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''Orienta'' is an album by The Markko Polo Adventurers released in 1959. The album was produced by Simon Rady, arranged and conducted by Gerald Fried and recorded in stereo in Hollywood, California. The album uses a combination of sound effects and Asian-inspired music to tell humorous vignettes. Its suggestive cover art features a photograph by Murray Laden. ==Overview== ''Orienta'' was the work of three music industry professionals with a long history of involvement in exotica and easy listening music. Producer Simon Rady (1909-1965) was coming off the huge success of ''The Music from Peter Gunn'', which spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on ''Billboard'' magazine's album chart, and won the inaugural Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959. Associate producer Michael H. Goldsen was one of the industry leaders in popularizing Hawaiian music and was later inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame )〕 The album was arranged and conducted by Gerald Fried, a Juilliard School-trained oboist who later went on to fame as a composer of music for motion pictures and television, including the 1960s series ''Star Trek'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', and ''Gilligan's Island'', and the 1970s miniseries ''Roots''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=spaceagepop.com )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=imdb.com )〕 ''Orienta'' was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of exotica music in the late 1950s. The genre's popularity peaked in 1959 as Martin Denny's 1957 album ''Exotica'' spent five weeks at No. 1 on ''Billboard'' magazine's album chart. The album's liner notes stated that the music "resembles the dreams of an imaginative person who has fallen asleep during a 'Dr. Fu Manchu' movie on television," with vignettes that "combine the sounds of the East with the wit of the West; the charm of the Orient with the humor of the Occident."〔 The album was recorded in stereo and was designed to appeal to the growing popularity of albums demonstrating the capabilities of the new technology. The liner notes indicate that the producers sought to offer "sounds and effects to gladden the tweeters and woofers of the most critical hi-fi addict."〔 While the album's producers noted that the album was "primarily a serious artistic effort,"〔 one later account noted that "Fried really intended the album to be something of a satire on the then-current craze for musical harem-haunting."〔 The album features a wide assortment of woodwind and rhythm instruments. The liner notes describe a recording studio filled with as many as 25 percussion instruments. Five of "the nation's top percussionists" were hired for the recording. The array of exotic instruments reportedly prompted one of the musicians to quip: "Why don't they hire that Oriental god with six or eight arms?"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orienta (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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