Ìxtahuele

The ‘50s style known as "exotica" -- post-war instrumental jazz-pop that offered a largely imaginary soundtrack to the islands off the South Seas -- was embraced only by collectors or ironists long before the 20th century came to a close. However, Ìxtahuele -- a most unusually sourced group of musicians -- has revived the spirit of the subgenre with an unusual body of work that proliferated in the 2010s and culminated in a truly unexpected release of historical proportions. Ìxtahuele hail from neither America nor Oceania, but Gothenburg, Sweden -- one of the country's largest...