From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #917 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 Tuesday, March 13 2001 Volume 02 : Number 917 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Recent Finds... (exotica) tester (exotica) FW: Florida scores! (exotica) organ and vibes again (exotica) Brazilian Beats vol II RE: (exotica) Brazilian Beats vol II Re: (exotica) Jonny "Delicado" Perl address Re: (exotica) A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music Re: (exotica) Disappearing Records Re: (exotica) Disappearing Records Re: (exotica) Blue Bossa Re: (exotica) Brazilian Beats vol II (exotica) Cugie's Cocktails Re: (exotica) A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music Re: (exotica) A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music Re: (exotica) Recent Finds... (exotica) Polynesia 1 & 2 (exotica) Gadfly: "Culture that Matters" (exotica) Re: Recent Finds... (exotica) Test Test...... (exotica) FW: Florida scores! Fucking list! What is going on with the posts ??!? (exotica) Ooops, sorry to swear. Everything looks good now. (exotica) Fwd: FW: Cosmic covers Fwd: FW: (exotica) Cosmic Sounds (exotica) New Chris Dedrick Interview (exotica) p5 (exotica) Re: A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music (exotica) Re: follow me, brazilian stuff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:36:19 -0800 From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Recent Finds... > > "Dynamica" - Ray Martin > > I like this album, but I wonder about his other album in the Stereo Action > series (I forget the name), the one that has "Jericho"--a great swinging > tune with wonderfully irreverent "Hallelujahs" throughout. Are any of his > albums consistently that good? I like Ray Martin records alot. The one with Jericho on it is Excitement Inc. Then there is the "Sound Of Sight" that is musical movies - a western, outer space adventure, cartoon, etc. His two spy theme LP's, Goldfinger and Thunderball are terrific. There is also his Comic Strip Favorites with themes to popeye, tarzan and dick tracy. Oh, and Martin Goes Latin - with a couple of tracks sounding very much like Esquivel. see a coupla covers here: http://www.basichip.com/covers/martin.jpg http://www.basichip.com/covers/martin2.jpg # 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, 13 Mar 2001 10:19:14 -0000 From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) tester Sorry, just experimenting Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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, 13 Mar 2001 10:25:31 -0000 From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) FW: Florida scores! At last, I am subscribed and can finally post - lots of issues getting onto the list recently. > Lots of finds in FL including: > > Jazz for the Jet Set - Dave Pike (easy jazz) > Layers - Les McCann (top quality moody jazz with Clavinet and Arp) > Lots of Enoch Light and Command/Project3 LPs - about 10 including Brass > Menagerie that turned out to have a Bill Cosby record in it. Drat! > James Bond thing with Kenyon Hopkins and a couple of other jazz artists. > First Nuggets compilation > Prelude - Deodato (funkyish nice jazz LP) > Best of Tom Scott LP (funkyish nice jazz LP) > ubiquitous parakeet training record > Mike Curb Congregation easy LP (promised interest and delivered soft vocal > mush) > Some wacky Bossa LP with a cool cover Bossa Now! Joe Parnell? Darnell? > something like that > 1 or 2 Fifth Dimension LPs (tedious) > Movin & Groovin - The Three Suns (not sure if I understand this one - its > OK) Curtis Mayfield - Superfly OST > The Hillside Singers - I'd like to teach the world to sing (bland > Christian crap) - does anybody know more about this Metromedia label - is > it all god-bothering music? > Umbrellas of Cherbourg soundtrack but only the single LP > Bob James - Three (not bad jazz) > Some house and hip hop things. > > I brought back around 80 records total and spent around $100. A reasonable > haul but I passed up so many records through cost and weight issues. One > Sunday morning in Florida, I managed to get stuck in the middle of a > packed church hall flea market where a major fight broke out between > around 30 old biddies screaming over a standard lamp that one had bought > but another had picked up. > I feel whole again as a fully paid up subscriber to this bloody list. > 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: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:39:54 -0000 From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) organ and vibes again Late I know, but I only spotted it last night. 'To catch a Thief' By Harry Stoneham on Solid Gold Hammond. The single LP of that name rather than the double comp, but it may be on there. Segues nicely into Hawaii 5-0. 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/ The Stare # 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, 13 Mar 2001 10:50:04 -0000 From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Brazilian Beats vol II Picked this up at the weekend. After 6 weeks abstinence I was crazed. I needed something, just...got...to...score....some vinyl.... In the nick of time I managed to pick it up. I'd seen it on dusty groove and it had got me hungry. I must say its not a patch on volume 1. And I don't mean that just because vol 2 doesn't have any Ed Lincoln tracks on it. The range of styles isn't there, the organisation of the sides that makes vol 1 a pleasure to play doesn't seem to be there, the quality of manufacture is the pits. Horrible, noisy. Two sides open with batacuda's, one of which is (another) version of the Masters at Work 'Brazilian Beat' track. I can see the appeal, and I know Mr Bongo has to make his money from them, but OK. Its not bad. Doesn't have the same barmy appeal as Dionne Warwick's batacuda version of 'Caravan', but its not bad. That just about sums up the LP. Not bad. Nothing to match up with 'Lupita' from the first. Nothing crazed. No funk. Maybe I need to listen to it some more (I've not had that much chance). But I'd say, get Volume 1 over this one. 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/ The Stare # 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, 13 Mar 2001 10:57:35 -0000 From: Charles Moseley Subject: RE: (exotica) Brazilian Beats vol II "Nothing to match up with 'Lupita' from the first" Is that Lupita by Nico Gomez and his African Percussion? If so, that is a blinder! And the whole LP is superb. Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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, 13 Mar 2001 11:05:25 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Jonny "Delicado" Perl address delicado@cheerful.com schrieb: > > > If anyone is still reading, I'm also currently working on a website about musical taste, which will feature recommendations for individual songs, each tied to one person who recommended it, but also interlinking. I will post when it is live (hopefully in the next couple of weeks). I think this is a good idea. music history eventually burns down to "the single song". my fave is still Some Velvet Morning, and I guess I could write a book about it. You can find the entire cosmos in one song. BTW: I just checked thorugh the "Groovin With Nancy" DVD and in the spoken comment Nancy says, that the mysterious fog you see in the background when Lee comes riding along with his horse, was in fact the smoke of a garbage burning factory. Now, next day, when I watched it again, I thought, man, how great! They should have shown a glimpse of that factory. It adds a new dimension to the video and the song. Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # 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, 13 Mar 2001 12:01:13 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music bigshot schrieb: > 100 years ago, only a few scholars remembered who Bach was. The > original manuscript for the Brandenburg Concertos was sold for > a quarter originally. Now people all over the world have CDs of > the Brandenburg Concertos sitting on their shelves. Even teenage > kids know who Bach is. It's not all as bad as it seems sometimes. that's true. Bach was all forgotten. But if you state that only the fact that he was rediscovered sheds a brighter light on our otherwise so dark age of music I still disagree. That brings me to the question, who really rediscovered Bach and when? I only know that Jaques Lousier made him pretty popular again in the jazz scene of the 50s and beyond. For myself it owes to Walter (now Wendy) Carlos, who gave Bach a new kick. Both musicians changed Bach significantly to update him though. Funny you mention Bach. Only last night I was in a classical concert, the first one in years, and talked to some officials of Universal about their ideas on the subject of repopularizing classical music. I stated - and still state - that since Walter Carlos nothing interesting had happened. (Deodato, Rondo Veneziano et al are rather uninteresting) Carlos advantage was, that he didn't need the classical orchestra, which is hard to afford these days, especially when you compare it to a computer programmer. (Although I must say, that it was a special experience to see all these musicians play in harmony and feel the sound surge through their ranks... yet it seemed kind of outdated - to me - sitting still for an hour et al) As for predictions: To me the future of classicism lies in clever emotion-interactive three dimensional ambient multi-media sound installations. Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # 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, 13 Mar 2001 12:04:02 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Disappearing Records Brian schrieb: > Moritz wrote: > > >Brian... nobody is interested in this, even those who originally posted to this. > You mean me! not at all. I meant "them" > > I hope you bought the Bimbo Jet! > But I already have three of them which is more than I have of any one > record! Anyone out there interested? Bimbo Jets are the precious shells to trade records from other people. >> >> That store is still there. It's called M.A.R.S. and its about as hospitable! >> I've been in construction sites that are cleaner... OK, I'll go back up >> there one more time for your sake Moritz, but if I'm never heard from again >> someone please look for me in this dungeon of a second floor space on Ste. >> Catherine St. West. > :-) Don't be afraid. It's a gold mine. The look of that shop was only designed to frighten away people like you. Don't let them fool you! If you'd survived Harry's Hafenbazar, and scratched old cat shit from even older Papua totems like I did, you'd yawn into the face of fear for the rest of your life! Go (St.) West! 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: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:05:16 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Disappearing Records Thanks, Alan and Mike. I guess I needed that. Sometimes I don't react myself, simply because someone else has already put it so brillantly. Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # 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, 13 Mar 2001 11:15:31 +0000 From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Blue Bossa clayton black wrote: > > Has anybody heard the "Blue Bossa" CD on the Bluenote lable? It's a > compilation, and I only remember that it had a Lou Rawls tune on it. I > bought it for my brother for Christmas, just sort of guessing that it was > good (I'm a sucker for anything to a bossa nova beat). I haven't talked to > him in months, and the last time I did, I forgot to ask, and I'm also a bit > afraid that I won't get a straight answer from him (fearing that he'll hurt > my feelings. But he doesn't know too much about the genre anyway). > Clayton The 'Blue' series of lps and cds are produced by the UK branch of Blue Note, and have been going since about 1990. Blue Bossa is from about 92 i think, and has some killer jazz cuts, like Horace Parlan - Congalegre, Kenny Dorham - Afrodisia - no Lou Rawls though... There is also a volume two (maybe this has the lou rawls?) Some of the best of the 'Blue' series IMO are, off the top of my head: Blue Juice 1-3 Blue Break Beats 2 Blue Bossa Blue Bacharach Blue Brazil 3 Afro Blue 1,2 Blue'n'Groovy 2 but there's loads more... Blue Juice 1 is ordered very well - makes a very good mix tape style listen. # 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, 13 Mar 2001 11:27:32 +0000 From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Brazilian Beats vol II G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote: > > Picked this up at the weekend. After 6 weeks abstinence I was crazed. I > needed something, just...got...to...score....some vinyl.... > In the nick of time I managed to pick it up. I'd seen it on dusty groove > and it had got me hungry. I must say its not a patch on volume 1. And I > don't mean that just because vol 2 doesn't have any Ed Lincoln tracks on it. > The range of styles isn't there, the organisation of the sides that makes > vol 1 a pleasure to play doesn't seem to be there, the quality of > manufacture is the pits. Horrible, noisy. > Two sides open with batacuda's, one of which is (another) version of the > Masters at Work 'Brazilian Beat' track. I can see the appeal, and I know Mr > Bongo has to make his money from them, but OK. Its not bad. Doesn't have > the same barmy appeal as Dionne Warwick's batacuda version of 'Caravan', > but its not bad. That just about sums up the LP. > > Not bad. Nothing to match up with 'Lupita' from the first. Nothing crazed. > No funk. Maybe I need to listen to it some more (I've not had that much > chance). But I'd say, get Volume 1 over this one. I liked the Latin Beats comp (also from Mr Bongo) which is much more consistent, (and heavy). Tito Puente doing '2001', the Benny More tune from the Guinness advert (with the snail racing), a fantastic Sabu track... Also I can definitely recommend the whole of the Nico Gomez album, not just 'Lupita'. # 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, 13 Mar 2001 06:55:07 -0600 From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Cugie's Cocktails Can't resist putting in my two bits about this terrific LP. I have a sneaking suspicion that this and at least one David Carroll LP ("Music Makes Me Want to Dance") had more than a little help from Quincy Jones. Several of the Cugat number sure sound like out-takes from Quincy's great "Big Band Bossa Nova" album (the source of the Austin Powers theme, "Soul Bossa Nova"). Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:26:17 +0100 (CET) From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music Computers makes things easy. I learned to draw by myself, after ten years it was evident I had some talent. After ten more years I thought that I sometimes succeeded. Now after 31 years I occasionally can make something after very hard work that I consider is good enough for publishing. After 50 years maybe I am good at it. On the other hand I could make pictures in photoshop. I could steal pictures someone else have done and alter them, I would save time and energy that way. I could even make money doing it. A lot of money. But my personal skill wouldnt show. It wouldnt be beautiful if I enhanced it 1000 times, which a good drawing would be. I have yet to see a computer made image that I like, or computer art for that matter. It just doesnt speak to me. To me music is like a painting or a drawing, I dont know how it is done but I am sure that it takes a lot of practice to learn. It is fun to work in computers, I really like it. Internet is great, you can publish things yourself and people can find your pages. It is still very democratic. But if I want to see a picture I prefer a print, a painting, a drawing and not a compressed copy. Same with music, I dont care much for sampling, I HATE computergenerated drums. To me, the monotoneous rythmic beat from a machine is DEATH! I like it when musicians play themselves. Call me oldfashioned, I dont care, I am old enough to decide what I like, and beyond that age when I must experience everything new and exciting. If you send me a tape or a cd with new sounds I promise I will listen to it, but dont expect me to it more than once. My ears say yes to "Don Tiki" and "Bo Axelsson and his exotic sounds" and no to 99.99%. Anyone have a problem with my attitude? If so, try to see it from my side, do you think it is fun to feel this way? I am sorry but your paradise may be my hell. Magnus # 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, 13 Mar 2001 14:27:09 +0100 (CET) From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music Computers makes things easy. I learned to draw by myself, after ten years it was evident I had some talent. After ten more years I thought that I sometimes succeeded. Now after 31 years I occasionally can make something after very hard work that I consider is good enough for publishing. After 50 years maybe I am good at it. On the other hand I could make pictures in photoshop. I could steal pictures someone else have done and alter them, I would save time and energy that way. I could even make money doing it. A lot of money. But my personal skill wouldnt show. It wouldnt be beautiful if I enhanced it 1000 times, which a good drawing would be. I have yet to see a computer made image that I like, or computer art for that matter. It just doesnt speak to me. To me music is like a painting or a drawing, I dont know how it is done but I am sure that it takes a lot of practice to learn. It is fun to work in computers, I really like it. Internet is great, you can publish things yourself and people can find your pages. It is still very democratic. But if I want to see a picture I prefer a print, a painting, a drawing and not a compressed copy. Same with music, I dont care much for sampling, I HATE computergenerated drums. To me, the monotoneous rythmic beat from a machine is DEATH! I like it when musicians play themselves. Call me oldfashioned, I dont care, I am old enough to decide what I like, and beyond that age when I must experience everything new and exciting. If you send me a tape or a cd with new sounds I promise I will listen to it, but dont expect me to it more than once. My ears say yes to "Don Tiki" and "Bo Axelsson and his exotic sounds" and no to 99.99%. Anyone have a problem with my attitude? If so, try to see it from my side, do you think it is fun to feel this way? I am sorry but your paradise may be my hell. Magnus # 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, 13 Mar 2001 05:43:33 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Recent Finds... The Melvin Peebles stuff I have is all pretty damn good (Only Sweet Sweetback's Revenge comes to mind... the opening track, if I recall correctly has the sounds of Mr Sweetback making sweet love to his special lady while a gospel song is going on. A bit of in-church scroggery before the funk proceeds). Lyman's Cotton Fields is good, but not excessively distinct from many of his other recordings. And, I love The Ventures Xmas lp... the little revved up first chords of a surf song segue into a Christmas classic (if you come up with any Atlantics lps on your safaris, let me know if you're up for a swap ;). Speaking of surf: I recently foulnd an lp by a band called Calvin Cool and The Surf Knobs. Very thrown together stuff, not really interesting - but many of the songs are credited to M. Rogers. Published rumor has it that this is Milton "Shorty" Rogers. I know that Shorty Rogers got around, but can anyone confirm? - --- Philip Jackson wrote: > > Hi all, > > here's some vinyl I've picked up in the last couple > of weeks - all from $1 - > $2 Australian (halve that for US$!!). Op-shops > (thrift stores) still come up > trumps here once in a while. Any comments > appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.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, 13 Mar 2001 08:57:44 -0500 From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) Polynesia 1 & 2 Does anyone have the records Polynesia and Polynesia 2? My boyfriend has Polynesia which seems to be an EP but I just scored Polynesia 2 and to my discovery it has some of the same songs as Polynesia. I wanted to know if they are the same cuts or maybe this is a full length lp? What a cover!! Great album to listen to on Sunday mornings while drinking a Mimosa! Kiliki # 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, 13 Mar 2001 05:58:19 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Gadfly: "Culture that Matters" A friend of mine recently sent me a copy of this magazine. Last month's issue had articles on the life and art of Boris Vian and Harry Partch as well as articles on underground film classics, original fiction, etc. My only complaint is that the articles are not as in-depth as they could be. Worth the glance, though: http://www.gadfly.org/2001-01/welcome.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.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, 13 Mar 2001 09:00:42 -0500 From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Recent Finds... Clayton asked: >Are >there any albums that folks see time and time again that are actually very >good, and certainly worth the fifty cents or dollar Two that I passed over about 30 times each, but then ended up really liking: ** Herb Alpert's _Going Places_ <--Overwhelming flashback to "the Dating Game"! ** Burt Bacharach _Reach Out_ <--esp. the unknown classic "Are You There" And maybe this is just a Midwest thing. . . but copies of Enoch Light's _I Want to be Happy Cha Chas_ still seem relatively common. That one is still in my personal top 20. . . cheers, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # 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, 13 Mar 2001 09:31:45 -0500 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Test Test...... No messages for 3days??? I'm off the list - egad!!! - - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:45:27 -0000 From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) FW: Florida scores! Fucking list! What is going on with the posts ??!? Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Moseley > Sent: 13 March 2001 10:19 > To: 'exotica@xmission.com' > Subject: FW: Florida scores! > > At last, I am subscribed and can finally post - lots of issues getting > onto the list recently. > > Lots of finds in FL including: > > Jazz for the Jet Set - Dave Pike (easy jazz) > Layers - Les McCann (top quality moody jazz with Clavinet and Arp) > Lots of Enoch Light and Command/Project3 LPs - about 10 including Brass > Menagerie that turned out to have a Bill Cosby record in it. Drat! > James Bond thing with Kenyon Hopkins and a couple of other jazz artists. > First Nuggets compilation > Prelude - Deodato (funkyish nice jazz LP) > Best of Tom Scott LP (funkyish nice jazz LP) > ubiquitous parakeet training record > Mike Curb Congregation easy LP (promised interest and delivered soft vocal > mush) > Some wacky Bossa LP with a cool cover Bossa Now! Joe Parnell? Darnell? > something like that > 1 or 2 Fifth Dimension LPs (tedious) > Movin & Groovin - The Three Suns (not sure if I understand this one - its > OK) > Curtis Mayfield - Superfly OST > The Hillside Singers - I'd like to teach the world to sing (bland > Christian crap) - does anybody know more about this Metromedia label - is > it all god-bothering music? > Umbrellas of Cherbourg soundtrack but only the single LP > Bob James - Three (not bad jazz) > Some house and hip hop things. > > I brought back around 80 records total and spent around $100. A reasonable > haul but I passed up so many records through cost and weight issues. One > Sunday morning in Florida, I managed to get stuck in the middle of a > packed church hall flea market where a major fight broke out between > around 30 old biddies screaming over a standard lamp that one had bought > but another had picked up. > > I feel whole again as a fully paid up subscriber to this bloody list. > > > 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: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:53:46 -0000 From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Ooops, sorry to swear. Everything looks good now. Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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, 13 Mar 2001 09:00:30 -0600 From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) Fwd: FW: Cosmic covers - ---- Begin Included Message ---- From: rock.wilson@bt.com Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:41:28 -0000 To: colleen7@ireland.com Subject: FW: Cosmic covers Hi Colleen, My second Exotica message follows. Please forward it to the list. Thanks, Rock - -----Original Message----- From:=09Wilson,R,Rock,NXA32 WILSON46 R Sent:=0906 March 2001 12:17 To:=09'exotica@lists.xmission.com' Subject:=09Cosmic covers Hello again, I meant to mention - there's a cover version of 'Aries' from Cosmic Sounds by The Nice (Keith Emerson's band before ELP) on a recent CD 'America - the BBC sessions' (but be careful - there's more than one Nice compilation with 'America' in the title). All for now, Rock =A0 - ---- End Included Message ---- Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.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, 13 Mar 2001 09:01:38 -0600 From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Fwd: FW: (exotica) Cosmic Sounds - ---- Begin Included Message ---- From: rock.wilson@bt.com Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:39:41 -0000 To: colleen7@ireland.com Subject: FW: (exotica) Cosmic Sounds Hello Colleen, I posted the following message to the Exotica list in answer to your query regarding The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds. Unfortunately it disappeared into the void, so I'm now reposting it to you personally. Could you please do me a favour by forwarding it to the list, for the benefit of anyone else who might be interested. Actually, I just remembered, there are two messages - I'll post the second to you as well, as it's on the same subject - could you please forward both of them, while I ponder what went wrong. I know several people on the list have had trouble posting recently, so maybe I've just been caught up in some tech problem. (I posted to exotica@lists.xmission.com as instructed). Anyway, many thanks and I hope this information is of some use to you. Take care, Rock - -----Original Message----- From:=09Wilson,R,Rock,NXA32 WILSON46 R Sent:=0906 March 2001 11:58 To:=09'exotica@lists.xmission.com' Subject:=09(exotica) Cosmic Sounds Greetings all, My name is Rock, from London, England, and this is my first post. I've been reading the list for a few weeks and I'm really impressed by the inclusiveness and enthusiasm for the subject that's been displayed. I wasn't too keen on the way Lawrence got ripped to shreds after his first post, but that seems to have calmed down now. I was going to introduce myself properly, and talk of my interest in Exotica, in my first =A0post but this is now just a quickie to respond to Colleen regarding The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds. I'm very familiar with this album, having had a (now very beaten up) copy since it's original release. I've been hoping for a CD rerelease, but no luck so far. Anyway, if you go to Netsounds (www.netsounds.com/) , which describes itself as 'The UK's No 1 Music Market Place', and run a search for 'Cosmic Sounds', you should find (today, Tues 6) 3 copies being offered: a New copy of the (bootleg) repress at 13.20; a Mint copy of the original (in mono) for 24.20; and a Very Good copy of the original (in stereo) for 8.00. All prices in UK Pounds, but there's an onscreen currency converter should anyone need it. I think Netsounds is just a dealers' forum, but it's all set-price, no haggling or bidding. Just out of interest, I ran a search on Martin Denny and came up with 137 items - quite a few at 10 Pounds or less, but also many at 30 Pounds (50 Dollars?). =A0 =A0 I'll post again soon, with a proper introduction. If there are any other Residents fans here, please say 'Hello' so I know who you are (Hi, Brian!). More soon, Rock - ---- End Included Message ---- Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.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, 13 Mar 2001 15:34:54 -0000 From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) New Chris Dedrick Interview Just to let you know that an interview I recently did with Free Design founder Chris Dedrick about the new album "Cosmic Peekaboo" has just gone up on the Marina website: http://www.marina.com/fdinterview.htm It'll be on my Free Design site too within the next few days. Robbie - ---------------------------------------------- The Free Design - NOW is the time! http://www.enochlight.com/freedesign/ - ---------------------------------------------- # 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, 13 Mar 2001 23:35:22 +0800 From: "William" Subject: (exotica) p5 hi all, for those that dig p5. it is official. they will split at the end of this month. there have been rumours flying around for some time. especially since their new greatest hits disc has the words RIP in the title. when the latest album came out some of us wondered "is this a new direction? or a one off? why isn't maki on this album more?". but now i guess we'll never know what would of been the next step after this. as they will be splitting. at least there will probably be other projects(maki released a solo album last year) and konishi doing whatever he is doing...so far it is unclear as to why or what their plans are next... anyway, i thought some of you out there would want to know about this. 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: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:40:58 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Subject: (exotica) Re: A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music One of the trends in classical music and especially Bach was to bring the music back to its period instruments and the style it was originally meant to be played in. Philippe Herreweghe and the Harmonia Mundi label from France haunted me when I first heard Bach played that way. I was familiar with Bach ala Bernstein and especially Wendy Carlos. Just loved Walter Carlos interpretation, caught my attention big time. But Philippe Herreweghe was just too beautiful an interpretation of Bach for me to resist. No more tick tock clock notes, not too many notes too fast filling up every second, but a beautiful peaceful flowing music is the way Bach may have originally sounded, at least in Herreweghe's interpretation. Mo I also attended a symphony the other night. Beautiful but it was a little old fashion and tedious sitting sitting still that long. I found it much easier to go park out at the lake front last night, with a delicious bottle of French wine, French bread and Italian cheese and listen to the new Tipsy, P-5, Thievery Corporation and Chicklett with my girlfriend. I guess parking at a lake front and watching the waves crash is old fashioned but at least Tipsy, P 5 and Thievery Corp aren't. As for Chicklet they sounded like a great 1966 band with sweet girl vocals on top. I think we are in some of the best times for modern music releases/interpretations (such as Senor Coconut). The music scene today is as diverse as ever. Great modern Bossa Nova, Power Pop, Pop, modern sunshine Pop, modern soft pop, Ambient, Electronica, breakbeat, Tiki(Don Tiki), surf. And even more amazing in this modern world is Brian Wilson rose from the dead, toured and did the whole Pet Sounds album live with a symphony orchestra. For those who aren't familiar with the modern pop scene I highly recommend Caroline Now on the Marina label available at DustyGroove as a great introduction. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- Moritz R wrote: For myself it owes to Walter (now Wendy) Carlos, who gave Bach a new kick. Both musicians changed Bach significantly to update him though. Funny you mention Bach. Only last night I was in a classical __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.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, 13 Mar 2001 10:42:33 -0500 (EST) From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: (exotica) Re: follow me, brazilian stuff >>- Last week - 'Follow Me' soundtrack - really amazing stuff, a beautiful mix of now sound, softpop and ambient strings... >What is this? Who did the soundtrack? When was the movie made? Who >directed it? It's a 1969 movie about surfers; the soundtrack is by Stu Phillips, and also features Dino, Desi and Billy singing on some (excellent) tracks. One theme from the movie - 'thru spray colored glasses' - appears on the recently discusses 'mad mad world of soundtracks' cd. There is a different 'Follow me' from 1972 starring Mia Farrow, with a soundtrack by John Barry; I'm not sure who directed this one. I always feel ignorant when people ask me about films. I can usually picture the cover of the soundtrack album, but only sometimes can I actually describe the film. >>it turns out that Marcos Valle is even more of a genius than the 'samba 68' reissue suggests, >I bought this. It wasn't great. What have you heard that's better than >this? What does he sound like? I'm quite fond of 'samba '68' - particularly the warm string arrangements by Eumir Deodato. But I would understand if some people found the whole thing a bit feeble. Samba 68 was an American recording on the Verve label, and all the Marcos Valle originals sung on it are sung in English, with the often derided lyrics by Norman Gimbel and Ray Gilbert. > I just get this feeling that there's a bunch of obscure stuff on Brazilian labels and if I heard it, I'd >think "Oh if that's the real stuff, I think I like the UN-real stuff better". Until the late 1970s, almost all Marcos Valle's work was recorded and released exclusively in Brazil. When he wasn't trying to please the American market, he had to a very different sound, but it definitely wasn't 'authentic'. In fact, I think it might appeal to you. It's very hard to describe, but I'll try. His work varies dramatically, ranging from some great slower numbers - percussive, with rich strings and amazing chord changes (e.g. 'Tiao Braco Forte' from 1967) through to bizarre but beautiful hybrids of soul and bossa nova, with scat vocals and a lot of harmonizing. This doesn't really tell half the story, but if it interests you at all, I highly recommend the CD 'the essential marcos valle volume 2', which you can usually get at dustygroove. Vol 1 is also excellent, but a little less rich and more funky. Which may be what you're looking for, of course.... Thanks for your recommendations, Alan. I'm not really big on 'authenticity' either, but I think in the case of Brazilian Music (from the bossa nova era onwards, anyway), any distinction like that is pretty blurred from the beginning - it was a hybrid of styles from the start. Also, quite a few Brazilian 'greats' recorded some of their best albums in the US, with American session players (e.g. Antonio Carlos Jobim's 'Wave'). Some of my favorite 'brazilian' tracks include Claudine Longet singing 'meditation' and Percy Faith doing 'How insensitive'. >>If anyone is still reading, I'm also currently working on a website about >>musical taste, which will feature recommendations for individual songs, >>each tied to one person who recommended it, but also interlinking. >That sounds interesting. I hope it will be; let me know if you would like a sneak preview. btw I saw your film when it played in new york, Alan. Fascinating stuff, and it has definitely stayed in my mind. cheers, jonny - ----------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email at http://email.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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #917 *****************************