SOME FAVORITE MUSICAL FOLKS: Air, Charles Albertine, Laurie Anderson, Ann-Margret, Adam Ant, Apples In Stereo, The Archies, The Art of Noise, Angelo Badalamenti, Ed Ball / The Times, Brigitte Bardot, John Barry, Les Baxter, Adrian Belew, Vinnie Bell, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bevoir / The JetSet, The B-52's, Bonzo Dog Band, Bowie, Breakfast With Amy, T-Bone Burnett, Tony Burrows, Al Caiola, Calexico, Caribou, Peter Case / The Plimsouls, Cineplexx, The Dave Clark 5, Combustible Edison, Corn Mo, Dick Dale, Daniel Amos, Lenny Dee, The Del Rubio Triplets, Martin Denny, Derek & Ray, Devo, Leo Diamond... [rest of alphabet forthcoming!]
SOME CINEMATIC FAVES: virtually anything by Brad Bird, John Cassavetes, Manmohan Desai, Bill Forsyth, Fritz Lang, Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg; Another Woman (Woody Allen); The Adv. of Buckaroo Banzai; Babe (yup, the pig movie); Brazil; The Conversation; Head (Monkees); Koyaanisqatsi; The Navigator (Vincent Ward); Our Man Flint; Pee-Wee's Big Adventure; Sadma; Teesri Manzil; The Tenth Victim; The Third Man; The "Up" Series; West Side Story
Sounds Like
Space Age Bachelor Pad Bubblegum Surreal Soft-Psych Dreamy Beatnik Exotica Sci-Fi Counterespionage-A-Go-Go Bollywood Hungama Cha Cha Mambo Bolero Surf Moogy Orchestral Melodic NOW Percussive Wonder Pop. Yesterday and Today's Sounds of Tomorrow Today!
Tune into my Internet radio show THE BEYONDOPHONIC ACTION HOUR every Sunday night at 7pm Pacific / 10pm Eastern on LuxuriaMusic.com. From 1999-2008, I previously co-hosted THE BEYONDO MONDO RECORD PARTY, a freeform radio show on WAPS-FM in Akron.
Meanwhile, you can hear some tunes by some of my favorite artists by selecting "Tothar-Approved Sounds" from the Playlist pulldown menu above.
And gee, thanks to the astoundingly cool and talented artists who hopped on as Friends. Any visitors to my page should be sure to check out the sort of brilliance they're up to.
I live in NE Ohio, not far from either Devo's birthplace in Akron or Enoch Light's birthplace in Canton. In my alter ego as Michael David Toth, I am also a music journalist for Cleveland Scene (Formerly Cleveland Free Times).
I'm scandalously behind in actually setting up a MySpace page. I'll try to come back frequently to expand it with self-indulgent content.
My "behind" scandal extends to my being criminally overdue in updating my online reference site for The Three Suns. Sorry about that, and thanks to everyone who's supported that venture over the years.
Hi tothar & thanks for your lovely words! Lets go Picnic, best! plexx
Picnic, new album! Portia Records, Out now! (US & CA, delivery worldwide) buy Molécula Records, Out now (México) buy Universal Records, Out now (Philippines) ******************************************** Buenos Aires born, Barcelona resident and graphic artist Sebastian Litmanovich is Cineplexx.
With the help of friends Duglas Stewart (BMX Bandits), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Federico Aubele and Jad Fair, Cineplexx presents Picnic, a gorgeous Spanish-language record of beautiful harmonies and lush instrumentation similar to Belle & Sebastian a la The Boy with the Arab Strap, the swaying rhythms of Gilberto Gil and tender 60s rock reminiscent of Love and the Zombies.
Picnic is a rare treat of a perfect pop record with revelatory songs underneath the album's fuzzy, echoed wash.
