NOW: Vinyl LP A.G. Cook Ben is currently working on

Ben is currently working on fourth solo album

that meant more than just “boom-bap” sounds or tight lyricism—it meant bringing everything to the table

a longtime contributor to the band (and

there’s something in there that comes out of him—he’s his own monster

NOW: Vinyl LP A.G. Cook Ben is currently working onDamon 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