Martin Denny – Deep Exotica – Music From Martin Denny’s Lush Lounge – CD

• Four albums plus bonus tracks from the master of exotica Martin Denny. • Mono reproductions of the key albums that launched the space age bachelor pad music trend in the late 1950s. • Complete with bird calls, deranged percussion, super cool vibes and Denny’s distinctive piano. • Including a host of hit records that launched a thousand copyists and ensured that the tiki trend, easy listening and the call of the islands would blossom. • Featuring the super expensive (if you seek them out on vinyl) original mono mixes. It was 1957, down in Hawaii; some jazz guys had come in to take up the slack at the bar, playing subtle cool sounds while people drank and talked. It was the Hawaiian Village Hotel in Wakiki. The room was filled with palm trees and bamboo curtains, it was a sanctuary in the madness of the place, a stopping off point for the weary traveller, a refuge from reality. The band did long stints, fuelled by the free bar; the exotic setting slowly infused itself into their music, got under their skin. What started as a few bird calls amid the scraped percussion, shuffling drums, tinkling piano and offset vibes soon became the signature sound of the bar. The “sound effects”, created by the players, increased and through chance, misfortune, rum and possibly initially boredom, exotica was born.

Disc: 1
1 Quiet Village
2 Return to Paradise 03 Hong Kong Blues 04 Busy Port
3 Lotus Land
4 Similau
5 Stone God
6 Jungle Flower
7 China Nights ()
8 Ah Me Furi ()
9 Waipo
10 Love Dance
11 Shoshu Night Serenade
12 Island of Dreams
13 Japanese Farewell Song
14 Singing Bamboos
15 The Queen Chant (Li Liu E)
16 The Hawaiian Wedding Song (Ke Kali Nei Au)
17 Escales
18 When First I Love
19 August Bells
20 Bacoa
21 Ebb Tide
22 Rush Hour in Hong Kong
23 Llama Serenade
24 The Enchanted Sea

Disc: 2
1 Jungle River Boat
2 Harbor Lights
3 Manila
4 Mama Iti E Papa E
5 Bamboo Lullaby
6 Ringo Oiwake
7 Moon of Manakoora
8 Limehouse Blues
9 Beautiful Kahana
10 Caravan
11 Congo Train
12 Hello, Young Lovers
13 Stranger in Paradise
14 Hawaiian War Chant
15 Coronation
16 Sake Rock
17 Paradise Found
18 Firecracker
19 Martinique
20 My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii Cha Cha Cha
21 Tune from Rangoon
22 Happy Talk
23 Pagan Love Song
24 Laura
25 Quiet Village