Film composers go exotica !!!

In the 50ies, exotica was the music to hear. Les Baxter and Martin Denny were king of this musical genre, and there are a lot of fine records that are well worth a listen. What is lesser known (especially in the film music community) is the fact that at least four film composers also had very good one-shot exotica records, these four being Robert Drasnin (Voodoo), Dominic Frontiere (Pagan Festival), Ron Goodwin (Music for an Arabian Night) and Gerald Fried (Orienta, Performed by The Markko Polo Adventurers). All of them feature only compositions by themselves and therefore are quite interesting for us collectors. Also in this group belongs Alfred Newman's Ports of Paradise, but this one does not feature original works and has just Hawaiian-styled easy listening music.

Today I like to present Drasnin's Voodoo (1959), one of the true classics of the exotica genre. It was shared some weeks ago on the excellent Xtabays World blog, and he even filtered the record so that it now sounds better that the original ! I would like to thank Xtabay here for all the great records he shared this year and highly recormmed his great blog (http://www.whitepage.com.au/XtabaysWorld/) to everyone. And Xtabay even opened a film music blog called Cellloid Planet right now ! So go there and enjoy some classics: http://xtabaysplanet.blogspot.com/

And here's Robert Drasnin's Voodoo:
http://rapidshare.de/files/31053012/Rbt_Drasnn_Voodoo.zip

01 - Chant Of The Moon
02 - Desiree
03 - Hindara
04 - Orinoco
05 - Warm Night Wind
06 - Mirage
07 - Voodoo
08 - Jardin De La Noche
09 - Tambuku
10 - You
11 - Paradise
12 - Enchantment