Another journey through exotica filled skies by error101, the red baroness of dusty cabinets, old gems, vintage jazz, saudade and then straight into some latin party mood, not the cheesy latin party with the chicks from the latin dance class though! A real latin party in heaven with El Rey.

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If there’s one person I won’t tire composing similar music, it’s John Zorn. His 2008 title The Dreamers is out and it’s basically The Gift No.2 with a lot of great references to genres like exotica and surf with the help of Cyro Baptista’s mood setting percussions and Marc Ribot’s delicate guitar tone, this time [...]

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Here’s an astonishing reissue of exotic jazz from 1984. Still Around by the Rudy Smith Quartet is the first record Rudy Smith made under his own name after the Modern Sound Quartet. Now, if you’re wondering what steel pan music is, you should stop what you’re doing and watch the video mindboggling live video below. [...]

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Here’s #4 of our weekly radioshow, this time selected & mixed by error101. The tracklist is as follows :

modified toy orchestra - a grand occasion
messer chups - let’s ride a carousel
notkin - tanzania
gil trythall - polk salad annie
aloe blacc - busking
helmut eisel & band - devil’s food cake
raoul - miroir
martin denny - the girlfriend of [...]

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Welcome to the wooorlld of tomorrooww!! I wonder if it would be something like a Futurama episode if Matthew Herbert actually met Duke Ellington. Recently i stumbled upon both the 80 Drums exotica and the quite fine Marsalis version of “Caravan“, a Duke Ellington classic and probably one of the most covered songs from the [...]

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I know i had said earlier that the next music i reviewed would not be older than my father. I’m now going to eat those words with these pieces from Sonny Lester. Hey, can you blame me for getting a space age pop album named “How to bellydance for your husband”? I know, you would [...]

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