Description
Title: Now
Artist: Locks, Damon & Black Monument Ensemble
Label: International Anthem
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 789993991174
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2021-07-09
Number of Discs: 1
Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble”s new album “”NOW”” was created in the final throes of Summer 2020, following months of pandemic-induced fear & isolation, the explosion of social unrest, struggle & violence in the streets, and as the certain presence of a new reality had fully settled in. Set up safely in the garden behind Chicago”s Experimental Sound Studio, the music was recorded in only a few takes, capturing the first times members of BME had ever played or sang the tunes. For Locks, the impetus was more about getting together to commune and make art than it was about producing an album. In his words: “”It was about offering a new thought. It was about resisting the darkness. It was about expressing possibility. It was about asking the question, ”Since the future has unfolded and taken a new and dangerous shape… what happens NOW?”””
Tracks:
1.1 Now (Forever Momentary Space)
1.2 People Vs the Rest of Us
1.3 Keep Your Mind Free
1.4 Barbara Jones-Hogu and Elizabeth Catlett Discuss Liberation
1.5 Movement and You
1.6 Body Is Electric
