1939 Ensemble Black Diamond Pearl Foliage " and "Tuff Gnarl" helped

" and "Tuff Gnarl" helped firm up the tunes and added some discipline to Moore and Renaldo's exploratory guitar work that

recorded with bassist George Pettis (100 Watt Horse) and producer Graham Tavel

thunderstorms and 10 cent beers

Re-cut at dubplates & mastering in Berlin for maximum bass pressure

Strehli is back with Ace Of Blues

1939 Ensemble Black Diamond Pearl Foliage " and "Tuff Gnarl" helpedBlack Diamond Pearl is a journey, cinematic in nature and ranging the full spectrum of emotion. The album opens up with Ryder, a puckish romp in vivid colors, a bright trumpet peppering the ebullient rhythms. Some of the more percussion heavy songs are exercises in tom work, and you can imagine McQueen in Bullitt blasting these high octane tracks as he races up and over impossibly steep San Francisco streets in his \'68 GT. Vintage California pervades