Les Baxter fan club

He was a true musical visionary and maestro of the recording studio!

Here is Les Baxter's 1959 exotica/jazz album "African Jazz":

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Last Edited by TexasPaleo on 01/04/2021 09:38 AM

Lush sounding! I'd forgotten all about him, and I do like his kind of music. Thanks for reminding me.

Les Baxter's "The Primitive and the Passionate" from 1962:

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Last Edited by TexasPaleo on 01/04/2021 09:37 AM

If Les Baxter wrote an Aztec themed exotica album in 1960 and filtered some of it through Karlheinz Stockhausen and Tim Burton it might sound like this "The Sacred Idol".

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Last Edited by TexasPaleo on 01/04/2021 09:37 AM

I had to update all the links to VIMEO because Youtube blocked them.

I'm adding Les Baxter's first album "Ritual of the Savage" from 1951 which started the whole Exotica genre. This has been restored to original clean MONO. The official digital version is the horrid reverbed fake stereo mess created in 1958 to resale the album as "stereo" which was the new format.

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Last Edited by TexasPaleo on 01/04/2021 09:46 AM

Arthur Lyman is good too.

Check out Artic Outpost Radio.

You can get it through Radio Garden.

Love me some exotica.

I have all those albums on vinyl.

My favorite is Frank Hunter's White Goddess.

Exotica is the perfect chill out relax music.