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• Four albums from the legend Arthur Lyman who lit the blue touch paper on exotica.
• From heavy sound effects-led exotica to much simpler soulful jazz all powered by Lyman’s awesome marimba playing.
• Key sounds from the incredibly strange world of music for any bachelor pad.
• File under: Exotica/Space Age Bachelor Pad Music/Easy Listening
• For fans of Martin Denny/ Les Baxter
• As loved by Lux and Ivy of The Cramps, Throbbing Gristle and many more…
Featuring the band’s million-selling debut, ‘Taboo’ from 1958 acclaimed as an early pinnacle of the genre.
The eerie and echoey ‘Bwana A’ taking the listener much further into the jungle.
‘Bahia’ with its added ship’s horns, thunder storms, parrots, paraquats, rainfall, tinkling marimba, and a lonesome violin,
Plus ‘Leis Of Jazz’ in which Lyman revisits his jazz roots and love of Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton.
This is music like nothing else:
“A conch shell wailed, the conga drums thump-thumped, the bamboo sticks clattered,” Time magazine wrote in 1962, “The four men on stage were constantly on the move — clacking wooden blocks, scratching a corrugated gourd, flailing away at Chinese gongs, weaving rhythms that were insistent, sinuous and hypnotic. Occasionally, when the spirit moved them, they barked like seals or whooped like cranes.”
Tracklist
DISC ONE
01 Taboo
02 Kalua
03 Ringo Oiwake
04 Sea Breeze
05 Misirlou
06 China Clipper
07 Sim Sim
08 Katsumi Love Theme 09 Caravan
10 Akaka Falls
11 Dahil Sayo
12 Hilo March
13 Leis of Jazz
14 Trigger Fantasy
15 The Lady is a Tramp
16 Body and Soul
17 Gypsy in My Soul
18 Lullaby of the Leaves
19 On the Street Where You Live
20 My Funny Valentine
21 The Way You Look Tonight
22 How High the Moon
23 Lullaby of Birdland
24 Aloha Oe
DISC TWO
01 Bahia
02 Jungle Jalopy
03 Legend Of The Rain 04 Bamboo
05 Return To Me
06 Caribbean Nights
07 Quiet Village
08 Tropical
09 Happy Voodoo
10 Busy People
11 Beyond The Reef
12 Maui Chimes
13 Bwana á
14 South Pacific Moonlight
15 Moon Over a Ruined Castle
16 Waikiki Serenade
17 La Paloma
18 Otome San
19 Canton Rose
20 Blue Sands
21 Malaguena
22 Vera Cruz
23 Pua Carnation
24 Colonel Bogey March