Esquivel foi um músico, pianista e compositor para televisão e filmes, universalmente considerado como o rei do estilo musical dos anos 50 e 60 de pop instrumental a que hoje chamamos 'lounge music' ou 'easy listening'. A RCA contratou Esquivel em finais de 1957 para gravar em Hollywood em 1958. Foi-lhe concedido um tempo de cinco horas de estúdio para gravar Other Worlds, Other Sounds.

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• Corte por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio

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 chorus was often called upon to sing only nonsense syllables, most famously "zu-zu" and "pow!"

The cover of Other Worlds Other Sounds says it all...like the woman in red dancing on a moonscape, this 1958 long-player was all about fantasy. And 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 tech 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.

Essentially, this is an entire album of standards played in a beguine tempo with a percussive orchestra and a humming chorus, but — under Esquivel's knob-twiddling fingers — the disc turns into magic. 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, and — though it was merely a precursor to the composer's even stranger sonic experiments — it's also one of his most cohesive albums.

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
1. Granada
2. Begin The Beguine
3. Night And Day
4. Poinciana
5. Playfully
6. Adios

Lado B
1. That Old Black Magic
2. Nature Boy
3. Magic Is The Moonlight (Te quiero dijiste)
4. Speak Low
5. Ballerina
6. It Had To Be You