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New Future City Radio

by Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek

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    Deluxe 18" x 24" screenprinted poster designed by Goatmother Industrial for Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek's New Future City Radio show at Public Records in New York July 29, 2023.

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Yes! 02:15 video
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New Future 01:07
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Droids! 02:18
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Future City 00:23
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The Beat 00:55
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Drop 00:09

about

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!"

credits

released July 28, 2023

Damon Locks - voice & sampler
Rob Mazurek - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, sampler, modular synthesizers, voice, flutes

Mauricio Takara - electronic percussion, percussion on “The Beat” and “Flitting Splits Reverb Adage”
Roberto Carlos Lange aka Helado Negro – voice on “Flitting Splits Reverb Adage”
Brandi Augustus – vocals on “New Future”

Announcers:
Rosetta Carr – “The Sun Returns”
Andres Hernandez – “The Concord Hour”
Alain 'Fusion' Clapham – “10mins Past The Hour”
Brenda Hernandez – “Las Niñas Estan Escuchando (The Children Are Listening)”

Recorded & Engineered by: Dave Vettraino at International Anthem Studios, Chicago.
Mastered by: David Allen

Album Art by: Damon Locks
Photo of Rob Mazurek by: Ziga Koritnik
Photo of Damon Locks by: Petra Cvelbar

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International Anthem is a Chicago-born recording company that produces and promotes progressive media.

The IARC mission is to make positive contributions to the changing state of the music industry, and to vitalize the demand for boundary-defying music by presenting unique sounds in appealing packages to untapped audiences.
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