Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The Three Suns

I admit, being interested in all things mid-century, I was hit rather hard by the space-age bachelor-pad lounge music 'revival' back in the early to mid-90's. I must have combed through every thrift store record section from here to Kalamazoo - looking for that hidden treasure, that undiscovered nugget of music greatness. I did manage to gather a pretty significant collection of mid-century foolery.
But since then, I've gradually parted and let go of most of my lounge music, keeping only my most favorite and prized discoveries. At the top of this heep have always been these two obscure tracks from a pretty well-known mid-century instrumental 'lounge-music' trio known as 
The Three Suns.
Their music has been featured on many "space-age/bachelor pad" comps over the years, but I've never seen these two tracks anywhere,
except on their 1964 LP, "One Enchanted Evening".

Cast off as obscure album filler, these two mysterious and moody cuts stood out as something that went beyond the normal Three Suns sound. Rather than their happy, rollicking accordion-driven foder, "No Blues At All" was much different, more towards a lonesome, haunting, organ-drenched mysterio-spooky groove. Dig it here...

download or listen:
"No Blues At All" - The Three Suns

"Whispering Shadows" is just as great. A sinister sister-song to "No Blues At All" in that it has all the same spooky space age qualities. Enjoy in a dark room late at night.

download or listen:
"Whispering Shadows" - The Three Suns

Here's a pretty funny video (The only one I could find)
of The Three Suns in action.

 
 
    
 
 

3 comments:

icastico said...

Excellent tracks. Love 'em. Thanks.

Matt said...

Thank you sir! Glad you like it, and thanks for stopping by.

Your Neighbor said...

Is that "Warm and Tender" album cover for real??