Album artwork for Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies and Other Exotic Delights by Various Artists

Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies and Other Exotic Delights. Available here on Triple LP and Triple CD.

It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album jacket for best results. Exotica! The soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden, packaged for mid-century, tiki torch-wielding armchair safariers. Be it mosquito-bitten torch singers, landlocked surf quartets, fad-chasing jazz combos, mad genius band leaders, D-list actors, or a middle aged loner programming bird calls into a Hammond, Exotica was always more concerned with what geography might sound like over who was conducting. Captured across three albums are 48 (54 on the CD) curious examples of the short-lived genre's reach, each summoning their own sonic visions of Shangri La, bringing their versions of the Pacific, Africa, and the Orient to the hinterlands of America. Technicolour Paradise is where one makes it, after all.

LPx3 - Standard Triple LP.

CDx3 - Standard Triple CD.

Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies and Other Exotic Delights

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Album artwork for Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies and Other Exotic Delights by Various Artists
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$44.99

Released 05/25/2018Catalog Number

NUM065lp

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Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies and Other Exotic Delights

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Album artwork for Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies and Other Exotic Delights by Various Artists
LPx3

$44.99

Released 05/25/2018Catalog Number

NUM065lp

Learn more

Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies and Other Exotic Delights. Available here on Triple LP and Triple CD.

It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album jacket for best results. Exotica! The soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden, packaged for mid-century, tiki torch-wielding armchair safariers. Be it mosquito-bitten torch singers, landlocked surf quartets, fad-chasing jazz combos, mad genius band leaders, D-list actors, or a middle aged loner programming bird calls into a Hammond, Exotica was always more concerned with what geography might sound like over who was conducting. Captured across three albums are 48 (54 on the CD) curious examples of the short-lived genre's reach, each summoning their own sonic visions of Shangri La, bringing their versions of the Pacific, Africa, and the Orient to the hinterlands of America. Technicolour Paradise is where one makes it, after all.

LPx3 - Standard Triple LP.

CDx3 - Standard Triple CD.