Esquivel And His Orchestra Other Worlds Other Sounds

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• Esquivels Other Worlds, Other Sounds is a classic slice of late-50s space age pop, lounge-meets-orchestra music thats as much about stereo spectacle as it is about melody. Led by pianist/arranger Juan Garca Esquivel and his orchestra, the 1958 release takes familiar standards and transforms them with big band colours, Latin rhythms, quirky vocal punctuations and judicious use of stereo spread that was still new at the time. Its fun, playful and lush the kind of record that feels both retro and futuristic at once, and one of the go-to titles people recommend for sound-in-sound exploration on good systems.

  Musically it balances tongue-in-cheek arrangements with genuinely inventive orchestration; the piano and brass are front and centre but the colours and textures keep shifting, giving