Space age pop
Parent categories: space age - pop music
Related: exotica - Moog synthesizer - lounge - Martin Denny - Serge Gainsbourg - Perry and Kingsley
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (1994) - Esquivel [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
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Surfing through some music sites I came across The Space Age Pop Page. Intrigued, I ventured in. The site, like the term "space age" itself, looks appropriately dated to the fifties and sixties, with a cartoony rocketship logo. The home page is simple, with five links describing the music. The links are nicely laid out and loaded with information about this unusual musical variant. While explaining music can sometimes be like painting in the dark, this site does a good job conveying the spirit of Space Age pop, likening it in one review to "...the kind of music George Jetson would listen to if he were a bachelor." Artists like Juan Garcia Esquivel, Herb Alpert, Ferrante and Teicher, and Prez Prado are some familiar names associated with the music, also called "exotica." Classical music was sometimes "hipped-up" with a rock backbeat or strange percussion, and World Music influences are also prominent. This site includes alphabetical biographies of artists, a guide to essential albums and songs, and Space Age Pop's link to television shows like Peter Gunn, Hawaiian Eye, and The Untouchables. This site's enthusiasm for Space Age Pop is infectious, and made me want to give it a listen--see if it doesn't do the same for you. --http://briefme.com/archive.php/article/16527 [Feb 2006]This music might be characterized most easily by what it isn't. It's rarely simple enough in structure and instrumentation to be called rock (and certainly retains enough of a sense of humor to be disqualified as art rock). It's not serious or straightforward enough to be called jazz. It's often too esoteric or extreme to be called pop. It's in some middle ground between all of these, which means it's populated with the outcasts from other well-established genres. As a result, Space Age Pop is full of brilliant, bizarre, and exciting sounds, which are particularly striking to ears accustomed to the stereotypes that populate the more familiar genres. --http://www.spaceagepop.com/whatis.htm
The author of Spaceagepop.com connects it with:
Exotica * Space Age Bachelor Pad Music * Jet Set Pop * The Now Sound * Cocktail Music * Incredibly Strange Music * Outsider Music
Space Age Pop on Wikipedia [2005]
Juan García Esquivel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Esquivel is sometimes called "The King of Space Age Pop." He was born in Tampico, Mexico, and his family moved to Mexico City in 1928. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Garcia_Esquivel - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Serge Gainsbourg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ye-ye pop, 80s pop, pop-art pop, prog pop, space-age pop, psychedelic pop, and erotic pop), disco, calypso, Africana, bossa nova and rock and roll. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Gainsbourg - 26k - Cached - Similar pages Hugo Montenegro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia During the mid-60's he started producing some of the most renowned works from the Space-age Pop era, featuring electronics and Rock in albums such as "Moog ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Montenegro - 11k - Cached - Similar pages Bavarian porn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... poppy acid-jazz soundtracks used in these films, which became popular among hipsters during the late 1990s, along with the resurgence of Space Age Pop. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_porn - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Buddy Merrill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Biography at Space Age Pop.com. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Buddy_Merrill". Views. Article · Discussion · Edit this page · History ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Merrill - 17k - Cached - Similar pages Cal Tjader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Soul Vibrations: The Cal Tjader Website · Cal Tjader bio and discography at AllMusic.com · Space Age Pop ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Tjader - 39k - Cached - Similar pages Disco Volante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... productions as it picks up inspirations from a wide variety of musical styles, including black metal, techno, 50's space age pop and Italian avantgarde. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Volante - 19k - Cached - Similar pages
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (1994) - Esquivel
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Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002) often known as simply Esquivel, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and film composer. He's known today mostly for creating unique lounge jazz music. Esquivel is sometimes called "The King of Space Age Pop."
He was born in Tampico, Mexico, and his family moved to Mexico City in 1928.
Esquivel's musical style is difficult to pin down precisely, as so little else sounds like him. There are many jazz-like elements, but no improvisation. His orchestration tends toward the very lush; he combines an orchestra, his own heavily-ornamented piano stylings, a mixed chorus, and a long list of novel instruments. The chorus was often called upon to sing only nonsense syllables, most famously "zu-zu" and "pow!" A survey of Esquivel's recordings reveals a fondness for glissandos, sometimes on a half-valved trumpet, sometimes on a kettle drum, but most frequently on pitched percussion instruments and slide guitars.
Esquivel's use of stereo recording is legendary, occasionally using two bands to recording simultaneously in separate studios. The song "Mucha Muchacha" makes particularly mind-bending use of the separation, with the chorus and brass rapidly alternating sides.
His concerts also featured elaborate light shows, years before effect like that became popular in live music.
Several compilation albums of Esquivel's music were issued starting with Space Age Bachelor Pad Music in 1994. The apparent success of these releases led to reissues of several of Esquivel's albums.
Kronos Quartet recorded a string quartet arrangement of Esquivel's song "Mini Skirt" for their album Nuevo. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Garc%C3%ADa_Esquivel [Feb 2006]
See also: space age pop - lounge
Incredibly Strange Music (Re/Search ; 14) (1992) - Vale, Andrea Juno
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Incredibly Strange Music (Re/Search ; 14) (1992) - Vale, Andrea Juno [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Introduced explicitly as the title of two 1993 volumes by Re/Search, an avant-garde publication based in San Francisco. As covered in these books, this label includes everything from Exotica as described above to sound effects, serious and comic and unintentionally comic spoken word, and stag party records, to Moog synthesizers, to outrageous foreign covers of U.S. pop hits. The two ISM volumes helped spark current interest in exotica, though, with interviews that brought the names of Martin Denny, Korla Pandit, and Yma Sumac to a new generation, and led to release of two CD compilations of music mentioned in the book. --http://www.spaceagepop.com/whatis.htm#ism [Feb 2006]
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