Composer, sger, and stmental polymath Ben LaMar Gay releas his new album, Open Arms to Open Us, November 19 on Internatnal Anthem / Nonuch Rerds. The first offerg om the Southsi Chigo native’s newt project is a pulsg melodic bellow featurg OHMME sgers Sima Cunngham and Macie Stewart, tled "Sometim I Fet How Summer Looks on You." Acrdg to Gay, the song is “spired by the preparatn one mak for another when ’s time for them to enter or ex an embrace, a memory or a life." You n watch the vio for here: Highlighted the New York Tim’s Fall 2021 preview, Open Arms to Open Us is a dispatch om “postmorn folklorist” Gay’s current place space, filled wh imagative arrangements and his “wise and nfidg barone.” It was produced and rerd at Internatnal Anthem Studs Chigo between March and June of 2021. Across sixteen tracks Gay fluently terweav jazz, blu, ballads, R&B, raga, new mic, nursery rhyme, tropilia, two-step, hip-hop and beyond a beamg exprsn of his signature omni-genre “Pan-Amerina” brew. Alongsi his own sizable toolk of stments (r, keyboards, synthizers, flut, percsns), Gay surrounds himself wh steady bandmat (cludg Tommaso Moretti on dms, Matthew Davis on tuba, and Rob Frye on woodwds), while also shg the spotlight on female artists om his st of regular llaborators. Featured artists on the album clu: OHMME sgers Sima Cunngham and Macie Stewart, bassist/volist/arranger Ayanna Woods, multi-disciplary Rwandan artist Dorothée Munyaneza, poet A.Martez, cellist Tomeka Reid, and volists Onye Ozuzu, Gira Dahnee, and Angel Bat Dawid. Reflectg on the meang of the mic a prologue he wrote for Open Arms to Open Us, Gay says the album’s tle is “a suggtn of a body movement that is ed many spirual practic and is also a gture that reprents a type of unrstandg that leads to touch or a hug.” He also says, “Open Arms to Open Us als wh rhythm as an herance of rmatn – sort of like DNA or RNA. Copg wh the prent-day bombardment of data and recycled iologi om sourc sentially fed by the creed ‘Dtroy Them. Own the Earth,’ often leav me wh only one thg to look forward to: Rhythm.” This latt project is the follow up to Gay’s 2018 crilly-acclaimed, but album Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun, which was a pilatn of prevly-unreleased material posed and produced by Gay over seven years. It was herald by Pchfork, NPR, and the Guardian, the last of which lled , “a rerd of endls pth and unpredictabily.” But Gay’s work is not limed to album releas. He has posed for dance troup (cludg the Ruth Page Civic Ballet) and archectural featur (cludg a 2019 duet wh the DuSable Bridge downtown Chigo), and also has done extensive film sre work (cludg the 2018 Tribe Film Ftival award-wng documentary The Good Fight). In 2019 he buted ‘Hecky Naw! Angels!’ at the Mm of Contemporary Art Chigo, g vio art and choreography to explore the shap and sounds of Chigo’s Black social danc.
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Open Arms to Open Us liv up to NPR's claim that "there is no one universe for Ben LaMar Gay, he jt sonic booms om one sound to another. " On the album, rerd at Internatnal Anthem studs Chigo, Gay terweav jazz, blu, ballads, R&B, raga, new mic, nursery rhyme, Tropicália, two-step, hip-hop, and beyond his most lorful and munible work yet, an exprsn of his signature omni-genre, "Pan-Amerina" brew.
Composer, sger, and stmental polymath Ben LaMar Gay releas his new album, Open Arms to Open Us, November 19 on Internatnal Anthem / Nonuch Rerds. " Acrdg to Gay, the song is “spired by the preparatn one mak for another when ’s time for them to enter or ex an embrace, a memory or a life. Highlighted the New York Tim’s Fall 2021 preview, Open Arms to Open Us is a dispatch om “postmorn folklorist” Gay’s current place space, filled wh imagative arrangements and his “wise and nfidg barone.
Across sixteen tracks Gay fluently terweav jazz, blu, ballads, R&B, raga, new mic, nursery rhyme, tropilia, two-step, hip-hop and beyond a beamg exprsn of his signature omni-genre “Pan-Amerina” brew. Alongsi his own sizable toolk of stments (r, keyboards, synthizers, flut, percsns), Gay surrounds himself wh steady bandmat (cludg Tommaso Moretti on dms, Matthew Davis on tuba, and Rob Frye on woodwds), while also shg the spotlight on female artists om his st of regular llaborators.
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Reflectg on the meang of the mic a prologue he wrote for Open Arms to Open Us, Gay says the album’s tle is “a suggtn of a body movement that is ed many spirual practic and is also a gture that reprents a type of unrstandg that leads to touch or a hug.
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This latt project is the follow up to Gay’s 2018 crilly-acclaimed, but album Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun, which was a pilatn of prevly-unreleased material posed and produced by Gay over seven years. ” But Gay’s work is not limed to album releas.
WNYC's New Sounds dit s latt episo to "some of the excg new mic g out of Chigo, " cludg three albums released through partnership between the Chigo-born label Internatnal Anthem and Nonuch Rerds: Jeff Parker's Sue for Max Brown and Forfolks and Ben LaMar Gay's Open Arms to Open Us.
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In November 2020, Chigo multi-stmentalist Ben LaMar Gay buted his long-form posn Certa Reveri at a London Jazz Ftival livtream show. The performance was no mere park-and-play: wearg a black hood shawl that relled the grim reaper, Gay played electronics, synths, and of urse his r, and llaboratn wh brilliant percsnist Tommaso Moretti, he guid dienc through hntg dreamsp for more than an hour.
Almost two years after the origal stream, Gay is releasg the d om that remarkable live performance on lol label Internatnal Anthem, anized to 11 tracks.
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The origal Certa Reveri stream was patently a panmic artwork, down to a short-film terlu shot si Gay’s apartment.
Gay’s lamentg phras “Sk” sound like they’re g om behd a curta; actualy, on that prevacce ocsn, he and Moretti wore masks bee they were performg together close quarters. ” Gay repris the first sectn of Certa Reveri (“You A’t Never Lied” on the album) at the end of the posn (“New Tongu Tell Old Fibs” on the album), repeatg s tle rea and playg back distorted sampl of his and Moretti’s earlier improvisatns. But parison to the stunng, soberg 12-mute penultimate track, “Água Futurism” (which sounds as though Gay and Moretti have been buildg up to the whole eveng), “New Tongu Tell Old Fibs” is practilly fallg actn.
If you’re jt listeng to the album, you won’t be able to take the entrancg sight of Gay twirlg lights unr his cloak like a ghoulish fire dancer. Ben LaMar Gay’s Certa Reveri is available on Bandmp. Ben LaMar Gay is a poser and rist who mov sound, lor, and space through folkloric filters to produce electro-atic llag.
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Ben LaMar Gay is a poser, multi-stmentalist, sger, poet, and patently eclectic polymath who Aopunk has lled “strikgly origal, ” Pchfork has lled “untegorizable, ” and Jeff Parker has lled "hands down, one of my favore micians on the pla today. "Downtown Castl Can Never Block The Sun" is as much a 'greatt hs' as is a 'but album' for Ben LaMar Gay. It's as good of an troductn to Ben LaMar Gay as we uld f onto a sgle LP.
In an illumatg prologue to his send full-length album, Chigo stmentalist, poser, and volist Ben LaMar Gay wr of his doubts as to what he uld leave behd for “the young people my life” when faced wh “the cmblg of societal fas. It’s a remarkable piece of mil pathfdg, sprawlg s ambn and surprisgly precise s attack, an album where a zher jam (“Nyuzura, ” featurg Brish-Rwandan sger Dorothée Munyaneza) giv way to triangle-assisted drone (“Slightly Before the Dawn”), which then ces the floor to hip-hop tuba bounce (“Drs Me New Love”) Gay’s visn of mil “Pan-Amerina”—reachg beyond the sawdt and sp image of classil Amerina to clu North and South Amerin culture—bds the project together.