Pagan Festival (An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra) is a 1959 exotica and easy-listening concept LP by composer, arranger, and conductor Dominic Frontiere with his orchestra, released on Columbia Records.
It blends jazz, pop, and cinematic orchestrations inspired by ancient Inca and Mayan themes.
Album Overview and Style
Released in 1959 on Columbia Records (catalog CL 1273 in mono).
Capitalized on the late-1950s "exotica" craze led by artists like Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman.
Features liner notes and song titles alluding to ancient Latin American civilizations, mythologies, and rituals (such as Incan and Mayan gods).
Combines varied instrumentation, mixing traditional orchestral strings and woodwinds with exotic percussion like congas and maracas.
Track List
Festival
House of Dawn (Paccari-Tampu)
Temple of Suicide (Ixtab)
Moon Goddess (Ixchel)
Time of Sunshine (Yaxkin)
Goddess of Love (X-Tabai)
House of Pleasure (Tampu-Anca)
The Harvest (Zax)
Corn Festival (Zabacil Than)
God of Seasons (Kukulkan)
Jaguar God (Balam)
Venus Girl (Ix-Koben)
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