Les Baxter - Academy Award Winners - Soul of the Drums

Freshly ripped at 320kps by yours truly here's a truly odd coupling of one of Les' best exotica albums and one of his very good 'straight' recordings.

Les' didn't make many albums for Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records so maybe that's why these two ended up on the same CD.

Anyway go to the Baxter blog for this and other goodies.

Warren Barker - William Holden presents a Musical Touch of Faraway Places

A fine exotica album from 1959 and its a request. One of the longest titles I can remember for a lounge album and Holden seems to be there to lend his name and likeness to the project. Wonder if it helped sales any?

The album certainly doesn't need any help its very good indeed.

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Ennio Morricone - Classic Italian Soundtracks

I uploaded the first CD of this important retrospective of Morricone's work ages ago. I've decided to post this first and depending on the reaction I will upload CD 2.

Superbly recorded I picked this up still shrink wrapped in a local op shop. I've digitised it at 320kps so the quality is excellent but its quite a large file so its in two parts.

If you like Morricone's work and want to extend your collection past the Leone stuff have a listen and let me know if you want me to upload the second CD.

Track list for both CDs in the comments.

Part 1 Part 2 You might need this to join the parts Link