Post #539015 by skullisland on Fri, Jun 25, 2010 8:10 PM

On 2010-01-09 08:37, lucas vigor wrote:

On 2010-01-08 16:53, Carmine Verandah wrote:
exotica, which in turn she presumed was related to lounge.

I have always thought of Exotica as a subset of lounge.

Exotica is more a subset of orchestral music than anything. Les Baxter recorded the first Exotica album Ritual of the Savage in 52 (?) that contained his song Quiet Village. Martin Denny recorded it a few years later arranged for a small group to play. It was when he re-recorded it around 1959 in stereo that it really caught fire. The people of Hawaii dug it, and soon the whole nation was digging it, so it really didn't branch off of anything but itself