Ep. 9 – Cinemascope Patio

Rum punch from a coconut. Plastic hula skirts. Vivid fantasies. More dreamy 70mm music, tuned in to terra-cotta tiles, potted palms and those infinity pools behind your eyelids. Many thanks to the incredible Exotica 45s project and of course astral exploration affionado Flash Strap for pointing me in the direction(s) of so many solid old slabs of wax, mixed here with a few contemporary cuts that harken to those original years of le exotique. Tracklist: Jimmy Nanaro Trio – Driftwood, The Surfmen – Fire Goddess, Bill Justis – The Dark Continent Contribution, Esquivel and His Orchestra – La Bikina, Eden Ahbez – Myna Bird, Roger Roger and Nino Nardini – Coconut Coast, Les Baxter – Batumba – Bruno Nicolai – Shan, Gene Moles and The Softwinds – Maria (The Wind), Mike Cooper – Paumalu Sunset Beach, Arthur Lyman – Shangri-La, Terry Snyder and The All Stars – Aloha Oe, Jun Miyake – Relaxn’, Martin Denny – Stardust, Dominic Frontiere – Venus Girl (Ix-Koben), Armando Scascia – Nostalgic Sea, The Sound Breakers – Marooned, The Wailers – Driftwood, Cal Tjader – The Bilbao Song, Piero Piccioni – Eros in Hiro, The Three Suns – Bali Ha’i, Paul Tanner with Andre Montero and His Orchestra – 20th Century Venus, Henry Mancini – Dreamsville, Frank Hunter and His Orchestra – Temple Bells, Martin Denny – Jungle Drums, Kenny Dorham – Lotus Flower, Ron Goodwin – The Rings Around Saturn, The Ebbinghouse Sound – Turkish Delight, Herman Clebanoff and His Orchestra – Sueno Flamenco, Stony Starr – Theme for Moongazers (Part 1)