Exotica: Juan García Esquivel, Tak Shindo, Martin Denny, Orienta, Arthur Lyman, Yma Sumac, Les Baxter, Chaino, Eden ahbez, Combustible Edison, ... of the Xtabay, Sandy Warner, Quiet Village

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Juan García Esquivel, Tak Shindo, Martin Denny, Orienta, Arthur Lyman, Yma Sumac, Les Baxter, Chaino, Eden ahbez, Combustible Edison, Polynesian Fantasy, Korla Pandit, Choucoune, Voice of the Xtabay, Sandy Warner, Quiet Village, Bas Sheva, Gene Rains, Caravan, Exotica Volume II. Excerpt: Takeshi "Tak" Shindo (November 11, 1922 - April 17, 2002) was a Japanese-American musician, composer and arranger. He was one of the prominent artists in the exotica music genre during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Shindo also founded a dance band in 1947 and was a frequent lecturer and writer on Japanese music. He first gained prominence for his work on the 1957 motion picture "Sayonara," served as the musical director for the television series "Gunsmoke," and composed theme music for "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "Wagon Train." He is most remembered for the exotica albums he released from 1958 to 1962, including "Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo" (1958), "Brass and Bamboo" (1959) and "Accent on Bamboo" (1960). He also released several albums in Japan during the mid-1960s that blended American and Japanese musical traditions. In 1980, he made a documentary film, "Encounter with the Past," about the Manzanar relocation camp where he was relocated in 1942 as part of the Japanese American internment policy. Shindo was born in 1922 in Sacramento, California. He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1927. He enrolled at Los Angeles State College in 1941, but he was relocated to the Manzanar Relocation Center in early 1942 as part of the Japanese American internment policy that was adopted after the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan. Shindo spent more than two years at Manzanar. While at Manzanar, he worked as a reporter for the Manzanar Free Press and developed his interest in music. Music professor W....