"Quiet Village" - Martin Denny (1959)
Before there was the semi-satirical post-modern notion of "lounge" music, whereby urbane twenty- and thirty-somethings might both revel in, and quietly chuckle at, their own sophistication, there was Martin Denny, who repaired to the islands of Hawaii in the mid-'50s and incorporated natural sounds of the South Pacific into his islander cocktail jazz personally creating the phenomena known as "exotica." "Quiet Village" is a bird-calling, monkey-squawking, frog-croaking, tiki-flavored slice of classic exotica.
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Article comments
1 - Tim Hall
I thought of this post yesterday afternoon. The sound of "Good Vibrations" was blasting out speakers outside HMV in Manchester. And the weather was typical Manchester at this time of year, cold and wet.
2 - Eric Olsen
thanks for thinking of it Tim! We've had pretty great weather of late - mostly clear and warm, but cooling over the weekend. As bright and azure the sky, it felt like fall when I was out mowing the lawn: the angle of the sun in the sky casting very long shadows
3 - Jessica
Cool list!
4 - Eric Olsen
thanks Jessica - Swedes rule! Apart from Norwegians, of course