― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ80Av17OOM
has anyone else heard this Elisabeth Waldo album (Rites of the Pagan)? she's a classically trained violinist with a scholarly interest in pre-Columbian music, and the music is less jazzy/loungey than most other exotica I've heard. the contrast between the violin and the traditional instruments really makes this stuff special.
― starfish succulents (unregistered), Sunday, 29 July 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
Since there's no Les Baxter thread, this'll do -- new biography out on him, looks to be the most complete such work yet:
https://www.createspace.com/6181681
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 June 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
I love exotica but never fully connected with Baxter's own music, perhaps he was too...authentic for me. Cool that he is getting a biography though.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 5 June 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Ooh awesome. Baxter was uneven but at his best he towered over the other big name xoists
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 5 June 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
I'm not totally familiar with his oeuvre but am a big fan of The Primitive and The Passionate. I like to play that one when I'm getting drunk in the kitchen under the pretence of cooking. Some wonderful stuff on there.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 June 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm 100 pages into the Baxter bio. The book runs to 600 pages plus about 90 more pages of discography and other supplemental material; however the bulk of the text is large type, double-spaced, so it's not as long as that sounds.
Beware, this reads like a first draft and bears no signs of having been edited. The author is clearly an accomplished musician but certainly no writer, and the book is weirdly padded out with details of the author's own life and music career. On the other hand, it does promise to deliver on the level of collecting & transmitting a lot of raw information about Baxter and correcting previous misinfo about him. Just don't expect standard book quality. Do expect to have your patience as a reader tested.
― Josefa, Saturday, 11 June 2016 05:19 (seven years ago) link
I didn't know that in 1983 Les Baxter sued John Williams, claiming Williams plagiarized the theme music of E.T. from Baxter's album The Passions (Baxter lost the suit).
Btw the pianist on The Passions was John Williams.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Eden Ahbez, Jack Parsons, and other LA kooks...
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
Permalink to stuff about Dharmaland, a new album based on Eden Ahbez sheet music.
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
Anyone still making disco lounge/exotica in 2021? Or using moog?
I really like Monster Rally, but I had a hard time finding stuff in that veing that is less than ten years old.
Was all the rage more than 20 years ago.
I just have a hankering for Yma Sumac remixes and shit right now...
― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 12:54 (two years ago) link