Ports of Pleasure
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| 📅 Released | 1957 | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Capitol | |||
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Ports of Pleasure is a 1957 exotica album by Les Baxter. It was released on the Capitol label (catalog no. T-868).[1]
AllMusic later gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half out of five stars. Reviewer Jason Ankeny wrote: "Baxter...calls forth fascinating impressions of the mysterious East -- those small dots on the globe where one's index finger lingers longest...Ports of Pleasure is, above all, a journey to the center of the mind."[2]
Website AmbientExotica found the album darker than Baxter's previous work, noting its "mysterious" air and feelings of "sadness".[3]
Track listing[edit]
Side 1
- "Tahiti: A Summer Night at Sea"
- "Hong Kong Cable Car"
- "The Gates of Annam"
- "Shanghai Rickshaw"
- "Tramp Steamer to Singapore"
- "Spice Islands Sea Birds"
Side 2
- "City of Veils"
- "Monkey Dance of Bali"
- "Harem Silks from Bombay"
- "Sidewalk Cafés of Saigon"
- "The Pearls of Ceylon"
- "Bangkok Cockfight"
References[edit]
- ↑ "Les Baxter – Ports of Pleasure". Discogs. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
- ↑ "Ports of Pleasure". AllMusic. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
- ↑ "Les Baxter Ports of Pleasure 1957". AmbientExotica. AmbientExotica. January 28, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2021. Unknown parameter
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