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▀▄ Artist... Les Baxter
░ Title.... Que mango!
Label.... Alshire Records S-5204
Year..... 1996 (1970)
Genre.... Easy Listening
Rip Date. 02.09.2003
Tracks... 12
Grabber.. EAC
Source... CDDA
Encoder.. LAME 3.90.3
Quality.. 192kbps/44.1kHz
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Re-release of another classic 1970 album by Les Baxter,
accompanied by the 101 Strings Orchestra. Huge thanks
and props to sFE and all the other groups releasing
great lounge/tiki/exotica/OST, you guys rock! Enjoy.
"In this, his second album with the fabulous 101
STRINGS, Les Baxter further demonstrates his outstanding
talents as composer/orchestrator/conductor.
QUE MANGO presents a series of new Baxter compositions,
ranging from hauntingly simple melodies to excitingly
complex orchestral works. All are superbly orchestrated
in Les' unique style - a masterful blend of European
sophistication, African sensuality, South American
festivity and neo-anglo contemporaneity.
The full capabilities of the magnificent 101 STRINGS was
elicited by Baxter's sensitive conducting, and the
resulting performance reflects the ultimate in the
transformance of music from the mind of the composer to
the ear of the listener." - liner notes by Hall Daniels
Biography - allmusic.com: "Les Baxter is a pianist who
composed and arranged for the top swing bands of the
'40s and '50s, but he is better-known as the founder of
an exotica, a variation of easy listening that glorified
the sounds and styles of Polynesia, Africa, and South
America, even as they retained the traditional
string-and-horn arrangements of instrumental pop.
Exotica became a massively popular trend in the '50s,
with thousands of record buyers listening to Baxter,
Martin Denny, and their imitators. Baxter also pioneered
the use of the electronic instrument the theremin, which
has a haunting, howling sound.
Les Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory and
Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. After he completed
school, he abandoned the piano and became a vocalist.
When he was 23, he joined Mel Torme's Mel-Tones. The
group sang on Artie Shaw records, including the hit
"What is This Thing Called Love."
In 1950, he became an arranger and conductor for Capitol
Records, working on hits by Nat King Cole, including
"Mona Lisa." Around the same time, Baxter began
recording his own albums. In 1948, he released a
triple-78 album called, Music Out of the Moon which
ushered in space age pop with its use of the theremin.
Four years later, he began recording exotica albums with
Le Sacre Du Sauvage.
On his early '50s singles Baxter was relatively
straightforward, performing versions of standards like
the number one hits "Unchained Melody" and "The Poor
People of Paris," but on his albums he experimented with
all sorts of world musics, adapting them for his
orchestra. As he was recording his exotica albums,
Baxter was also the musical director for the radio show
Halls of Ivy, plus Abbott & Costello radio shows; he
also composed over 100 film scores, concentrating on
horror movies and teenage musicals and comedies, though
he also did dramas like Giant.
Baxter's heyday was in the '50s and '60s. Although he
continued to compose and record in the '70s, his output
was sporadic. Nevertheless, a cult following formed
around his exotica recordings that persisted into the
'90s."
Review - allmusic.com: "Les Baxter's Que Mango is
considered one of the hallmark albums of the exotica
genre and also his last great release. The album's liner
notes claim it to be the last of the first generation
exotica albums. (And that it was originally sold in
grocery stores for $1.99!) Baxter's popularity waned in
the late '60s and an offer to record with the world's
largest orchestra, the 101 Strings resulted in Que
Mango. The album is an attempt to capture a South
American vibe on what is often described as his "virtual
tourist" albums. Baxter's Best may have a higher
percentage of his better (and more accessible) songs,
but it is the thematically unified albums that exotica
fans will get more use out of. Recorded in January of
1970, Que Mango is a fun, lush, orchestral album for
creating a go-go, jet-set party atmostphere. This
functional use side-steps the reality of the album and
the Exotica genre itself, which is that lounge
instrumentals are not the easiest music to listen to
without a cocktail in your hand or a barbeque going on.
Standout tracks include "Tropicando," "Flight in the
Andes," and "Jungle Montuno." Les Baxter's last
non-soundtrack album is a pleasant, but hardly
esseential, pickup." - JT Griffith
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01: que mango! - 02:09
02: tropicando - 02:38
03: on a warm night - 02:34
04: flight in the andes - 01:47
05: felicia, my love - 01:58
06: affair in arruba - 02:32
07: jungle montuno - 03:00
08: soolaimon - 02:53
09: boca chica - 01:42
10: come back to paradise - 03:05
11: night in buenos aires - 02:20
12: morning on the meadow - 02:59
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