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Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek
New Future City Radio
International Anthem
- Cat No: IARC0068
- 2023-10-08
Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek。海賊ラジオのカルチャーとミックステープにインスパイアされた、架空のラジオスタイル、サンプリングコラージュの手法、実験的でヒップホップ、ジャズ・アプローチともいえるような、圧巻のサウンド。推薦盤。
Track List
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1. 5-4-3-2-1
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2. Yes!
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3. The Sun Returns
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4. Breeze Of Time
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5. Your Name Gonna Ring The Bell
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6. New Future
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7. Droids!
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8. The Concord Hour
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9. Future City
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10. 10mins Past The Hour
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11. Support The Youth (With Sound)
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12. The Beat
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13. Las Niñas Estan Escuchando (The Children Are Listening)
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14. Flitting Splits Reverb Adage
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15. Twilight Shimmer
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16. Suspense In The Grip Of Suspense
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17. Polaris Radio
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18. Drop
New Future City Radio is the first duo collaboration of longtime creative partners Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek. In a hyperactive 40-minute, 18-track suite that runs like a boombox mixtape, the two prolific multi-media artists contemplate community, transformation, and the future through the programmatic format of a pirate radio station for the people.
These two artists have worked together from the peak days of the late 90s / early 00s Chicago music scene up through the present day, which has seen Locks featured as lead vocalist of multiple critically-acclaimed Exploding Star Orchestra (ESO) albums composed/produced by Mazurek and released by International Anthem (IARC) in 2020 (Dimensional Stardust) and 2023 (Lightning Dreamers). In recent years, Locks has also earned great renown from his revolutionary, expansive latter-day gospel/jazz project Black Monument Ensemble (BME), with which he’s released two albums on IARC (2019’s Where Future Unfolds and 2021’s NOW). New Future City Radio finds the artists creating a natural but innovatively-assembled blend of the sounds of those two projects, with Locks’s BME-style sample-based sound collage creating compositional beds underneath the signature Orson Welles-like vocal delivery he’s developed through his work with ESO, alongside Roland SP flourishes and arresting brass improvisations by Mazurek.
Themes both sonic and text based were predetermined but improvisation leads the journey. The music these two have devised may sound hyper-charged one moment and gently transportive the next, and often somewhere in between. When asked about New Future City Radio the duo exclaim in one voice: "I'm talking post, post, post, future. I'm talking resilience and levitation. I'm talking beauty and structural integrity for my people. I'm talking light beams that tell stories and educate. Let's talk about that if you wanna talk new future!"
These two artists have worked together from the peak days of the late 90s / early 00s Chicago music scene up through the present day, which has seen Locks featured as lead vocalist of multiple critically-acclaimed Exploding Star Orchestra (ESO) albums composed/produced by Mazurek and released by International Anthem (IARC) in 2020 (Dimensional Stardust) and 2023 (Lightning Dreamers). In recent years, Locks has also earned great renown from his revolutionary, expansive latter-day gospel/jazz project Black Monument Ensemble (BME), with which he’s released two albums on IARC (2019’s Where Future Unfolds and 2021’s NOW). New Future City Radio finds the artists creating a natural but innovatively-assembled blend of the sounds of those two projects, with Locks’s BME-style sample-based sound collage creating compositional beds underneath the signature Orson Welles-like vocal delivery he’s developed through his work with ESO, alongside Roland SP flourishes and arresting brass improvisations by Mazurek.
Themes both sonic and text based were predetermined but improvisation leads the journey. The music these two have devised may sound hyper-charged one moment and gently transportive the next, and often somewhere in between. When asked about New Future City Radio the duo exclaim in one voice: "I'm talking post, post, post, future. I'm talking resilience and levitation. I'm talking beauty and structural integrity for my people. I'm talking light beams that tell stories and educate. Let's talk about that if you wanna talk new future!"
流通が変わり入荷していなかったINTERNATIONAL ANTHEM RECORDING COMPANY。レーベル直送で入荷です。ポストパンクTrenchmouthのオリジナルメンバー、JON HENDESONとのTEH ETERNALSやExploding Star Orchestraなどのトータス周辺のアーチスト、アフリカン・アメリカンのシンガーDamon Locksと Chicago Underground Duo等、シカゴポストロック以降の重要なアーチストの一人Rob Mazurekのコラヴォレーション。ロングタイムで活動を共にしてきた二人による傑作! (サイトウ)