Exotica

Limited edition audiophile pressing of American actor and singer Robert Mitchum's 1957 LP Calypso - Is Like So!

The king of Exotica injects his gorgeous instrumental arrangements with tons of sitars and tanpuras as the main ingredients of another stylized sound trip.

This unique compilation reissues the LP, plus a non-album B-side and an outtake, alongside sixteen further bonus tracks.

An epic concept album about an utopian society living in peace and harmony on an island far away from the modern western world as we know it.

The result seems to be surreal and mind-blowing to the listener, yet distantly familiar and comforting.

Jungle Jazz remains one of Les Baxter's loudest, most vibrant albums. The brass sections are in the limelight all the time, varying from silky sections over melodious jumpiness to shattering stabs.