2022 reissue, "House Of Grass" colored version - It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album jacket for best results. Exotica! The soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden, packaged for mid-century, tiki torch-wielding armchair safariers. Be it mosquito-bitten torch singers, landlocked surf quartets, fad-chasing jazz combos, mad genius band leaders, D-list actors, or a middle aged loner programming bird calls into a Hammond, Exotica was always more concerned with what geography might sound like over who was conducting. Captured across three albums are 48 curious examples of the short-lived genre's reach, each summoning their own sonic visions of Shangri La, bringing their versions of the Pacific, Africa, and the Orient to the hinterlands of America. Technicolor Paradise is where one makes it, after all.
| Daiquiri Dirges |
| A1 | Chuck (Big Guitar) Ernest, The Satellite Band - Blue Oasis |
| A2 | The Sound Breakers - Marooned |
| A3 | The Wailers (2) - Driftwood |
| A4 | Lenny And The Thundertones - The Moon Of Manakoora |
| A5 | Biscaynes With Co-Encidentals - Midnight In Montevideo |
| A6 | Red Garrison And His Zodiacs - Chant Of The Jungle |
| A7 | The Palatons - Jungle Guitar |
| A8 | The Chayns - Live With The Moon |
| B1 | Bailey's Nervous Kats, James Mills (5) - Cobra |
| B2 | The Blazers - Sound Of Mecca |
| B3 | The Gems (11) - Slave Girl |
| B4 | Jerry & The Catalinas - The Arabian Knight |
| B5 | The Jaguars (31) - Night Walker |
| B6 | The Shelltones - Blue Castaway |
| B7 | The Blue Bells - Atlantis |
| B8 | Bill & Jean Bradway - Paradise Isle |
| Rhum Rhapsodies |
| C1 | The Melody Mates - Enchantment |
| C2 | Don Reed (7), The Voice Of Love - Nature Boy |
| C3 | Andre Brummer - Tumba |
| C4 | Darla Hood - Silent Island |
| C5 | Martha Raye, Phil Moore And His Orchestra - Lotus Land |
| C6 | Southern California Baha'i Choir - Nightingale Of Paradise |
| C7 | Carmen (51) - Isle Of Love |
| C8 | The Monzas - Forever Walks A Drifter |
| D1 | Akim (8) - Voodoo Drums |
| D2 | Don Sargent And The Buddies - Voodoo Kiss |
| D3 | Joan Joyce Trio - Captured |
| D4 | Pony Sherrell - Tobago |
| D5 | Jerry Warren & The Valids - Enchantress |
| D6 | The Centuries - Polynesian Paradise |
| D7 | The Potted Palm - My House Of Grass |
| D8 | The Castiles (2) - Enchantment |
| Mai Tai Mambos |
| E1 | Five Glow Tones - Quiet Village |
| E2 | Modesto Duran And Orchestra - Silent Island |
| E3 | Ross Anderson Chorus & Orchestra - Tam-bu Theme |
| E4 | Bobby Christian - Caravan |
| E5 | Bruce Norman Quintet - Arabian Rhythm |
| E6 | The Slaves (8) - Hari's Harem |
| E7 | Arnie And Chisé - Similou |
| E8 | The Three Bars, Nicky Roberts - Caribbean Cruise |
| F1 | Robert Drasnin - Chant Of The Moon |
| F2 | The Blue Jeans - Moon Mist |
| F3 | Artie Barsamian - The Enchanting Melody |
| F4 | Eddie Kochak, Hakki Obadia - Jazz In Port Said |
| F5 | Gene Sikora & The Irrationals - Tanganyika |
| F6 | Bobby Paris - Dark Continent |
| F7 | Chico Jose - Locura (Madness) |
| F8 | Clyde Derby - Lost Island |
