Enchantment
Two things led me to pull out these albums by Martin Denny, the king of exotica -- first, it's apparently monsoon season up here, and secondly, "The Enchated Sea" popped up to trance-like effect toward the end of Days of Being Wild, a great Wong Kar-Wai movie that I Netflix'd the other day (and the source of the shot seen above). Denny would go to all lengths to give his lush arrangements a "jungle atmosphere," using exotic instrumentation and having his horn players perform bird calls and other sounds.
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