ROBERT DRASNIN VOODOO Rare Polynesia LP EXOTICA Lounge

$

159

This is a ROBERT DRASNIN “VOODOO” LP record, probably from the 1950s or 1960s Eames Era.

This record is in unbelievably GREAT condition!  There is a very minor scuff on side one, but that is about all I have to report.  Maybe it was only played once or twice, but I would have to say it is “near mint.” 

The name of the album is “VOODOO, Exotic Music From Polynesia And The Far East, arranged and conducted by Robert Drasnin.”

The label on the record states:  Full Frequency, 33 1/3 RPM Long Playing Microgroove High Fidelity.  It is number L1679.  The inner sleeve is from Mercury Records, so it probably wasn’t the original sleeve.  (This record is a Tops Record.)  The cardboard album cover is in very good to excellent condition, cover graphic is very nice, only two tiny pin holes at upper corners, but very good condition and very displayable, with a very nice photo of a leopard-skin bikini clad dancer, accompanied by drummers—fun!

The songs are:  Side One:  Chant of the Moon, Desiree, Hindara, Orinoco, Warm Night Wind, Mirage; Side Two:  Voodoo, Jardin de la Noche, Tambuku, You, Paradise, Enchantment.

From the back of the album cover:  “The romantic concept, “There’s magic in music,” has oft been spoken to account for the start of a love affair.  But there’s a very special magic in the music of this record—Voodoo magic, the necromancy and mysterious rites of the eerie Haitian cult that has stirred imagination for hundreds of years.  Brought to the isle of Haiti by slaves from the depths of an Africa then known to the world as “the dark continent,” Voodoo became symbolic of the mysteries hidden behind the seemingly impenetrable face of a land little understood to Western man in the middle ages.  Among Haitian slaves the cult flourished, making that Caribbean country the Voodoo stronghold.  The music of magic, above everything, is redolent with the caressing quality of the Caribbean.  It evokes half wakeful dreams of balmy evenings beneath softly swaying palms, gentle breezes, brushing the treetops from a calm indigo ocean and, over all, a pervading sense of mystery.  What brilliant 32-year-old composer Robert Drasnin has accomplished here is to capture the Voodoo myth in a shifting variety of musical ways.  Though the mood varies from track to track, underneath stirs the relentless throb of Voodoo drums, “at times barely suggested, sometimes dominating all else with their exotic rhythms…This album may represent your first sensuous brush with Voodoo.  After you’ve experienced it late of an evening, don’t be alarmed to find a tiny Haitian doll stuck with pins waiting in your bedroom…it was probably intended for someone else, anyway!”

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