Cool Islands

Infobox Album
Name = Cool Island
Type = studio
Artist = Cusco


Released = 1982
Recorded =
Genre = cross-cultural new age
Length =
Label = Prudence
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Cusco II"
(1981)
This album = "Cool Islands"
(1982)
Next album = "Planet Voyage"
(1982)

"Cool Islands" is a studio album by the German cross-cultural new age band Cusco. It was released originally in 1982, and is currently available from the Prudence label under the title ""Cool Island".

The track "North Easter" was reworked considerably for the 1989 album Mystic Island, with the newer version containing more punch but without the spacey introductory section, and with the ending reworked as well. By contrast, the track "Aurora" was revisited for the Water Stories album, but that 1990 version sounds practically identical to the original. "North Easter" also appeared in an almost symphonic rock incarnation on the 1992 album Cusco 2000. Many discographies show this album to be a 1983 release, but early LP pressings verify the 1982 release year.

Track listing

# "Aurora"
# "Antarctic Continent"
# "Penguin Dance"
# "North Easter"
# "Whale"
# "Walrus"
# "North Pole"
# "Iceberg"
# "Blizzard"
# "Tundra"