Jazz Articles about The Ballpeen Monks

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 obscure release led to a ten-year hiatus, but when founder and bassist Angus Drummond reconvened the original band for Live in Formica (Das Kapital ...