Release date: 12-10-2006 (originally released in 1968)

2006 German Speaker Corners  limited edition 12-track LP pressed on 180gram VIRGIN VINYL- Another classic by Lalo Schifrin. This is an eclectic mix of music that feels like a score to a non-existent 1960s comedy thriller. There is even a track that smacks of the work Schifrin would do 4 years later on "Enter The Dragon-Presented in sealed picture sleeve

Tracks:
01. Secret Code
02. Dissolving
03. Machinations
04. Bride of the Wind
05. Life Insurance
06. How to Open at Will the Most Beautiful Window
07. Vaccinated Mushrooms
08. Two Petals, A Flower and a Young Girl
09. Wheat Germ Landscapes
10. The Gentle Earthquake 11. Hawks vs. Doves
11. Hawks Vs. Doves

Another classic by Lalo Schifrin that is not available on CD. This is an eclectic mix of music that feels like a score to a non-existent 1960s comedy thriller. There is even a track that smacks of the work Schifrin would do 4 years later on "Enter The Dragon". The music is great fun in a groovy-jazzy-hippy sort of way and I have come, over time, to really love this album. So here is the crispest version I can manage so enjoy!

Personnel:
Percussion - Emil Richards & Joe Porcaro
Guitar -  Bill Pitman
Bass - Ray Brown
Drums - Shelly Manne
Tabla - Milt Holland
Reeds - Bud Shank, Ronnie Lang & Sam Most

This record occupies a special place in Lalo Schifrin's multifarious production. The album's very title promises to reveal the whole Schifrin, this icon of Brazilian bossa, who departs from the broad path of Latin music but never fails to pour fresh water on the mills of his native country's tapping rhythms. Even the very first number, "Secret Code Synthesizer" is experimental: this is probably the first attempt to create two-and-a-half minutes of music out of the electronically produced sound of a flute and the click-click-click of Indian tabla drums. In "Vaccinated Mushrooms" Schifrin proves that he is just as capable of musical parody as Frank Zappa. Whoever manages to make the honky-tonk piano rock as it does with such provocative, glassy far-sightedness must truly have humor. "Keep Smiling" is the motto here.

Produced by Tom Mack (1968 Dot Records)
Composed & Conducted by Lalo Schifrin