{"id":73028,"date":"2021-02-25T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=73028"},"modified":"2021-02-25T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:12:39","slug":"black-monument-ensemble-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/black-monument-ensemble-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Monument Ensemble returns with defiant new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Black Monument Ensemble is a music and dance collective formed by Damon Lock and composed of fifteen artists including Angel Bat Dawid, Phillip Armstrong, Monique Golden, Keisha Janae. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in Chicago, the Black Monument Ensemble strives for deep eclecticism, combining both dance and music. After the release of <em>Where Future Unfolds<\/em> last December, the super collective has announced <em>NOW<\/em>, an album that will be released on <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/international-anthem\/\">International Anthem<\/a>. <em>Where Future Unfolds<\/em> aims to pay tribute to Afro-American music through gospel and free jazz. This blend of genres give rise to a militant story, linking past, present and future, in the struggle against inequalities, especially those affecting African-Americans, which are exacerbated in this health crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - &quot;NOW (Forever Momentary Space)&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQLGNOCb6ZM?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The objective of the collective is to fight injustice with art as their only weapon. Damon Locks considers the <em>NOW<\/em> album to be a &#8220;resistance against darkness.&#8221; Recorded during the summer of 2020, the <em>NOW<\/em> album was intended to never stop producing art, despite the health crisis and this music is illustrated by his own collages. Damon Locks elaborates: &#8220;It was about proposing a new way of thinking. It was about resisting the darkness. It was about expressing possibilities. It was about asking the following question: Since the future has unfolded and taken on a new and dangerous form &#8230; What happens NOW?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-order the album <a href=\"https:\/\/intlanthem.bandcamp.com\/album\/now\">here<\/a> ahead of its April 9 release, via <a href=\"https:\/\/intlanthem.bandcamp.com\/\">International Anthem<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/91cd11f8-black-monument-ensemble.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the release of Where Future Unfolds last December, the super collective has announced NOW, an album that will be released on International Anthem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":73022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[33796,5504,23842],"location":[7976],"yst_prominent_words":[33753,33751,9769,33787,33791,9754,8613,33788,33754,33793,31210,33785,33784,33792,33789,8543,8619,33790,33755,33786],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73028"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=73028"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=73028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}