Les Baxter - vinyl recommendations? - Tiki Music

IZ I, Zombie Member the Les Baxter Grotto (Minneapolis) Joined: Jul 14, 2003 Posts: 539	IZ I, Zombie Posted posted on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 8:23 PM You know, this week I've been playing "African Blue" quite a lot. It's kind of a forgotten record by Baxter -- and a later one (70s I think). It's pretty great, though more jet setty then straight exotica. More like his stuff with the 101 Strings (Que Mango, for example) but with more emphasis on flute and percussion, giving it a stronger echo of his 50s Capitol LPs than the Alshire stuff usually does. A couple of songs are almost proto-Don Tiki too, that sets your mind spinning into some weird time-traveling paradoxes. I think it's worth a listen. The CD from GNP is coupled with Colors of Brazil.

You know, this week I've been playing "African Blue" quite a lot. It's kind of a forgotten record by Baxter -- and a later one (70s I think). It's pretty great, though more jet setty then straight exotica. More like his stuff with the 101 Strings (Que Mango, for example) but with more emphasis on flute and percussion, giving it a stronger echo of his 50s Capitol LPs than the Alshire stuff usually does. A couple of songs are almost proto-Don Tiki too, that sets your mind spinning into some weird time-traveling paradoxes.

I think it's worth a listen. The CD from GNP is coupled with Colors of Brazil.

Post #237855 by I, Zombie on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 8:23 PM