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While perusing the June '08 issue of Paste Magazine, I noticed an extremely positive review of the recently released Collectors' Choice Music Arthur Lyman reissues:
ARTHUR LYMAN
The Hi-Fi Reissues
Collectors' Choice
Hawaiian exotica legend's long aloha
Along with Martin Denny and Les Baxter, vibraphonist Arthur Lyman formed a triumvirate of kitsch from the late '50s through the late '60s. His 18 exotica albums on the Hi-Fi label - long out-of-print until recently being reissued en masse as nine twofers on Collectors' Choice - are the soundtrack to the Space Age Bachelor Pad's Polynesian suite. The usual tropical ingredients are all here: cool but swinging lite-jazz, polyrhythmic percussion, bird calls and monkey screeches. But Lyman displays an instrumental virtuosity and eclectic reach that Denny and Baxter lacked, and he covers everything from traditional Hawaiian music and Japanese folk songs to Dylan protest anthems and Broadway show tunes. The Bwana'A/Bahia twofer is the best example of pure exotica, but it's all immense, campy fun. So light the tiki torches, sip a Mai Tai, and lei into this sonic feast.
Andy Whitman
There's also an accompanying cover scan of Bwana'A/Bahia next to the review.
Perhaps such a positive notice in a magazine for music lovers (and not necessarily mainstream music lovers) will cause people to take notice of the exotica genre and compel Collectors' Choice Music to continue reissuing more of the music we love!
Hey it could happen!
Peace,
Peter
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