Pekler,Andrew - Tristes tropiques (Sealed) (LP)

Tristes Tropiques' - named after & dealing with Claude L?vi-Strauss' landmark ethnographic writing of the same name - is an album of "synthetic exotica & pseudo-ethnographic music". Sounding like the field recording from an imaginary landscape, Tristes Tropiques deals with the meaning of Exotica & ethnographic recordings (without using them) as well as with cultural categories like "Otherness". As smart as it is, it's also totally stunning, free-floating music, RIYL Dolphins Into The Future or Jan Jelinek.