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«MONDO EXOTICA» (ENGLISH EDITION OF THE HIGHLY APPRAISED ITALIAN BOOK OF THE SAME TITLE) IS PUBLISHED IN THE USA AND IN THE UK! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AND CHECK OUT THE PUBLISHER’S SITE DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMAZON AND OTHER SIMILAR SITES

(SYNOPSIS) Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them, Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age/Cold War period and the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio host Francesco Adinolfi provides extraordinary detail about artists, songs, albums, and soundtracks, while also presenting an incisive analysis of the ethnic and cultural stereotypes embodied in exotica and related genres. In this encyclopedic account of films, books, TV programs, mixed drinks, and, above all, music, he balances a respect for exotica’s artistic innovations with a critical assessment of what its popularity says about postwar society in the United States and Europe, and what its revival implies today. Adinolfi interviewed a number of exotica greats, and Mondo Exotica incorporates material from his interviews with Martin Denny, Esquivel, the Italian film composers Piero Piccioni and Piero Umiliani, and others. It begins with an extended look at the postwar popularity of exotica in the United States. Adinolfi describes how American bachelors and suburbanites embraced the Polynesian god Tiki as a symbol of escape and sexual liberation; how Les Baxter’s 1951 album Ritual of the Savage ushered in the exotica music craze; and how Martin Denny’s Exotica built on that craze, hitting number one in 1957. Adinolfi chronicles the popularity of performers from Yma Sumac, “the Peruvian Nightingale,” to Esquivel, who was described by Variety as “the Mexican Duke Ellington,” to the chanteuses Eartha Kitt, Julie London, and Ann-Margret. He explores exotica’s many sub-genres, including mood music, crime jazz, and spy music. Turning to Italy, he reconstructs the postwar years of la dolce vita, explaining how budget spy films, spaghetti westerns, soft-core porn movies, and other genres demonstrated an attraction to the foreign. Mondo Exotica includes a discography of albums, compilations, and remixes.

REVIEWS

THE WIRE
«(...)The moods, fetishes and distractions that originally informed exotic Easy Listening are evoked with an enthusiastic attention to the detail: the lounge as artificial paradise, the Tiki idol as libidinal totem and the cocktail as cultural mirage have all been lovingly researched and laid bare (...). A limited number of interviews with some of exotica's prime movers and shakers, most notably Martin Denny, Esquivel, Piero Piccioni, provide additional insight and immediacy to this fascinating study. (...) Complex issues of cultural appropriation, mass consumption, alienation and escape become closely entwined, to be successfully shaken loose only in the book's final third, where Adinolfi examines the Italian take on exotica. Rome, with its bustling film community and its restless nightlife, proved to be particularly receptive to exotica's false allures during the 1960's and 1970's» (Ken Hollings, The Wire, April 2008)

RECORD COLLECTOR
«From Tiki to tacky, Mondo Exotica follows the development of the exotic sound in its broadest sense, through space escapades, crime jazz, soundtracks and even library music right up to the late 20th Century copyists. Crammed with facts about sounds, composers, their histories, reminiscences and a whole lot more, Adinolfi has more than done his research, which, in such an odd, diverse and obscure field of music, has to be applauded» (Jonny Trunk, Record Collector, September 2008)

VIEWS
«Mondo Exotica is a cornucopia of data documenting lounge music and culture and their mid-1990s revival. I have to admit that it is the best compendium of Lounge Culture in the world!!! Francesco Adinolfi has written a book that is as fun to read as the lounge lifestyle is fun to live!» (Otto Von Stroheim, dj, founder of Tiki News, and organizer of the annual Tiki Oasis weekend event)

«You want alternative culture? Here’s the real thing. Adinolfi looks beyond the camp value and discovers the exotic urges that drove a generation that was supposed to be respectable. This terrific book reminds you that some of the most unique records ever made can still be found at your local garage sale - and that it’s never too late to discover how to live» (Brett Milano, author of The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock & Roll and Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting)

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YMA SUMAC, AUTOGRAPH WITH DEDICATION
(LOS ANGELES, 2005)

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FLEVANS Endless Things LACK OF AFRO remix (Tru Thoughts TRUCD208)
GIZELLE SMITH June TM JUKE remix (Record Kicks RK45 031)
MAYER HAWTHORNE The Ills (Stones Throw STH 2219 CD)
LOS VALENTINOS Midnights (Dummy rec. DUMB 2)
PATTI DREW Hard to Handle THE CAPTAIN remix (inedito/white)
LACK OF AFRO Closer to Me feat. Roxie Ray (Freestyle Records FSRCD 057)
PARA Its the Hornet (Breakin' Bread BNB 053)
SLYNK You're The Fool (Manmade MM 005)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND Cousins (XL 40473)
THE SWINGIN' STARS OF DOMINICA Don't Knock My Love (Nascente NSFUNK 002)
THE BAMBOOS On the Sly feat. KYLIE AULDIST (Tru Thoughts TRU 211)
BIG BOSS MAN Black Eye (I Believed In Love) (Blow Up rec. BU 050 CD)
CHASE & STATUS End Credits feat. PLAN B (Vertigo 2723595)
LAURA VANE & THE VIPERTONES Did It Anyway (Unique UNIQ 160-2)
FUNKY DESTINATION Funky Thang (inedito/white)
THE BREAKBEAT JUNKIE Turn it up (Wack Records W07)

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BADASS 45 RECORDS Freaky Grapewine (unreleased)
SONNY J Handsfree (If You Hold My Hand) (Emi)
LOO & PLACIDO The Black Beatles (white)
SCISSOR CUTS Brown Soul (Scissor)
THE BAMBOOS Bring It Home/Lanu remix (Tru Thoughts)
CONTROLLER 7 Get Ready for the Young Folks (Token Recluse)

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MAMBO ITALIANO: EXOTICA EXPLORED
AT LONDON'S BARBICAN CINEMA

Presented by The Hammett Story Agency

Barbican film welcomes Italian writer and musicologist FRANCESCO ADINOLFI to the Cinema stage to discuss his book «Mondo Exotica», a study of Western culture’s fascination with 'exotica' during the 50s and 60s through music, with a focus on Martin Denny, Yma Sumac and the later subgenres of exotica such as the mood music and spy music composed for Italian films of the 60s. Francesco will be interviewed by KEN HOLLINGS, reviewer, novelist and cultural historian («Welcome to Mars», «Destroy All Monsters») with a special interest in Cold War-era popular culture. To complement, this discussion will be followed by a screening of Mario Bava’s cult hit DIABOLIK. This tongue-in-cheek 60s Italian spy-thriller starring John Phillip Law & Marisa Mell was based on a popular Italian comic-book series and is a fine example of the kind of exotica-influenced film score that Francesco Adinolfi covers in his book. BARBICAN WEBLINK: http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=7982

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I MATERIALI PROMO VANNO SPEDITI A: Francesco Adinolfi c/o il manifesto, via Bargoni 8, 00153 Roma; ultra@ilmanifesto.it

POPCORNER RADIO SHOW
Francesco Adinolfi è ideatore e conduttore di programmi radiofonici cult come Ultrasuoni Cocktail e il recente Popcorner. Con il primo ha esplorato generi space age pop come exotica, lounge, latin (da mambo e chachacha a bossanova), crooner & swing style, 60’s groove, colonne sonore di genere ecc., che a partire da metà anni anni ’90 sono diventati ingredienti di riferimento della cosiddetta Generazione Cocktail o di un più generico universo lounge. Al programma si sono legati artisti nostrani come Montefiori Cocktail, Doktor Zoil, Robert Passera o dj internazionali quali Skeewiff, Yasuharu Konishi,G15, Ursula 1000. Dal 2005 lo show è mutato in Popcorner, caratterizzato da un ampliamento degli ingredienti sonori e da un diverso approccio al parlato (non solo fatti musicali inerenti agli artisti trasmessi ma anche storie e argomenti della quotidianità affrontati con un orecchio al passato e un occhio al futuro, osservando modi e stili che da sempre marchiano a fuoco i nostri immaginari). Con la forte collaborazione di nomi quali Boca 45, Feature Cast, Torpedo Boyz, Flow Dynamics, Lack Of Afro o Fdel, il programma si è trasformato in una miscela suggestiva e imprevedibile di breakbeat, electro lounge, funk e ultrabossa.

DJ SET
Popcorner si traduce anche in dj set travolgenti che in alcuni casi hanno visto la partecipazione di Doktor Zoil & The Popcorner Orchestra. Tra gli show «congiunti» più apprezzati quello al Palafuksas di Torino in occasione della notte bianca delle Universiadi. Dal vivo Francesco Adinolfi presenta un dj set ultrasonico caratterizzato dai ritmi di Popcorner e da remix esclusivi realizzati dai maggiori dj internazionali. INFO PER DJ SET: adincre@yahoo.it

PROFILO & LIBRI
Giornalista, conduttore radiofonico e selector/dj, Francesco Adinolfi è responsabile di Ultrasuoni, inserto musicale del quotidiano il manifesto. Collaboratore delle maggiori riviste nazionali e internazionali, da 30 anni si occupa di musica pop e rock. È autore del libro Mondo Exotica (Einaudi), una storia della musica exotica, lounge, latin, televisiva e cinematografica di genere. Il testo, pubblicato negli Usa e in Gran Bretagna nella primavera 2008 dalla Duke University Press, è stato oggetto di un corso tenuto dall'autore stesso presso la facoltà di sociologia dell’università La Sapienza di Roma. Nel 1989 ha pubblicato il libro Suoni dal ghetto-La musica rap dalla strada alle hit parade (Costa & Nolan). Cura sigle e jingle per programmi televisivi (Il caso Scafroglia, Per un pugno di libri ecc.).

BIO, RADIO SHOWS & BOOKS
Francesco Adinolfi is a music journalist, broadcaster and selector/dj. He’s in charge of Ultrasuoni, weekly music supplement of il manifesto, one of Italy’s most relevant daily newspapers. He has hosted Ultrasuoni Cocktail, a cult hit programme on Rai Radio 2, Italy’s national station. For two years he’s been hosting Popcorner, a mind expanding mix of breakbeat, electro lounge, funk, ultrabossa and incredibly strange news. Through the years relevant national (Montefiori Cocktail, Doktor Zoil, Robert Passera etc.) and international artists (Skeewiff, Boca 45, Ursula 1000, Yasuharu Konishi, Feature Cast, Torpedo Boyz, Flow Dynamics, Lack Of Afro o Fdel) have contributed to his radio shows. He’s been a music journalist for 30 years, also contributing to famous national and international magazines such as Great Britain's Melody Maker, Sounds, Record Mirror; Spain's Revoluciones Por Minuto, Canada's Music Express, Australia's Juke; Japan's Crossbeat etc. In 1989 he published Suoni dal ghetto. La musica rap dalla strada alle hit-parade (Sounds from the ghetto. Rap music from Street to Stardom). Issued by Costa & Nolan, the book was the author’s graduation thesis at Rome’s University. Mondo Exotica is his most recent book about the exotic impact of specific music styles such as exotica, lounge, latin groove, b-movie and tv soundtracks on the western imagination. Mondo Exotica is published in the Usa by Duke University Press and distributed in the Uk by Combined Academic Publishers. Francesco Adinolfi is also a music consultant for relevant Italian tv shows.

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