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Lounge Psychedelique (The Best of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022)

Two-Piers

Compilations

LP BN8LPX

£37.99 Ships on 11 Sep

Tracklist

1 Leonard Nimoy - Music To Watch Girls Go By

2 Martin Denny - The Enchanted Isle

3 Yma Sumac - Gopher

4 The Bongolian - B Boy Toga Party

5 Los Bitchos - The Link Is About To Die

6 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)

7 Michael Giacchino & Nouvelle Modernica Orchestra - Sidereal Day: 3 (Instrumental)

8 Mel Torme - Sunshine Superman

9 Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 - Mais Que Nada

10 Lalo Schifrin - Lalo’s Bossa Nova

11 Quincy Jones - Black Orpheus (Manha De Carnaval)

12 Les Baxter & 101 Strings Orchestra - Tropicando

13 Pizzicato Five - Track 13

14 Alain Goraguer - Les Hommes - La Grande Co-Existence

15 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

16 Mort Garson & The Lords Of Percussion - Geisha Girl

17 Arthur Lyman - Quiet Village

18 Les Baxter - Voodoo Dreams/Voodoo

19 Cal Tjader - The Lady Is A Tramp

20 Martin Denny - The Encchanted Sea

21 Ixtahuele - Mareld 2021

22 Keith Mansfield - Morning Broadway

23 Mel Torme - Comin’ Home Baby

24 Dave Pike - Sweet Tater Pie

25 Jack Trombey - Underlay No 3

26 Don Sebesky - Guru-Vin

27 Keith Mansfield - Beat Me Till I’m Blue

28 Brian Bennett & Keith Mansfield - Mermaid

29 Sheila - Bang Bang

Aptly named Brighton label Two-Piers dig deep into mid-century exotica and its long tail with Lounge Psychedelique, a double LP first released in 2023, compiled by their resident selectors Spencer Hickman and Mark McQuillan. Third entry in their Psychedelique series, it pulls a line from 50s studio exotica through soundtrack jazz and into present-day revivalists, checking Martin Denny, Yma Sumac and Les Baxter, then later turns from playfully christened sound selectees The Bongolian, Los Bitchos and Ixtahuele. Leonard Nimoy's 'Music To Watch Space Girls By' sets a firstly playful tone, before Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones and Mort Garson lend orchestral/library weight. Sequencing leans on contrast, as bachelor pad kitsch rubs agsaint sharper modern edits, mapping a style revived in waves.