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Yma Sumac has Passed On:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/11/03/yma-sumac-obit.html

I first heard of Yma Sumac through the Re/Search book Incredibly Strange Music, and then heard some of her actual music on The Ernie Kovacs Record Album. I'm not a great fan of "lounge" music, but I have a small collection of "exotica" albums, and she's there.

Halloween was pretty quiet; a few more kids came to the door than last year. Heard hardly any fireworks, the police must be really cracking down on sellers as in previous years the firecrackers started two weeks before Halloween and went on for another week after. Saturday was Catalyst at the Bayanihan community centre; I was kind of tired but it was nice to hear some good music and see people I haven't seen in a long time. I talked to Casper who came in costume as Milan Fras from Laibach - we talked about the Laibach show I missed in Seattle in September (next time they come, in about three years, I should be able to see them - just too much going on right now). People kept asking me if I were in costume - I was, sort of, in my Chinese waiter's jacket, skull collar tabs and black trousers and boots - nothing fancy but I said I was the 12th assistant janitor on the Death Star, because no matter what job you have there you have a natty uniform.