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Amazing electric grooves from synth innovator Bruce Haack – whose pioneering use of analog synths and vocoder vocals in the service of great, if far out songcraft was pretty much unrivaled in the 70s and into the early 80s – the period in which this excellent compilation on Stones Throw ...

Spacey, funky, and a great update of the older easy sound of the Mystic Moods! This album's one of their best – and it mixes breezy LA easy production with a cool funky electric sound, and lots of nice breaks and basslines! Part of the record might get a bit hippy-dippy, but there's some ...

Capitol 12" LP that features work from 2 earlier Yma Sumac 10" LPs – Voice of The Xtabay and Inca Taqui. Voice Of The Xtabay is one of her earliest Capitol albums, with classic arrangements by Les Baxter, of material that was written by Yma's Partner Moises Vivanco. Titles include ...

A sweet instrumental set from Paul Mauriat! El Condor Pasa is a warm batch of grooves from the early 70s – a record that's still very much in the best French-styled easy sound that made Mauriat huge on American charts for a bit a few years before! As with his previous records, this one has ...

Early work from Yma Sumac – with that moody mix of other worldly vocals and semi-Latin instrumentation that made her a popular one with the early exotic crowd. Yma runs up and down the vocal scale, while Moises Vivanco leads the band in a set of crashing dramatic orchestrations with a ...

A sweet little album from Laurindo Almeida and his "Bossa Nova All Stars" – not a group of Brazilian musicians, and instead a hip set of LA players who really help make the set sparkle! There's a bit more jazz here than on some of Laurindo's other Capitol records of the time – ...

Sweet 70s grooving from South America – the only album ever recorded by this great little group from Uruguay! The set was done at the end of the 70s, but it's got a style that recalls the best electric work from the US and UK at the start of the decade – sort of a blend of funky easy, ...

Groovy Latin tunes – and from Germany, of all places! Robert Delgado was one of the gods of German easy listening during the 60s – and he worked in a jazzy mode that had no lack of tight percussion, influenced by American Latin of the generation, and by many of the bossa sounds coming ...

Wild! Another beautiful release in the Easy Tempo series of lost Italian music from the late 60's and early 70's. This one's a haunting moody set of tracks that mix percussion, electric bass, organ, and a wordless female voice in a haunting soundscape of sexy tracks with a totally unique feel. ...

Excellent lost funky work from Italy! The Barigozzi Group were one of these obscure little combos that churned out tight funky tracks for bigger outfits – very much in the style of I Gres, Marc 4, or some of the other great Italian groups that are being discovered lately. Their strength was ...

Geoff Love galore – two instrumental albums from the 70s – back to back on a single CD! War Movie Themes features Love's recasting of famous themes from military films – including some classics from the 50s and 60s, given a slightly lighter reading here as a great device that ...

One of the rarest albums by Les Baxter – and one of the best! The record features an excellent batch of "space exotica" tracks, set amidst some very lively arrangements, all packaged in one of the greatest album covers of the 50s! Les' writing and leading are as excellent as ...

An excellent summation of the exotica sound of the 50s – that wonderful period when mood music started getting really interesting – thanks to an infusion of island-inspired sounds in the postwar years! The music here represents the pinnacle of 50s exotica – amazing records by ...

Instrumental versions of hits from two different singers! Hits Of Sinatra features full orchestrations from Robert Farnon on a host of material made big by Ol' Blue Eyes – including a fair bit of the Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen numbers that led off some of Sinatra's best albums for Capitol! ...

A pair of sweet easy albums from the UK scene of the 70s! First up is Eric Winstone Plays 007 – a batch of James Bond themes, as you'd guess from the title – but handled in a way that's a bit different than usual! Given the early 70s recording time of the record, the approach is ...

Si Zentner in two modes – back to back albums from the mid 60s! First up is the lovely Desafinado – a set that has the trombonist hitting a great big band take on bossa nova – one that's surprisingly great overall, with some rich jazz charts penned by Bob Florence, who really ...

A sweet late instrumental classic from the 60s glory years at A&M – and a record that's far different than some of the earlier work by the Baja Marimba Band! Sure, the group's still got plenty of their "fake" Mexican sound in place here – obviously they can't drop the ...

It's definitely a bossa nova world when Laurinda Almeida's around – given that the player first got the whole sound going in the 50s, then returned the favor in the 60s with some great albums like this for Capitol Records! The set's a bright blend of LA jazz and bossa rhythms – played ...

A groovy German treasure from the late 60s – a sublime little set we'd rank right up there with the legendary Vampyros Lesbos for pure musical genius! Despite the appearance of a group on the album's cover, the music's all made by a couple of studio cats – Horst Ackermann and Heribert ...

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A pre-exotica relic – cut just a year or two before bachelor pad music really broke big, and a very important album in helping get the whole thing started! The record's got a more serious feel than you might think – as pop classical conductor Morton Gould put together this mix of ...

Not as "electro" as you might expect from the title, but a pretty nice little record from Dick! The album has Hyman playing Baldwin electric piano in front of larger orchestrations – running through a suite of tracks that move from jazz to classic to "rock" type rhythms ...

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Fantastic! This is Yma Sumac's rock album from the early 70s – and it's got a wild sound that's totally different from any of her work at Capitol! The record includes lots of electric instrumentation, and Yma's voice moves from the exotic to the psychedelic, as she sings along with some ...

A weirdly great little record! At first glance, you might think that this album's just another version of the super-huge moog hit "Popcorn" – but it's a lot more than that! The group has sort of a sing-song funky feel – hard piano, some nice drums, and grooves that remind us ...

Bossa guitar, dreamy orchestrations, and a wonderful American take on the Brazilian sound of the 60s – served up with sparkling Capitol Records production in a set that's easily one of the greatest by guitarist Laurindo Almeida! Almeida's guitar is matched here with some lightly jazzy ...

Insane work from early electronic musician Bruce Haack! The album's one of a few he recorded for kids – and was done in collaboration with Esther Nelson – in a strange format that has Esther narrating a trip through space, with electronic effects by Bruce, and lots of little stops on ...

2 amazing 50s albums from the team of Ferrante & Teicher – easily some of their greatest and wildest work on record! First up is Soundproof, a record that has Ferrante & Teicher playing the piano like nobody else – save perhaps for John Cage! The duo do a heck of a lot of work ...

Breezy bossa nova – Hollywood 60s style! The album's one of the best cut for Capitol by guitarist Laurindo Almeida – and has a sweet groovy little style that features Laurindo's lovely guitar work over some lightly dancing small combo backings that include flute, harmonica, organ, ...

A sweet little album from Laurindo Almeida and his "Bossa Nova All Stars" – not a group of Brazilian musicians, and instead a hip set of LA players who really help make the set sparkle! There's a bit more jazz here than on some of Laurindo's other Capitol records of the time – ...

Mad electronics from the legendary Bruce Haack – easily one of the most unusual talents to ever pick up a moog! The set brings together numbers from a range of sources – Haack's classic Electric Lucifer album, and a host of his more obscure private recordings too – an amazing ...

A very groovy album by Laurindo Almeida – one with arrangements and production by Lex De Azevedo, who we have to assume is David Axelrod! The style of the album is very much in the spirit of Almeida's best 60s albums for Capitol – a mix of pop bossa and easy stylings, handled here with ...

Two funky groovers from Chaquito – aka John Gregory, a very groovy British arranger of the 70s! Spies & Dolls is a cool 70s update on the sort of album that came out often in the 60s – but instead of the usual James Bond themes, this one features a lot more funky action – ...

Two early classics from Horst Jankowski – back to back on a single CD! First up is Genius Of Jankowski – and the genius of Jankowski here is in the way that Horst manages to create this sweet little groove every time he hits the keys of the piano – often syncopating the rhythms a ...

The first-ever album from Henry Mancini – and a wonderfully spooky set! The style here is quite different than most of Hank's better-known film work and instrumental hits – as the record is very moody and laidback – cut with a slow-moving, dreamy sort of darkness that's really ...

A great mix of jazzy and exotic themes from the legendary Sonny Lester – an album that's recorded around the same time as his classic strip and belly dance sessions, but which we like a heck of a lot better than those albums! The groove here is very tight and focused – a big band, but ...

The work of Chopin, turned over to the godlike studio talents of a young Jack Nitzsche! The tunes here are all pulled from Chopin's original compositions, but they're reworked very strongly in a 60s LA studio mode – made shorter and given more focus on the main themes, and supported by full ...

A real classic from Jackie Gleason – and a record that's probably the most outward statement of his big reputation as a booze hound! The set's got all the sadness and melancholy you'd expect from the title – a wonderfully dreamy batch of instrumental tunes that are about as lush as ...

Two instrumental sets from Robert Farnon – back to back on a single CD! My Fair Lady is hipper than you might expect – thanks to work from jazz soloists Shake Keane on flugelhorn, Bob Burns on alto, and Don Lusher on trombone – all of whom really stretch out and open up the ...

Two different dance party sets from Werner Muller – both of them filled with surprising little numbers! The tunes are mostly ones that played big in the year listed in the title – songs that were international hits, and are recast by Muller in instrumental modes that often have a ...

The British Invasion, served up by 60s LA – as the hits of Lennon & McCartney are recast as groovy instrumentals through the studio talents of Jack Nitzsche! The cover promises "The Greatest Hits Of All Times – Arranged For The Greatest Dancing Of All Time" – and ...

Get set for another walk in the Black Forest – thanks to a pair of tinkling piano classics from Horst Jankowski! First up is My Fair Lady – Horst Jankowski's take on the famous show score, and one that's really recast nicely in his own image! The arrangements are completely fresh, and ...

A pair of sweet 70s sets from French arranger Paul Mauriat – both of them lesser-known than his late 60s hits! Forever & Ever has a warm, lush sort of feel – still the nice soundtrack-styled approach that you'd know from Mauriat's famous 60s material, but scored with full strings ...

Not as freewheeling as some of Raymond Scott's earlier work, but still quite nice – a set that features added strings in the mix, but used with a sound that's every bit as wild and dynamic as some of Scot's small combo recordings! A few of the tunes are familiar Scott classics, others are a ...

2 sweet instrumental sets from Paul Mauriat – back to back on a single CD! El Condor Pasa is a warm batch of grooves from the early 70s – a record that's still very much in the best French-styled easy sound that made Mauriat huge on American charts for a bit a few years before! As ...

Not as freewheeling as some of Raymond Scott's earlier work, but still quite nice – a set that features added strings in the mix, but used with a sound that's every bit as wild and dynamic as some of Scot's small combo recordings! A few of the tunes are familiar Scott classics, others are a ...

Not the painter, but a Euro easy maestro – heard here on two sets from the 70s! Presenting Botticelli is a Phase 4 classic from this Dutch arranger – loads of warm instrumentals done in a string-heavy style –but with a lean, mature approach that's a nice update from the Mantovani ...

Volume 2 of the best of Henry Mancini includes such classics as "The Pink Panther Theme", "The Brothers Go To Mother's", "Breakfast At Tiffany's", "A Shot In The Dark", and "It Had Better Be Tonight". ...