Results for "Purgatory Records"

Live at the Washateria

By Miles Davis

Label: Purgatory Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: My Favorite Things; Blue Stain.

Miles Davis / John Coltrane: Live at the Washateria

by Karl Ackermann
April 1, 2024

Urban legend has it that in 1957 Miles Davis charged up to a frightened woman at the Washateria Laundromat on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 25th Street. He bellowed, “How long does this (expletive) dryer take to dry a pair of socks?" Before the terrified patron could answer, Davis spied John Coltrane in row two, ...

We Have Become Our Ancestors

Label: Purgatory Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Am I Repeating Myself? Am I Repeating Myself?; We Have Become Our Ancestors; Speak Up; Peripheral Visionary; Why Can't Natasha Go Bowling?; I'm the Only Hell You’ll Ever Know.

The Dunbarton Oakes Trio: We Have Become Our Ancestors

by Karl Ackermann
April 1, 2023

"We didn't want just to deconstruct our catalog, we wanted to burn it down." So writes trumpeter Dunbarton Oakes in the liner notes for We Have Become Our Ancestors. His namesake trio (a group as old as the average U.S. Senator) did just that but torched Oakes' home studio in the process, resulting in a four-year ...

The Post-Pluto Universe

Label: Purgatory Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Hats Without Heads (How Do They Do That?); Orbital Sander in Repose; Here Comes the Cheese King.

L'Ensemble du Diable: The Post-Pluto Universe

by Karl Ackermann
April 1, 2022

L'Ensemble du Diable took a critical drubbing with the release of their previous album, A Jazz Tribute to Dr. Suess (Bad Business Records, 2019). The drastic departure from Doom Jazz to doomed jazz didn't sit well with critics or fans and it shook the foundation of the ensemble. Upon learning that the New York Herald Tribune ...

Nixon Mohohlo & The Collective Heads of Knuckle: The Queen of Complaints

by Karl Ackermann
April 1, 2021

For good or bad, drummer Nixon Mohohlo has worn his heart on his sleeve for most of his musical career. Following a brief experience with monastic silence he recorded an album-length version of John Cage's “4'33." It met with outrage and was pulled from the market. In 1999, he recruited Dutch percussionist Horst Van Clutter for ...

The Queen of Complaints

By Nixon Mohohlo

Label: Purgatory Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Tales of Headless Joe Arbitrage; Bless the Attachment; The Malthusian Cycle Shop, Part 1; Kansas City Cheese; The Malthusian Cycle Shop, Part 2; Have We Learned Nothing From This?; Five Tiers of Redemption.

Incident in Oniontown

By The Ballpeen Monks

Label: Purgatory Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Cucumberence of Things; The Venus Armchair; Variations on a Standard Deviant; Portrait of the Artist as a Shrunken Head; House of the Rising Crust; Circadian Rhythms; Soon Enough, She Stopped Writing; Canción Tonta y Tonta.

The Ballpeen Monks: Incident in Oniontown

by Karl Ackermann
April 1, 2019

Incident in Oniontown finds The Ballpeen Monks re-emerging as the most musically wide-ranging collective of their generation. Despite the quintet undergoing massive changes--only one member remains from the original quintet--the group displays a consistency that has been their hallmark since their debut album A Meeting in Daisyfuentesville (Self-produced, 1994). The infighting that resulted from that moderately ...