Purple Trap
The Stone
Purple Trap, the powerful trio of Keiji Haino (voice, guitar), Bill Laswell on bass and Rashied Ali (drums), recorded live on stage at The Stone. Recorded in december 2005, this furious live album by what can easily be called a super group remained unreleased till in 2023 Bill Laswell made it accessible in a rough-mixed digital version for his Bandcamp subscribers program exclusively. For this vinyl version, the music has been newly mixed by Dirk Dresselhaus (SchneiderTM) and mastered/cut by Ruy Mariné at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin. The trio of Laswell/Haino/Ali reunited for this one-off gig as part of a 5-day-Haino-festival at John Zorn's venue The Stone, seven years after its only album 'Decided ... Already The Motionless Heart Of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called "I"' had been recorded (released on Tzadik in 1999).