TW
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TW
Has anyone heard 'Pagan Muzak' by Boyd Rice (Non)? He did an intro for "Taboo-The Art of Tiki" and seems quite a rum chap.
He says of the record,
"The name is both a description of the record's contents and a homage to Hawaii-based exotica pioneer Martin Denny, composer of environmental mood music that embraced such seemingly irreconcilable components as easy listening, unusual instruments, natural sounds and dissonance. Along with Les Baxter and Arthur Lyman, Denny became a hero to the so called Lounge/Space Age Batchelor Pad movement of the early 90s. "I was influenced by Martin Denny," Boyd confirms. "He was doing this stuff that was like muzak but it had these heathen overtones. I liked the idea of paganism and I thought it was like pagan muzak, because it was music to change your environment, fill it up with noise, fill your brain with noise, and I thought that was really a pagan concept. It's weird, I was just asked to be in this New Zealand book about Tiki culture, and I wanted to write this whole thing about making a pilgrimage to see Martin Denny in 1980. I grew up among this. When I was a kid you could buy a Hawaiian shirt, which came with this tiki, which had gems for eyes and stuff, and my make-out spot in San Diego used to be this club called Bali Hai, which had a beach behind it, and the house band was Arthur Lyman, and I would be making out with girls, while Arthur Lyman was playing behind me. I grew up with this stuff, so it is a little weird to see all these people getting into this stuff years after they'd torn all these places down. But I am glad they are, because I always thought everybody in the world should know about Martin Denny and Les Baxter, and I am glad that they lived long enough to see this resurgence of interest in their music."
Trader Woody
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