Easy To Love
Music Of Cole Porter
Ted Sommer and Bill Lavorgna
International Award Series AK-151
Here is a curious "Percussion" album. The "Percussion" trend was started by Enoch Light on his Command Label. Competing companies soon tried to copy the musical style along with the cover look of Light's jackets. If you think designing a minimalist cover using basic shapes and type faces is easy, you need to look at Command jackets. This jacket is lame by comparison.
The music is a curious blend of organ music, sometimes a bit jazzy and other times a bit exotic. The music seems thin at points, the engineering is lacking and some phrases don't appear to be well thought out. But, for me, that is part of the record's charm. And, thanks in part to the cheesy organ sound, the record never loses that weird light hearted 60s vibe.
I love it. The music is so wacky fun! It's like if you had to choose what one element didn't 'belong' it would be the organ. Everything else is fab!
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