Exotica (Martin Denny album)

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Released May 1957 Length 30:36 Producer Martin Denny Genre Exotica		Recorded December 1956 Release date May 1957 Label Liberty

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Exotica is the first album by Martin Denny, released in 1957. It contained Denny's most famous piece, "Quiet Village", and spawned an entire genre bearing its name. It was recorded in Webley Edwards' studio (not, as often reported, the Aluminum Dome at Henry J. Kaiser's Hawaiian Village Complex) in Waikiki in December 1956. The album topped Billboard's charts in 1959.

The original album was recorded in mono. It was re-recorded in stereo in 1958; by then, however, Denny's popular sideman Arthur Lyman had left the group, and was replaced by Julius Wechter. Denny preferred the original mono version: "It has the original spark, the excitement, the feeling we were breaking new ground."

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Track listing

"Quiet Village" (Les Baxter) – 3:39
"Return to Paradise" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:19
"Hong Kong Blues" (Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:15
"Busy Port" (Baxter) – 2:50
"Lotus Land" (Cyril Scott) – 2:22
"Similau" (Arden Clar, Harry Coleman) – 1:57
"Stone God" (Baxter) – 3:07
"Jungle Flower" (Baxter) – 1:46
"China Nights" (Shina No Yoru) (Nobuyuki Takeoka) – 2:01
"Ah Me Furi" (Gil Baumgart) – 2:08
"Waipio" (Francis Brown) – 3:11
"Love Dance" (Baxter) – 2:29

Personnel

Martin Denny – piano, arrangements

Arthur Lyman – vibes, xylophone, percussion

John Kramer – string bass

Augie Colon – bongos, congas, Latin effects, bird calls

Harold Chang – drums, percussion

Bob Lang – engineer

Sandy Warner – cover model

Songs

1Quiet Village3:40
2Return to Paradise2:21
3Hong Kong Blues2:17

References

Exotica (Martin Denny album) Wikipedia

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