Martin Denny - The Exciting Sounds of Martin Denny: Exotica/Exotica, Vol. I & II
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Artist: Martin DennyEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1996-06-17
Music Label: Scamp
Soundtracks:
- Quiet Village
- Return To Paradise
- Hong Kong Blues
- Busy Port
- Lotus Land
- Similau
- Stone God
- Jungle Flower
- China Nights
- Ah Me Furi
- Waipo
- Love Dance
- Soshu Night Serenade
- Island Of Dreams
- Japanese Farewell Song
- Singing Bamboos
- The Queen Chant(E Lili U E)
- Wedding Song(Ke Kali Ne Au)
- Escales
- When First I Love
- August Bells
- Bacoa
- Ebb Tide
- Rush Hour In Hong Kong
Music reviews of The Exciting Sounds of Martin Denny: Exotica/Exotica, Vol. I & II
Music Review: Underappreciated by the young and hip
Rating: 4 Stars
Admittedly, this is not a CD that you can keep on constant repeat for days, but there's just ISN'T any better lounge music for the first hour or so of that party you're throwing in your shiny, new (or beat-up, old) apartment. I heard this featured on NPR about a year ago and ran out to buy it; when I told my father that I was listening to "fabulous, cheesy tiki music" he groaned...but when I said "Martin Denny" he said--wait, that's not tiki music! That's great stuff! And it is: it hasn't registered on the retro-hip radar in the way that, say, bossa nova or swing recently have, but it's better for that, as no one has started coating it with that tiresome patina of ironic chic. Still, it shouldn't be taken as totally straight either--there was always a tongue-in-cheek quality to the music: the first track is a tune that became an unexpected hit when Denny's combo was playing a Hawaiian club and decided to throw in some tropical animal noises, just for kicks. If you hate the very idea of the fifties and are made more suspicious than enthusiastic by the news that Exotica was at the top of the charts for much of 1959, forget about it--but otherwise figure out how to make yourself a mai-tai, turn down the lights and enjoy.
Description of The Exciting Sounds of Martin Denny: Exotica/Exotica, Vol. I & II
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.These early Denny creations cover his more wildly "exotic" career phase. The first album, presented in its original "Spectra-Sonic" mono, includes the hit title track in its entire eerie swamp-varmint splendor. Other standouts are the dreamy xylophone on "Lotus Land" and the absolutely wacky "Love Dance," which sounds more like an ornithologist's orgy. The second album, in stereo, gets more intricate and oddly romantic. The best is the opener, "Shoshu Night Serenade," with its ghostly textures and the persistent ringing of bells that suggest the carriage of a typewriter. The Denny arrangement of "Ebb Tide" is also a stunner. This double volume gives listeners a clear picture of how Denny was interested less in an "authentic" Hawaii and more intrigued by an imaginary and often surreal geography. --Joseph Lanza
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