The fourth book in the Jimmy Vargas ‘ SHADOW BRIDE’ Series is due for U.S. release SEPT 2017, out on DARK MOON PRESS. Featured here is the alternative cover of the forthcoming book. Pix by Jimmy Vargas of muse Liliana Scarlatta.
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‘TEMPLE OF LILY’… The Second Edition
Dark Moon Press release a reprint of the second novel in the Jimmy Vargas ‘My Shadow Bride’ series, entitled ‘TEMPLE OF LILY’ (REQUIEM). The extended book contains twenty five bonus chapters not included in the 2011 edition.
The novel is set in Los Angeles 1947, interweaving a fascinating narrative of a Hollywood crooner-racketeer Jimmy Vargas, and a refugee from war torn Florence, one Maria Salvez, during the tumultuous era of the post war nineteen forties, who becomes a contracted star-icon with glitter gulch movie company Eagle Lion, through the machinations of a WW2 hero priest ‘The Parachutin’ Padre’ to create his own catholic cult to offset the rise of Communism in the U.S.A.
Crooning SM ’58
With Peter Gage in the producers seat, and Tate Paul as engineer, Jimmy Vargas seances with the classic SM’58, laying vocal tracks on new original toons ‘Mohawk’ ‘Marilyn’ and ‘Noir’. Pix by Declan.
Noir Town
Jimmy Vargas hit the studio putting down rhythm tracks on three new noir styled tracks. With Antero Ceschin on Drums, Scotty Leishman on Bass and Jimmy Vargas on Vocals and guitar. I -tunes release mooted for March 2018.
The Sorceress on a Swing
Another pix from Jimmy Vargas and the Black Dahlias return to the live arena with muse Liliana Scarlatta seduces the silk as Vargas low priests it, in their o
riginal piece ‘A Nude on a Swing’.
Pix (c) Mike Chrysler
The New Jimmy Vargas Book….TEMPLE OF LILY
DARK MOON PRESS issues the second tome of author-croonoir JIMMY VARGAS’ MY SHADOW BRIDE Series, entitled TEMPLE OF LILY.
Los Angeles 1947.
A glitter gulch studio Eagle Lion Pictures.
A paroled gangster turned movie producer Johnny Roselli.
His gofer Jimmy Vee.
A World War 2 hero priest Father Ragland at the head of his own Catholic Armitrix.
Maria Salvez...His enigmatic muse and icon of Florentinian occult order the Beatrice Novitiate.
Jimmy Vargas signs merch deal with Label State
JIMMY VARGAS has signed with antipodean company LABEL STATE to represent him in all merchandise releases.
First product off the line is the DEATH SWINGS T-Shirt, replete with classic racketeer pic of VARGAS by the photographic team of ARNUM ENDEAN and DON KENNEDY.
The item is available at:
http://labelstate.com/products/jimmy-vargas-and-the-black-dahlias-death-swings
JIMMY VARGAS …MY SHADOW BRIDE… DARK MOON PRESS
DARK MOON Press have released the first book of the JIMMY VARGAS trilogy “MY SHADOW BRIDE” this Walpurgisnacht …30th April 2013.
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1482022273
JIMMY VARGAS special guest D.J. on LEE JOSEPHS LUXURIA MUSIC Show
JIMMY VARGAS this week features as a special guest D.J. on the LEE JOSEPH LUXURIA MUSIC show, spinning the music and ruminating on the burleycue muses Liliana Scarlatta and Mia Mortal that have influenced his own noir musical output with combo the BLACK DAHLIAS.
Jimmy Vargas makes his appearance in at clock time of the show at…..30: 40 till 60.00
Download available:
JIMMY VARGAS…The NOIR NATION interview
JIMMY VARGAS and EDDIE VEGA of NOIR NATION trade the verbs
Noir Nation: Is Jimmy Vargas your real name?
Vargas: Jimmy Vargas is the name I was born with in Chicago 1919, before my death in Los Angeles 1947. I have returned, earned and re-inherited the name after my rebirth in London 1958. It’s been quite a treacherous and tumultuous trip reclaiming my name, story and unfinished life back. Thirty years of living on and off in doss houses on Main, scouring bombed out burlesque houses, and skideroo bars, for a whisper of my racketeer pimp past. My complete story is told in the Requiem for My Shadow Bride DVD Installation / Book series.
Noir Nation: How did you come to create your Jimmy Vargas persona, the seedy crooner who hints of horrific murders to come?
Vargas: I am not a persona… I’m a natural born huckster looking for coins of grace, and rations of redemption from a dissolute and diabolical past that is soldered into my “Silver Cord.”
Hucksterism is my natural DNA.
I earn’t it.
I didn’t invent this.
Mine is not a bourgeois literary fun fair ride.
I’ve lived a life turning coin in the exotic industry performing and promoting striptease and erotic dancers before it became another hip feminist pursuit. I even headed up my own entertainment agency of vintage acts, rockabilly and swing combos, fan dancers and carnival freaks from the mid- eighties over three continents called Teasa-Varga.
I’m merely retracing the exact same life as I had in the nineteen forties.
THE FULL INTERVIEW CAN BE READ HERE:
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