Track Listing:
- “Chattanooga Choo Choo” 2:49
- “Hurricane Dorothy” 5:46
- “Silk Road” (絹街道 Kinukaidō) 3:32
- “Tropical Night” (熱帯夜 Nettaiya) 4:55
- “Peking Duck” (北京DUCK Pekin Duck) 2:36
- “Drifting Chronicle” (漂流記 Hyōryūki) 3:08
- “Honey Moon” 2:37
- “Three o’Clock Lullaby” (三時の子守唄 Sanji no Komori Uta) 2:31
- “Three o’Clock Lullaby” (三時の子守唄 Sanji no Komori Uta) (instrumental) 2:26
- “Drifting Chronicle” (漂流記 Hyōryūki) (instrumental) 4:02
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Liner, Listening & Album Notes:
Part of Haruomi Hosono’s mid-1970s “Exotica Trilogy” (along with “Bon Voyage co,” in 1976, and “Paraiso,” in 1978). Part homage; part psychedelic off-shoot; part parody.
Hosono asks that the exotic dream continue, but with himself as both spectator and participant. He sees the exotica phenomenon for what it is — silly and patronizing — but adores it and revels in it … If you think too much about how the parody is eating its own tail, that this is “the Japanese way of exoticising American exoticism,” it’s dizzying.
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