Ben LaMar Gay reveals his open arms to life through everythg om New Orleans funeral-band dirg to schoolyard stomp-chants.
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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 grapes *
Grap is a brilliantly eclectic llectn of beats, soundsp, home rerdgs & field rerdgs posed & produced by Gay across 2013 & 2014 Chigo. Of all Gay's back talogue nuggets, Grap may be the bt overall showse for his abily to crank out allurg & artful bangers (a la Shabazz Palac, or Organized Noise outtak that were too avant-gar to make Outkast albums the mid-90s). Among his lyril enavors, Grap is most unique s vivid sensory pictns of Gay's home zone.
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Listen to Grap songs Onle on JSaavn. English mic album by Ben LaMar Gay 1. Conrd - Ben LaMar Gay, 2. Please Stay. Keep Breathg. - Ben LaMar Gay, 3. U Say It! - Ben LaMar Gay, 4. Tears - Ben LaMar Gay, 5. Vis Labs - Ben LaMar Gay * ben lamar gay grapes *
And that Gay's tentn was to make mic that "sounds like the murals of Bronzeville g to life.
More on tentns, Gay's own words:. Grap is 1 of 7 prevly-unreleased back talogue albums clud the source material for Ben LaMar Gay's "Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun" pilatn (IARC0017).
Composed & Rerd by Ben LaMar Gay. All other stments & vols by Ben LaMar Gay.
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Grap is a brilliantly eclectic llectn of beats, soundsp, home rerdgs field rerdgs posed produced by Gay across 2013 2014 Chigo. Of all Gay's back talogue nuggets, Grap may be the bt overall showse for his abily to crank out allurg artful bangers (a la * ben lamar gay grapes *
Mixed by Stephen Ptacek & Ben LaMar Gay.
Now AvailableBen LaMar Gay - Grap. In Gay’s mic, the fluidy between the oteric and tchy, the exotic and the faiar, is paramount. “Ben LaMar Gay’s mic is full of wonr.
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Downtown Castl Is A Bright Para Of Humany, Led By Gay As Its Dazzlg Grand Marshal. Announcg IARCGR17: Ben LaMar Gay - GrapReleased November 1, 2018Available digally via our Bandmp page.
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Grap is a brilliantly eclectic llectn of beats, soundsp, home rerdgs & field rerdgs posed & produced by Gay across 2013 & 2014 Chigo. Of all Gay's back talogue nuggets, Grap may be the bt overall showse for his abily to crank out allurg & artful bangers (a la Shabazz Palac, or Organized Noise outtak that were too avant-gar to make Outkast albums the mid-90s).
" More on tentns, Gay's own words: “Grap is a love letter to creative movements, works, artists (past, prent, future) Chigo such as the Black Arts Movement of 60's and 70's, Aibra, the AACM, the Southsi Communy Art Center, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Burroughs, Charl Whe, Kerry Jam Marshall... Composed & Rerd by Ben LaMar GayVoic by Gira Dahnee & Hanna Brock on "Muhal, " “The Glorifitn of Small Victori, ” and “Tears”Woodwds by Rob Frye on "Muhal"Sax by JayVe Montgomery on "Me, JayVe & The Big Bee"Vols by Zuzu Fe on “Mr Zuzu”Voice by Na Adams on “Na”Strgs by Hanna Brock on “Uvas”All other stments & vols by Ben LaMar Gay. Mixed by Stephen Ptacek & Ben LaMar GayMastered by David AllenAlbum Artwork by Maren CeltAll rights rerved.
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Grap, an Album by Ben LaMar Gay. Released 1 November 2018 on Internatnal Anthem. Genr: Art Pop. * ben lamar gay grapes *
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.
Over the years, he has proven himself to be an unpredictable artist wh a wi-rangg stylistic on Chigo's South Si, Gay veloped his r skills as a member of the rpected AACM (Associatn for the Advancement of Creative Micians). 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. Ben LaMar Gay.
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.
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" 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. 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.