Les is the Most. A Les Baxter retrospective.
Monday, Mayhem 30 12:00pm — 4:00pm
Monday Mayhem 30 from noon to 4:P
Les is the Most
Hosted by Mitch LeMay and Gallium Arsenide
Les Baxter is the leading figure in the history of exotica. His work for Capitol Records in the 1950s
introduced most of the major movements in
exotica.
His 1950 album, "Music Out of the Moon," featured the theremin and was probably the best-selling theremin album of all time--and also founded the
"space" school of exotica. In 1951, he did the same for the "jungle" school of exotica with his landmark "Ritual of the Savage" LP, for which he wrote the
theme song of exotica: "Quiet Village." He crested the European cover wave with his only number one hit, "Poor People of Paris," in 1956. He produced
and wrote most of the first album by the four-octave Peruvian songstress, Yma Sumac, "Voice of the Xtabay".
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