Damon Locks is a Chicago based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician, and deejay. Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble – featuring Angel Bat Dawid, Dana Hall, Arif Smith, Phillip Armstrong, Monique Golding, Eric McCarter, Tramaine Parker, Lauren Robinson and dancers (members of Chicago dance company Move Me Soul) – recalls the spirits of Phil Cohran, Eddie Gale and Public Enemy. The music is an inspired, innovative & immediate intersection of gospel, jazz, activism & 808 breaks.