composers of "exotic" music

[Anne]

From Moussorgsky's opera, Khovanshchina - the Dance of the Persian Slaves

[M forever]

Langgaard.
Had a touch of the Scriabin mindset.

He also looked a little bit like Himmler:

[Ugh!]

Come on, nobody mentioned Messiaen? Too obvious? John Cage? Even more obvious?

[Joe_Campbell]

Messiaen?

Indeed. He even has a piece with the word in it: Exotic Birds!

[gomro]

I want to investigate more composers of "exotic" music (to distinguish from European music). And by that I do not mean other then western music. And not all music from other then western continents I call exotic. For example Ginastera doesn't sound "exotic" to me. And Chavez may sound exotic, but I seem not to like late-romantic stuff of other then European composers.

I now only can mention three, which I really do like:
Sculthorpe (western music maybe, but certainly "exotic")
Takemitsu
Villa-Lobos

Try Yoshimatsu's Stellar Dream Dances, for Japanese instruments.