Tamboo! - Les Baxter

 

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Tamboo!

Les Baxter, His Chorus and Orchestra

Capitol Records T655

1955

From the back cover: TAMBOO is the Haitian Creole word for drums... and to the ears of the outside world, TAMBOO seems the very keystone of native life everywhere. For all around the globe, drumbeats sound the provocative rhythms of dance, of ritual, even of communication. In the tropics, especially, drums set the tempo for exciting, colorful movement-and from the insistent, tantalizing percussive sounds of these exotic lands, Les Baxter has composed a thoroughly romantic album.

For Les Baxter really knows a thing or two about transporting people, musically, to far-off places. The spirit of the tropics, from Mozambique to Maracaibo, is in his music, with its array of unusual drums, mysterious bells, and strange wooden instruments-all enriched in his fanciful arrangements, with the lustrous sound of many strings. 

The final effect that he creates is more than simply African and Latin-American; it is grandiose, extravagant African and Latin-American. It is music for every romantic daydreamer, full of the rich lure of the tropics and its fascinating drum call – TAMBOO!

Simba

Oasis Of Dakhla

Maracaibo

Tehran

Pantan

Havana

Mozambique

Wotuka

Cuchibamba

Batumba

Rio

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