Track Listing

1. Taboo Tu
2. Ebb Tide
3. Babalik Ka Rin
4. Sakura
5. Moon of Manakoora
6. Jungle Fantasy
7. Love Dance
8. Return to Paradise
9. Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
10. Mangwani M'Pulele
11. Beautiful Kahana
12. Koni Au Ika Wai

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #174436 in Music
• Released on: 1998-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
label: FESTIVAL release date: 18 May 1998

From the Label
TABOO 2, the 1958 follow up to Lyman's multi-million selling release TABOO, delivers the vibe-drenched cocktail music that hipsters and Lyman fans line up for outside of record shops. The mood is all exotica - tracks like "Jungle Fantasy," "Return to Paradise" and "Koni Au I Ka Wai" will transport the hifi listener to places far off, steamy and magical. The light, airy chimes of Lyman's vibraphone, an instrument similar to a marimba or xylophone, with metal bars and rotating discs that produce a vibrato, are the basis of his unique and tropical music and are complemented by four-mallet vibes, guitar and percussion. Joining Lyman are band members John Kramer, Alan Soares and Harold Chang. With the ukulele, flute, and glockenspiel rounding out the sound, all that's needed is a grass skirt and a lei.

Customer Reviews

Mello Tiki Lounge Music
The CD is good mellow atmosphere music that makes you feel lke your on the islands in a jungle tiki lounge, it is not that brassy intrusive sound like Martin Denny's music. You even have jungle sounds mixed in to add to the atmosphere.

Great exotica music
Someone once wrote that Arthur Lyman never made a bad LP... and they were right. Everything he did was done from the heart and was just plain "good stuff". On this album in particular, give a listen to Taboo Tu (which he & his pianist wrote when they discovered they needed another cut to fill the session). Good stuff! Beautiful Kahana and Moon of Manakoora take you to paradise in a heartbeat. And his rendition of Ebb Tide is fabulous. Arthur Lyman was the King of Exotica!!

This should probably be...
...the sixth or seventh exotica record you get. That's okay, but start with the classics, then graduate to this. As far as Lyman goes, make sure you get the first volume of Taboo first -- it's one of the touchstones of the genre. Prior to this, you need:
Denny:
Quiet Village
Exotica
Hypnotique
Afrodesia
Baxter:
Quiet Village
Ports of Paradise
Eden Ahbez:
Eden's Island