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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. * ben lamar gay ondarock *
Il mosai di generi di Ben Lamar Gay non smette di stupire e stimolare. La fne chiave jazz di hip-hop, elettroni, mi brasiliana, funk, mimalismo, soul sbilen e perfo progrsive rock è ormai ben oltre il nfe l ja-vu: Ben Lamar Gay sposta oltre l’orolog temporale lla propria mi, anticipando il policromo mondo multistilisti l futuro. I sedici tasselli svelano timbri e lori edi, eppure appartenenti a un uni rpo creativo, che è il march nfondibile lla mi di Ben Lamar Gay.
Nulla è e sembra, nel mondo di Ben Lamar Gay: l’apparente spensieratezza di “We Gon We” e la romanti spirualà etno-soul di “Nyuzura” sono solo una picla parte di un puzzle sonoro le cui ambizni sono quelle di voler rapprentare non solo i molteplici stati d’animo (gia, rabbia, dolore, medazne), ma anche la fisicà di ogni sere umano (danzare, nutrirsi, vivere, amare, morire).
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Brani e “Slightly Before The Dawn”, “I Once Carried A Blossom”e “In Tongu And In Drove“ vanno ben oltre il postulato appena accennato, provando l’enorme potenzialà lla mi di Ben Lamar Gay, selvaggiamente oniri (“Aunt Lola And The Quail ”), aspra e genua (“S'Phistited Lady”), nonché pace di slanci artistici che marchiano a fuo la mi ntemporanea (“I Be Lovg Me Some Of You”, “Lean Back. BEN LAMAR GAY.
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Un flso di mori e rmi tribali, voci distorte, strappi elettronici, ee jazz e striduli suoni di fiati (“You A’t Never Lied”): l’urlo sonoro di Ben Lamar Gay è potente, avvcente, disturbante. Più che soddisfare le atte di chi aveva apprezzato l’altante ntamazne di “Open Arms To Open Us”, il nuovo dis di Ben Lamar Gay stimola l’atta per le future mosse di un artista che ha riacco la lgua di fuo ll’improvvisazne per dare va a un lguagg jazz tergeneraznale ntua pansne ed evoluzne. 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.
BEN LAMAR GAY
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. 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.
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” 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. Ben LaMar Gay is on the latt episo of BBC World Service's Mic Life, jog Angel Bat Dawid nversatn wh Qur'an Shaheed and Dr.
About Ben LaMar Gay.
Ben LaMar Gay is a poser and rist who mov sound, lor, and space through folkloric filters to produce electro-atic llag. 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.
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Prima di approdare alla pubblizne di “Downtown Castl Can Never Block The Sun”, suo ord ufficiale, Ben LaMar Gay ha scrto e registrato, durante gli ultimi sette anni, molta mi, affidata a dischi che, per lo più, sono rimasti appannagg di pochissimi timi amici. “Downtown Castl Can Never Block The Sun” nasce e una sorta di antologia pilata dallo stso micista l South Si chigoano, che qui è rico a ofire una panorami stiva l suo pastiche di jazz, elettroni, art-pop, funk, mi brasiliana e sprazzi di cia n il metalli luccichìo lla brevissima “V Labs”, prelud a “Muhal”, cui, a suon di percsni, svirgolamenti stetici e sppi di claretto basso, viene omaggiato quel Muhal Richard Abrams che negli anni Ssanta fu l’artefice primo lla fondazne ll’AACM (Associatn for the Advancement of Creative Micians), leggenda l jazz d’avanguardia n cui lo stso Gay ha avuto a che fare più di un'ocsne. Attraverso il mimalismo nevroti di “Mic for 18 Hairdrsers: Braids & Fractals” e una “Jubilee” cui l’Aobeat è screziato di flash jazz-metropolani (quti ultimi redivivi, ma modalà più creplare, anche “Me, Jayve & The Big Bee”), si giunge, qudi, a quella stravaganza tribal-tchy che rispon al nome di “A Seasong Called Primavera”, cui Gay, affidandosi a una vecchia ricetta ll’Alabama, celebra la gia di cucare succulenti piatti primaverili dopo un lungo e rigido verno.
Guidato da un piacere quasi fantile nell’amalgamare diversi generi e stili mili, Ben LaMar Gay è stato pace di assemblare un dis che stuzzi la mente e risveglia il rpo. Ben LaMar Gay. Chigo rist Ben Lamar Gay is one of the cy's most adventuro and boundary-phg performers wh sound that touch upon avant-gar jazz, hip-hop, die rock, Brazilian tradns, and experimental electronic posn.
A member of the AACM, Gay (who also spent time travelg and livg Brazil) emerged the 2000s sgg and playg a variety of stments. Raised on Chigo's South Si, Gay veloped his r skills as a member of the rpected AACM (Associatn for the Advancement of Creative Micians).
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In 2018, Gay llected a handful of his own unreleased tracks for his but album, Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun, on Internatnal Anthem.
This virtual exhibn featur new works, current projects, and terviews wh one of our artists Ben LaMar Gay. Ben LaMar Gay (he/him) is a poser/rist who mov ponents of sound, lor, and space through folkloric filters to produce brilliant electro‐atic llag. Embracg ternatnal visn while remag te to his roots, Gay’s creative output aligns wh the hont notn that he only knows how to be a man om the South Si of Chigo.