Damon Locks' 'Where Future Unfolds' - uplifting activist jazz for tumultuous times

Where Future Unfolds started life as a solo project for Chicago musician and activist Damon Locks, who used samples from civil rights era speeches and recordings in improvised performances with a drum machine. Over the past four years he gathered a band Black Monument Ensemble, and 'Where Future Unfolds' is a live recording of The Black Monument Ensemble's debut performance. Pitchfork says the essence of the album is "gritty sentiments that radiate an optimistic glow. In the way that music from old eras can be sampled and repurposed into new forms, Locks’s majestic work strives to reach better days by looking back and learning from the past". Listen to the album at BandCamp.