JIMMY VARGAS & LILIANNA SCARLATTA

He is a reincarnated racketeer and croonoir from the twilight side of Los Angeles sin alley 1947
She, an sorceress and exotique from the Mission Dolores San Francisco by way of Bueonas Aires Argentina.
Brought together by the Black Pope of the Bay City on the eve of the Dias De Los Muertos 1992, in the Broadway dancehall on North Beach.
Their relationship forged over several lifetimes.
Vargas venerates her as his Shadow Bride.
She vaunts him as her swingin galahad, gnostic crooner, and carney wisecracker.
Liliana alone tempers and guides the melodies, visions and words that come from the Vargas hands.
Her sexotique dna alone seeds the Jimmy Vargas & the Black Dahlia's canon.

Seven albums have been created by them.
The first El Torchtura, released in 1994, set the template with its' melancholic jazz swing, torch and Lynchian soundtrack.
Six more sassy, satanic, swing noir episodes have followed, tempered all by Liliana's essence and mystic influence.
Liliana's iconic holy image embossed on each of their records and dvds, as a haunting talisman.
Their new disc Lust Angeles, is now unleashed just in time for the zeitgeist.
It's a soundtrack for the new metaphysical soul shift.
Lust Angeles is both vintage and futuristic.
Fleshed in satanic hosiery, divined in a gnostic spirit.
Urban Hymns for the unsaved sons and daughters of Eve.
Featuring nine more tracks of lupercalian blues, scorching mambo and torch, that one would imagine pealing out of a Hollywood pleasure house jukebox of 1948.

 

LUST ANGELES the Album is available February 2012 from RESEARCH Publishers San Francisco