Parasol Records

Getting Started in Parasol Records

Top Albums

Explore this month's Top Albums

Top Artists

Explore this month's Top Artists

Top Tracks

Explore this month's Top Tracks

New in Parasol Records

7

Doleful Lions

Sunblown

Gazelle

Top Parasol Records Albums

7 by Doleful Lions

Sunblown by Gazelle

Circling The Sun by The Orange Peels

Editor's Picks

Through Glass Colored Roses: The Best Of The Green Pajamas

The Green Pajamas

Woodshedding

Jack Logan And Bob Kimbell

Happy Go Unlucky

John Cunningham

The Suitcase

Duralux

Top Tracks from Parasol Records

	Listen	Track Name	Length	Download

1.		White Lotus Day Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	4:40
2.		The First Rays Artist: Gazelle Album: Sunblown	5:19
3.		Blazing Sun Rising Over The Mountains Of The East Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	5:13
4.		Magic Without Tears Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	4:56
5.		Winfield Walker Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	8:29
6.		Aftermath Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	5:32
7.		Don't Ever Hide Your Enchantment Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	4:47
8.		Here Come The Star Nations Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	3:25
9.		The Luminous Sons Of The Manvantaric Dawn Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	2:38
10.		Holy Hill Artist: Doleful Lions Album: 7	3:33

About Parasol Records

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois-based Parasol Records and associated labels, Mud, Spur, Hidden Agenda and Reaction Recordings were a natural outgrowth of Parasol Mail Order, which opened its mailbox in 1991. Owner Geoff Merritt began Parasol Records by releasing his friends CDs and 7" singles including early guitar-driven titles from Velvet Crush & Three Hour Tour.

When Merritt wanted to document the post-Nirvana Urbana-Champaign music scene of the early-mid 1990s, he created the Mud Records imprint for more rock-oriented titles. Early Mud singles from Hum and Hardvark pre-date those bands' respective major label experiences, and more recently Mud has released CDs from highly touted indie-rock bands Braid, Sarge and Absinthe Blind.

In 1997, another label, Hidden Agenda, was added to the roster. Posies/R.E.M. member Ken Stringfellow released his first solo CD This Sounds Like Goodbye on Hidden Agenda, and since then Hidden Agenda has released 50+ titles including CDs by Bettie Serveert, Club 8 and the Grammy Award nominated The Soundtrack Of Our Lives.

Still, Parasol may be best known for releasing a 4-song CD single in 1996 by then unknown band White Town. The BBC picked up on that EP's lead track, "Your Woman," and the band was signed to EMI for the world and had a #1 hit in seven countries.