Payback Productions is proud to announce the release of Electric Purgatory: the fate of the black rocker on iTunes and Amazon VOD. The film will be available for download, rental or purchase.

Houston filmmaker Raymond Gayle's film Electric Purgatory: the fate of the black rocker is a documentary examining the lives and musical contributions of black rock musicians, such as Fishbone, Jimi Hazel, Jimi Hendrix, Vernon Reid, Doug Pinnick, HR, ?uestlove and many more.

Electric Purgatory is a lively contribution to the history of rock music, examining reasons behind the lack of commercial success experienced by many contemporary black rock musicians. Blending classic performance footage from Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, and Prince with music and opinions from the current generation of artists — among them Fishbone, Living Colour, and the Roots — the film tackles such difficult questions as the ambivalence of the music industry towards black rockers and their complicated relationships with African-American audiences.

Raymond spent over a year traveling the country visiting with black musicians and rock enthusiasts trying to discern the ultimate fate of the Black Rock Musician.

Electric Purgatory is represented by Cinetic Rights Management.

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Excellent!! Just ordered my copy from Amazon. Been waiting for it's release to DVD for a while now. Very much looking forward to viewing it!

Thanks. Hope you like it. Had to give our boy his own section in the film.

I just got my copy from Amazon yesterday. Unfortunatly, My copy was damaged. There was some blobs of some kind of adhesive on the playing surface so it wouldn't playback properly. What I was able to see was very good. I requested a replacement which I should have in a few days.

Curiously, the disc itself was a Verbatim DVD-R with a thermal printed top as opposed to the regular silver or gold bottomed disc. Regular recordable DVD media isn't that durable. It scratches very easily. I'll have to really baby this disc if I want it to last.

That's odd. I'm going to have to look into this. Thanks for the heads-up.

I gotta order this!

Electric Purgatory is featured on YouTube's Screening Room for Black History Month! http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom