Results for "Exotica"

Bret Higgins

Born: December 26, 1974

Bret Higgins is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto, Canada. He leads a varied career that includes writing music for film and television, original music for ensembles, co-writes, producing, arranging, and performing & recording with an array of artists from across a broad spectrum of contemporary music.

The bassist's prolific work as a composer has won him numerous awards, grants, residencies, and scholarships. His music has been heard in clubs, theatres, and concert halls throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Brazil and Chile. Additionally, he has received a number of music commissions by notable performing ensembles.

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica

1 name, 3 formations: 

Quintet: Story-Driven Global Jazz & Chamber Music 

"engagingly unique"–Boston Globe 

In the same way a chef de cuisine runs a kitchen, percussionist Brian O’Neill leads a team of five musical creators who deftly collaborate on instruments foreign and domestic to form modernist delicacies for hungry, curious listeners. From the high arts of jazz and chamber music to adaptations of mid-century exotica and pop art, the quintet version of Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica renders O’Neill’s original compositions and curious arrangements of Bach, Gershwin, Shostakovich and John Adams into cinematic, layered music for armchair travelers ready to journey off road. 

Martin Denny

Born: April 10, 1911

Martin Denny was an American pianist and composer best known as the "father of exotica." In a long career that saw him performing up to 3 weeks prior to his death, he toured the world popularizing his brand of lounge music which included exotic percussion, imaginative rearrangements of popular songs, and original songs that celebrated Tiki culture.

Denny was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles. He studied classical piano and toured South America for four and a half years in the 1930s with the Don Dean Orchestra. This tour began Denny's fascination with Latin rhythms. Denny collected a large number of ethnic instruments from all over the world, which he used to spice up his stage performances.

Michel Banabila

Born: April 14, 1961

Michel Banabila, born 1961, is a composer, sound artist and producer. His music has been released since 1983, and he has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. His work varies from minimal loop-based electronica, fourth world, and neo-classical pieces, to drones, experimental electronica, tribal ambient, and punk-as-fuck tape music. In addition to acoustic instrumentation, Banabila uses samples, electronics, synths, found objects and field recordings. His work has been released internationally by labels like 12th Isle (UK), Bureau B (DE), Knekelhuis (NL), Eilean Rec (FR), Pingipung (DE) and Séance Centre (CA).

Exotica

By Sun Ra

Label: Modern Harmonic
Released: 2018
Track listing: Kingdom Of Thunder; Spaces Mates; Star Bright; The Nile Part 1; Eve; Tiny Pyramids; The Lady With the Golden Stockings; Paradise; New Horizons; Portrait Of The Living Sky; India; Ancient Aiethiopia; Planet Earth; April In Paris; Island In The Sun; Africa; Friendly Galaxy; Interstellar Low Ways; The Conversion Of J.P.; Cha-Cha In Outer Space; Brazilian Sun; Lights On A Satellite; Somewhere In Space; Spontaneous Simplicity; Overtones Of China.

Sun Ra: Exotica

by Chris May
March 19, 2018

Spring 2018 is delivering a welcome batch of Sun Ra reissues, some of them remastered editions of existing albums, others newly put-together compilations. Among the compilations, two stand out: the previously reviewed Sun Ra Plays Gershwin (Enterplanetary Records, 2017) and now Exotica. Both are mellifluous beauties which showcase Ra's unapologetic love of a good tune. Listeners ...

Exotica

By Giorgio Cuscito

Label: Marea Alta Productions
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Quiet Village; 2. Portrait of the $ (G. Cuscito); 0 3. Love Me Tender; 04. New Rumba; 05. Taboo; 06. I Only Have Eyes for You; 07. Cat Race (G. Cuscito); 08. Witchcraft.

Giorgio Cuscito: Exotica

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 6, 2009

Avrà senso dell'ironia, Giorgio Cuscito. Saprà divertirsi un mondo a ripercorrere suoni di “cartapesta hollywoodiana turistica" stile Les Baxter, ma di certo sa piazzare bene le mani tra i fogli sparsi di un genere, l'exotica, suadente e patinato quanto impregnato di sano colonialismo culturale. Da quando Baxter prima (Ritual of the Savage - Le Sacre du ...

Exotica

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1997

Exotica

By Kip Hanrahan

Label: American Clavé
Released: 1993