholarships to the Banff School of Fine Arts in Canada and the University of London. He earned a master's degree at UCLA, producing a thesis that proved a toehold into the film industry. Arnold was active in directors, writers and screen actors guilds and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In addition to his wife, Arnold is survived by their sons, Jonathan and Evan. # 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, 23 Feb 2000 14:32:47 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) Pair of "Wild Parties" NEW YORK (AP) -- New York theatergoers are going to be seeing double with ``The Wild Party.'' Two musicals with the same title and based on the same Jazz Age poem are opening within weeks of each other -- one off-Broadway, the other on. ``There has never been anything like this,'' says Ken Mandelbaum, musical theater historian, author and critic. ``But is it a good idea to do both at the same time? It is difficult to imagine them both being successful. After all, they are about the same thing.'' Both are based on a 1920s poem by Joseph Moncure March, a one-time editor at The New Yorker and screenwriter. It captures the hedonism and cynicism of a gilded age, a hard-boiled world of show biz, speakeasies and indiscriminate sex. The first ``Wild Party'' arrives Thursday at off-Broadway's Manhattan Theater, a nonprofit theater where such plays as ``Crimes of the Heart'' and ``Love! Valour! Compassion!'' were first done in New York. It has book, music and lyrics by newcomer Andrew Lippa, who contributed a few new songs to last season's revival of ``You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'' The second, with a score by Michael John LaChiusa, opens April 13 at Broadway's Virginia Theater, produced by the Public Theater and Hollywood movie mogul Scott Rudin. Musicals based on the same material are not unknown. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote ``The Phantom of the Opera,'' but Maury Yeston has a version of ``Phantom,'' too, and it has had a successful life - -- though outside New York. Yeston also wrote a musical version of ``La Cage aux folles'' called ``The Queen of Basin Street.'' It never was produced, but Jerry Herman's version was. And in the late 1960s, two musicals based on ``Twelfth Night'' arrived off-Broadway. One, ``Your Own Thing,'' was a hit; the other, ``Love and Let Love'' died in two weeks. The Broadway production of ``The Wild Party'' has an edge in terms of star power. Its cast includes Eartha Kitt, Mandy Patinkin and Toni Collette, who just got a supporting-actress Oscar nomination for the movie ``The Sixth Sense.'' (There was also a 1975 movie called ``The Wild Party,'' starring Raquel Welch and James Coco, that was based loosely on the scandal that ruined the career of silent film comic Fatty Arbuckle. Neither the poem nor the two stage productions deal with the Arbuckle scandal.) Neither ``Wild Party'' will talk specifically about the other -- at least on the record. Public Theater artistic director George C. Wolfe, who is director and co-author of the Broadway version, says diplomatically about the competition, ``As a producer I am aware of it, but as a creative artist I can only think about my show. My job as a director is to focus completely on what happens in my rehearsal room.'' Lippa, composer of the other one, agrees. ``Our commitment was just to our show and doing it on the timeline that the musical demanded. Our show was ready to be produced and we had incredible support from Manhattan Theater Club and we felt confident in going forward,'' he says. ``Frankly, we didn't take into account the other folks.'' Both musicals began life unaware of the other. The Public Theater has had a long relationship with composer LaChiusa, and their project came about as a commission from the Public, Wolfe says. Lippa started work on his version more than four years ago after he came across a copy of the poem in a New York bookstore. ``In those days, I didn't write lyrics. I was in the poetry section, thinking I would find a poem that I could set to music,'' he recalls. Lippa opened the book and read the first two lines, ``Queenie was a blonde, and her age stood still, and she danced twice a day in vaudeville.'' He knew he had an idea for a musical. ``This show was going to be my `Cats.' I was going to set the poem to music,'' Lippa recalls. ``But I realized quickly that there was very little in the first person. So I started to write lyrics. It was the middle of the winter, I was out of work and I thought, `I can mope around the house or I can write a musical.''' Manhattan Theater Club held a reading of Lippa's first act in August 1996 and the following summer a two-act version was done at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Connecticut, where director Gabriel Barre came aboard. He is directing the show at Manhattan Theater Club. Now both shows have to wait for the reviews. Is a Broadway transfer possible for the Manhattan Theater Club version if the notices on Friday are good? No one is saying. ``We are investigating the usual options after the Manhattan Theater Club run -- if it is warranted,'' says Barry Grove, the theater's executive producer. Its ``Wild Party'' is scheduled to run through April 2. # 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 #635 *****************************