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Mr Ho's Orchestrotica: The Unforgettable Sounds Of Esquivel

Read "The Unforgettable Sounds Of Esquivel" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


The music of Mexican composer and arranger Juan Garcia Esquivel--often referred to with the exclamatory Esquivel!--has been described as Space Age pop, cocktail jazz and lounge music. Whatever it's called, Esquivel's music is happy music --an eccentric but optimistic take on standards and originals, incorporating the newest musical technologies of the '60s. On The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel Mr Ho's Orchestrotica presents eleven faithfully reproduced Esquivel arrangements, in just 30 minutes, and gives rise to one simple question. When will ...


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