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NOW: Vinyl LP A.G. Cook that meant more than justDamon Locks & Black Monument Ensembles latest album "NOW" was created in the final throes of Summer 2020, following months of pandemic induced fear & isolation, the explosion of social unrest, struggle & violence in the streets, and as the certain presence of a new reality had fully settled in. Set up safely in the garden behind Chicagos Experimental Sound Studio, the music was recorded in only a few takes, capturing the first times members of BME had