From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #1063 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 29 2001 Volume 02 : Number 1063 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi (exotica) Cookie Carr (exotica) re: spoozys Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Re: (exotica) Cookie Carr (exotica) Paging Alan Zweig Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Re: (exotica) Cookie Carr Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Fw: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi (exotica) Upload of the Week Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi (exotica) more FREE books, NY Times article, and Citizen Kafka (exotica) Re: Moaning sounds (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi (exotica) Emil Richards - "New Time Element" Re: (exotica) Emil Richards - "New Time Element" Re: (exotica) Re: Moaning sounds Re: (exotica) Upload of the Week Re: (exotica) Emil Richards - "New Time Element" Re: (exotica) Upload of the Week RE: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi RE: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Re: (exotica) Emil Richards - "New Time Element" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:52:34 EST From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Not familiar with this, but I can recommend Joe Goldmark's Steelin' the Beatles, a fairly recent steel guitar instrumental record of Beatles tunes. His earlier record All Over The Road had covers of Steely Dan, Allman Brothers and Zappa ("Peaches in Regalia"), plus "Spanish Moon" which would've made Santo & Johnny weep with pleasure. << Anyone know this ? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1477887464 is it good ? is tomorrow never knows also with sitar? There is also an exotica LP by Don Randi. (Jungle Adventure in Music and Sound) Can someone recommend it ? Thanks Martin -- visit the ***Space Escapade*** Exotic Club Pop Entertainment with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night http://www.atomic.de/ GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.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: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:55:51 -0500 From: Clayton Black Subject: (exotica) Cookie Carr I picked up an album yesterday at a nearby Goodwill by "Cookie Carr." It's on the Grand Award label, which led me to think that this was one of Dick Hyman's numerous pseudonyms. Does anybody know about this? By the way, I also picked up the album with the classic "hand" cover, Eddie Baxter's "Temptation." It's not quite as interesting as I had hoped, but it does have its moments and has potential to grow on me. I also couldn't pass up "Ros at the Opera." The cover alone is worth the price--a valkyrie with a big conga drum between her legs. I know a lot of people on the list don't think too much of Edmundo, but I love anybody who puts the Sound of Music and Opera highlights to a Latin beat. Clayton # 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, 29 Oct 2001 00:46:45 +0800 From: "william" Subject: (exotica) re: spoozys >They're a Japanese band that are described as Devo meets Dick Dale. > >I think they have two complete albums out "Spoozys" and "Super Earth." > >Anyone in Japan that could try to score one of these for me? (They list at = >$30/$40 through GEMM). you might try cdjapan. i've never used them before but quite a few people from the p5 list seem to order things from them. not sure if they'll be cheaper than gemm or not. but most japanese full length releases retail for close to 30 u.s. dollars. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/search.html?type=NC&word=spoozys&restrict=CD william in taipei. # 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, 28 Oct 2001 18:32:54 +0100 From: Erik Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi When I was on a fleamarket about a week ago there was a guy there selling a number of very nice looking Beatles-cover lps. I was tempted, but I didn't know any of them and he was asking $20-$30 a piece for them... So I walked on and a few minutes later I saw "Lennon & McCartney Tijuana Style" by the Torero Band. This one cost me only $1. (It's also on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D1478535016) Do you guys know this record? It's released by EMI but the sleeve notes are in French and Dutch. The amazing thing: it's pretty good! The condition of the record is not too bad and the happy mariachi orchestra has that warm stereo sound... Trumpets and percussion comming from all directions :) It's like Se=F1or Coconut and Sergio Mendes pretending to be the Beatles! I've got another one that's called: "Million copy best sellers made famous by THE BEATLES sung by Russ Sainty with the Johnny Arthey Sound". With BEATLES in huge capitals of course.. This one is kinda funny in it's own horrible way... The sleeve notes start with: "There can't be a single original thing left to be said about the fou= r Liverpudlians..." And there's little original about this lp. Well, there's = a nice girl holding a tambourine on the cover but it sounds nothing like the Torero Band :) Can anyone recommend other Beatles-covers lps? (or rereleases?) Erik # 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, 29 Oct 2001 12:08:28 -0600 From: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) Cookie Carr At 11:55 AM 10/28/01 -0500, Clayton Black wro... I know a lot >of people on the list don't think too much of Edmundo, but I love anybody >who puts the Sound of Music and Opera highlights to a Latin beat. I vacillate about Edmundo myself, Clayton. But that opera highlights record sounds so intriguing. Just last weekend I bought Heading South ...of the Border with the hilarious Light My Fire and The Skaters Waltz. Also bought three-forths of the Ring Cycle. Please say more about Ros at the Opera. Is it Tosca arias as congas, that sort of thing? Anything from La Boheme, an opera to which I'm strangely drawn? TIA, Mimi # 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, 28 Oct 2001 15:13:37 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Paging Alan Zweig Sorry for the intrusion...If Alan Zweig could kindly once again send me his address, his soft-pop compilation is burned... # 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, 28 Oct 2001 15:35:26 -0500 From: "David Hoffman" Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Erik wrote >Can anyone recommend other Beatles-covers lps? (or rereleases?) > >Erik The Charles River Boys (Boston) did a great bluegrass album called Beatles Country. David _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp # 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, 28 Oct 2001 13:11:07 -0800 From: crymad Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Erik wrote: > > Can anyone recommend other Beatles-covers lps? (or rereleases?) Instrumental Beatle covers by anonymous studio musician groups abound in Japan. And they're cheap too, easy to find in the 100 yen bins. Now's your chance to turn the tables on those dirty Jap collectors and invade *their* vinyl turf for plundering. - --crymad # 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, 28 Oct 2001 16:19:54 -0500 From: azed@pathcom.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Cookie Carr At 11:55 AM 10/28/01 -0500, Clayton Black wrote: > >I picked up an album yesterday at a nearby Goodwill by "Cookie Carr." It's >on the Grand Award label, which led me to think that this was one of Dick >Hyman's numerous pseudonyms. Does anybody know about this? I have that record. It never occurred to me it was Dick Hyman. If it was, it was an off day for him. Not that it's bad. It's just not Dick. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:59:13 -0500 From: azed@pathcom.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi At 04:33 PM 10/28/01 +0100, Hemmel@gmx.net wrote: > >Anyone know this ? > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1477887464 > >is it good ? is tomorrow never knows also with sitar? > >There is also an exotica LP by Don Randi. (Jungle Adventure in Music and >Sound) Can someone recommend it ? I can't quite recommend it. But I can try to tell you why I can't quite recommend it. Yes "Tomorrow Never Knows" has sitar. Or something like sitar. I can't actually be sure it's not a guitar played a bit weird. The thing I like about this record is that it confirms my fantasy that "If you can think of it, someone probably made it". Don Randi not only made a record called "Revolver Jazz" but he also made one called "Rubber Soul Jazz", though that one was put out under the monicker of "The Music Company". But neither of them are all that good. For instance, someone else here mentioned The Torero Brass. I have their "Plays the Beatles" record and in my opinion, it cuts Don Randi to shreds. The Torero Brass are on the Arc label, which is a cheapo Canadian label. I doubt they existed as a real band but they rock! Don Randi was apparently a very central figure in the L.A. session world and even a decent jazz pianist but you couldn't prove it by these records. I would pick up either of his Beatle jazz records if they were a couple of bucks - and I did - but I wouldn't pay that auction price at ebay. I wish there were some universal term for arrangements that do almost nothing but play the melody. Arrangements that don't do anything more than they have to. That's what those Don Randi Beatle records are like. Kind of like Roger Williams (even though I've heard him throw in some cool things here and there.) Moving on to other all-Beatle records. Well obviously the king is the Hollyridge Strings. And I think the ones with Stu Philips are pretty great, not to knock Mort Garson who did the rest. But that's only if you're sick like me and you love strings. If you like strings but Hollyridge is just a bit soft for you, look for the Leon Young String Chorale and their record "Liverpool Sound for Strings". The best all-Beatle records I ever owned were Buddy Morrow's "Big Band Beatlemania", Bob Leaper's "Big Band Beatle Songs" and Frank Chacksfield "Plays the Beatles Song Book". They are now gathered on one CDR along with the Torero Brass and the Mustang's organ record "The Beatles Song book" (And if you call 1-800 Paulisdead, I'll send you your copy.) There are other good ones. And even the Don Randi is growing on me as I'm writing this. I just don't think it's worth quite that much money. As far as other Don Randi records go, there's this one I've had for a while that's getting a bit of attention these days. It's Don Randi plays the theme from Romeo and Juliet" The reason it's getting attention is because it's produced by David Axelrod and apparently there's a cut on it that's been famously sampled. I had it because when I heard it in the store, there was one amazing cut on it. But now I can't find it. Still it's a nice record. I think that's enough information for one day. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 23:42:16 +0100 From: "Bertrand Chaumelle" Subject: Fw: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi My favorite Beatles cover record: "Chet Atkins Picks On The Beatles" (1966) on RCA Victor LP, CD, or even Stero8 cartridge... Bertrand - ----- Original Message ----- From: David Hoffman To: exotica@lists.xmission.com Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 9:35 PM Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Erik wrote >Can anyone recommend other Beatles-covers lps? (or rereleases?) > >Erik The Charles River Boys (Boston) did a great bluegrass album called Beatles Country. David _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp # 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. # 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, 28 Oct 2001 15:56:58 -0800 From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) Upload of the Week This week's upload is Chiitra Neogy's sensuous reading of The Perfumed Garden. Enjoy the entire LP here: http://basichip.com/album/album.htm Un-joy! # 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, 29 Oct 2001 01:38:03 +0100 (MET) From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi wow, thanks for that detailed info Alan ! Martin BTW. talking about Beatles covers, I can recommend a more novelty funny one: Sydney Thompson and his Orch.: Latin American Fiesta, The Beatles Greatest Successes. It is about 1965 and the beatle tunes are coverd in Cha Cha, Rumba, Samba and Paso Doble (very funny, as it sounds like a Bavarian Brass Combo in a beer tent at the Oktoberfest Prost ! > At 04:33 PM 10/28/01 +0100, Hemmel@gmx.net wrote: > > > >Anyone know this ? > > > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1477887464 > > > >is it good ? is tomorrow never knows also with sitar? > > > >There is also an exotica LP by Don Randi. (Jungle Adventure in Music and > >Sound) Can someone recommend it ? > > I can't quite recommend it. But I can try to tell you why I can't quite > recommend it. > Yes "Tomorrow Never Knows" has sitar. Or something like sitar. I can't > actually be sure it's not a guitar played a bit weird. > > The thing I like about this record is that it confirms my fantasy that "If > you can think of it, someone probably made it". > Don Randi not only made a record called "Revolver Jazz" but he also made > one called "Rubber Soul Jazz", though that one was put out under the > monicker of "The Music Company". > But neither of them are all that good. > For instance, someone else here mentioned The Torero Brass. I have their > "Plays the Beatles" record and in my opinion, it cuts Don Randi to shreds. > The Torero Brass are on the Arc label, which is a cheapo Canadian label. > I > doubt they existed as a real band but they rock! > Don Randi was apparently a very central figure in the L.A. session world > and even a decent jazz pianist but you couldn't prove it by these records. > I would pick up either of his Beatle jazz records if they were a couple of > bucks - and I did - but I wouldn't pay that auction price at ebay. > I wish there were some universal term for arrangements that do almost > nothing but play the melody. Arrangements that don't do anything more > than > they have to. That's what those Don Randi Beatle records are like. > Kind of like Roger Williams (even though I've heard him throw in some cool > things here and there.) > > Moving on to other all-Beatle records. Well obviously the king is the > Hollyridge Strings. And I think the ones with Stu Philips are pretty > great, not to knock Mort Garson who did the rest. > But that's only if you're sick like me and you love strings. > If you like strings but Hollyridge is just a bit soft for you, look for > the > Leon Young String Chorale and their record "Liverpool Sound for Strings". > > The best all-Beatle records I ever owned were Buddy Morrow's "Big Band > Beatlemania", Bob Leaper's "Big Band Beatle Songs" and Frank Chacksfield > "Plays the Beatles Song Book". > They are now gathered on one CDR along with the Torero Brass and the > Mustang's organ record "The Beatles Song book" > > (And if you call 1-800 Paulisdead, I'll send you your copy.) > > There are other good ones. And even the Don Randi is growing on me as I'm > writing this. I just don't think it's worth quite that much money. > > As far as other Don Randi records go, there's this one I've had for a > while > that's getting a bit of attention these days. It's Don Randi plays the > theme from Romeo and Juliet" > The reason it's getting attention is because it's produced by David > Axelrod > and apparently there's a cut on it that's been famously sampled. > I had it because when I heard it in the store, there was one amazing cut > on > it. But now I can't find it. > Still it's a nice record. > > I think that's enough information for one day. > > AZ > - -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.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: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:31:03 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) more FREE books, NY Times article, and Citizen Kafka Here's a follow-up message from Citizen Kafka about the book sale he had last week. Sorry for the intrusion if you find this OT. Lou - --------------------------------- Subject: more FREE books, NY Times article, and Citizen Kafka Hi, all, There's a great article in the Sunday New York Times, the City Section, 10/28, about my big sale last week: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/nyregion/thecity/28BOOK.html Here's the same article on the Secret Museum website: http://www.citizenkafka.com/sale/nyt.html The next sale will be on Saturday and Sunday, November 3 and 4, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm Sunday noon to 7 pm http://www.citizenkafka.com/sale/ the FREE books will be available on Sunday from 5 to 7 pm, but the whole weekend will have remarkable objects sold cheap! Details are at the bottom of this letter. This event was really quite special, and much more than just a sale. Many of my friends came down just to say hello and browse, and most all of the "customers" who came were people who somehow were like-minded. Over 200 people came during the weekend because friends or friends of friends had forwarded the sales e-mail. This created a large pool of people of 2nd and 3rd degrees of separation - an amazingly social and interesting group. Here's a telling observation: usually, there's a lot of competition and veiled hostility at sales like this, even including pushing and arguing over who saw/touched/picked up a book/record/antique first. Here, even with valuable books going for free (one person got (free) a first edition ezra pound from 1921) there was mainly friendly bantering and a lot of "hey, i see you're looking for astronomy books; did you see this one?" In any case, this letter is a media alert (to the NY Times article) and advanced notice for the next sale. It would greatly help if you could forward this to as many friends as you can. If you did this last time, it helped make the last sale a success (see the article). I was able to pay 3 months of rent on one room, which actually brought me up to date until November 4th! Thanks in advance for helping, and i hope you can make it down next weekend! take care, Citizen Kafka (Richie) =================================== I have over 1,200 BOXES of 'stuff' which have not been opened yet. I'm opening about 250 boxes fresh for this sale (Saturday), and over 100 more freshly opened (never before sold from) for Sunday! Thousands of books, from Jules Halfant's library (see article), other libraries and accumulations, PLUS MY PERSONAL BOOKS! Artwork (Jules Halfant, others) * Jules's art includes Vanguard record cover art, alternates/tests, 1940s and 50s fashion newspaper ads, notebooks and drawings 1927 - 1979, book cover art, and printed record cover slicks. Photos - black and white glossies and small prints by famous photographers used/submitted for record covers - Jazz, folk, blues, psychedelic, rock. household - kitchen, tools, etc. from Jules and MY HOUSEHOLD (yes, Annie said OK). toys - (my 7 year olds "excess" and grown out of) - hundreds (yes, Sarah picked them out and said OK). records - 78s, 45s, 33s, plus CDs, tapes, etc. (no, i'm not happy about this, but it's either sell and give them away or throw them away or have them taken away when i can't pay the rent). misc. - the most interesting part - some of my accumulated odd objects. Guaranteed fascinating, bargains, and fun. Details... Saturday November 3rd - 9 am sharp to 6 pm. The sale begins! Sunday November 4th (NY Marathon day) - noon to 7 pm. noon to 3 pm - full sale, with 100s of boxes newly opened for Sunday, and some "deep" discounts... 3 to 5 PM - Books $2/bag. Bring your own bags and boxes! There is a standard unit bag size (see here for details): http://www.citizenkafka.com/sale/ 5 to 7 pm - the FREE book time! Thousands of books, FREE!! If you were there last time you know how great this was; late on Sunday afternoon someone found and took (FREE) a first edition Ezra Pound from 1921, catalog value $200+. 202 Tillary Street, Storage room B025 1 small block off Flatbush Ave, next to the firehouse. Parking available, close to many subways. call me at: 718 246-3816 or e-mail ckafka@mindspring.com for details and information. Thanks, see you there! citizen kafka PS: I'm also selling great heavy handmade and commercial old wooden shelving, and thousands of magazines. Most magazines and some shelves will be free on Sunday afternoon also. If you don't live near NY and/or have no wish to receive this e-mail, i apologize. This is a PERSONAL sale, not an ongoing business. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience, this is a matter of urgency and necessity for me, not an indulgence. Have a good weekend, and i hope to see you if you live near enough to come by. Citizen Kafka - -- Listen ANY TIME to the Secret Museum: http://www.citizenkafka.com/ Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" NEW DAY! - every SUNDAY 6 to 7 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM # 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, 28 Oct 2001 23:42:41 -0500 From: "Manuel" Subject: (exotica) Re: Moaning sounds Serge Gainsbourg has several songs with loud moaning (don't know if someone has mentioned the epic Love on the Beat). Also the new Stereo Total record (I saw them live at the Knitting Factory and they were GREAT!!!) has a couple of songs with moaning, but these are fun and smiley moans, nothing like Love on the Beat -where you begin to think that someone was being ripped apart. The two songs are in fact the same one (about the pleasures to be had when three people share a bed), only that one of them has French and the other English vocals. By the way, the new record is called Musique Automatique, it is great as ever and I think it's available now in the US. Bye, Manuel Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.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: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:27:46 -0600 From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Ghosts and goblins abound on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast! It's the annual Halloween bash, chockful of groovy ghoulies and terrifyingly toe-tapping tunes from Buddy Morrow's "Poe for Moderns", "Music To Be Murdered By", "Shock: Music in Hi-Fi" and many others, all served up in glorious "scareo". There's spooky outer space exotica; familiar TV themes from The Twilight Zone, Thriller, The Addams Family, et al; Halloween hits by Combustible Edison, Peter Thomas, The Moon-Rays, Zacherley, Les Baxter, Marty Manning and Raymond Scott, among others. We'll also visit the Retro Cocktail Hour Trailer Park, for several "coming attractions" previews of films like "The Crawling Hand", "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman", "The Spider", "The Giant Gila Monster" and lots more. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, just visit: http://kanu.ku.edu/retro.html Happy Halloween! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Saturday 7:00pm - 9:00pm http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:51:55 From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1477887464 > > > >is it good ? is tomorrow never knows also with sitar? > > >I can't quite recommend it. But I can try to tell you why I can't quite >recommend it. >Yes "Tomorrow Never Knows" has sitar. Or something like sitar. I can't >actually be sure it's not a guitar played a bit weird. > My 2 bits on this album is that it's really pretty cool. Most significant to me is that the album contains one of the only 2 jazz versions of "Tomorrow Never Knows" (that I know of), and, like the original, Randi's is really dark and driving and hypnotic. I seem to recall Randi playing harpsichord on it, with some weird, vaguely melodic guitar making drone-like background noise. There's some other really groovy song, too, was it "Love You Too"? - it has similar instrumentation. "She Said, She Said" was disappointing, though. In my skewed universe, it's worth the $10. - -Dan _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp # 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, 29 Oct 2001 14:58:38 From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: (exotica) Emil Richards - "New Time Element" Emil Richards - "New Time Element" I have been consistently outbid on this by Exotica list people, so I KNOW some of you have the skinny on this. How is it? Most importantly, any sitars? - -Dan, who sheepishly asks "are you a mod or a raga" _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp # 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, 29 Oct 2001 07:25:11 -0800 From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Emil Richards - "New Time Element" > Emil Richards - "New Time Element" > > I have been consistently outbid on this by Exotica list people, so I KNOW > some of you have the skinny on this. How is it? I have this quirky album. That's a good way to describe it - quirky. I don't remember any sitars on it, but it has been awhile since I listened. And looking at the liner notes, their are references and thanks to Harihar Rao, a student of Ravi Shankar. I'd better go listen to "Blue Hari" now...got a second? Let me check. No, no sitar on that one, but their is something that sounds like a slide whistle. I told you it was quirky! What the "New Time Element:" refers to is time signitures as 7/8, 5/4, 11/8, etc applied to varied melodies at Georgy Girl, Sunny, Havah Nagilah and Take Five. Pretty cool - I'd give it a thumbs up. # 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, 29 Oct 2001 10:32:58 -0500 From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Moaning sounds "Musique Automatique" is scheduled for release next week in North America (although it's for sale at the Stereo Total concerts). Saw them last night in Montreal, and yes they were good. As for the audience, well... I don't know about other cities - do the young'uns dress up like it's Halloween for concerts elsewhere? (and I don't think they were wearing special Halloween costumes - let's put it that way...) Perhaps I'm just getting too old for concerts. Nah.... cheryl From: "Manuel" > Also the new Stereo Total record (I saw them live at the Knitting Factory and they were GREAT!!!) has a couple of songs with moaning, but these are fun and smiley moans, nothing like Love on the Beat -where you begin to think that someone was being ripped apart. The two songs are in fact the same one (about the pleasures to be had when three people share a bed), only that one of them has French and the other English vocals. > > By the way, the new record is called Musique Automatique, it is great as ever and I think it's available now in the US. # 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, 29 Oct 2001 17:28:38 +0100 From: moritzR@t-online.de (moritzR) Subject: Re: (exotica) Upload of the Week basic hip schrieb: > This week's upload is Chiitra Neogy's sensuous reading of The Perfumed > Garden. > > Enjoy the entire LP here: > > http://basichip.com/album/album.htm Thanks for another edition of UotW. I already scared my girlfriend away with the "content" of this album. She thought it's horrible. I thought it's cute, although I'm not sure how to react, if exposed in reality to a girl like that. Looks like your upload specials are dedicated to word music however... - --Mo ........................... studio ® http://moritzR.de exotica@web.de ............................ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:35:26 +0000 From: "james brouwer" Subject: Re: (exotica) Emil Richards - "New Time Element" re > > Emil Richards - "New Time Element" For what it is worth, I found it really boring. Nothing really out-there or interestingly melodic. I guess it's quirky, but not in a good way. I never play it. "Stones" is way better IMHO. I may even have a second copy of "new time" floating around if you want it (I can't remember if I sold it). Try looking on GEMM too. jb _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp # 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, 29 Oct 2001 09:03:40 -0800 From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Upload of the Week studio ® http://moritzR.de > Thanks for another edition of UotW. I already scared my girlfriend away with the "content" of this album. Hee hee - glad to pass it along. But it should not scare her - it is all about making sure that the woman has had her share of "the pleasure". Force her to sit through "Woman Is Like A Fruit" :) >Looks like your upload specials are dedicated to word music however... Stick around! It just worked out that way so far. I'm really not sure why I have picked what I have, there will be something for everyone eventually... # 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, 29 Oct 2001 10:32:22 -0800 From: Rob Crowther Subject: RE: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Another great Beatles cover album is Count Basie and his orchestra doing big band, jazz send ups of Beatle hits. I can't remember the exact title, but I think it's called Basie's Beatle Bag. Includes Help!, Can't buy me love and about ten other tracks. ******************************************* I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. --Frank Sinatra Rob Crowther mrsuave@mistersuave.com www.mistersuave.com - -----Original Message----- From: Bertrand Chaumelle [mailto:CHAUMELLE@wanadoo.fr] Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 2:42 PM To: exotica@lists.xmission.com Subject: Fw: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi My favorite Beatles cover record: "Chet Atkins Picks On The Beatles" (1966) on RCA Victor LP, CD, or even Stero8 cartridge... Bertrand - ----- Original Message ----- From: David Hoffman To: exotica@lists.xmission.com Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 9:35 PM Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi Erik wrote >Can anyone recommend other Beatles-covers lps? (or rereleases?) > >Erik The Charles River Boys (Boston) did a great bluegrass album called Beatles Country. David _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp # 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. # 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. # 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, 29 Oct 2001 15:53:02 -0500 From: azed@pathcom.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi At 02:51 PM 10/29/01, Daniel Shiman wrote: .> >My 2 bits on this album is that it's really pretty cool. Most significant >to me is that the album contains one of the only 2 jazz versions of >"Tomorrow Never Knows" (that I know of), and, like the original, Randi's is >really dark and driving and hypnotic. . If you want the best version of "Tomorrow never knows" that I've ever heard, I can't remember the name of the record but it's by Carmen McRae. Sitars and everything. Her rather unusual voice may be an acquired taste but it perfectly suits this song. In fact it improves the song. I wouldn't quibble with anyone over the relative worth of the Don Randi record. I just happen to think his playing is rather ham-fisted and un-groovy compared to what I hope for when I spy a jazz-rock Now Sound record. For me the standard is Howard Roberts who made almost ten perfect records in the sixties, with a variety of groovy organ players including Dave Grusin. Still I have two of Don Randi's Beatle tributes and I've kept them so there must be soemthing I like about them but I think that what that thing is that I like is the very fact that he made them. I've owned lots of Beatle instrumental tributes but Don's the only guy who took on individual records cut by cut. The only one I know anyway. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:58:18 -0800 From: "jonathan richardson" Subject: RE: (exotica) Beatles jazz and exotica Don Randi >Another great Beatles cover album is Count Basie and his orchestra doing >big >band, jazz send ups of Beatle hits. I can't remember the exact title, but >I >think it's called Basie's Beatle Bag. Includes Help!, Can't buy me love >and >about ten other tracks. The one I have is called Basie on the Beatles. It doesnt have Help! or Cant Buy Me Love, but it does have a great versions of Come Together and Eleanor Rigby I guess Basie really dug the Beatles to do 2 different records by them - -jonny _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp # 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, 29 Oct 2001 16:02:45 -0500 From: azed@pathcom.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Emil Richards - "New Time Element" At 07:25 AM 10/29/01 -0800, basic hip wrote: > > >> Emil Richards - "New Time Element" >> >> I have been consistently outbid on this by Exotica list people, so I KNOW >> some of you have the skinny on this. How is it? > >I have this quirky album. That's a good way to describe it - quirky. A couple of weeks ago, I put this on CDR for someone on this list and I realized I had never really listened to it before. I was actually going to write to this list and recommend it to Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman fans. Or if you can make this stretch, I was even going to recommend it to fans of the current band Calexico. I put this on a CDR with Don Sebesky's truly great record "The Jazz Rock Syndrome". But it's nothing like that record and if that's what you're expecting - as I was initially - then you're probably going to be disappointed. I can understand why someone else here found it boring. It's a very quiet, even subtle record. Mostly vibes (or marimbas?) and strings. The fact that everything is played in an unusual time signature is kind of cool but that's not what I like about this record. I just think it's a beautifully arranged, slightly exotic, quiet record. But once again, I have to warn you that I love quiet, string-laden soundtrack stuff by the likes of Michel Legrand and Francis Lai. To me, this record is like Martin Denny on acid. But he's having a very quiet trip. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #1063 ******************************