Released in America under the name of "Elsa Popping & Her Pixieland Band" – the record is actually stunning collaboration between French orchestra leader Andre Popp and sound effects wizard Pierre Fatosme. The sound is wild and swinging, with a feel that's similar to Esquivel, but with a lot weirder effects, and a little bit less music-based sound overall. Popp cares less about swinging than Esquivel, and he's much freer with his music – as there's moments on here that sound like avant garde chamber pieces, which then swing into tight little bits with cool sounds made by editing and playing with tape. The album's wonderful all the way through – with very high quality material that makes a lot of the other cheaper lounge releases sound hollow!
Posing as ‘Elsa Popping and her Pixieland Band‘ Andre Popp and Pierre Fatosme utilised early splicing and multi-tracking techniques which were pretty breakthrough at the time. The music is essentially polka but the compositions are schizophrenic and jerky, with strange vocal samples, quirky arrangements and surprising instrumental additions.
Some vocal parts were sung backwards, and then reversed. An orchestral sneeze is used at one point. Popp and Fatosme were thinking well outside the box, and a very odd polka album emerges as a result.
1. Peries De Cristal
2. Java
3. La Paloma
4. Beer Barrel Polka
5. La Java Du Diable
6. Jalousie
1. La Polka Du Roi
2. Java Des Bombes Atomique
3. Adios Muchachos
4. La Polka Du Colonel
5. La Java Martienne
6. La Cumpasita
2. Java.
😊 !
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