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Martin Denny (April 10, 1911 - March 2, 2005) was an American musician. He was universally known as the founder and reigning king of exotica music, a type of big band music with Latin rhythms and overtones of Pacific Ocean culture that is largely scorned by critics but was extremely popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
Exotica music
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.
Exotica music
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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Exotic Night
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Exotica
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Song of the Bayou
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The Enchanted Sea
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Shoutbox
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feedyourmind- wrote:
Highly recommended. His remakes of classics are really good. I'm loving the Chopin stuff especially.
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dmuchawiec wrote:
zajebisty kolo!
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zapatosgrandes wrote:
aqui me quedo!
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AxemRangers wrote:
weird
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MegatonShot wrote:
Wow. Interesting stuff.
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Meta-pher wrote:
rrrrrrrhhhrrrrhhh
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AideeCristinaC wrote:
clap clap clap !!!! Imperador !!!
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soulsauce wrote:
mai tai anyone
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Vitalic9999 wrote:
Yeaaa
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ilikedginger wrote:
Sexy
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mf1171 wrote:
this makes me really want a cocktail
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bachrodi wrote:
oh god! growing up in florida, this was the music of my pre-teen years (dont ask HOW)! so many nights driving around listening to him. this, surk rock, and electronica were my comming of age soundtrack!
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erizeitz wrote:
Yesssssssssss.
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BackwardsBoy wrote:
mmmmmmmm
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Gyron5 wrote:
Pure class... TTTTT
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mantooth wrote:
March Of The Siamese Children is so sinister sounding for exotica but I love it.
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crossmatch wrote:
irgendwie - gewöhnungsbedürftig...?!
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greentiki wrote:
The man on the left is Duke Kahanamoku, legendary Hawaiian olympic swimmer and surfer.
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zackgress wrote:
so which one is Martin Denny in the picture?
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swampnik wrote:
What more could a bongo/kalimba man ask for!
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