Perhaps how one leaves a party is more important than one's entrance. Green on Red's Dan Stuart has chosen to make his ultimate studio recording with producer/guitarist Danny Amis: a founder of both Los Straitjackets and The Raybeats. They both currently reside in Mexico City and have individually worked previously with Twin Tones/Sonido Gallo Negro's leader Gabriel López at T-Vox Recording. The vinyl LP is a companion piece to a novel by the same name, and the two will be released together this May in one package through Cadiz Music, along with a CD with extra tracks and an audio version of the novel.

Both works are a sort of noir travelogue through foreign landscapes real and imagined, sublime and horrific, and question whether love can survive in a world of violence and betrayal. The record is the last of the Marlowe trilogy, with the novel being the second; one can only hope Mr. Stuart will eventually deliver a third book to complete the series and leave the world if not better off, then at least slightly less banal. Dan performs songs from his four solo records plus a host of Green on Red classics.