“New Future City Radio” is the debut collaboration from longtime collaborative partners Damon Locks and Rob Mazurek. The album runs like a boombox mixtape, the two artists contemplating community, transformation and the future through the programmatic format of a pirate radio station for the people. Released by International Anthem inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with obi strip, fold-out poster & dome-pattern inner sleeve.

Limited Edition Colour Vinyl!!!

Cat No: IARC0068LPI
Release date: 28 July 2023
Format: Colour LP
Country: USA

“New Future City Radio” is the debut collaboration from longtime collaborative partners Damon Locks and Rob Mazurek. The album runs like a boombox mixtape, the two artists contemplating community, transformation and the future through the programmatic format of a pirate radio station for the people. Released by International Anthem inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with obi strip, fold-out poster & dome-pattern inner sleeve.

Limited Edition Colour Vinyl!!!

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Listen to: New Future City Radio

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1. 5-4-3-2-1
00:22
2. Yes!
02:15
3. The Sun Returns
02:27
4. Breeze Of Time
02:39
5. Your Name Gonna Ring The Bell
01:07
6. New Future
01:07
7. Droids!
02:18
8. The Concord Hour
05:08
9. Future City
00:23
10. 10mins Past The Hour
00:17
11. Support The Youth (With Sound)
01:19
12. The Beat
00:55
13. Las Niñas Estan Escuchando
00:19
14. Flitting Splits Reverb Adage
03:56
15. Twilight Shimmer
09:53
16. Suspense In The Grip Of Suspense
03:58
17. Polaris Radio
01:10
18. Drop
00:09

Item Description

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.

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Themes both sonic and text based were predetermined but improvisation leads the journey. The music these two have devised may sound overtly bombastic 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!”