Stanley Wilson 
"Pagan Love" 
Exotic Instrumentals

Side One: 1/ The Proposal (Bali)
2/ The Sing-Sing (Papua)
3/ Music for a Bath (Ceylon)
4/ The South Seas Can-Can (Trobriand Islands)
5/ Zulu Love Magic (Zululand)
6/ The Land Divers (New Hebrides)

Side Two: 1/ Abduction of the Bride (Bali)
2/ Kandy Wedding (Ceylon)
3/ Pinchak Knife Fight (Malaya)
4/ Ritual of the Fertility Tree (India)
5/ Grass Skirt Proposal (New Guinea)
6/ Turkana Love Dance (Kenya)

One of the most colorful and important facts of Pagan Life is the
Courtship Ritual. But while the idea of Ritual is common to all
primitive societies, pagan love rites run a startling gamut. From the
 death defying land diving of the New Hebrides through the perilous
 ballet of the Malayan Pinchak knife fight to the innocent witchcraft
 of Zulu love magic. Composer and conductor Stanley Wilson here 
artfully weaves these varied threads of aboriginal amour into richly
colored music alive with brilliant and impressive sounds. Blending
western instruments with those of the south seas, he has created love
themes which are at once exotic and familiar. Alternately sensual,
sublime, melodramatic, and comic. these pieces were first conceived
by Stan as  the score for a colorful documentary called the Mating
Urge! "Here the music stands alone as a magnificent evocation of 
"Pagan Love"
Released in 1961 on the Capitol label
T-1552  St-1552