Les Baxter: Exotica Absolute, 2CD
Les Baxter

• Four complete albums from the Godfather of exotica.

• The inspiration for Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman and a million tiki bar enthusiasts.

• Classic exotica, easy listening and bachelor pad music from the man who brought you four-octave Peruvian songstress Yma Sumac, and Nat King Cole’s best-selling recording ‘Nature Boy’.

• Including escapist gems ‘Ritual Of the Savage’, ‘The Passions with Bas Sheva, ‘Tamboo!’ and ‘Caribbean Moonlight.

• Sixth in the series of remastered exotica albums.

• As Dug By Lux And Ivy.

• With sleeve notes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson.

The Godfather of exotica, a gifted songwriter and arranger; and a man with an eye for a novelty trend, from space travel and the music of the moon to the indigenous music of faraway places or how people imagined they might be; If the listener couldn’t travel there, his lush arrangements and expressive use of sound soon transported them to these new fantasy lands.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
Ritual Of the Savage
1 Busy Port
2 Sophisticated Savage
3 Jungle River Boat
4 Jungle Flower
5 Barquita
6 Stone God
7 Quiet Village
8 Jungle Jalopy
9 Coronation
10 Love Dance
11 Kinkajou
12 The Ritual
The Passions
13 Despair
14 Ecstasy
15 Hate
16 Lust
17 Terror
18 Jealousy
19 Joy

DISC TWO
Tamboo!
1 Simba
2 Oasis Of Dakhla
3 Maracaibo
4 Tehran
5 Pantan
6 Havana
7 Mozambique
8 Wotuka
9 Cuchibamba
10 Batumba
11 Rio
12 Zambezi
Caribbean Moonlight
13 Taboo
14 Deep Night
15 The Breeze And I
16 Nightingale
17 Temptation
18 Poinciana
19 Ay, Ay, Ay
20 Adios
21 Carnival
22 Green Eyes
23 Out Of This World
24 Sway (Quien Era)