Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music - Esquivel [1994 blue vinyl, Bar None Records]
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1994 blue vinyl release on Bar None Records. Includes insert with liner notes. Record, Cover and insert and in excellent/near mint condition. Plays like new.

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Album Features Artist: Esquivel Format: LP Release Year: 1994 Record Label: Bar/None Records Genre: Easy Listening, Exotica
Track Listing
1. Sentimental Journey
2. Latin-Esque
3. Mucha Muchacha
4. Surfboard
5. Begin the Beguine
6. Lazy Bones
7. Whatchamacallit
8. Music Makers
9. Harlem Nocturne
10. Jalousie (Jealousy) :: Jealousy
11. Bye Bye Blues
12. Ba¡a
13. Who's Sorry Now?
14. Anna (El Negro Zum Bon)

Details Playing Time: 38 min. Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA) Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album Notes
Producers: Mariano Rivera Conde, Neely Plumb, Johnnie Camacho.Compilation producer: Irwin Chusid.Recorded between 1958 and 1967. Includes liner notes by Irwin Chusid.Personnel: Esquivel (piano).Liner Note Author: Irwin Chusid.Considering the continuing interest in exotica and lounge music, it's perhaps fittingly ironic that there are so few real masters of the genre: Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Juan Garcia Esquivel, the wildly garish Mexican arranger who thought nothing of mixing together harpsichord, jew's harp, steel guitar, Ray Coniff-like wordless chorus and other incongruous sounds. His state-of-the-art RCA Stereo Action recordings made near-visual use of panning, mirroring, and other stereo separation techniques that were novel for the time.As might be imagined, a little Esquivel goes a long way. Lucky for the casual listener, Incredibly Strange Music maven Irwin Chusid has compiled a relatively short but highly entertaining sampler of the maestro's best work. For underneath all the crazy ostentation lurked a fine musician, a pianist with a surprisingly light touch as "Latin-esque" and "Begin the Beguine" demonstrate. Still Esquivel was one of those classical trainees who, much like Liberace before him, threw all notions of good taste to the wind in the name of artistic (and commercial) freedom. Except that Esquivel had greater musical discernment than the flamboyant pianist ever did. All the listener has to do has to open his or her ears, wide.


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