Post #505389 by Jeff Central on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 6:49 AM

On 2010-01-18 16:47, thejab wrote:

On 2010-01-18 11:20, JOHN-O wrote:

The "omissions" here are interesting.

Also no Yma, but maybe by this time she was being associated with other musical genres. Or was she grouped into Exotica afterward during the revival period?

I wasn't too surprised that Robert Drasnin wasn't mentioned (there are probably others who released relatively obscure exotica that also weren't mentioned) but I was very surprised that Yma Sumac was not included, as her records were very popular (at least it seems so because they've been fairly easy to find in thrift stores) and Les Baxter was involved.

I think you may be right John-O, perhaps she was considered more in the Latin genre.

Yeah, I think the article was written a little too early to include the Robert Drasnin "Voodoo" album. Plus it was pretty obscure as well selling mostly through grocery stores and discount chains.

Yma Sumac, I don't think was ever considered Exotica back in the day. Exotica was still a germinating seedling waiting to blossom in the early 1950's.

I think she was considered more of an oddity at the time than anything else.

Cheers and Mahalo,
Jeff