EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL PRESENTS Damon Locks – Black Monument Ensemble

The music and dance collective Black Monument Ensemble (BME) presents their new album NOW, released on International Anthem. Originally conceived as a medium for Chicago-based multimedia artist/activist Damon Locks’s sample-based sound collage work, BME has evolved from a solo mission into a vibrant collective of artists, musicians, singers, and dancers making work with common goals of joy, compassion, and intention. NOW was created in the final throes of summer 2020, following months of pandemic-induced fear and isolation, the explosion of social unrest, struggle & violence in the streets, and as the certain presence of a new reality had fully settled in.