MR. HO'S ORCHESTROTICA QUARTET/Where Here Meets There: So who can argue with a cat that likes the old exotica records but feels the need to chart his own course if he's going to make some new exotica records? As Lefsetz recently pointed out, in the age of Facebook, the ‘babe I gotta leave you song' is obsolete since we can be in touch with everyone we ever knew when we get bored taking a leak, I point out that making nu exotica faces similar challenges since it's no longer insulting to call the block you live on a mini-United Nations. The percussionist leader of this crew is up for the challenge, even if it means acknowledging his elders via Gershwin and Guaraldi. It ain't your father's Les Baxter/Arthur Lyman exotica since it has so many pomo touches buried in the tracks but you'll be glad to have in playing the background as you make small talk with the chick in black clothes over umbrella laced drinks. Fun stuff and off the beaten track, if that can still be done.