Album Title: Lua-O-Milo
Artist(s): Skip Heller
Year: 2009
Genre(s)/Style(s): Exotica, Jazz/Easy Listening
Track Listing:
- The Collector – 2:14
- Mona Is Typing – 2:23
- Watch Us Burn – 3:06
- Lonely – 3:20
- King Carla – 2:58
- Hurricane Apartment – 2:22
- Alice Through A Twilight Zone Episode – 2:26
- El Tiradito – 2:16
- Q – 4:11
- Tomorrow The Green Grass (demo) – 2:09
- Hand To Eye (demo) – 4:00
- Snowdrift (demo) – 4:03
- Les & Plas’s Excellent Adventure (demo) – 2:20
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Liner, Listening & Album Notes:
Skip Heller is the true heir-apparent of exotica, having been mentored by legends Les Baxter and Robert Drasnin and his work with Yma Sumac, Korla Pandit, and many others. His work as a film and TV composer includes stints with Dexter’s Laboratory, The Flintstones, The Bernie Mac Show, and several Disney TV programs. “Lua-O-Milo”(Hawaiian for “isle of darkness”) is the first time Heller has gone all-out exotic for an entire disc, and what a voyage it is, a sort of tiki noir tribute to Baxter and Drasnin, but with touches of everything from film noir to Wall of Voodoo. Featuring a diverse cast of musicians including Robert Drasnin and X drummer DJ Bonebrake, “Lua-O-Milo” is likely the most significant exotica disc by a new artist since the genre’s Kennedy-era heyday.
Features cover art by Canadian pop-surrealist artist Heather Watts.
– from the album’s liner notes on Dionysus’ Records
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