AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Audio Fidelity - AFZLP262 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl -  Pressed at QRP

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio - Numbered Limited Edition

Other Worlds Other Sounds may be the best known Esquivel album because of its sensational jacket art portraying a red-caped woman prancing across a green planetary landscape. Its real significance is as the moment where Esquivel takes control of his production and develops his signature sound. The chorus (the Randy Van Horne Singers) begins the "zu zu zu" nonsense beloved by Esquivel fans, and the playfulness with stereophonic separation begins here. But the material is not his best. "Ballerina" and "Night and Day" are cheesy, while most of the album seem like slow song outtakes from To Love Again. It is a different mood, one that never really hits its stride until the closing track: the astounding arrangement of "It Had to Be You." This is the promise of the future.

Esquivel is widely considered the king of a style of late 1950s early 1960s instrumental pop known today as lounge music.  His orchestration tended toward the very lush, employing novel instrumental combinations such as Chinese bells, mariachi bands, whistling, and numerous percussion instruments blended with orchestra, mixed chorus, and his own heavily ornamented piano style.
 
"The King of Space Age Pop...Esquivel's use of stereo recording is legendary."
 
The period cover of "Other Worlds, Other Sounds" says it all.  Like the woman in red dancing on a moonscape, this 1958 LP was all about fantasy.  Esquivel wasn't afraid to fantasize about his instrumentation nor the new audio sound known as "stereophonic or Hi Fi".  At the time, Esquivel was using this new technique to its fullest by arranging the music in a unique manner as well as considering right channel-left channel.  Voices ring back and forth between speakers, horns explode out of nowhere and piano sounds cascade out of the stereo.  This is what hi-fi was all about.  It is seamless, quite enjoyable and rather magical.
 
We have been receiving a tremendous amount of interest from reviewers and tastemakers on "Other Worlds, Other Sounds".   Esquivel is back.  

SIDE ONE:
    1. Granada
    2. Begin the Beguine
    3. Night and Day
    4. Poinciana
    5. Playfully
    6. Adiós
    
SIDE TWO:
    1. That Old Black Magic
    2. Nature Boy
    3. Magic Is the Moonlight (Te quiero dijeste)
    4. Speak Low
    5. Ballerina
    6. It Had to Be You