Monday, 31 May 2021

The Exotica Project: One Hundred Dreamland 45s

quote [ While the term did get thrown around a bit […], exotica was never the codified genre. In its time, exotica might be applied to a straightforward piano reading of Ravel's Scheherazade or a volume of Russian or Gypsy folk song. Conversely, contemporary references in trade magazines like Billboard would just as likely characterize the latest Gene Rains Group or Tak Shindo release as "tropical piano jazz," "exotic novelty" or "big-band jazz with Oriental flourishes" as they would "exotica." ]

Collection of singles with fine-grained filters for a genre who's revival seems something like 20 years ago.

Note how the view back then was somehow distorted to begin with.
[SFW] [music] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@4:00pmGMT]

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