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.

Format / LP
Released /01/31/2025
Catalogue /IARC-0092
Barcode /634457192218
Artist /Damon Locks
Label /International Anthem Recording Co.
Genre /Jazz