Sold Date: November 21, 2018
Start Date: November 19, 2017
Final Price: $30.35 (USD)
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Features:
• 180g Pure Virgin Vinyl
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Specially Remastered For This LP
• Made in the U.S.A.

Selections:
Side 1:
1. Granada
2. Begin The Beguine
3. Night And Day
4. Poinciana
5. Playfully
6. Adios
Side 2:
1. That Old Black Magic
2. Nature Boy
3. Magic Is The Moonlight (Te quiero dijiste)
4. Speak Low
5. Ballerina
6. It Had To Be You
Numbered, Limited Edition 180g Pure Virgin Vinyl!
Specially Remastered For This LP!

"The King of Space Age Pop...Esquivel's use of stereo recording is legendary."

Esquivel was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films and widely considered the king of a style of late 1950s-early 1960s quirky instrumental pop known today as lounge music. RCA contracted with Esquivel in late 1957 and brought him to record in Hollywood in early 1958. He was given five hours of studio time to record the album "Other Worlds, Other Sounds."

His orchestration tended toward the very lush, employing novel instrumental combinations, such as Chinese bells, mariachi bands, whistling, and numerous percussion instruments, blended with orchestra, mixed chorus, and his own heavily-ornamented piano style. The chorus was called upon to sing only nonsense syllables, most famously "zu-zu" and "pow!"

The period cover of "Other Worlds, Other Sounds" says it all...like the woman in red dancing on a moonscape, this 1958 long-player was all about fantasy. And Esquivel, wasn't afraid to fantasize about his instrumentation nor the new audio sound known as "stereophonic or Hi Fi." At the time Esquivel was using this new tech to its fullest by arranging the music in a unique manner as well as considering right channel-left channel. Voices ring back and forth between speakers, horns explode out of nowhere, and piano sounds cascade out of the stereo. This is what hi-fi was all about. It is seamless, quite enjoyable and rather magical.