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Martin Denny
Exotic Percussion
Jackpot Records - Cat No: JPR 116
- updated:2025-01-13
Before exotica-lounge master Martin Denny took off into outer space with the Moog, he was making music that used the sounds of Earth to lift us just slightly off the ground. Jackpot, who have been carefully working through his reissue campaign, drop three more early masterpieces simultaneously in 2024. This 1961 album, built around percussion as its central theme and shining with experimental ideas, gets its first-ever LP reissue.
Track List
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A1. My Tane (My Man)
2:40 -
A2. Cumana
2:18 -
A3. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
3:01 -
A4. Day Delight
2:31 -
A5. Moonlight On The Ganges
2:34 -
A6. Cherokee (Indian Love Song)
2:15 -
B1. Misirlou
2:38 -
B2. Anna
2:07 -
B3. Song Of The Bayou
3:35 -
B4. Moonlight And Shadows
2:56 -
B5. My Shawl
2:25 -
B6. The Girl Friend Of The Whirling Dervish
2:29

Xylophones, chimes and traditional jazz instruments are scattered alongside boo-bams, shamisen, manga harp, Burmese gongs and more, with a wide array of rhythms and timbres meticulously woven together — a record that pulls you deeper the more you listen. Highlights include "Moonlight On The Ganges" (sample2), made famous by Frank Sinatra and still heard today on the Jungle Cruise attraction at Disneyland, and "Misirlou" (sample3), the classic Greek song later made widely known by Dick Dale and the Black Eyed Peas. A favorite of Haruomi Hosono, of course, and still beloved and influential to this day. Sea glass colored vinyl. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)