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Selected by British DJ and vinyl hunter Paul Hillery, new BBE Music compilation 'We Are The Children Of The Sun' showcases a shimmering collection of rare folk funk and AOR with a distinctly Balearic feel Former tour DJ for Polyphonic Spree and the man behind YouTube channel and mix series ‘Folk Funk & Trippy... -
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Eden Ahbez - a poet, composer and key architect of the hippie lifestyle who wrote ‘Nature Boy’ for Nat ‘King’ Cole in the Forties - recorded and released his solitary album ‘Eden’s Island’ in 1960 for the Del-Fi imprint A significant release in terms of understanding exotica in music, it’s now remastered for its...
It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album jacket for best results Exotica! The soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden,...
The so called "Nightingale Of The Andes", a necessary introduction to the life and music of the one and only Yma Sumac The Peruvian singer who startled audiences in the United States and Europe with her remarkable voice, beauty, and mysterious "Inca" princess/priestess persona Literally bridging the gap from folklore to exotica,...
If Les Baxter's 1951 album Ritual Of The Savage invented exotica, his 1963 album The Soul Of The Drums perfected it Here was the sonic Space Age journey to far-flung musical ports that the genre promised: samba and cha-cha-cha rhythms played by African, Brazilian, Cuban and Haitian "voodoo" drums propel Baxter's typically...
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Merging the sounds of nature along with his resounding vibraphone, Arthur Lyman and producer Gordon Broad created Island Vibes, an ambient/jazz/field recording album that exhibits the pure weightlessness of Lyman’s music A lost gem from the exotica pioneer's catalog — and his last recorded album — Island Vibes paints a...Out of stock
Outsider beat-poet and composer Eden Ahbez already was leading the hippie life long before the movement existed Best known for writing the classic song 'Nature Boy' in 1947, he released his exotica masterpiece 'Eden's Island' in 1960 Now back on vinyl, the album is an epic conceptual work about a utopian society on a far-away...Sale!Out of stock
The leaders of exotica’s turn-of-the-21st-century revival make their vinyl debut with Aloha Got Soul in 2021 Hot Like Lava collects the group’s top instrumentals for an exhilarating, paradisiacal ride through the world of tiki subculture Don Tiki debuted from Honolulu in 1997 with the album, The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki,...
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