Description
//International Anthem//
£26.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Selected Retailers Vinyl with 16 Page Newsprint and Poster
Damon Locks’ first foray into creating an entire album from spoken and text-based work finds the Chicago-based musician and educator collecting cultural abstractions and reorganizing them into a firm truth.
The album lays out a vision of Black liberation and transmits it outward as a song cycle of bite-sized MF DOOM-meets-Nikki Giovanni rhythm experiments. The sample-based constructions are steeped in a lifetime of not only keen cultural observation, but direct communal participation in the culture. Locks’ decades-long resume connects the dots between experimental improvisation, sample based hip-hop, punk, and poetry – each done at the highest level and with a list of collaborators that could spin the head of even the most jaded listener. And that seems to be the point. To jump-start the entire personality spectrum into action. Ecstatic positivity examined via his nuanced grasp of reality, all working toward that ever-evasive concept of what could be.
Tracklisting:
- Reversed
- Distance
- Holding the Dawn in Place (Beyond, Pt. 2)
- Everything’s Under Control
- Isn’t It Beautiful
- High Priestess
- Meteors of Fear
- List of Demands
- The Signal is Hot
- Control Power
- Click
- Reversed, Pt. 2 (Something to Love)
