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Other Worlds Other Sounds
by C. Andrew Hovan
In this frantic age of vinyl rediscovery, it still never ceases to amaze as to the kinds of projects that companies are willing to go for broke on for what has become a booming and buying audience. In many ways it is truly a win-win situation. There's so much great music out there and the idea of bringing it back to our attention or finding a new audience in the guise of its original intent can rarely be seen as ...
read moreAudio Fidelity To Release Esquivel's "Other Worlds Others Sounds" On 180g Vinyl LP
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Glass Onyon PR - William James
Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity is releasing Esquivel's Other Worlds, Others Sounds album on 180g Vinyl LP. Esquivel was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films and widely considered the king of a style of late 1950s-early 1960s quirky instrumental pop known today as lounge music. RCA contracted with Esquivel in late 1957 and brought him to record in Hollywood in early 1958. He was given five hours of studio time to record the album Other Worlds, ...
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Esquivel And His Orchestra's "Other Worlds Other Sounds" Coming Soon On 180g Virgin Vinyl from Audio Fidelity
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All About Jazz
Esquivel was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films and widely considered the king of a style of late 1950s early 1960s quirky instrumental pop known today as lounge music. His orchestration tended toward the very lush, employing novel instrumental combinations, such as Chinese bells, mariachi bands, whistling, and numerous percussion instruments blended with orchestra, mixed chorus, and his own heavily-ornamented piano style. The chorus was called upon to sing only nonsense syllables, most famously zu-zu" ...
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Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica - The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel (2010)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski Walk down the street and stop twenty random people, asking them their opinion of Esquivel? If you get less than 19 Huhwuh?"'s, I'd be impressed. That's sort of too bad because Juan Garcia Esquivel had far too many musical ideas in his head. Add some pedal steel to the sound of a big band? Why not?! Zingy wordless vocals? Can you say Zu Zu Zu!"? How about recording two orchestras simultaneously? Was that stereo? Sort of. I ...
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