Jesus: The Cosmic Salvation
Captain Xanadu and His Orbiting Orchestrions
From the void before creation to the New Jerusalem, Captain Xanadu And His Orbiting Orchestrions have charted the most ambitious itinerary in the history of the cocktail hour. The Word Made Flesh takes the sonic language of the golden age of exotica and lounge (Martin Denny, Esquivel, Les Baxter, Nelson Riddle, Burt Bacharach) and turns it toward the life, death, resurrection, and promised return of Jesus of Nazareth: ten tracks, one complete theological argument, a theremin that descends into the primordial void on the opening bar and does not resolve until the final vibraphone strike of the last. Historically meticulous, lyrically dazzling, and arranged for maximum transport to destinations no bamboo bar has previously attempted, this is space-age lounge music as it was always secretly capable of being.
The Word was in the beginning. The cocktail shaker has finally caught up.
