Martin Denny
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Martin Denny’s breakthrough album, Exotica, Denny described the music his combo plays as “window dressing, a background”. It is the perfect complement to the exotic setting of Hawaii. “A lot of what I’m doing”, he stated in Incredibly Strange Music Volume 1, “is just window dressing familiar tunes. I can take a tune like “Flamingo” and give it a tropical feel, in my style. In my arrangement of a Japanese farewell song, “Sayonara”, I include a Japanese three stringed instrument, the shamisen. We distinguished each song by a different ethnic instrument, usually on top of a semi-jazz or Latin beat. Even though it remained familiar, each song would take on a strange, exotic character.” Denny built a collection of strange and exotic instruments with the help of several airline friends. They would bring Denny back these instruments and he would build arrangements around them. His music was a combination of ethnic styles: South Pacific, the Orient and Latin rhythms. It is the music a lot of people believed came from the islands: a musical fantasy created by Denny.
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Song of the Bayou
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La Pampa Y La Puna
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