Frenesi

[davemarc]

At 07:17 PM 8/6/96 -0400, Paul wrote:
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>I just had occasion to listen to the big band tune "Frenesi", and
>I wish there was some way of sending a soundbite of it to everyone
>on the list.  I venture to say that a few notes played to anyone
>over a certain age will immediately bring the whole tune to mind.
>For me, it conjures up the Forties, some mythical Latin America, 
>cartoons, lounge lizards, old movies, etc.  Now, here's my 
>observation:  What made TRP pick such an innocent, lilting,
>starry-eyed melody for the name of a majorly fucked-up gal?  It
>seems utterly incongruous.  The only strategy I can discern (and
>this might be a direct homage) is the way Terry Gilliam chose 
>a similarly "sweet" song, "Brazil", to apply to a black dystopia.
>
Some associations....

Frenesi is an anagram for "sin free" as well as "free sin" and, I'm sure, a
bunch of other phrases (like "in reefs").

It can also be pronounced "free 'n easy" (though that's not how it's
pronounced as a song title).

Artie Shaw, whose band played "Frenesi," is reclusive.

Hoping that's helpful in a Pynchonian kinda way,

davemarc