From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #76 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 Thursday, March 26 1998 Volume 02 : Number 076 In This Digest: (exotica) Re: hip accordian Re: (exotica) regionalism [Ron Grandia: Re: (exotica) regionalism] (exotica) Accordian, jazz and otherwise Re[2]: (exotica) regionalism Re[2]:(exotica) Accordian, jazz and otherwise Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge and other compilations -Reply (exotica) where to get it -Reply (exotica) accordion, jazz Re: (exotica) regionalism / omnipresent records Re:(exotica) where to get it -Reply (exotica) what is a hip accordion? Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge and other compilations -Reply (exotica) By the way, it's Accordion with an O. (exotica) By the way, it's Accordion with an O., Mach 2 (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey inside info (exotica) Some films... (exotica) Re: more accordian! (exotica) Feliu Gasul, Homosexuals Re: (exotica) Feliu Gasul, Homosexuals (exotica) Dick Contino (exotica) Those Darn Accordions! (exotica) Frolic Dinner Re: Re[2]:(exotica) Accordian, jazz and otherwise (exotica) Guy Kluscevsek (exotica) Mood Mosaic.... (exotica) Re: Dick Contino (exotica) more accord Re: (exotica) where to get it -Reply Re: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey inside info (exotica) OK, I'm on to harp... Re: (exotica) Mood Mosaic.... (exotica) Accordion to Hoyle.. (exotica) OK, I'm on to harp... Re: (exotica) Accordion to Hoyle.. Re: (exotica) OK, I'm on to harp... Re: (exotica) Accordion to Hoyle.. (exotica) basic hip ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 01:26:12 -0700 From: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: hip accordian David Thomas, of Pere Ubu. It's not really an accordian (I forget the exact term), but it's close.... Eb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:10:13 GMT From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) regionalism > From: Wayne & Tony > PPS: An unmissabale regional release in Australia from the 1970s is the album > 'Play It Again' by the Alan Gardiner Accordian Band. They proudly > present their renditions of Edelweiss, Yellow Submarine, Snoopy's > Christmas and Sadie The Cleaning Lady. > > I see this absolutely everywhere, and for a while the funny cover > picture of the geekiest family on earth wearing party hats and > playing accordians in a suburban loungeroom (these guys know how to > party let me tell you) was used as a comedy vehicle on 'The Late > Show' , the said band referred to as 'The Spazz Family'. > > Appearing at a thrift near you... > One of the all time greatest cheesy albums in the world ever ever ever is an Australian one: "Paradise Vol. 1" by the John Schlesinger (?sp) orchestra. It's a promotional thingummy, advertising the delights of Queensland, including "Surfer's Paradise" with it's very famous gold bikini clad meter maids (a voice on the relevant song chips in with "Oh! what a lady/How I wish she was somewhat shady"). Comes with a large booklet of photos showing 70s Stralians in the full glory of the times. The music is fantastic, largely energetic Sound Gallery-esque cheese but with more chance of sound effects. And I will never, ever find Vol. 2. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:21:27 GMT From: Peter Hipwell Subject: [Ron Grandia: Re: (exotica) regionalism] > Hugh Petfield wrote: > > > The Accordian:(a never-hip instrument)(unless you know better?)), > > > Two words. Dick Contino. Schmaltzy and maybe not intentionally > hip, but Koooooooky in the extreme. He's hip like Arthur Lyman. > And let's not forget Frankie Yankovich or Stash Wolowic - They > may seem square, but these blue-collars knew how to PARTY. > > But you want hip accordian? Flaco Jimenez by himself or with > the Texas Tornadoes will take you there. > > I'm sure there are SCORES of examples I'm not even aware of. > "Spectacular Accordians" -- Camilleri and His Orchestra The track "Jungle Fantasy" is WILD and SCARY, belting along at a million notes per minute. This is the single best accordian performance I've heard. Apparently the piece was originally wriiten as a showcase for a flautist... can't remember the name. Does anyone know if the original version is available somewhere? I just picked up an album of avant-garde accordian compositions, performed by Stefan Zbigniew. I haven't got round to listening to it yet; I'm subconsciously avoiding it. Of course, the TRULY hip accordianist (Valentino) would go for a Cordovox, that electronic version of an accordian, and accordian which cunningly disguises iteself as an ELECTRONIC thin whiny squeaky noise. Don't get me wrong -- I LIKE thin whiny squeaky noises. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:30:43 GMT From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) Accordian, jazz and otherwise > From: Jack > > And then the piece de resistance is of course, Astor Piazolla, whom even > though I LOVE Flaco, makes him sound like dirt dirt dirt. > Piazolla played the bandoneon, not the accordian. And produced some of the GREATEST MUSIC EVER. There is, for me, that beats listening to "La Camorra", even though I probably still can't spell it right. This is a unique artist who invented his own genre of music -- Nuevo Tango -- that, at its peak, can simply fry the brain. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:40:27 UT From: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) regionalism Here in the states I notice a lot of Loggins & Messina records. Also a lot of George Benson. Outta the car longhair! Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:41:22 UT From: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: Re[2]:(exotica) Accordian, jazz and otherwise > From: Jack > > And then the piece de resistance is of course, Astor Piazolla, whom even > though I LOVE Flaco, makes him sound like dirt dirt dirt. > <> Astor Piazolla is truly the shit. But also there's a guy called Guy Kluscevsek who plays a free-bass accordian (no preset chords) and does twentieth-century classical/avant garde, as well as straight ahead tangos and polkas. He is the master accordian player of all time, a true virtuoso with his instrument, as well as being a hell of a nice guy. He made me realize what a truly beautiful reed instrument the accordian could be and how it had been abused by hacks all these years. He's the man. Not Exotica, but, hey, good music. Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:48:02 -0500 From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge and other compilations -Reply Allan recommended Chester get "Jungle Exotica" - I wouldn't recommend this to anyone unless you really know that they'd like that very primitive RAW sound. I'm not sure you'd want to start of a "beginner" with this stuff - his mind needs a while to be s-lo-w-l-y twisted...... While this stuff on the Strip label is fun, you're not going be giving these discs heavy rotation once the novelty of the tunes wears off. For the most part these are very boring arrangements, a lot of them bordering on tedious (esp. the "Jungle" stuff). "Jungle Exotica Pt.2" is not nearly as good as the first CD in my humble opinion. (A huge fan of that primitive RAW sound ) - - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:02:36 -0500 From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) where to get it -Reply "BasicHip" mentioned the derth of material in the "walk in stores" and I couldn't agree more! I take it kinda personally that it was suggested that I even step foot in some generic, "Here ya go ya idiot" music store!!!!! I ALWAYS buy mailorder, and when you find me in a shopping mall - hell will freeze over my friend. I was just curious if there was somewhere on the Vik's Lounge site that listed sources for buying this stuff....... Woe the persons on earth who depend on consumer shopping centers..... :-( BLEEEECHHHH! - - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 98 06:27:28 PST From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) accordion, jazz Also worth checking out is the Leon Sash Trio "I Remember Newport" on Delmark records. Sparse accordion jazz - some of it has a real jazz feel, some of it feels more like "accordion music" (polka, Lawrence Welk) done in a small ensemble. clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:59:56 -0500 From: jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) Subject: Re: (exotica) regionalism / omnipresent records Hugh wrote: >Peters & Lee (Blind pianist and dolly bird duo, winner of a Talent show), >Val Doonican and Charlie Kunz. Oh, and numerous ancient Decca sets >of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas in mono. These are invariably not put in >with the classical stuff, where perhaps they don't belong, but would better >be put. > >And then there's Mantovani..... How about Manuel & the music of the mountains/Geoff Love? They were the things following me around the UK. In the states, it's Mitch Miller, who would like us to sing along with him. regds Jonny _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:36:07 UT From: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: Re:(exotica) where to get it -Reply Another good source, although I've never used them, is AllMusic. I don't even have the address. But they do carry a lot of that stuff. Another good place to check for ANYTHING is www.gemm.com which stands for something like global electronic music marketplace and lists hundreds of dealers with a gazillion titles, lots of hard to find stuff, etc. I've been searching for some old long out of print CD singles for a while, and they had dealers who had them. They were PRICEY, but hey, at least they existed. So as sort of a last (or first) resort, you should try there. Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 98 06:38:41 PST From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) what is a hip accordion? Is a hip accordion a special kind of instrument? I'm thinking that it's kind of like an empty colostomy bag. clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:03:47 PST From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge and other compilations -Reply Jungle Exotica, the lp version anyway, is worthwhile if for nothing else the opening track by Diablito and Ganim and His Orientals cut, "Daddy Lo Lo". Everything else is forgetable. But speaking of that raw sound, I was making a surf/rockabilly comp. for a friend the other night and pulled out Trash, Twang and Thunder by The Big Guitars from Texas. There's a track on that lp called "The Lost Incas" that should appeal to exotica fans who also appreciate melodic surf; sounds like Augie Colon sitting in with The Sandals. BW >Allan recommended Chester get "Jungle Exotica" - ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:06:08 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) By the way, it's Accordion with an O. Also there was Clifton Chenier and Amade Ardoin. Leadbelly could play and Queen Ida still does! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:08:16 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) By the way, it's Accordion with an O., Mach 2 Also, there was Buster Moten of the Bennie Moten Orchestra and Los Lobos uses one too. Lady of Spain, I adore you, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:16:37 -0800 From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey inside info David Chazam IS the genius force that got Jean Jacques Perrey creative again, got him to believe in the recording studios of Paris and got him BACK into those very studios to create the NEW EKlEktROniCS LP (that none of you can get right now) with Chazam's band; TSCHACK! that is ab-so-lute-ly un-be-lieve-a-ble like you can not even imagine I think this is the BEST Jean Jacques Perrey LP he has ever done. BETTER than Moog Indigo, better. All of you fuckers are going to die dead when you hear it so book your plot at your favorite cemetery NOW, 'cause it's coming out soon. SO! Chazam tells me that on Kai Windings LP Mondo Cane # 2 on Verve that SCREAMS with Ondioline released in the late 60's is Jean Jacques on that screamin' Ondioline. I imagine that Kai Windings "Soul Surfin" LP also on Verve and also with Ondioline is Jean Jacques as well. I mean, why wouldn't it be ? He says Verve (Creed Taylor) paid him $110 to play Ondioline on that 1st mentioned LP How does he know ? 'Cause he fucking asked him. Shoot, man. How do expect a New York Jew by the name of Jack Diamond to talk ? Jack Http://www.jackdiamond.com Http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm *Please support small business and don't give your money to the chain stores or the corporations because they don't need your money and don't give a damn about your musical cultural best interests* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:27:04 PST From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Some films... Some films with a dash of exotica???: STOPOVER TOKYO Richard L. Breen, 1957 Music Director: Tak Shindo CATSKILL HONEYMOON Josef Berne, 1950 Cast: Bas Sheva BEWARE! THE BLOB (SON OF BLOB) Larry Hagman, 1972 Music composed by: Mort Garson HOT CAR GIRL Bernard L. Kowalski, 1958 Music Composer: Cal Tjader Has anyone any idea of films to pick up with exotica soundtracks. A lot of the 50s and 60s films has the right title, (Like "the wild women of Wongo", "Voodoo Woman" etc) but lack good exotic music. Bora bora seems nice, but I want something older. And if I say that "Manos the hands of fate", "Mesa of lost Women" and "The girl and the Geek" is my kind of films you know exactly what I want. Magnus ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:54:21 EST From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: more accordian! > >Hugh Petfield wrote: > >> The Accordian:(a never-hip instrument)(unless you know better?)), I do! Don't forget the ever unclassifiable Lars Holmer from Sweden. The jazz fans among us would know him from his work with Samlas Mammas Manna but his solos releases are pure genius! I'll second Astor Piazzola too... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:09:15 -0800 From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Feliu Gasul, Homosexuals Can anyone here help me find some Feliu Gasul records. I've had exactly zero luck finding anyone who has even seen the record(s) before. I know this much about him: he was (or perhaps is) an Italian composer of music that defies catagorization as either avant-jazz or avant-classical (at least from the one song I've heard.) He had at least one record out in the late-70s - it was called "Feliu and Joan Albert." It was distributed at least for a while by ReR. One song made its way on to the first Reccomended Records sampler, which I have. Any help any of you can give would be *greatly* appreciated:-) Also, I am looking for records by the Homosexuals, as well as a preferably less prestigous (and hence less expensive) pressing of the No New York comp. with DNA, the Contortions, Teenage Jesus, et al. If there is a CD issue on the No New York comp, that would do just fine (in fact it may even be slightly preferred, for my purposes.) Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:04:51 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Feliu Gasul, Homosexuals > From: Jack > Subject: (exotica) Feliu Gasul, Homosexuals > > Can anyone here help me find some Feliu Gasul records. > One song made its way on to the first Reccomended Records sampler, > Also, I am looking for records by the Homosexuals, as well as a preferably > less > prestigous (and hence less expensive) pressing of the No New York comp. Hmm, now you're getting into the sort of stuff that used to be listed in the New Music Distribution Service catalog (distribution offshoot of Carla Bley & Michael Mantler's Jazz Composers' Orchestra Association). I have a few RecRec albums, which include sheets listing other releases, but no mention of Gasul. I still kick myself occasionally for not grabbing the "No New York" comp the one time I saw it back then. If it is on CD, I'd like to know about it too. Gee, I'm not much help, am I? Sorry. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:20:08 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Dick Contino Speaking of Dick Contino, there's a pair of recent interviews with him here: http://www.bmonster.com/profile15.html http://www.bmonster.com/cult15.html Seems that Dick has also become a character in crime fiction by James Ellroy. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 20:37:20 +0100 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Those Darn Accordions! Being on the subject of accordions can anyone recommend this group? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 20:36:22 +0100 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Frolic Dinner Allan: >I would recommend the following compilation series: "Jungle Exotica" (Start >with this!), "Las Vegas Grind" & "Frolic Diner". These releases feature >down & dirty & very greasy, exotica-tinged instrumentals. Imagine the >seediest dive in Reno...this is the music the house band would play. My two favorite tracks of the last few weeks have been from Frolic Dinner vol.5. Firstly the Byron Gosh Group with Disgusting, a sleazy instrumental on which somebody calls out "disgusting" in various variations. The other one is Tipsy #3 by The Chumps, an infectious 50's ditty in which a booming voice mentions a number of idiotic combinations like rum and bilgewater, scotch and battery acid. The ending is hilarious too. The rest of the album is OK but not that special Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Mar 1998 17:35:51 GMT From: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: Re: Re[2]:(exotica) Accordian, jazz and otherwise peter_risser@cinfin.com,Internet writes: But also there's a guy called Guy Kluscevsek who plays a free-bass accordian (no preset chords) and does twentieth-century classical/avant garde, as well as straight ahead tangos and polkas. He is the master accordian player of all time, a true virtuoso with his instrument, as well as being a hell of a nice guy. He made me realize what a truly beautiful reed instrument the accordian could be and how it had been abused by hacks all these years. He's the man. Not Exotica, but, hey, good music. Interestingly enough, Guy Klucevsek is also part of a collaborative band called Accordion Tribe, with the previously mentioned Lars Hollmer. (As well as Maria Kalaniem, Bratko Bibic, and Otto Lechner) cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:10:27 -1000 From: sfunk@pop.adn.com (Stephen Funk) Subject: (exotica) Guy Kluscevsek >Interestingly enough, Guy Klucevsek is also part of a collaborative band >called Accordion Tribe, with the previously mentioned Lars Hollmer. (As well >as Maria Kalaniem, Bratko Bibic, and Otto Lechner) > I think this is the same "guy" who did solo accordion renditions of Burt Bacharach's "Who Gets The Guy"/"This Guy's In Love With You" on the "Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach" 2CD on the Tzadik label. It's cool... And hell, as long as we're at it, how about Pauline Oliveros? Didn't she do some long, spacey accordion pieces in strange acoustic environments on the Hat Art label? I used to have a 2LP set (ordered from the recently mentioned N.M.D.S), as well as a CD of her accordion stuff. Great stuff for sleepless nights. And whatever happened to N.M.D.S.? - - Steve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:50:21 -0500 From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Mood Mosaic.... Okay guys/gals....gimme yer two cents worth on these comps. (gee, I wonder what HE'S spending his tax refund check on !!!!!) - - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:27:30 PST From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: (exotica) Re: Dick Contino More: Dick Contino (and Myron Floren) are slandered in a 1970 Marijuana p (Title is something like "A Child's Guide to Marijuana Gardening" - after the book by the same title). Something like If your smoking pot, never listen to anything by Myron Floren or Dick Contino." As for EZpop figures in fiction, this could be a potentially curious thread on its own. Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason were minor characters in Don DeLillo's last novel, Underworld. There's a wonderfully phrased scene in which the late band leader blows hotdog and beer chender all over Frankie's veeeeery expensive loafers at a ball game: http://haas.berkeley.edu/~gardner/delillo.html > >Seems that Dick has also become a character in crime fiction by James Ellroy. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:29:25 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) more accord A little more Accordion: Henry Threadgill & Make a move "Where's your cup?" (on Columbia). Accordion by someone named Tony Cedras. Beautiful record. Don't be scared. And if you like Astor Piazzola, which I guess you do, try to find Evan Lurie's (yeah brother of John and fellow Lounge Lizard) "Selling Water by the side of the river" which came out on Antilles and is one of the most beautiful records I've ever heard. Really. Bandoneon by "Alfredo Pedernera". In the vinyl/thrift store category, has anyone mentioned Tommy Gumina's "Hi Fi Accordion" (he must have others) or Jo Basile's "Jazz Accordion" which actually delivers on the "jazz" front. I even had a Myron Floren album once that I could stand. If we're finished with the accordion survey, let's move on to the HARP. Robert Maxwell is a given. Now who else??? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:29:28 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) where to get it -Reply At 09:02 AM 3/26/98 -0500, NATHAN MINER wrote: >I take it kinda personally that it was suggested that I even >step foot in some generic, "Here ya go ya idiot" music >store!!!!! I ALWAYS buy mailorder, and when you find me in a >shopping mall - hell will freeze over my friend. Maybe things are more black and white for me but whereas I can see the "subversive" aspect in buying recycled vinyl - as opposed to reissued CD's - - I'm not sure I see much difference between mailorder and record store. (Unless you mean buying from an individual like someone on the list...) I feel a kind of "disappointment" anytime I buy this stuff reissued on CD but it's got more to do with the the format and the record company that reissued it than with the store where I bought it. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:31:15 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey inside info At 09:16 AM 3/26/98 -0800, Jack wrote: >SO! Chazam tells me that on Kai Windings LP Mondo Cane # 2 on Verve >that SCREAMS with Ondioline released in the late 60's is Jean Jacques >on that screamin' Ondioline.I imagine that Kai Windings "Soul Surfin" LP also on Verve and also with Ondioline is Jean Jacques as well. I mean, why wouldn't it be I couldn't argue with Jack. Who could? Maybe you have to read between the lines on the Mondo Cane #2 liner notes but it says "Kai plays the Ondioline on all the other numbers". I don't know what they mean by "other". On "Soul Surfing" they refer to "Kai's Ondoliner" . (They spell it differently, not me) (And on "Dirty Dog",there is no Ondioline but there is Herbie Hancock.) I'm not saying it isn't true but why wouldn't they make a big deal of it if Jean Jacques were on the records? >Shoot, man. How do expect a New York Jew by the name of Jack Diamond to talk ? Jack, we expect you to talk in such a manner as not to embarrass other members of your tribe and so that we shouldn't fear that THEY start thinking we ALL talk like fuckin Jews. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 98 13:36:41 PST From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) OK, I'm on to harp... Hip harp hooray for Dorothy Ashby! All her records are great. Also cool: Alice Coltrane clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:46:39 +1100 From: Wayne & Tony Subject: Re: (exotica) Mood Mosaic.... I bought Mood Mosaic #4 - "Les Yper Sound!" (how DO you pronounce that by the way - yuper, Ipey, oopurr??? enlighten me someone) this week and I LOVE it. 22 groovy tracks with that yummy Swinging London feel. Two minor complaints though - one's a typo with regard to the artist Ted Heath (they have him twice credited as "Ted Heat") and the track "Swinger's Holiday (instrumental)" is strangely credited only to Ann Margret. Being an instrumental there's (duh) no vocal on it, so what Ann Margret's input was I'm not sure. Maybe that's her on the flugelhorn? Great comp though. Go ahead, spend that tax refund! Wayne NATHAN MINER wrote: > Okay guys/gals....gimme yer two cents worth on these > comps. (gee, I wonder what HE'S spending his tax refund > check on !!!!!) > > - Nate > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:43:47 +0000 From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Accordion to Hoyle.. Hello all, Thank you for opening my eyes to the existence of worthwhile accordion music. And the correct spelling of the instrument! Sadly, none of the exotic titles and artists ever surface in thrifts here - it must be a 'pond thing'. We are too close to France, and so instead of the worthwhile Cajun playing, for example, we only hear the tuneless flittering of the Paris- style player, which makes Lawrence Welk's Myron Floren seem like the Denny of the accordion by comparison. Thank you also to those who reminded me of the other regular finds here (Manuel & his music of the mountains, Geoff Love (same guy, different name!)). There may also be found many volumes of a series called "Your 100 best tunes", with a sleeve picture of a fireplace and two armchairs. I also enjoyed someone's comment about a double LP of accordion music somewhat ambiguously described as "ideal for a sleepless night". It wasn't clear if the writer regarded it as cause or cure..... Hugh # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:49:39 -0500 (EST) From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) OK, I'm on to harp... At 01:36 PM 3/26/98 PST, Clark Scheffy wrote: >Hip harp hooray for Dorothy Ashby! All her records are great. >Also cool: Alice Coltrane > >clark Yeah, Alice gets thumbs up! Way misunderstood and overlooked. Also: Alfredo Rolando Ortiz Julie Allis Corky Hale and of course Harpo Marx - -Lou (Then there's all that Celtic and NewAge harp music out there) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:04:47 -1000 From: sfunk@pop.adn.com (Stephen Funk) Subject: Re: (exotica) Accordion to Hoyle.. >I also enjoyed someone's comment about a double LP of >accordion music somewhat ambiguously described as >"ideal for a sleepless night". It wasn't clear if the writer >regarded it as cause or cure..... > >Hugh That was me... more of a cure in the manner of Brian Eno's Ambient ditties, but more interesting and improvisational, and no electronics. I remember these pieces being very dreamy & meditative, lots of natural reverberation... recorded in an empty underground water tank or something, mostly quiet, all solo accordion with long, drawn-out chords. Now I'm wanting to hear them again, but these albums are somewhere in a storage unit in Wisconsin (I'm a couple thousand miles away in Alaska.) I'm thinking the LP was called "Pauline Oliveros: The Receptive" on HatArt... the CD was "The [something] of the Moment?" Anyone? - - Steve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 23:07:17 +0100 From: breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (Ingemar Breithel) Subject: Re: (exotica) OK, I'm on to harp... >Hip harp hooray for Dorothy Ashby! All her records are great. > >Also cool: Alice Coltrane And Corky Hale! Any woman who looks like Diana Dors and plays the harp has got my vote. Gene Bianco is great, too. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:10:51 +1100 From: Wayne & Tony Subject: Re: (exotica) Accordion to Hoyle.. Hugh Petfield wrote: > Thank you also to those who reminded me of the other regular > finds here (Manuel & his music of the mountains, Geoff Love > (same guy, different name!)). I always keep an eye out for Geoff Love records, he did several TV/Movie theme type albums which although musically they're hit and miss the ones I have sport amazing covers. "Big Terror Movie Themes" contains the music from Earthquake, Rollerball, the Eiger Sanction and others but the cover art is the bomb - a big montage painting of Jaws, planes blowing up in mid air, the Poseidon overturned with 70's diners trying to escape, the Towering Inferno and general earthquakes, explosions and destruction. "Big Suspense Movie Themes" (Shaft, Frenzy, The French Connection...) cover features what one assumes to be an assassin's hand creepily opening a door. "Big Western Themes" (high Noon, Fistful of Dollars, The Good The Bad...) has a gunfight on the prairie, yeehaa! A good deal for practically nothing pricewise. Hugh are you saying Manuel IS Geoff Love? Wayne # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:33:04 EST From: BasicHip Subject: (exotica) basic hip Side One BASIC HIP John Brent And Del Close “The Beat Generation” [CD] TRUCK DRIVER Piero Umiliani “To-day’s Sound” [LP] - yet another fine Right Tempo release ROCK ME TO SLEEP Henry Mancini “Touch Of Evil” [CD] SESSION AT PETE’S PAD Frankie Capp “Percussion In A Tribute To Henry Mancini” [LP] - great LP of west coast jazz and percussion BARBARELLA Bob Crewe And Charles Fox “Barbarella” [CD] LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US Mort Garson “The Wozard Of Iz” [LP] - psychedelic trip down the yellow brick road THERE’S NO SATISFACTION Manfred Hubler And Siegfried Schwab “Vampyros Lesbos” [CD] - not mentioned lately, but highly recommmended to newcomers. soft porn soundtrack LIGHT MY FIRE Horst Jankowski “Black Forest Explosion!” [LP] - funny hearing the chorus switch back and forth from english to german. good record from Germany on Motel EL CONDOR PASA Yma Sumac “Miracles” [CD] - the upcoming "Yma Rocks" CD is Miracles, but I wonder why they did not call it that. this CD version is the from the "limited edition" series HOODUNNIT? Ray Martin “The Sound Of Sight” [LP] - listening to this record is like going to a movie without the visuals HIGH WIRE Edwin Astley “Secret Agent” [CD] THE BOOZER Joe Greene “On Her Bed Of Roses” [LP] HULA ROCK Lew Howard All Stars “The Super Sounds Of Bosworth” [CD] I CHOOSE JESUS Ralph Platt “The Birds Sing His Praise” [LP] DESPAIR Les Baxter featuring Bas Sheva “The Passions” [CD] Side Two PERLES DE CRISTAL Andre Popp “Delirium In Hi-Fi” [LP] NEVER ON SUNDAY The Ventures “The Ventures Play Telstar” [CD] OUT OF NOWHERE Ferrante And Teicher “Heavenly Sounds In Hi-Fi” [LP] BEEP! BEEP! Louis Prima “Capitol Collector Series” [CD] - Keely's old man sings of his love in outer space with just the right amount of electronic beeps THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE B.J. Thomas “Sixties Coca-Cola Commercials” [CD] - coke spot with sitar VENUS Claude Denjean “Moog!” [LP] DRIBCOTS SPACE BOAT Joe Meek “I Hear A New World” [CD] - a fascinating recording which I rarely listen to but would never part with. DESIRE Rod McKuen “Time Of Desire” [LP] - beautifully depressing spoken word of desire, women and loneliness COUNTDOWN AT 6 Perrey And Kingsley “The In Sound From Way Out” [CD] MY FAVORITE MARTIAN Carl Brandt “Top T.V. Themes ‘64” [LP] - that electro-theremin must be Paul Tanner GALAXY Frank Comstock “Music From Outer Space” [CD] - more Paul Tanner. LP burned onto a recordable CD. PETER PERCUSSION Alec Wilder “A Child’s Introduction To The Orchestra” [LP] - great kiddie record with talking instruments and demos of how they sound MACK THE KNIFE Wolfgang Neuss “The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection” [CD] - maybe they should rename it "Incredibly Strange Music Volume 3" SCUBA FUNDAMENTALS Lloyd Bridges “Hear How To Skin Dive” [LP] - another trbiute to Lloyd, this time with pure spoken word instruction on diving with Leo Diamonds "The Skin Divers" mixed into the background. from the Carlton series of "hear how to" records. ABSOLUTE SADIST Mistress Kat “Cyborgasm” [CD] - i hope the recepient is not offended by this erotic spoken word piece "layed" over sin-sythesised "The Sounds Of Love From A to Zzzz". whips, leather, hot wax DO YOU KNOW? Marcy “Sing With Marcy” [LP] - can't think of a better follow-up to the previous "piece". eerie little puppet sings to you about Him. THE LOFT Kenyon Hopkins “Nightmare!!” [CD] PETER POTAMUS CURTAIN CALL Hoyt Curtin “Hanna Barbera Classics” [CD] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #76 ****************************