Chuck "Big Guitar" Ernest with the Satellite Band - Blue Oasis
The Sound Breakers - Marooned
The Wailers - Driftwood
Lenny & the Thundertones - The Moon of Manakoora
Biscaynes with Co-Encidentals - Midnight in Montevideo
Red Garrison & His Zodiacs - Chant of the Jungle
The Palatons - Jungle Guitar
Chayns - Live with the Moon
Bailey's Nervous Kats featuring James Mills - Cobra
The Blazers - Sound of Mecca
The Crew - The Jaguar Hunt
Gems - Slave Girl
Jerry & the Catalinas - The Arabian Knight
The Jaguars - Night Walker
The Voodoos - The Voodoo Walk
The Shelltones - Blue Castaway
The Blue Bells - Atlantis
Bill & Jean Bradway - Paradise Isle
The first moments of our 2018 compilation Technicolor Paradise set a mood like few others. A bulging piano pounds out a simple chord followed by two minutes of epic guitar noodling. The vibe is surf, but not quite. If wave riding was more of a seated than standing activity, and less wet. And preferably with a high ball of Scotch, neat. That first disc, Daiquiri Dirges, examines that complicated latitude of exotica and primitive rock n’ roll, guitar music that was more rolling blue waves than rocking breaks.
With 300 leftover, box-less, and booklet-free copies of Dirge lying around in our Chicago warehouse, we hand-screened a warm chipboard jacket with imagery from the very-out-of-print-and-likely-never-coming-back Technicolor Paradise box. We also printed up a little insert so you can get the low down on all these micro-groups. We’ll sell these from our website only until they disappear, which given the pressing quantity won’t be long.