From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #216 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 Sunday, September 27 1998 Volume 02 : Number 216 In This Digest: (exotica) Digitizing An LP (exotica) Re: costello Re: (exotica) BLUNA ad with TIPSY music (exotica) BLUNA ad with TIPSY music Re: (exotica) BLUNA ad with TIPSY music (exotica) Bruce Haack (exotica) call report for Jean-Jacques Perrey in SF (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 9.15.98 Re: (exotica) Operation Re-Information Live Tonight (exotica) JJP & Operation RE-Information shows (exotica) What is Mod? Re: (exotica) What is Mod? Re: (exotica) Digitizing an LP Re: (exotica) What is Mod? Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack (exotica) Costello/Bacharach Re: (exotica) Operation Re-Information Live Tonight (exotica) Tiki Shirts, Berkeley (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, September 27 (exotica) The Mighty Mellow, Mancini question, screwed-up track list (exotica) Re: Charles Wilp (exotica) The Ballroom - "Preparing For The Millennium" (exotica) Hank Levine (exotica) early reprise and refuge labels ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:57:51 -0400 From: Mark Renwick Subject: (exotica) Digitizing An LP I just started using the latest Sound Forge product with the DirectX noise reduction add-in. It works beautifully! I'm amazed! For basic editing, Fast EdDit from Digital Audio Labs is a good product. - --Mark Renwick Jacksonville, Florida, USA tibia@compuserve.com http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tibia # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:35:55 -0700 From: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: costello >From: Hugh Petfield >Subject: (exotica) Re: (non-exotica) Costello etc. > >>Meanwhile, of all the undeserving stars you might have listed, I find it >>baffling that you would list Tanita Tikaram and Labi Siffre, both of whom >>really aren't "stars" by any mainstream definition. > >Exactly my point! Tikaram seems to be included in playlists largely >through tokenism, and Siffre was pushed mercilessly by his agency >by opening for others of their acts. He had a minor hit record, and is now >being recreated as a former pop star, on the basis of barely-existent >charting. Well, my point was that if you're going to complain about stars who are only famous because of record-company hype, why not instead bitch about the Spice Girls, Boyz II Men or any of the other disposable top 40 vocal groups? Or all of today's strategically marketed "Alternative" artists who barely have a clue about punk history? Etc. Singling out Tikaram and Siffre as examples of this seems like a weak argument, since neither are major stars. Heck, I'll admit that I didn't even know who Siffre was, until you posted about him and I looked him up on the Web. And it looked to me like he's more of a poet than a musician, no? Anyway.... Kinda weird (but perhaps predictable) that a couple of other folks were praising Elvis Costello based on cocktail/exotica-type criterion...ie, him referencing other songs on early albums (Get Happy in particular) or creating somewhat of a "lounge" ambience on Trust. I mean, such qualities really aren't the crux of his contribution to music, you know. And he did make a sizeable contribution, yes indeedy. Anyway.... Eb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:21:58 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) BLUNA ad with TIPSY music Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek wrote: > > Afri Cola once became famous for it's (then > > provocative) Pop art clips by Charles Wilp. Afri Cola also sponsored > > Andreas Dorau. > > I have an album by Charles Wilp, called 'Charles Wilp fotografiert > Bunny'. Nice cover and great "sexy" music (composed by Marvin Martin). > Does anyone know more about this album? When was it released? I didn't even know this existed. It must be really rare. All I own is a single by Charles Wilp with his Afri Cola music. Weird "avant-garde" orchestral stuff. Sounds like Ligeti or something. Wilp used to own this Colani UFO house that he had on top of his house in Dusseldorf for many many years. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:06:58 +0200 From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) BLUNA ad with TIPSY music Moritz R wrote: > > Afri Cola once became famous for it's (then > provocative) Pop art clips by Charles Wilp. Afri Cola also sponsored > Andreas Dorau. I have an album by Charles Wilp, called 'Charles Wilp fotografiert Bunny'. Nice cover and great "sexy" music (composed by Marvin Martin). Does anyone know more about this album? When was it released? Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:20:43 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) BLUNA ad with TIPSY music Here are some interesting links about Charles Wilp and Afri Cola. (Note: One of the models for the Afri Cola ads back in 1968 was Donna Summer) http://www.wilp.de/cola.html http://www.afri-cola.com http://www.afri-cola.de/werbEng.htm Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:04:13 EST From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Bruce Haack Hi: Anyone know more about Bruce Haack. Seems to have released some 3 records, including one for kids and one called "Electric Lucifer" many years ago. Apparently all 3 are near impossible to find. But... there's a really good CD reissue out there from Germany that I heard recently called "Hush Little Robot" that is a compilation of all 3 records? Reminded me of a cross between Joe Meek's - I Hear a New World and Attilio Mineo's - Man In Space with Sounds. Anyone know more? Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:07:23 -0700 From: Clark Scheffy Subject: (exotica) call report for Jean-Jacques Perrey in SF Just thought I'd give you all my impression of the Jean-Jacques Perrey appearance last night at The Lab in San Francisco. The venue was fully installed - meaning, sight and sound installations filled the space. Pretty cool actually... a stretched fabric structure shaped a sort of opium-den style seating area with headphones coming off the wall playing sound installations. The lighting was treated, projections of space scenes, computer graphics, and a video of the Carpenters' "Calling all Interplantary Craft" on the translucent fabric and on the wall. I arrived around 10 p.m. to find little happening - between set changes. I left and came back around 11 p.m. to catch the last half of electronic/vocal/performance artist Pamela Z doing her thing - she uses sensor devices to control sound - basically "conducting" in space to trigger (via MIDI) various sound textures or even play melodies. Pretty cool conceptually, not always instantly pleasant sonically. OK - enough of that. I saw Jack Diamond there (thanks, Jack for passing on the concert info). He and I and a few others were clearly there to see the master. Jean Jacques came on stage to strong applause and joined a band of local SF elecronic musicians - his accompaniment included a guy on minimoog and some form of Korg keyboard, another on drum machine, another on some home-built theremin-based instruments, a live drummer, a turntable guy doing mostly scratches, a guitarist, and a woman doing abstract vocalese. Jean Jacques played the Ondioline, which was great to see and even better to hear - all those sounds from the Perrey-Kingsely and onther Perrey records came to life! Amazing. And the instrument is very expressive - allowing a range of sounds (from duck quack-like tones to clicks or more theremin-sounding high tones) and vibrato as well. Perrey's playing was just as anyone familiar with his music knows it - binky bonk and silly in places, always emphasizing fun. The only drawback, in my opinion, was the unrehearsed nature of the set. The band was at times bashing about without listening to the motifs Perrey set forth. for anyone familiar with his records, he is a firm believer in melody - even to an almost silly, sing-songy level, which for me, is a big part of the appeal of his music. Last night, when he'd lay down a bassline or a melody (often quoting familiar songs of his own and others), the band just didn't seem to be listening nor responding. This was a drag. Each jam began with a Perrey motif and ended with everyone playing at the same time, really just bashing about over his melody, until finally Perrey would give up and begin trying to conduct the group. Each jam seemed to go from simple melodic structure set forth by Perrey quickly to one-upmanship games of knob twiddling and squawking. Not to say I don't like squawks, I just think that true musicianship, especially in a jam situation, is knowing when *not* to play. However, seeing Jean Jacques Perrey and the way he plays was still a thrill. He is one of these guys that just commands a room with his presence. He draws all attention. After the show, Jack and I and another friend of ours went backstage to speak with Perrey briefly. Among the questions asked were: With all the focus in most electronic music and musique concrete on timbre, why did you decide to focus so much on melody, and then why explore that in electronic music? Perrey answered "Why not?" He then explained that melody is what is always important to him in music and electronic music was a way to explore it in a fresh context. Jack (I believe) also asked which was JJP's first album. I don't recall the name - [Jack, maybe you can fill it in?] Anyway, it was released only in the US, before JJP was known in Europe. Finally, [as Jack Diamond told me before the show, taken from earlier conversations with JJP], JJP learned his skills from Pierre Schaeffer, who along with Pierre Henry, did the first Musique Concrete work in France, released as Musique Concrete Volumes 1 and 2, and Panorama of Musique Concrete on Ducretet Thomson and UK Decca, respectively (I believe). JJ Perrey decided to take Schaeffer's early work and put it in a pop context. Schaeffer said it couldn't be done. All in all, a great evening, if mostly for the conversation afterward. Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:52:13 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 9.15.98 "Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, Cmabridge Tuesdays 6-8am - -----Billy Taylor Orchestra-David Frost Theme----- Gato Barbieri-Return-LP OST Last Tango In Paris Neal Hefti-Main Title-LP OST Barefoot In The Park Fabio Frizzi-Verso L'Ignoto-CD OST L'Adilia Peter Thomas Orchestra-Theme For Airport-CD Futurmuzik Bing Day-Mama's Place-CD Swing For A Crime Hugo Montenegro-Solo Busa Nova-CD OST Man From Uncle Young Holt Unlimited-Young And Holtful-LP Just A Melody Mari-My Favorite Things-CD Sushi 3003 - -Johnny Williams-Poolside-LP OST Penelope - -Giovanni Lamberti-Madeira-CD Mo Plen 2000 - -Enoch Light-Goodbye Columbus-LP Brass Menagerie - -Free Design-A Man & A Woman-CD Best of Free Design - -Martin Bottcher & Orchestre-Sonderezernat-CD Get Easy - -Steve Allen-Man Called Dagger LP OST Man Called Dagger - -Four Piece Suit-Mondo Bondo-CD Ready To Where - -James Taylor Quartet-Dirty Harry-CD JTQ Glen Campbell-Where's The Playground Suzy?-LP Glen! ;-) Chris Montez-The More I See You-LP Chris Montez Julie London-Wives & Lovers-LP Julie London Eddie Harris-Theme In Search Of A Movie-45 single Don Tiki-Hot Like Lava-CD Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki Ben Platano Group-Platano Spin-CD Sexopolis Perez Prado-Guarare-LP Our Man In South America - -Alan Hackshaw-Happy Rainbow-CD Essential Lounge of....... - -George Romanis-Title Track-LP OST 8 On The Lam - -Buddy Morrow Orch.-Hawaiian Eye-LP Double Impact - -Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66-Batucada-LP Look Around - -Aliza Kashi-Quando Quando-LP "Live From Ceasars Monticello" - -Axel Boys-Dub I Dub-CD Cocktail Shaker - -Valerie LeMercier-Goutes Mes Frites-CD Chante - -Fantastic Plastic Machine-Pura Saude-CD Fantastic Pl. Mach. - -----Wayne Newton-Wives & Lovers-------- MIX TAPES WELCOME-E-MAIL ME PRIVATELY # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:54:12 -0700 From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: Re: (exotica) Operation Re-Information Live Tonight Went to the Apple Campus at lunchtime to see Operation RE-Information, An amazing trio of laptop-playing musicians dressed like IBM emplyees circa 1971. AMAZING! everything was being "played" an apple laptops. Lots of sampled sounds of old video games and vaguely familiar beeps and boops. Some movie dialoge and THE MOST INCREDIBLE cover of the Knight Rider TV theme a body can imagine. The smattering of apple employees in attendance were all sitting there with BIG SHIT-EATING GRINS on their faces. THEY ARE PLAYIN LIVE ON KFJC TONIGHT!!! Not in the BAy Area? Don't fret... The show is webcast at WWW.KFJC.ORG NO midi, NO samplers, NOTHING BUT THREE POWERBOOKS and six hands. There was a projected video image of the screen interface of their home-made software (Which I remembered seeing at the Man or Astroman Gamma Clone show) The software was being offered for sale for $20.00. I HAD to have it - It's pretty neat stuff: Simple, but POWERFUL in the right hands. At one point the members invited the crowd to com up and touch the keyboard - Some people RAN up there giggling like schoolkids. That's when mention of their tour vehicle came up... A buick LeSabre. Who needs a tour van, when all you play is a friggan laptop computer. So, what's on YOUR Powerbook? Talking with them afterwards, I was astounded to find thay had little knowlege of the history of electronic music. Amazing, It has the playfullness and melodic strength of Perrey and Kingsley. (VERY coincidental I thought) I read the revue of last nights (JJ Perrey's that is) performance after seeing the noontime show of ORI, and was laughing out loud at the syncronicity of it all. This was the definition of Musique Concrete as I understand it, and they came upon it seemingly on their own. Add to the fact that THE MAN is in town and very much on the tip of everyone's tongue right now, and you see what a beautiful coincidence it is. Hope this helps... Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:21:18 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) JJP & Operation RE-Information shows I just want to say that I really appreciate those live performance reports. It's been so long since we've had "live" reports on here regularly. Thanks. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ New: Assorted Links page updated # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 98 23:24:04 -0500 From: recliner Subject: (exotica) What is Mod? Ok let=B9s talk about old records for a change! With Disney one moment and Elvis Costello the next I=B9m wondering = if we have=B9nt lost our exotica bearings. And so to counter that, I=B9m forced to bring up a topic that I=B9m = not quite ready to deal with yet. Festering in the part of my brain that thinks up new topics for my = radio show is the notion to do a =B3Mod=B2 show. But, what is =B3Mod=B2? I think that there is plenty of examples in sixties instrumental = music so if we could keep the talk from staying too much into the = rock genre it would be helpful for my purposes. I think of Mod music as music with a somewhat jazzy inclination, but = with a sixties dance beat beneath that. A small jazz band with the = horns carrying the melody and the rhythm section (with electric bass) = playing a sort of boogaloo of frug beat. Some of the more accesible records would be, for instance, some of = Quincy Jones, mid-late sixties soundtracks like some cuts on The Man = from UNCLE,( or even better The Girl from UNCLE). I would even = include something like Bacharach=B9s Bond Street. Two albums I think of as mod through and through are Benny Golson=B9s = =B3Tune in,Turn on=B3 and Creed Taylor=B9s =B3Jazz-Rock Syndrome=B3 = (both on Verve coincidentally). If anyone is familiar with these LPs = you will definitely know what I=B9m driving at. Mid-late sixties music also seemed to have a penchant for putting a = harpsichord in the arrangements. Where this does=B9nt automatically = make a tune mod it does help attain that sound. Many tunes that I = think of as mod do indeed have a harpsichord in the mix I guess I can only give a few more examples to get across my point. Many of the late sixties Euro-soundtrack stuff that I=B9ve picked up = on the Crippled Dick re-issues I would classify as mod (less so on = the more psychedelic stuff).I think I could even make a case for some = of Brazil 66=B9s material, but that might confuse the issue. It seems like I should call some of Serge Gainsbourg=B9s stuff as = mod but I can=B9t quite do it,least not frome the material I=B9m = familiar with from the Phillips re-isses. Serge would have to take an = extra step to fit into my view of mod, I=B9m not quite sure what but = it may be the beat. (and please don=B9t think I=B9m pickin=B9 on the = guy, WE love Serge.) So I guess what I=B9m asking from the list is what is your take on = =B3mod=B2? I=B9m sure there are some records, perhaps right in my own = collection, that I=B9m not thinking of as I write this. Please give = your examples of mod recordings. My goal is to get enough material to do a whole show or two. I know that I may be risking one of those definiton squabbles that we = are so ready to precipitate...yet I would prefer that to anymore talk = about Disney. Thanks Frank My Vinyl Recliner - Music from the in-seam of the 50's and 60's Every Tuesday night from 10 - 11:30 on WMPG 90.9fm, Portland Maine! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:49:19 -0500 From: Chris Strouth Subject: Re: (exotica) What is Mod? in terms of what you are talking about you absolutley need Si Zenter's "the big sound of Mod" Big band interpertation of that swinging 60's sound.... UltraMODern --- > Chris E N D O F T R A N S M I S S O N... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:19:33 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: Re: (exotica) Digitizing an LP >From: "Larson/Thomas" > >I'd like to make CD copies of some of my LPs, and I have a vague idea of >the hardware I'll need, but what music editing software do people recommend >for removing surface noise? try Arboretum's RayGun - there's a working demo at their site: http://www.arboretum.com/ i'm pleased with it; if you have a mac, you can use it as a real-time sound processor to remove noise, pops, hum and rumble. it also works on digitised sound files. it's fairly cheap too: $99 Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:59:06 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) What is Mod? http://www.ozemail.com.au/~smasht/link.html Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:26:01 -0400 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack At 2:04 PM -0500 9/25/98, Brian Karasick wrote: >Anyone know more about Bruce Haack. The late Bruce Haack, along with his partner Miss (Esther) Nelson, made at least 10 pretty bizarre electronic albums for children on the Dimension 5 label, mostly in the late 60's and 70's (you can hear the 60's philosophies in the lyrics). Album titles include "Dance, Sing and Listen", "Way Out Record For Children", "The Electronic Record", "Together", "Dance To The Music", "Captain Entropy", "Dance, Sing And Listen Again" and of course the hit follow up "Dance, Sing And Listen Again and Again". According to the info supplied to me by the guys in Sukia, most of the albums were recorded on two 2-track reel to reel decks (you can hear the tape echo produced by that), using modular synthesizer systems (that's the big old ones with lots of patch cords, for those unfamiliar with the term). Haack also did radio and TV spots and music for Broadway and off-Broadway plays. His one real commercial release was "The Electric Lucifer", released on Columbia. A tribute album is currently being planned. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 11:48:05 -0700 From: Jack Diamond Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack >At 2:04 PM -0500 9/25/98, Brian Karasick wrote: > >>Anyone know more about Bruce Haack. > >The late Bruce Haack, along with his partner Miss (Esther) Nelson, made at >least 10 pretty bizarre electronic albums for children on the Dimension 5 >label, mostly in the late 60's and 70's B Cleve I've got this 1: "Way Out Record For Children" and it is FUCKED UP! Fucked up = GREAT AND WEIRD! Dated 1968. Dimension 5 label QDK just released a collection on CD and LP/Gatefold Cover that is TRE-MEN-DOUS I've got copies for sale if anyone is interested:) It's called "Hush Little Robot" ALSO OF GREAT NOTE is that his electronic psychedelic with (some) spoken word "Electric Lucifer" has also just been reissued and I will have copies of that very soon as well:) Word Game, Bruce recites over cool electronics,keyboards and drums; LIVE... L-I-V-E and then he says E-V-I-L...EVIL LIVED...L-I-V-E-D...D-E-V-I-L...DEVIL It's an amazing record that should be heard by all! 5 Stars Jack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA Since January 1993 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 98 17:51:17 -0400 From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: (exotica) Costello/Bacharach Fun little anecdote about the upcoming Costello/Bacharach show at Radio City Music Hall in NY. A friend of mine got a call from a guy he knows who works at Warner Chappell (the music publisher). The guy asked my friend if he happened to have Manfred Mann's version of "My Little Red Book" with him at work. My friend said no, that he had it at home, but that it probably could easily be found at Tower or HMV or some such store. "Yeah, I'll have to do that, Burt wants it right away." Burt? As it turned out, Burt and Elvis are in town, preparing for that show. They want to do "My Little Red Book" in that particular arrangement and didn't have it. So the Warner Chappell guy and my friend, who invited himself, bought the CD and took it to Burt's hotel. Anybody going to that show, by the way? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:24:37 -0700 From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Operation Re-Information Live Tonight Just had to add my 2 cents about ORI..... I became acquainted with them on their last tour, and this time they stayed at my house. REALLY nice folks!! The one thing that really amazed me whilst chatting with them was that one of the guys is the props master for Mr. Rogers!!!! That's right!!! THE Mr. Rogers show!!!! He keeps track of all the sweaters, puppets, etc!!!! Anyway.... watch for their upcoming releases on Vinyl Communications (www.vinylcomm.com), a label I'm affiliated with.... pea # 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, 27 Sep 1998 00:16:10 EDT From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Tiki Shirts, Berkeley Just visited Shark's in Berkeley and they have about 8 Tiki shirts they are putting out on the shelf today (Sat. 9/26, I already bought some so don't worry about me) they are reasonably priced at $16 - $20 and will go pretty fast there so check it out soon. Shark's 2505 telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 510-841-8736 aloha, Otto # 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, 27 Sep 1998 01:19:14 -0400 From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, September 27 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is 1 hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada. Comments and questions welcome. Space Bop #17 - Oh, la la! Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris "Frenzy" Jacqueline Taieb: 7 heures du matin "Ultra Chicks Vol.3 - Baby Pop" Brigitte Bardot: Je danse, donc je suis "Best of BB" Gaynael: Romentale et sentimentique "Ultra Chicks Vol.3 - Baby Pop" France Gall: Poupee de cire, poupee de son "Greatest Hits" Patricia Carli: Le lion "Ultra Chicks Vol.2 - Lolita Ya-Ya" Plastic Bertrand: Baby Doll "Plastiquez vos Baffles" France Gall: Jazz a Gogo "Greatest Hits" Petrula Clark: Ya Ya Twist "Rendez Vous Avec Petula" Dani: Fille a la moto "Ultra Chicks Vol.1 - Filles In The Garage" Nino Ferrer: Les hommes a tout faire "Get Easy France" Jacqueline Nero: Un petit beguin "Ultra Chicks Vol.3 - Baby Pop" France Gall: Le temps de la rentree "Baby Pop" Petula Clark: Boum "Hello Paris" Petula Clark: Claquez vos doigts "Rendez Vous Avec Petula" Les Parisiennes: Y'a comme un defaut "Get Easy France" Michel Magne & Jean Yanne: Petrol Pop "Stereo Ultra" Daniel Gerard: Sexologie "Get Easy France" Jacques Dutronc: Le responsable "Get Easy France" Brigitte Bardot: Ciel de lit "Best of BB" Claudine Longet: Un homme et une femme "Get Easy France" cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 20:44:37 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) The Mighty Mellow, Mancini question, screwed-up track list "The Mighty Mellow - a folk-funk psychedelic experience" is a comp from Partners in crime, the makers of The Mood Mosaic, issued on YellowStone in Italy, last year. I wasn't blown away by it, but it's nice, easy funk. couldn't hear the psychedelic or folk element though. It has 4 vocal tracks, that's 4 too much for me, i prefer my EZ instrumental. however, what bothers me is that they screwed up the track listing (again); one track is even featured twice! i would like to know which track is the Mancini track "Here's looking". i _think_ it's the first track on side B, but i'd like to be sure, as i'm plannijg a Mancini special. So, Br. Cleve, Chuck, or others, pleaz lemme know, will you? thanx! Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # 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, 27 Sep 1998 20:59:45 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Re: Charles Wilp Very nice homepage, Kallie. I have put a mail into the Wilp homepage asking for that LP but haven't got an answer yet. Funny, you feature those medical records. My father was a doctor and I have seen so many of those. They came from Pharma companies like Ciba Geigy etc. There was also a record with the human heartbeats. You know, in those days there were no music cassettes. And few people owned a tape recorder. So a record was the only way to distribute sounds. I only wish I had collected these records. The only two I have are two volumes of Medical English for Doktors. I'm also a fan of Andre Popp. I found an album by french singer Marie Laforet and when I looked at it closer I saw that almost half of the compositons where by Andre Popp I immediately bought it. It has some nice pieces but mostly pretty conventional - "harmless" - stuff. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 98 07:33:53 +0900 From: Subject: (exotica) The Ballroom - "Preparing For The Millennium" For any fans of mid-60's harmony-oriented psyche/art pop, there is a brand new "long-lost" release from one of the most beloved producers of that genre, Curt Boettcher. The rest of this post is going to talk about this and I hope other listers won't mind the just barely off-topic subject matter this one time. Apologies to those who have read all this before elsewhere or who don't care to read it in the first place... The Ballroom - "Preparing For The Millennium", will be issued on September 28 in UK (CREV058CD) on Revola Records, a division of Creation UK. The CD features the long awaited previously unreleased album by The Ballroom, Boettcher's first attempt at becoming an artist in his own right shortly before Sagittarius and Millennium. After his Association work, reportedly Steve Clarke, Gary Usher and Brian Wilson convinced Boettcher to try recording as an artist. Most of the Ballroom stuff was recorded around the time Boettcher was working with Tommy Roe. There are 23 tracks on the CD, including the Ballroom album, plus several outakes and demos from pre- Ballroom to post-Millennium. Familiar titles include Spinning Spinning Spinning, Musty Dusty, Another Time, Keeper of the Games, the Island, Milk & Honey. The tracks are very interesting, and because the Ballroom stuff precedes Gary Usher's touches heard on Present Tense and Begin, Boettcher's understated arrangements and choir boy vocals are quite intimate. Boettcher's demo of Another Time alone is worth the price of admission. For anyone interested in Sagittarius and Millennium, this album is an absolute must-have. It stands to reason that anyone that enjoys the sensibilities of Pet Sounds and Smile too would really enjoy the Ballroom CD. This release provides a deeper insight into what was happenning in LA right around the time Brian was doing Pet Sounds and Smile. Brian was obviously very aware of what contemporaries Gary Usher, Curt Boettcher, Gary Zekley, Jerry Riopell, etc., were achieving. The fact is, a certain other BB was unaware and voiced strong opposition. Too bad. Ballroom and Smile have a few things in common. Each: experimented with and at noted L.A. recording studios attempting to push the aural limit of what "a pop album" was supposed to be featured unconventional arrangements and strange sound effects took a progressive approach to lyric and harmony remained unreleased, tracks subsequently cannibalized for reproduction on other albums only now being made available to the public, but not exactly in the form that was originally intended. Sound familiar? If this reads suspiciously like propoganda, it is in a way. It's my little personal crusade to promote the CD. Why? Apparently a cache of unreleased and rare peak period Boettcher work has recently been discovered, and the involved parties are taking a wait-and-see position toward subsequent releases. As to the release of Ballroom, for fans of 60's harmony-oriented psyche/art pop, it is big news. The Ballroom - "Preparing For The Millennium" (CREV058CD) Revola Records, a division of Creation UK. - -- Jamie LePage le_page_web@geocities.com LePageWeb: # 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, 27 Sep 1998 19:11:06 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Hank Levine Does anyone know about Hank Levine? Volume 4 of Ace Records' ongoing rock instro series, "Teen Beat", includes both sides of a cool single by him, "Image Pt 1" / "Image Pt 2" (ABC Paramount, 1961). It's actually two different versions, not a continuation from side to side. "Pt 2" is in more of a rock / R&B mode (fitting the compilation theme), but "Pt 1" is very smooth, very hip. Sort of in the same neighborhood as Nelson Riddle's "Route 66 Theme". Sax, strings, piano, vibes, etc. in a tasty, atmospheric blend (composer credit is Joe Glenn & Robert L. Sande). The liner notes (by Dave Burke & Alan Taylor) say: "Plas Johnson and Earl Palmer, along with Emile Richards on vibes and Gene Garf on piano, were also central to Hank Levine's evocative single titled 'Image' (Parts 1 & 2) from 1961. The tune originally began life as a radio station indentity theme for Los Angeles' KFWB, whose presenters included Wink Martindale and Dick Biondi. KFWB commissioned an ad agency to come up with a five second jingle and the resulting 'aircheck' became instantly popular. Enter Foy Willing, the movie star leader of cowboy band Riders Of The Purple Sage, who asked arranger Hank Levine to turn the nine beat phrase into a full blown instrumental. The two separate interpretations that he came up with, one dreamy and the other upbeat, were recorded at the RCA Studios on Sunset and Vine. When the initial dub was given saturation play on KFWB, ABC Paramount picked up the master originally released on the Vogue International label and the disc grazed the Top 100 at #98. In the UK it reached #45, and a cover version by Alan Haven has been issued as a single no less than three times! In the early 90s Stuart Colman was using the original as a closing theme on London's Capital Gold radio station." So does anyone know more about Hank Levine? Did he do any other work we might want to know about? Thanks. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:14:17 +0000 From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) early reprise and refuge labels Today I found a Nelson Riddle LP on Reprise. Pretty nice LP: Nelson Riddle Interprets Great Music, Great Films, Great Sounds RS 6138. However, I enjoyed the sleeve information more. It told me that the early Reprise offerings were quite diverse and interesting: it was not just a Rat Pack label, although to some degree Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin were the star attractions. Here are some of the more interesting offerings on Reprise. Anyone heard these? (all RS ####) Primitive Percussion, African Jungle Drums Thurston Knudson 6001 The Passionate Valentino Tangos Francisco Cazador and His Barcelona Caballeros 6007 Off Shore Leo Diamond (arr. cond. Frank Hunter) 6024 Exciting Sounds of the South Seas Leo Diamond 6002 Songs of Couch and Consultation Katie Lee/Bob Thompson 6025 (yes, the same, but with different cover art!) Themes from TV's Top 12 Neal Hefti 6018 The Soupy Sales Show Soupy Sales 6010 America's Favorite Organ Hits Don George 6008 Other artists: Barney Kessel, Dick Leibert, "The Ol' Calliope Man", Joe E. Lewis, Alice Faye, Mavis Rivers, Lou Monty, Mort Sahl, Jack De Mello, Al Hibbler, and Aki Aleong (who, by the way, these days plays Oriental heavies on TV series such as "Tales of the Gold Monkey" and "V"). My theory: Frank Sinatra chose to create his own label as he saw Rock n' Roll overtaking popular music, wishing to create a haven for different types of entertainment. This is not to say that Reprise did not do RnR, folk rock, etc. but that those genres were not what the label was all about. I suppose at some point he lost enough control over the label so that in time this was no longer true. However, when it started, this certainly seemed the idea. Of course, he wasn't the only artist who jumped Capitol to do his own thing. Stan Kenton gradually broke away to form Creative World (it is interesting that Capitol allowed him to actually market his fledgling label on the inner sleeve of "The Sophisticated Approach" and later allowed Kenton to re-release Capitol LPs under his own banner sans the original cover art). Lawrence Welk's record labels also became refuges. Ray Anthony produced in 1972: Ray Anthony plays for Dream Dancing...Around the World! on Aerospace Records RA 1007. The record was distributed only by Ranwood. I never heard of "Aerospace Records." Anyone ever heard of other LPs on the label. I suspect it was a Ray Anthony only thing much like Creative World was for Kenton. Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # 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 #216 *****************************