Ritual

Each selection subtly blends into the next. But each piece is unique, painting mindscapes of beautiful mesas, summer campfires in the forest, or sunset on the beach--depending how you look at it.

Fantastic for a Yoga Class or Listening at Home!.......1999-09-21

This is an awesome album - I am a Yoga Instructor - I heard it in another class, and ran up to find out the title of this CD. I play it often, and now my students run up to ask me the title! I listen to it at home - it has rhythm as well as a balanced sound. Fabulous!

Great music to accompany a massage........1999-07-07

Great music to accompany a massage

Ritual of the Savage/The Passions (With Bas Sheva)

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Martini Mood Music!
Ground zero album for exotica along with wordless vocal masterpiece that makes Pink Floyd's "Great Gig In The Sky" seem tame

Ritual of the Savage/The Passions (With Bas Sheva)
Les Baxter
Manufacturer: Rev-Ola
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FJHWAM
Release Date: 2006-07-03

Tracks:

Busy Port
Sophisticates Savage
Jungle River Boat
Jungle Flower
Barquita
Stone God
Quiet Village
Jungle Jalopy
Coronation
Love Dance
Kinkajou
Ritual
Bacoa
Despair
Ecstacy
Hate
Lust
Terror
Jealousy
Joy

Album Description

The amazing genius of LES BAXTER, MOR hitmaker, Jazz innovator, member of Mel Tormes innovative Mel-Tones, innovative and acclaimed A&R man and producer to everyone from Yma Sumac to a series of Biker movies.electronic music pioneer.and here, the Stravinskyesque grand master of EXOTICA in his acknowledged masterpiece album "Ritual Of The Savage"!! The inspiration for the entire EXOTICA genre all in one place, here coupled with Baxter's legendary and little heard tone poem "The Passions" where vocalist Bas Sheva goes absolutely nuts in a gamut of feelings, as Baxter's orchestra spirals to a crescendo of sound!!! The ORIGINATOR of Exotica, Mr. Les Baxter with his acclaimed career-defining album which also defined the whole EXOTICA genre, and his super-rare tone poem The Passions. Beautifully packaged by the master of outstandingly beautiful Photoshopping, Mr. Andrew Morten esq newly of the county of Zummerzet

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Martini Mood Music!.......2007-01-10

An excellent genre-creating album from the '50s before rock n roll came crashing. Really takes me back. Back where? How should I know? I was born in 1966! I was listening to Rubber Soul and Revolver in the womb! What I mean is this record conjures a mood as well or better than any of the exotica, ez, space-pop or swinger hep-cat sounds of the era. Martin Denny was my gateway to finding this great stuff...

Ground zero album for exotica along with wordless vocal masterpiece that makes Pink Floyd's "Great Gig In The Sky" seem tame.......2006-08-03

It is my hope that all of Les Baxter's exotica albums will soon have made it to CD, and this hope is becoming a bit more of a reality, thanks to the release of these two great pieces of impressionist mood music from the master himself.

Martin Denny may have had the minor Top 40 hit with 1959's "Quiet Village", but I still prefer the original, complete with lush orchestral strings and a myriad of percussion instruments, as is featured as easily the most famous and recognizable selection off of the first true exotica album, 1951's "Ritual of the Savages". Much of the album will remind anyone over 50 of the soundtracks of old movies set in tropical locales, such as "The African Queen", "Hurricane", "Drums of Tahiti", "King Solomon's Mines", or any number of Tarzan films.

The daughter of a wealthy and prominent Jewish family in Philadelphia, Beatrice Kurzman studied voice with the intent of honoring her family's wishes that she become a cantor. However, she veered off that course and into popular music, but adapted the stage name of Bas Sheva ("Bathsheba") to attempt to at least meet her family's wishes half-way. After performing in the Jewish resorts of the New York Catskill Mountain "Borscht Belt" in the early 1950's, in 1953, she recorded, in a brash, brassy and somewhat untraditional way, an album of traditional Jewish songs on Capitol Records, the long out-of-print "Soul Of A People".

Her powerful and unique voice caught the attention of fellow Capitol labelmate Baxter, who made her the voice of woman in his 1954 tone poem "The Passions". While I have always preferred Baxter's true exotica albums over this one, it still is a very interesting and unusual album. I love wordless vocals and this is something Les Baxter also uses to good effect on his mostly instrumental exotica releases. Sheva shows a true dynamic range on this album with "Lust" being an especially good cut, featuring Sheva at her most sensual, with sounds almost simulating orgasm. I would have liked to have seen the look on her parents' faces when they heard this album.

This and "Soul Of A People" are the only known recordings Bas Sheva ever made. She returned to live entertaining and died of diabetic shock while performing on a cruise ship off the coast of South Carolina in 1960. She was only 34.

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One of the 90s Best
Slinky, sexy followup. . . .
it's alright
Strong follow up!
Feel The Rhythm Of The Ritual

Ritual of Love
Karyn White
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1991-09-10

Tracks:

Romantic
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The Way I Feel About You
Hooked On You
Walkin' The Dog
Love That's Mine
How I Want You
One Heart
Tears Of Joy
Beside You
Do Unto Me
Hard To Say Goodbye

Customer Reviews:

One of the 90s Best.......2007-06-03

Karyn White didn't have an amazing voice (it was different and soulful), but she had personality and the ability to reach young and old fans with her music. Unlike artists of today, she didn't use her sexuality to sell records. Instead (along with her powerhouse producers) she crafted some of the best 90s R&B/Pop music of that era and this album reflects that.

I was only a pup when this album came out and it took me a while to dig this album because I expected Terry Lewis to give his wife a more R&B dance sound. However, I have grown to respect this album... Its a woman's album and her take on love.

Slinky, sexy followup. . . ........2007-03-23

Though "Ritual of Love," Karyn White's follow-up to her self-titled debut has a few tracks that are obvious filler, her slinky, sexy charm is still more than enough to satisfy. White's voice can be as slinky as Diana Ross' or Janet Jackson's purr, yet White's is much more thrilling and muscular, her vocal gymnastics obviously influenced by the likes of Babyface and Michael Jackson when he was in his prime. With equal aplomb, she easily handles crunching dance tunes ("Romantic" [the only hit here equal to or better than "The Way You Love Me," "Superwoman" or "Love Saw It" from her debut album, "Ritual of Love" and "Walking the Dog") and sultry Babyface-inspired ballads ("How I Want You," "One Heart"). "Ritual of Love" may not be letter perfect but it's still great enough to make you wish that Karyn White had not decided to abruptly end what was--and would surely have continued to be--a successful recording career.

it's alright.......2006-11-04

Don't get me wrong, I love karyn white's voice, but I was disappointed because this cd only had 3 songs I really liked.
It was au-right, I guess. I have mixed feelings. It wasn't great but it wasn't bad.
What ever happened to her, she just has a singing voice that soft and sensual. There aren't many these days,who have that ol'skool vibe going.

Strong follow up! .......2006-01-22

After Karyn White's successful '88 debut on Warner Bros., I was going "When is her next album coming out?" in 1990. But out she came in summer 1991 with Romantic, which led to this follow up. Strong follow up, but with another set of people to handle the album. White had Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produce most of this album, with just strong results and more emphasis on song structure this time. Romantic, Love That's Mine and the no-nonsense funk of Walk The Dog are my favorites. The ballads are nice too. Even one of my favorites was produced by Laney Stewart, perhaps one of the most underrated names I heard in the '90s because his songs were so good. Karyn's second album sold well, but not as big as the debut. But her vocal talents are nicely displayed in this effort to match with a sexier look on her album cover.

Feel The Rhythm Of The Ritual.......2005-02-12

Karyn White has got to be one of the the most underrated singers, it really amazes me that she hasn't come out to party today, she could fit right in with Destiny's Child, Blu Cantrell and Ashanti...but I guess all singers have their moment in the sun and Karyn was no exception. Karyn started out on jazz man Jeff Lorber's 1986 album "Facts Of Love" and then in 1988, she teamed with Babyface/L.A. Reid and came up with her self-titled debut, yielding the declaration of women anthem "Superwoman" and the New Jack dance vibe of "Secret Rendevous" as major hits.
With "Ritual Of Love" produced by musical geniuses Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Karyn picks up where she left off, offering a mixture of funky dance jams and slow mellow grooves.

The #1 hit "Romantic" kicks off with a bang and you know you want to turn the lights down and light a candle after you dance your pants off to this number. The shoulda-been second single "Ritual Of Love" gives us a little African drum vibe mixed with heavy percussion and keyboards, another dance your pants off song that will make you sweat (Though I hate Britney Spears, I think that her "Slave 4 U" video where she sweating it up with a bunch of sweaty dancers in a warehouse would have made an excellent video plot for this song, though this song is 10 years older...just me thinking...). The second single, "The Way I Feel About You" is a the most pop sounding on the whole album. Nice little keyboard work and a cheery but danceable vibe. "Walkin' The Dog" is comical but is actually the most creative (don't laugh) song off the entire CD and the video is hilarious (check out Launch.com to see what I mean). "Love That's Mine" is in the same vein as "TWIFAY" with it's jumpy keyboards but it has a more mellow vibe to it, Karyn even gives a little rap. "How I Want You" is sultry as "One Heart" shows the musical direction that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were going in on the tune(you can hear a resemblance to Boyz II Men's 1994 hit "On Bended Knee"). The sweet balladry of "Tears Of Joy" is followed by the gospel tinged, "Do Unto Me" which is reminsent of "Superwoman". "Ritual Of Love" holds up well but you do get some bad moments like "Beside You" but really Karyn really does give an excellent performance. The lyrics aren't very stimulating and the music can sometimes not gel together ("Hard To Say Goodbye") but it's a feel good album and a nice gem from the early 90's when around this time New Jack was on the outy-outs, though it sounds dated now, it was fresh when it first came out in 1991 and to me it's one the most refreshing CD's in my collection. Karyn White has a nice, suttle, but powerful voice and she comes off as a very talented performer, it's a shame that she hasn't made a comeback, she would be so appreiciated!

StarSprinkles Top 5
1. Romantic
2. The Way I Feel About You
3. Ritual Of Love
4. Love That's Mine
5. Walkin' The Dog-tie with-One Heart (sorry couldn't help it!)

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