Two of the most consistent figures of the French Library world-- either in collaboration or when working solo (and often under a variety of fake names)-- Nino Nardini and Roger Roger have created a great wealth of worthy music. Perhaps none more wonderful than Jungle Obsession, their homage to the motifs and atmospheres of their spiritual cousins from an earlier musical period, Exotica.
This album plays faithfully within the \"exotica\" idiom exemplified by the works of Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman, or Martin Denny (replete with animal calls, \"exotic\" vocal arrangements, and xylophonic percussion), but pushes a harder drum and bass sound, lush strings (and mellotrons and fuzz guitars that sound like lush strings), early-ish electronic instruments, and a trippier sensibility that occasionally edges beyond mystery into menace. It's a masterpiece of both Library recording and revisionist Exotica, a must have for all humans and tigresses with even the most burgeoning of Jungle Obsessions.
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