This is what hi-fi was all about. It is seemless, quite enjoyable and rather magical. 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. 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 LP 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.
SIDE ONE
1. Granada
2. Begin the Beguine
3. Night and Day
4. Poinciana
5. Playfully
6. Adiós
SIDE TWO
1. That Old Black Magic
2. Nature Boy
3. Magic Is the Moonlight (Te quiero dijeste)
4. Speak Low
5. Ballerina
6. It Had to Be You
Produced by Johnnie Camacho
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
The period cover of Other Worlds, Other Sounds says it all...like the woman in red dancing on a moonscape, this 1958 LP 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.
SIDE ONE
1. Granada
2. Begin the Beguine
3. Night and Day
4. Poinciana
5. Playfully
6. Adiós
SIDE TWO
1. That Old Black Magic
2. Nature Boy
3. Magic Is the Moonlight (Te quiero dijeste)
4. Speak Low
5. Ballerina
6. It Had to Be You
Produced by Johnnie Camacho
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
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