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In recent years, Locks has also earned great renown from his revolutionary, expansive latter-day gospel\/jazz project Black Monument Ensemble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Future City Radio\u003c\/i\u003e finds the duo creating a natural but innovatively-assembled blend of the sounds of those two projects, with Locks’s BME-style sample-based sound collage creating compositional beds underneath the signature Orson Wells-like vocal delivery he’s developed through his work with ESO, alongside Roland SP flourishes and arresting brass improvisations by Mazurek. The album is also filled with vignettes as fractured radio transmissions, featuring contributions by guests including Roberto Lange (Helado Negro) and Mauricio Takara (Sao Paulo Underground). It’s a deep avant-garde echo of the legendary Bomb Squad (Locks even sounding a bit like a tape-delayed Check D on the vox), with beat artifacts spanning the whole gamut from pre to post golden era hip-hop - mixing OG Brooklyn boombox sound with the sci-fi boom-bap of late 90s Def Jux and\/or Dan The Automator’s 75 Ark.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"International Anthem Recording Co","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50428958933323,"sku":"2026339","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Grey LP","offer_id":50428959949131,"sku":"2026340","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50428958343499,"sku":"2026338","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/New_Future_City_Radio_2b41bb7a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726836675"},{"product_id":"nestors-nest","title":"Nestor's Nest","description":"\u003cp\u003eRob Mazurek graces the Keroxen Records waves with a genre defying album of field recordings, modular electronics, trumpet harmonies and spirit call chants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unstoppable force since his first recordings in the early 90’s  Rob Mazurek has been at the forefront of experimentation and adventurous improvised music for most of the last 4 decades. The American composer, cornetist, and visual artist has been developing his own style of improvisational music with a myriad of collaborators, too many to list but amongst them true giants of the 20th and 21st century music cannon like Bill Dixon, Pharoah Sanders, Jeff Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Yusef Lateef and Naná Vasconcelos amongst many many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNestor’s Nest\u003c\/i\u003e is yet another addition to Mazurek’s mammoth catalogue of cosmic unity, coming like a spur of the moment whilst staying at Nestor and Pura’s house in Tenerife during the Keroxen Festival edition of 2023. Dead time doesn’t exist for the American cornetist and whilst hanging at the organisers house Mazurek decided to record and interact with his colourful tropical surroundings. Mangos, Papayas and Star Fruits all make an appearance here as does the quietness of an idyllic garden juxtaposed with Mazurek's stormy interferences, unleashing his modular synths and other acoustic paraphernalia into an ecstatic mix of pure celestial energy. As he beautifully states on the albums back cover:  Fruit from the trees of life, Stop All War. Stop the Killing, Open the senses, Breath.  Listen . Feel!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keroxen \/ Discrepant","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50914901950795,"sku":"2234739","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KRXN036_c3b3b5f1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1733001822"},{"product_id":"alternate-moon-cycles-ia11-edition","title":"Alternate Moon Cycles (IA11 Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRob Mazurek’s \u003ci\u003eAlternate Moon Cycles\u003c\/i\u003e was International Anthem's first release. The incredibly spare single-note-centered cornet, bass, and organ chant was recorded to tape at pint-sized Chicago bar Curio as part of a performance series that predates any notion of our label’s existence. Documenting this performance—highly unique even within the depths of Mazurek’s vast catalog—stirred those notions, and soon talks began of releasing the recording on a fresh imprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe music unfolds glacially amongst the gentle creaks, clinks, whispers, and scuffles of the active room. It’s difficult to imagine a more honest rendering of the two sidelong pieces of organic minimal music, and nearly impossible to separate the sounds from their performance context. 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