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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Quiet Village
2. Jungalero
3. Temple of Gold
4. Hong Kong Cable Car
5. Oasis of Dakhla
6. Taboo
7. Amazon Falls
8. Jungle Flower
9. Ancient Galleon, The
10. Zambezi
11. Tahiti: A Summer Night at Sea
12. Congo Train
13. Acapulco
14. Stone God
15. Voodoo Dreams
16. Mozambique
17. City of Veils
18. Bacoa
19. Mombasa After Midnight
20. Bom Bom / Mood Tattooed
DISC 2:
1. Simba
2. High Priest Of The Aztecs / Pyramid Of The Sun
3. Harem Silks From Bombay
4. Papagayo
5. Jungle River Boat
6. Temptation
7. Pantan
8. Lost City
9. Pool of Love
10. Busy Port
11. Spice Islands Sea Birds
12. Go Chango
13. Nightingale
14. Love Dance
15. Safari
16. Sunken City
17. Tehran
18. Blue Jungle
19. Left Arm of Buddha, The
20. Procession of the Princes
Album Notes
Includes liner notes by R. J. Smith.
Digitally remastered by Bob Norberg (Capitol Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California).
Coming off VOICE OF THE XTABAY, the innovative 1950 collaboration with Peruvian vocalist extraordinaire Yma Sumac, arranger Les Baxter knew he had a treasure trove in exotica, the pleasingly fake, ethnically flavored pop music he himself concocted with a little help from Duke Ellington and Claude Debussy. He then went on to record the second classic of the genre, 1951's Le SACRE AU SAVAGE (RITUAL OF THE SAVAGE), which included the original compositions "Quiet Village," "Jungle Flower," and "Stone God," all of which Baxter's successor in the genre, combo leader Martin Denny, covered on his own EXOTICA half a decade later.
While the Sumac session, with its jungle arias and growls, couldn't help but be faintly ridiculous, RITUAL has the cohesiveness of a tone poem, and once again features Baxter's fresh scoring for strings, well-integrated ethnic percussion and simple modal melodies. While RITUAL has never been available on CD, this 40-track, two-disc compilation of Baxter's finest work contains six choice selections as well as highlights from its superior 1955 follow-up, TAMBOO!, this in addition to vivid snapshots and souvenirs from all the other excursions up until to 1960.
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