Post #507002 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jan 25, 2010 11:41 PM

Nonono, not me, the Jab posted it, after a friend had given him the magazine. A real discovery, indeed!

About your heartfelt musings about the authenticity of the music, and the reviewer's understanding of it:

To me it is, just like with Tiki and Polynesian pop, all about what people back then were capable of producing as what they thought was an authentic representation of the culture. Not that they necessarily believed that it WAS the culture, but they felt good about creating a close enough representation of it, as an expression of their fascination with it.

It seems you are still judging it, even though you are aware of that, with all your intellectual and musical experience of today, which is far superior to most peoples level of awareness back then. I am not to saying they were dumb and ignorant, they actually were as open-minded and culturally educated as they possibly could have been --for the time. And to me, in some way, this lack of knowing, this innocence, is what makes Exotica ( AND Tiki ) so charming today.