Les Baxter - 'Que Mango' green coloured vinyl LP.

It’s 1970, and famed Exotica composer Les Baxter is tempted back into the studio to record an album that marks his return to the genre that defined his fame.

The resulting release, Que Mango!, is an album that perfectly captures the exotic spirit of the 50’s and yet enhances that spirit with small sparkling glints of the 60’s Surf movement, and the 70’s Funk rising. Now considered something of a ‘lost classic’ of Baxter’s work, the album finally gets a deserved re-issue for RSD 2022

Much had happened in-between Baxter’s iconic Ritual Of The Savage LP from 1951 and Que Mango!, he was a much in demand film composer during the 1960s and the skills that he had honed in the intervening years allowed Baxter to make a triumphant return to the Exotica style and produce an album so colourful and vivid that it would have blasted everything away, had it been released in the late 50’s.

This release is remastered from the original tapes, is presented on green coloured vinyl.

Tracklisting -

A1. Que Mango!

A2. Tropicando

A3. On A Warm Night

A4. Flight In The Andes

A5. Felicia, My Love

A6. Affair In Arruba

B1. Jungle Montuno

B2. Soolaimon

B3. Boca Chica

B4. Come Back To Paradise

B5. Night In Buenos Aires

B6. Morning On The Meadow