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Escape To The Alluring Sounds Of Vintage Exotica On "Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights" On May 25

Escape To The Alluring Sounds Of Vintage Exotica On "Technicolor Paradise:  Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights" On May 25

In the late ’50s to the mid-’60s, somewhere between Elvis’ last Ed Sullivan Show appearance and the Beatles’ U.S. invasion, a strange musical movement surfaced in America seemingly from some fantasy island in the South Pacific. Known as Exotica, the music blended together wildly disparate musical styles—easy listening and lounge; jazz and surf—to concoct a fizzy ...

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Arthur Lyman's Exotic Sounds Reissued on Collectors' Choice

Arthur Lyman's Exotic Sounds Reissued on Collectors' Choice

From Hawaiian sounds to Polynesian melodies, with side trips into jazz and Broadway, Lyman was one of three reigning kings of exotica LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Having learned his lessons in exotica while playing the vibraphone for Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman went on to become one of the Big Three (along with Denny and Les Baxter) ...


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