From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #855 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Wednesday, December 20 2000 Volume 02 : Number 855 In This Digest: (exotica) European Trash Cinema (exotica) [obits] Valerio Longoria, et al Re: (exotica) Re: CD vs. LP (exotica) odds against tomorrow Re: (exotica) Chet Baker joke (exotica) Tracking down Italian films Re: (exotica) Tracking down Italian films Re: (exotica) Re: CD vs. LP (exotica) Dark Side Of A Christmas Tree in the "Disquarium" with CHRISTMAS CDs (exotica) Tom Waits tv from 1978 (exotica) Quality of Vinyl Re: (exotica) Dark Side Of A Christmas Tree in the Re: (exotica) Quality of Vinyl Re: (exotica) wow I wish I was rich Re: (exotica) Tom Waits tv from 1978 (exotica) Off Topic: Singer Kirsty MacColl dies (exotica) Up With People Subject: (exotica) Orpheus, Charlotte & Cronenberg Subject: (exotica) Orpheus, Charlotte & Cronenberg Re: (exotica) Italian Films etc. Re: Subject: (exotica) Orpheus, Charlotte & Cronenberg (exotica) Incredible Bongo Band and Abrax scores Re: (exotica) Re: CD vs. LP RE: (exotica) Re: CD vs. LP (exotica) Italian MONDO EXOTICA a la Christmas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:47:48 -0000 From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) European Trash Cinema Thanks to whoever posted about this site, what a great one. All those films which we have the soundtracks, if you can work your way through the translations. I can feel another magazine subscription coming on... Merry Christmas El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ Spunky Misunderstood Genius # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:45:10 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Valerio Longoria, et al December 19, 2000 Valerio Longoria, Conjunto Musician, Dies at 75 By BEN RATLIFF Valerio Longoria, an accordion player and a prominent early figure in south Texas conjunto music, died on Friday in a nursing home in San Antonio. He was 75 and lived in San Antonio. Conjunto is a hard-driving dance music in which the accordion leads a small band that also includes the guitarlike bajo sexto and the drums. In the development of the music, Mr. Longoria was the next major innovator after creators of the form like Narciso Martinez and Santiago Jimenez. Mr. Longoria was born in Clarksdale, Miss., in 1924, one of nine children of cotton field workers, and spent his early childhood in Kennedy, Tex. He began playing accordion at age 7, and he was soon under the spell of Martinez, the accordionist who in the mid-1930's helped conjunto become a popular, working- class dance music and created a new, more indigenously Texas-Mexican style of playing the accordion, with fewer bass notes and more focus on the melody. Mr. Longoria played at weddings and parties in Harlingen, Tex., as a teenager, then joined the Army in 1942. Toward the end of his military service, he was stationed in Germany, where he played the accordion in nightclubs. In 1946 he was discharged and soon made his first recordings, for the Corona label in San Antonio. When he began his career, conjunto was strictly instrumental music, but Mr. Longoria sang with it, and through his influence singing became part of the genre. He originally played the standard prewar repertory of Texas border music — waltzes, huapangos and schottisches — but then began to add new elements. He learned the Colombian cumbia while living among Puerto Ricans in Chicago in the late 1950's, and after he adopted it, it became an important part of Mexican-American conjunto. He popularized, if not pioneered, the practice among south Texas conjunto musicians of playing the accordion while standing up and it is said that he was the first to use the modern trap drum set in conjunto, in 1948. Mr. Longoria created a different style of playing, improving on that of Martinez — "a smoother style, with longer extended runs," said Juan Tejeda, a conjunto music historian. He also sang while playing the lead line on the accordion, another innovation. His voice, more stylized and sophisticated than that of many other conjunto singers, was suited to the romantic bolero; when that style became popular in Mexico, he was among the first to play it in south Texas. He also popularized the canción ranchera, a sentimental song sung in waltz tempo. "He had a real spark to him," said Chris Strachwitz, who produced some records by Mr. Longoria for Arhoolie Records in the 1980's. "I believe he had one of the best voices of any of the singers from San Antonio." Mr. Longoria's other innovations involved the accordion. He turned around and retuned the reeds of the instrument to transpose them to other keys. He also customized them in a manner that he called octavación: changing the reeds so that single notes could be voiced in two octaves at once. Ultimately, he used three accordions in his performances, all in different keys: diatonic accordions in F and G, and a special chromatic accordion that he built himself. After living for a time in Los Angeles, Mr. Longoria moved back to San Antonio in 1980 and began a 20-year teaching career at the Guadalupe Cultural Center, where he taught beginning and master's-level accordion classes to more than 1,000 students. In 1986 he was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship Award. Mr. Longoria is survived by his wife, Rebecca; four sons, Valerio III, Alex, Juan and Flavio; two brothers, Steve and Rudy; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Valerio+Longoria%22 http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B99310 http://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/240762_longoriaobit17.html ======== Paddy Chambers The career of guitarist Paddy Chambers, who has died of cancer aged 56, was the stuff of the 1960s rock era. A member of Paddy, Klaus and Gibson, his other bands included Faron's Flamingoes and the Big Three. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,397709,00.html ===== Russ Conway, star of Sixties TV, dies at 75 The pianist Russ Conway, who was one the most popular stars on television in the Sixties and Seventies, died yesterday after losing his battle with cancer. He was 75. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-11/conway171100.shtml ==== Vancouver Pianist, composer, teacher, Kathy Kidd died early Saturday. She had been diagnosed with cancer early in October. Kathy was a remarkable woman and a wonderful piano player who had a huge love for jazz, Latin and Arabic music. Kathy released three fine albums with her group Kongo Mambo, "Serious Fun", "Do What You Love" and most recently "Hajji". http://www.coolname.com/pipermail/maplepost-mirror/2000-November/002259.html ===== Libertad Lamarque Tango singing star of the 1930s who was forced to leave Argentina after a bitter quarrel with Eva Peron LIBERTAD LAMARQUE, who has died aged 92, was Argentina's first female singing star of tango; but after falling foul of the future "Evita" Peron, she was frozen out of work and moved to Mexico, where she became a popular actress in films and soap operas. http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=003989447804370&rtmo=LxL3GLSd&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/00/12/14/db03.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:48:23 -0600 From: Paul Dean Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD vs. LP alan zweig wrote: >The record was Bongo Rock by The Incredible Bongo Band, from 1972 > > I did the same thing but the copy I bought WAS trashed. Still I kept it > for a year or so, hoping it would spontaneously improve. Tried to > appreciate it for the odd passage that played clean. Then in the purge of I think there are two kinds of scratches, "smooth scratches" that only bend the surface and "deep cuts" that slice right into the vinyl. I lucked out and got a copy with smooth scratches. I will look for these in the future. By the way, the Incredible Bongo Band deserves the name. SUPER HIGH FIDELITY!!! The production is fantastic, and the music is great. I love it. On the cover the name Michael Viner is prominent, it was recorded in Vancouver, released in 1972, but that's all I know. I am wondering, does anyone know if there's any more of this out there? The first cut is the deepest, paul dean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:42:16 -0600 From: "Phil Ford" Subject: (exotica) odds against tomorrow Thanks for the welcome, everyone. To all the radio DJs and assorted other media people who normally get comped for stuff: you should be able to get a comp copy of "I Dig." The album is on Innova, which is the American Composers Forum label. (An exotica album is sort of a departure for them.) The guy who runs that program is named Philip Blackburn, and he can be emailed at pblackburn@composersforum.org. >Hi Phil. Are you related to Lou Ford? >Don't often get a chance to make "Killer Inside Me" references but I >figured a student of the forties and fifties and crime jazz would >appreciate it. >Is the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis? It must be. >Minneapolis is the best used record store town I've ever been to. It also >had the only all-78's used record store I've ever seen. >But mostly I'm thinking of Hymie's. Is he still there? >Please talk more about crime jazz. We need more of all the fake jazz forms >discussed here. > I'm on the Minneapolis U of MN campus. I don't even own a turntable, so I didn't even know that Minneapolis is a good town for used/rare records. I am a slave to CDs, which are OK for mainstream jazz and classical reissues but, I'm realizing, not so good for exotica. Favorite new discovery: John Lewis's score to the film "Odds Against Tomorrow." (Well, that and the movie, too.) I'm a big MJQ fan, and I love this film's odd fusion of a crime jazz mood with Third-Stream compositional weirdness. Phil # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:45:47 -0600 From: Matthew Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Chet Baker joke DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > I once heard (here, maybe?) that all that Mexicali Brass stuff was money for > dope Do you mean the "Mariachi Brass" LP that Baker played on? Yeah, I would strongly suspect that was made simply to earn drug money. I have a hard time picturing him recording tunes like "La Bamba" and "Tequila" for the sheer artistic joy of it... - -- Matt Marchese mattm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/ Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:49:20 -0800 From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: (exotica) Tracking down Italian films >we're all getting flooded by excellent re-issues of music used in French and >Italian movies from end sixties/early seventies. But where can we get the >films themselves ? Another good place for obscure films is Something Weird . They've been offering an ever expanding collection of German and Italian crime films for years. They can be a little pricey though, but they have a lot of odd titles, and often offer box cover art if you find that appealing like I do. Plus plenty of sexploitation too. Luminous Films and Video Wurks has a ton of Italian films, as well as a lot of Euro Westerns. I've got a catalogue, and I go to the site and look around sometimes, but I've never actually ordered videos from them so I can't vouch for quality. Keep in mind that if someone doesn't have a title, it's likely someone else does. There are also a number of video dealers that don't have websites. I buy a lot from dealers who you have to do snail mail with. In fact, for example, it took me about six months to track down someone who could dupe me a copy of the original Cat People. And note that Anchor Bay Entertainment has been doing a lot of legit reissues of Italian exploitation films in the past few years -- though more in the horror/giallo area. Mr. Unlucky - --- Mr. Unlucky presents Shoot To Kill, a weekly set of jazz, crime jazz, free jazz, soundtrack music, and Now Sound, on Supersphere.com, Thursdays 1-2 p.m. (CST). http://www.supersphere.com Get FREE Email/Voicemail with 15MB at Lycos Communications at http://comm.lycos.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:43:59 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Tracking down Italian films "F. Cobalt" wrote: > > Luminous Films and Video Wurks has a ton of Italian films, as well as a lot of Euro Westerns. I've got a catalogue, and I go to the site and look around sometimes, but I've never actually ordered videos from them so I can't vouch for quality. I've ordered from Luminous - the quality is so-so (I assume he's using European tapes, and transferring them to North American - PAL to VHS or whatever), but he has a lot of titles that you'll never otherwise find...He can take an awful long time to ship things, though. cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:50:00 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD vs. LP The Incredible Bongo Band had two LPs out - you have the first one. The second is called "The Return Of The Incredible Bongo Band", on GRT - I can't find a reference to the year on it. It's equally as good as the first - I think they were just reissued, so you can probably track them down. I saw a very obvious bootleg copy of the first album a while back, but I believe Dusty Groove carries the legit reissue (although I could be wrong...) And I can't recommend highly enough a compilation called "Kinky Beats" (how's that for a convoluted sentence?) It's on Lacerba, and has "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band on it, along with a whole mix of old and new beats. Still one of the best compilations I've come across in the past while... cheryl Paul Dean wrote: > By the way, the Incredible Bongo Band deserves the name. SUPER HIGH > FIDELITY!!! The production is fantastic, and the music is great. I love it. > > On the cover the name Michael Viner is prominent, it was recorded in > Vancouver, released in 1972, but that's all I know. > > I am wondering, does anyone know if there's any more of this out there? > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:50:46 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Dark Side Of A Christmas Tree in the "Disquarium" with CHRISTMAS CDs Hi Johan Your site is always fantastic. This new Christmas cds part is just great! I saw how high you rated Dark Side of A Christmas Tree! So I clicked on your Arf Arf Records link and emailed the guy and he said he had 3 copies left and would be happy to send one out before he got my check in the mail. In case any other exoticats have been looking for this comp I suggest going to the link below reading Johan's review and click on the Arf Arf link. The guy said the cd has been out of print for years. He also warned me how wild some of the songs are and I shouldn't let my 4 year old hear them. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Johan Dada Vis wrote: > *** new in the "Disquarium": a first special feature list, with > CHRISTMAS CDs http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:28:56 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Tom Waits tv from 1978 I can't give you a precise airtime for this, as it's on PBS and will air whenever your local affiliate schedules it. If they carry it. Anyway, the "Austin City Limits" series will be dusting off a Tom Waits hour from 1978. Now there's a holiday treat. Watch for it this week, this weekend, next week? Somewhere around there. Even more than usual: "check your local listings." m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:31:44 -0800 From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Quality of Vinyl exotica-digest wrote: >Brian Karasickt wrote: > >> Then there is the argument that there are different >>qualities of vinyl itself, the older heavy stuff being better than the >>newer lighter stuff (not proven in my opinion) This is absolutely true. I distinctly remember when vinyl took a nose dive in quality. It was when the first oil crisis hit. The record manufacturers started buying up old records and melting them down to mix with virgin vinyl. The surfaces got a lot noisier. Around that time RCA came out with "Dynaflex" records that were touted as being wonderful technological breakthroughs... What they really were was records that had half the amount of vinyl. They warped and had noisy surfaces. The best vinyl was in the late fifties. The audiophile records at that time were big and heavy and had incredibly clean, precise pressings. See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 1021 Grandview, 2nd Floor Glendale, CA 91201 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:05:18 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dark Side Of A Christmas Tree in the Erik should have mentioned that The Jethros, who have the best cuts on the CD, have a website at http://thejethros.com . They (he?) have a page with their/his offerings at: http://thejethros.com/Musix.html. You can get The Dark Side of the Xmas Tree II (CDR only for the moment) from there. lousmith@pipeline.com chuck wrote: > Hi Johan Your site is always fantastic. This new Christmas cds part is just great! I saw how high you rated Dark Side of A Christmas Tree! So I clicked on your Arf Arf Records link and emailed the guy and he said he had 3 copies left and would be happy to send one out before he got my check in the mail. In case any other exoticats have been looking for this comp I suggest going to the link below reading Johan's review and click on the Arf Arf link. The guy said the cd has been out of print for years. He also warned me how wild some of the songs are and I shouldn't let my 4 year old hear them. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:08:23 -0500 From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Quality of Vinyl i always liked the Dynaflex...i thought they sounded fine but then again i never had a great system and never owned audiophile records. and i especially liked "playing" them by bending and squeezing quickly, getting cool and exotic warpy sounds out of 'em. similar to playing a saw. i gotta start sampling it! bump >Around that time RCA came out with "Dynaflex" records that were >touted as being wonderful technological breakthroughs... What >they really were was records that had half the amount of vinyl. >They warped and had noisy surfaces. > ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* DJ Bump "Primitive Rhythms for Evolved Minds" Defective Records-Executive Producer bump@defectiverecords.com http://www.defectiverecords.com "Music, Non-Stop" -- Ralf + Florian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:16:36 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) wow I wish I was rich Hi Alan This is a wonderful record! I saw it go for big bucks and understand $100 and over is normal. I have it near mint. Its one of my favorite finds. Some time I'm going to frame this up in a guest room with lots and lots of Outer Space Albums. I have a lot of cds and records but I just don't have the time to absorb them like I did before I got into exotica. The cover is to die for on this. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- alan zweig wrote: > > Here's a record I'd love to be able to bid on: > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=527319012 > > It seems to be an early record by the brilliant Stu Phillips. > And not only that but it's also a Harry Revel thing. And not only that but it's "space-themed". > Sometimes I hate that things like this are so "identified" that > it has a reserve price around 20 bucks. > Then again, a lot of things that you'd think would get past 20 > bucks at least, stop at seven or eight. > But not the Free Design. Every one of those buggers goes for > over twenty bucks. > Anyway, I thought maybe someone here might be enough of a > "collector" to go after this record. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:20:03 -0500 From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Tom Waits tv from 1978 > Anyway, the "Austin City Limits" series will be dusting off a Tom Waits > hour from 1978. Now there's a holiday treat. Watch for it this week, this > weekend, next week? I believe its on this Saturday. I saw this appearance listed on a page at the cdnow.com website that's quite interesting. Titled 'Seen and Heard' , it identifies many of the popular songs that one hears in commercials, movies, and tv shows so people can then goand buy the cds on-line. Sergio Mendes's 'Mas Que Nada' is currently listed for its use in the Nike ad. The quite lengthy e-mail link is ..... http://cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1153655041/pagename=/MN/PROMO/promo_in_the_media.html/promoid=882 I discovered a song here that I've been trying to track down for some time now. I became first impressed with it while visiting the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland - it was being used as background music for a collage of mtv videos. I asked several employees there what the song was, but noone knew. Turns out the song is Carl Orff's 'O Fortuna' , currently being used in a Guinness Beer ad. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:31:06 -0600 From: "Chris Strouth" Subject: (exotica) Off Topic: Singer Kirsty MacColl dies SO Sad, her and Julie London In one year.... Singer Kirsty MacColl dies MacColl was a much-loved figure in the music industry Singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl has died after an accident on a diving holiday in Mexico. The singer was killed on Monday in the sea close to the coral island of Cozumel, off the Yucatan peninsula. Details are sketchy, but it is believed she was hit by a speedboat which was in an area reserved for swimmers. Her two sons were both with her in the water, but they are said to be unhurt. Their father and McColl's former husband, music producer Steve Lillywhite, has flown out to Mexico to comfort them. The daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl, she is best known for her 1987 Christmas hit with The Pogues, Fairytale of New York, and the hit single There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis. Once in punk band Drug Addix, her first solo release was They Don't Know, in 1979. It failed to reach the charts, but became a hit some years later when it was covered by Tracey Ullman. MacColl's solo career started when she split from punk band Drug Addix MacColl's other hits include a cover of Billy Bragg's song A New England, and a version of The Kinks' track Days. She also sang backing vocals for acts including Talking Heads, Simple Minds and Robert Plant. Her last album, Tropical Brainstorm, was a tribute to Cuban music, which had influenced her throughout the 1990s. McColl's manager, Kevin Nixon of Major Minor Management, who worked with her for four years, said: "We are absolutely distraught. "I was personally immensely proud to be her manager after being a fan for so many years before that." On Wednesday, BBC Radio 2 was due to begin broadcasting a documentary series she had made about Cuban music. She had recorded the series in Havana, interviewing musicians from the Buena Vista Social Club and Ry Cooder. The series has now been postponed and the station will consult her family to see if they want the broadcast to go ahead. A spokeswoman said: "We have decided to delay the broadcast of Kirsty MacColl's Cuba as a mark of respect until we have had the opportunity to consult the family as to their wishes. "We are devastated at her loss which is a tragedy for her family and has robbed the world of a major musical talent. She will be much missed." Ironically, the singer spoke about how she would spend this Christmas "with my family and friends" in BBC promotional material to accompany the series. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the pho mailing list, managed by Majordomo 1.94.4. To send a message to the list, email pho@onehouse.com. To send a request to majordomo, email majordomo@onehouse.com and put your request in the body of the message (use request "help" for help). To unsubscribe from the list, email majordomo@onehouse.com and put "unsubscribe pho" in the body of the message. - -- - ---> The revolution will not be televised...it will be webcast<--- while online visit: http://www.futureperfect.org http://www.stanridgway.com http://www.alliedchemical.com http://www.ultramodern.org end of transmission... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:40:36 -0500 From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Up With People There's a great article in the Washington Post today about the demise of 'Up With People' My favorite line: The inexplicably perky always have a way of creeping out the rest of the world when all they mean to do is bring cheer. My second favorite line: The world is made up of people who want to clap along and those who don't. Up With People never understood just how many, on principle, don't." Full story at ..... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24594-2000Dec18.html Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:22:54 -0800 From: "jim gerwitz" Subject: Subject: (exotica) Orpheus, Charlotte & Cronenberg I think the movie FOLLOWING Orpheus this weekend looks tres interresant! A young Charlotte Rampling hitchin' through Europe in 1969, I'm there. See blurb below. Music by Laurence Rosenthal, who worked on Fantasy Island and a jillion other '70's shows. And since Mike brought up Christmas Eve TV scheduling, the Independent Film Channel is showing 3 Cronenberg films: Rabid: Marilyn Chamber's armpit makes everyone in Montreal spit up their eggnog; The Brood: Great for reminiscing about how big all the kids have grown; Crash: Who needsh a deshignated driver? Gimme dose dere car keys and watch me wave bye bye...... Happy holidays, James-Yun Fat - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:22:54 -0800 From: "jim gerwitz" Subject: Subject: (exotica) Orpheus, Charlotte & Cronenberg I think the movie FOLLOWING Orpheus this weekend looks tres interresant! A young Charlotte Rampling hitchin' through Europe in 1969, I'm there. See blurb below. Music by Laurence Rosenthal, who worked on Fantasy Island and a jillion other '70's shows. And since Mike brought up Christmas Eve TV scheduling, the Independent Film Channel is showing 3 Cronenberg films: Rabid: Marilyn Chamber's armpit makes everyone in Montreal spit up their eggnog; The Brood: Great for reminiscing about how big all the kids have grown; Crash: Who needsh a deshignated driver? Gimme dose dere car keys and watch me wave bye bye...... Happy holidays, James-Yun Fat - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:35:12 -0500 From: Brian Karasick Subject: Re: (exotica) Italian Films etc. Rino wrote: >we're all getting flooded by excellent re-issues of music used in French and >Italian movies from end sixties/early seventies. But where can we get the >films themselves ? Through swopping maybe ? I'm all ears and eyes. French movies are available here in any corner video store.. one of the benefits of living in a French speaking place with a number of major film festivals. In fact, the best store one in town "La boite noire" (The Black Box) is just about the best video store I've ever seen... We're talking sections by director by country! They also sell films (now more DVDs than ever) by mail order and have a website: http://www.boitenoire.com As for Italian films I'd swear they are almost as many obscure ones out there as there are regular films from India! Must have been some serious output in the 60's & 70's. And most of them are very obscure and lots of them very extreme (Spain & Italy seem to have been the hotspots for over the top b-movies in those days). I've dealt with Luminous Film & Video Wurks in New York and except for one time when my order was almost lost always came out satisfied: http://lfvw.com But the films I want to get my hands on are German, particularly those with Gert Wilden sound or TV series we've heard scored by the likes of Peter Thomas or Berry Lipman. These are not so easy to find and believe me I've looked hard! I've found some good sources for more mainstream German films, that is if you think May Spils or Herbert Achternbusch are mainstream, believe it or not via Amazon.de! So any tape traders with similar interests please do let me know. You won't be sorry! Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:01:07 -0700 From: kendoll Subject: Re: Subject: (exotica) Orpheus, Charlotte & Cronenberg jim gerwitz wrote: > Channel is showing 3 Cronenberg films: > Rabid: Marilyn Chamber's armpit makes everyone in Montreal spit up their > eggnog; there's a scene in this movie where a shopping mall santa claus gets machine gunned to death (accidentally) by the army. the film society crowd i saw this with cheered! mike ewanus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:35:18 -0000 From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Incredible Bongo Band and Abrax scores Got the Return of the Incredible Bongo Band lp today and was a little disappointed. Where the first lp is rough and raw, with a real edge to it, this lp sounds like a soundtrack or easy listening funk record. Nobody can really get the funk going here and the producer has gone for a smooth feel rather than the harsh funk sound of the first outing. Its still a pretty good record with a few breaks (one excellent one) but its definitely too late-seventies and not enough late-sixties. I also got a copy of the French lp Abrax vol 2. Very weird possible library record with a variety of almost funky cuts sounding like a mid-70s Duke of Burlington. Not brilliant but not bad. Charlie Editor C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street London N1 8JD Tel: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 (direct) +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 (switchboard) Fax: +44 (0) 207 226 8586 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:21:42 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD vs. LP > when i have a choice with a new release, i choose the CD, even if > it costs more. did they lose the "art of making good vinyl" somewhere in > the 1960's or 70's or what? Not necessarily. Max Picou issues 180 gram vinyl of fine quality. Also, the Audiophile Blue Note reissues from Japan were fine indeed. I have a Hazel Scott reissue, "Relaxed Piano Moods", which sounds wonderful to this day. Chess' reissues of the 1980's all were great. I heard, with no confirmation, that some labels recycled vinyl by melting old classical recordings. I wouldn't be surprised if this were true. In your defense, I can say that some of the latter-day vinyl, just before the onslaught of the CD, really did stink. My copy of "Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Record" on Arista skipped mercilessly. Also, a Prestige reissue of Etta Jones' "Don't Talk to Strangers" had a defect in the first track that seemed to be on all the copies we stocked. So, as far as I am concerned, the first song goes, "Yes sir, that's my baby, No sir, I don't mean maybe. Yes sir that's my ba*tick*...wwwww" Brian Phillips. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:43:52 -0000 From: Charles Moseley Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: CD vs. LP I don't remember his name but there is a Chicago pressing plant owner who is Mr Trax Records - a local house label who had some outstanding releases and drove the success of early house music. Anyway, he is, it seems, a bit of a shark and regularly represses his artists' records without paying them but he often represses onto recycled vinyl - I assume he charges artists to destroy unsold stock and uses it to press reissues onto. Some of the records I own on that label are superb and often shake the needle, vibrate, make horrible noises and sound rough. Luckily that is the way they should be - part of the sound. I think Marshall Jefferson's House Music Anthem is the worst with a surface that looks like an arid dessert, off-centre hole, broken label all over the run-off area and a needle shaking track. Both sides are the same two tracks and the record came in a Macola disco cardboard sleeve (apparently he uses any old sleeves to put out the records). It was only when I read the story in a DJ magazine recently that I finally worked out why all those records sound the way they do. Charlie Editor C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street London N1 8JD Tel: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 (direct) +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 (switchboard) Fax: +44 (0) 207 226 8586 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:43:56 +0100 From: ultrasuoni Subject: (exotica) Italian MONDO EXOTICA a la Christmas Hi you all, first of all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Secondly: a huge thanx to all the people that keep ordering my book Mondo Exotica at Plastic.it. In case of interest this is to inform that: "Mondo Exotica-Visions, Sounds, Manias of the Cocktail Generation" (Einaudi Publishing Group), is a 550-page book just out in Italy. Francesco Adinolfi, the author, is Italy's most relevant expert on Space Age Pop, also hosting "Ultrasuoni (Ultrasounds) Cocktail", a radio programme live on air in Italy every saturday (9.40 pm-11 pm). Those who can read Italian or Spanish may appreciate: 1) A detailed history of Space Age Pop in Europe and in the Usa with exclusive interviews with Esquivel, Martin Denny etc. 2) An ultradeep and detailed plunge into the music of Italy's, Europe's and Usa's Spy, Crime, Secret Agents films and tv serial 3) Tens of records to cook, read, kill and make love by 4) A guide (alphabetical order) to contemporary Generation Cocktail's bands: from Joey Altruda to Mike Young. Plus tens of interviews (from Man Or Astro-Man and Combustible Edison to Montefiori Cocktail) 5) Chapters on Stereo Records; Rat Pack; Strip Music and Las Vegas Grind kind of sounds; Martini and other musical cocktails (from Negroni to Mai Tai), and many other exotic subjects 6) A very detailed history of Italy's Cocktail Culture (music & drinks) from early 1900's to 1960's La Dolce Vita 7) A history of Italy's most incredible 50's-70's b-movies and their music with exclusive interviews with: Umiliani, Piccioni, Fidenco and many other composers 8) The history of Italy's most flamboyant and exotic night clubs of the Fifties and Sixties with tens of interviews and comments from barmnen, club owners and original musicians 9) The history of the ambiguous and dangerous relationship between colonialist invasions (France, Italy, England, Usa, Soviet Union and Exotica) ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION 10) A 60-page chapter of discography (with label, catalogue number, original and reprint date of issue) and bibliography: FOR NON SPEAKING ITALIAN/SPANISH PEOPLE this chapter is worth the whole book. Many foreign people are buying for this reason. Check out for yourself. ORDER AT: WWW.PLASTIC.IT (just send an order e-mail and Plastic will answer back with all necessary details) Mondo Exotica swings, vespas, tikis and cocktails the reader to the limit. And it's a good opportunity to learn Italian... P.S. Write back if you have any question and last but not least: If you know of "other cocktail world denizens" please let us know, we will e-mail them news about the book "Mondo Exotica". Ciao # 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 #855 *****************************