An Exotic Love Ritual For Ochestra
Dominic Frontiere
Columbia CL 1273
1959
Pagan Festival is included, on Wikipedia" as one of the 13 "prominent albums of the exotica genre". It's lovely, but I have to note that none of Arthur Lyman or Korla Pandit's or a number of other artist's albums to be found on the list.
Due to the style of orchestration, this record sounds a bit more to me like a soundtrack.
The cover was hard to scan as this is an "Alcoa foil" jacket. The foil reflects light strangely. So you will find all kinds of weird reproductions. Foil print jobs required 5 colors on the press, one for white and then four process colors. In other words, this was an expensive jacket to print.
Dominic Frontiere worked on many TV and film projects, including The Outer Limits, Rat Patrol, The Immortal and Hang 'Em High.
He was also charged and convicted in a big time ticket scalping scheme in which he obtained 1980 Super Bowl Tickets from his wife and Los Angeles Rams Owner, Georgia Frontiere.
Frontiere worked on the film Color Of Night as recently as 1994. He lived a colorful life to say the least.
Interesting cover! I have seen this somewhere before....I'll look for a copy.
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