Product Overview
List of Demands, 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.
players:
DAMON LOCKS - voice & electronics
KRISTA FRANKLIN - voice on "High Priestess"
RALPH DARDEN - drums on "Isn't It Beautiful" & turntables on "Meteors of Fear"
BEN LAMAR GAY - cornet on "Holding the Dawn in Place" & melodica on "Click"
MACIE STEWART - violin on "Distance" & "Isn't It Beautiful"
Tracklist:
1. Reversed 01:58
2. Distance 04:26
3. Holding the Dawn in Place (Beyond pt. 2) 03:37
4. Everything’s Under Control 00:33
5. Isn’t It Beautiful 02:55
6. High Priestess 02:38
7. Meteors of Fear 02:24
8. List of Demands 02:56
9. The Signal is Hot 01:44
10. Control Power 00:30
11. Click 05:13
12. Reversed pt. 2 (Something to Love) 03:05
