BLACK HALO BLUES ( EP) 2005 (Limited Edition).

Recorded in 2005, BLACK HALO BLUES was co-produced by VARGAS and famed producer PETER GAGE (Joan Armatrading, Robert Palmer and Restless). Vargas' first solo acoustic session since 1991, the disc also features the torchy "HYMN FOR MY WHORE" and the burlesk lament "ZOETIKA BLUES".

Presented in black sheath insert only, as part of the Diabla Nera series.

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BLACK WIDOW OF THE SUNSET STRIP ( Single) 2004 (Limited Edition).

Recorded in 2002, BLACK WIDOW was originally written by JIMMY VARGAS for a stag flick "X-SARIA", created by the Caponi brothers The animation movie was trashed half way through production but the song remains.
Bonus wax include "LOVE IS A RACKET" & "THE RACKET MAMBO".  

Presented in black sheath insert only, as part of the Diabla Nera series.

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"GHOSTING SESSIONS".... U.S. RELEASE 2002
31 Minutes
The final Jimmy Vargas album in the Shadow Bride series featuring the Torch classic "Ghosting On Los Angeles Avenue", the Burlesk hymn "A Blue Negligee" and the Psycho Latino scorcher "Mambo Nera".

REVIEWS
"He has noir in his bones..."
HARD CASE CRIME, NEW YORK, USA

"Occupying a complete unique area - at least in modern music terms - Jimmy Vargas and the Black Dahlias are a welcome schmoozefest of off-kilter conceptual jazz noir for the striptease cocktail lounge , produced with such love and authentic decadence that only a fool would fail to be entranced."
STRIPORAMA, NOTTINGHAM, UK

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"MY SHADOW BRIDE"....U.S. RELEASE 2000
35 minutes
The Third Darkly divinious album with more selongacious striptease torch and hell noir hymns from the phantasmic crooner of Twilite Los Angeles 1947 and his benzedrine and bop cathouse combo the BLACK DAHLIAS.
Nine svelte searing classics,featuring the majestic ecysidia of "STRIPPERS RHAPSODY" & "NUDE ON A SWING",the furious swing of "PSYCHO SWANG",and the melancholic cha tango taxi-dance of "DIORISSIMO",and six other tracks.

REVIEWS:
"Dark lounge...edge of swing croonin vocals...moody melancholy punctated by swelling crescendos of faux hope and transcendence....Delightful for scenarios of anti-seduction and ironic devotion...DARK...DARK...DARK!!!"
RESEARCH MAGAZINE...SAN FRANCISCO...2002

"THE TEASE...THE TORCH...AND THE NOIR"....U.S.RELEASE 1999
Running time 62 minutes
The classic fifteen track second album release of the BLACK DAHLIAS,with the serpentine burleycue grind of "TALLULAH's BOUDOIR" Latin torch "THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND" & "LAST CIGARETTE",the transmagorical "SACRIFICIA" & "BLACK DAHLIA...DEATH SWINGS",with Hollywood style four page billfold including the bizarre biography of L.A.'s racketeer crooner from twilite 1947...JIMMY VARGAS."

REVIEWS
"Absolutely entrancing...alluding to the grainy sexual prowess of a dark glamorous woman,sliding into sly grooves,and romantic sonnets of loss..."
TARA RITTER....FRIGHT X MAGAZINE...FEBRUARY 2000

"A jazz sultry collection,sounds like they are recorded out of focus,coming to you through the haze of cheap liquor and thick cigar smoke...you try to dance to it,but the more you try,the more it seems to drift away from you..."
HOLLY DAY....COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC... NOV 1999

EL TORCHTURA....U.S. RELEASE 1995
Running time 27 minutes
Seminal Seven track debut by JIMMY VARGAS and The BLACK DAHLIAS,featuring the alternative versions of "BLACK DAHLIA" & "THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND"... features luxuriant five page Hollywood bill-fold sheet,and excerpt JIMMY VARGAS bop prosody "EL TORCHTURA".

A definitive collectors edition.

REVIEWS:
"Slinky Sensuous...Smokey late nite feel...They don't make records like this anymore...!!!"
STUART COUPE.....MEAN STREETS MAGAZINE....APRIL 1995

"Provocative...Classic Saturated and swingin in twilite shades of noir imagery..."
DARK ANGEL...AUGUST 1995

"Sinister,Sonorously Haunting...lethal ultra cool."
JAMES BOSANQUET...OCTOBER 1995.