Tahitian Percussion - The Tahitian Percussionists

Yarbon

Tahitian Percussion
The Tahitian Percussionists and Exotic Voices
AL-FI C 4075

Asiwanda

Elunde

You Couie

Sha Sha Calor

Fuyika

Yarbon

Ah De Vous

Ben Je Engay

Dedication 

Ayilongo

Persuasive Percussion Volumes 1,2,3,4

Persuasive Percussion Vol. 1

Persuasive Percussion Vol. 2

Persuasive Percussion Vol. 3

Persuasive Percussion Vol. 4

Enoch Light
Command Record
Persuasive Percussion Series

I've posted each album individually with a sample. You can link to those pages by clicking the links below the images.

Persuasive Percussion Volume 2 - Terry Synder

Out Of Nowhere

Persuasive Percussion
Volume 2
Terry Snyder and The All Stars
Produced By Enoch Light
Associate Producer: Julie Klages
Recording Chief: Robert Fine
Mastering: George Piros
Art Director: Charles E. Murphy
Cover Art: Barbara Jean Brown
Command Records RS 808SD
1959

From the inside cover (book-fold): Persuasive Percussion, volume 2 is the first of these further explorations, a set in which both the performing musicians and arranger (Lew) Davies move with greater knowledge, greater confidence and greater understanding of the almost limitless potential of this exciting new and different approach to music.

Terry Synder assembled three different groups to play these selections. Group One is a large orchestra with full reed, brass and rhythm sections as well as three percussionists (Synder; that fabulous expert in Latin American drumming, Willie Rodriquez; and the versatile Artie Marotti). Group Two uses only a single saxophone, trumpet and trombone plus a rhythm section and, again, three drummers – Synder, Marotti and, in place of Rodriquez, the all-but-legendary jazz drummer, Don Lamond. Group Three is built around a four man percussion section (Synder, Rodriquez, Ted Sommer and Doug Allen) with an expanded rhythm section (two guitars, accordion, bass and piano) and a single saxophone.

Blue Is the Night
Blue Tango
Miami Beach Rhumba
Yours Is My Heart Alone
In A Persian Market
Mambo Jambo
Dearly Beloved
Lu Cucaracha
Rocka Bongto Boogie
Lady Of Spain
Out Of Nowhere
Brazil

Yellow Bird - Arthur Lyman

Bamboo Bamboo

Yellow Bird
Arthur Lyman

Produced by Richard Vaughn

A&R Direction: Gary Brown

Recording Supervisor: Richard Vaughn

Cover Design: George Lieberman
HIFI RECORDS, INC - Life Series L-1004
1961

The first copy of this album that I blogged came with a yellow disc label. This copy features a red-colored disk label. The red disc came inside of a book-fold, rather than a single disc jacket.

Apparently, HIFI was sold to Everest Records around 1965 and, as a result, the Life Series Label was changed to yellow.

From the back cover: The name Arthur Lyman symbolizes the exotic percussion era. There have been other albums by the same title but none as apropos of the real spirit of exoticism.

Arthur and his group have started more startling sounds than can be remembered. This can be readily believed from the array of instruments played by each of the group.

The exotic percussive sounds of Arthur Lyman recorded in Henry J. Kaiser's Aluminum Dome, outside of the Hawaiian Village Hotel in Honolulu contrast the native and the modern. The group, their instruments of sound, and their music, are native, pulsatingly primitive, often eerie. The Aluminum Dome is unmistakably modern, the product of 20th century construction genius.

Arthur Lyman plays vibes, marimba and percussion of all kinds, having learned from his Hawaiian father since age 6. John Kramer plays bass, ukulele, guitar, flute, clarinet and percussions. Alan Soares is pianist, plays celeste, guitar and percussions. Harold Chang is a percussion virtuoso, and plays xylophone. The bird sounds heard are from actual birds, with some imitative bird calls by Lyman and Kramer. Arthur Lyman's group entertains enthusiastic listeners in the Shell Bar at the Hawaiian Village Hotel where they appear nightly.

Included in the astounding array of percussion heard are congas, bongos, timbale, cocktail drums, boobams, cowbell, ass's jaw, conch shell and guido, as well as the more ordinary percussions, such as tambourine, snare drums, wood blocks, cymbals, Chinese gong and sleigh bells.

Kaiser's Aluminum Dome is a half sphere, seating about 1500 persons, is used for live entertainment and movie showings. Its ingenious simplicity of structural design and ideal sound from suggest its wider use for low cost auditoriums of pleasing space age appearance. We chose this place for our recording because the half sphere shape has no "peaks" and allows the pleasing "easy" sound reproduction with natural room acoustical reverberation.  As you listen you will hear the unique effects produced by moving percussion, giving a certain sound perspective which intrigues.

Havah Nagilah

Yellow Bird

Ravel's Bolero

Autumn Leaves

Arrive Derce Roma

Sweet And Lovely

Bamboo Bamboo

Andalusia

Adventures In Paradise

Granada

September Song

John Herny

Guatemalan Marimbas

La Calle Del Sol

Guatemalan Marimbas
Maderas De Mi Terra Orchestra Of Guatemala City 

Directed By Higinio Ovalle Bethancourt
Capitol Records T10170
1958

From the back cover: For many years, with the enthusiastic Higinio Ovalle Bethancourt as its talented leader, the combo has proudly served as "house band" for the Guatemalan president. It regularly presents pop concerts, and has been filmed in numerous travelogues for countless television and motion pictures audiences.

The Capitol presentation was recorded and produced in the attractive capital city by J. H. Flickinger, who frequently visits Guatemala. Mr. Flickinger was able to obtain the spirited music of the Maderas de Mi Tierra (Wood Of My Land) on both monaural and stereo tape. There is nothing quite like it available on records today in either the U.S.A. or Canada.

Cuqui

Sonia Elizabeth

Un Misterio

La Calle Del Sol

Flor De Mayo

Olga

Tato Pano

Panajachel

Isabel

Ishtia Quezalteca

Nuestras Alas Sobre

El Mundo

Xocomil