Exotica Volume II was the second album by Martin Denny, released in 1958.The album opens with a gorgeous take of Les Baxter’s Jungle River Boat. Baxter’s orchestra string-fueled compositions do not necessarily keep all of their magic during their Jazz quartet-friendly transformation process, but what they lose in density and Space-Age vigor, they gain in exoticism. Martin Denny’s rendition is a delight, much gentler and somehow closer to the depicted scenery.