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• BEN LAMAR GAY: DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN REVIEW – IMMERSIVE JAZZ NOVATOR
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• BEN LAMAR GAY: DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN
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• DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN INTERNATNAL ANTHEM RERDG COCD£12.99RELEASED 15/04/2020CATALOGUE NUMBERIARC17CD BEN LAMAR GAYDOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN
• BEN LAMAR GAY
• BEN LAMAR GAY: DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN
• BEN LAMAR GAY DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN
• DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN INTERNATNAL ANTHEM RERDG COCD£12.99RELEASED 15/04/2020CATALOGUE NUMBERIARC17CD BEN LAMAR GAYDOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN
• BEN LAMAR GAY SOUNDTRACKS SOUTHSI CHIGO WH AN IRREGULAR GROOVE

BEN LAMAR GAY: DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN REVIEW – IMMERSIVE JAZZ NOVATOR

"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. If you’re worried that you’re a lateer to the work of untegorizable Chigo mician Ben LaMar Gay, take solace the certaty that you’re not alone. Gay’s new album, Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun, supposedly draws om seven of his prev rerds, wh cur nam like Grap, Benjamim e Edho, and Confetti the Sky Like Fireworks.

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Instead, he worked wh jazz and experimental artists like Joshua Abrams’ Natural Informatn Society, Nile Mchell, Jaimie Branch and Bch Bajas while allowg his own songcraft to cubate to a but and a pilatn, the nfint Downtown Castl is a showse for Gay’s eclectic sensibily. The pulsatns of “Mic for 18 Hairdrsers: Braids & Fractals” allu to Steve Reich’s mimalist masterwork Mic for 18 Micians, even as Gay’s buzzg reeds evoke ee jazz. Named for inic Associatn for the Advancement of Creative Micians -founr Muhal Richard Abrams, “Muhal” would seem to suate Gay firmly the Chigo jazz tradn; r and bass claret creak as he croaks lyrics woven om Abrams’ album tl.

” An o to a paramour braids that melts to an extend okg metaphor (spiced wh Gay’s knowg asi “I get ”), the song bounc atop a fidgety, broken beat, never stayg put for long. That may sound like a pretent jumble of referenc, but Gay kns them so they all sway together.

A spoken-word terlu suat Gay some Southern swampland; the layered voic and sputterg electronics of “Kunni” njure early TV on the Rad. ”That Brazilian rhythmic sensibily weav s way to most of the mic, probably bee Gay liv there when he isn’t Chigo.

BEN LAMAR GAY: DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN

A cracklg static pulse provis the bossa nova-spired beat, as though Gay is transmtg the breezy, murmured mic of João Gilberto om another galaxy. Such is the se wh Chigo-based poser Ben LaMar Gay and Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun.

Over s 15 tracks, Gay plays out a palimpst of his prev work; llaboratns wh mutant funk tr Bottle Tree, jazz tmpeter Jaimie Branch and synth-loopers Bch Bajas. Rather than leapg om genre to genre, Gay creat an immersive soundspe.

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Ftgly for a young member of Chigo’s famoly experimental Associatn for the Advancement of Creative Micians, Ben Lamar Gay’s jazz reventns volve blendg live--the-moment playg wh electronics-heavy stud manipulatn.

Now AvailableBen LaMar Gay - downtown stl n never block the sun. 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 IARC0017: Ben LaMar Gay - Downtown Castl Can Never Block The SunReleased May 4, 2018Available digally via our Bandmp page. Downtown Castl Can Never Block The Sun is as much a ‘greatt hs’ as is a ‘but album’ for Ben LaMar Gay.

Suffic to say, Ben LaMar Gay is nearly omniprent the current zegeist of progrsive jazz sounds sproutg om Chigo. It’s as good of an troductn to Ben LaMar Gay as we uld f onto a sgle LP. Compiled & Sequenced by Stt McNiece & Ben LaMar Gay.

About 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.

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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 Disgraphy Browser.

Wh the realm of Ben LaMar Gay's but album we n a siar gamut of sonic experience. A rist and poser om Chigo's South Si, Gay has worked wh Jaimie Branch, Makaya McCraven and Joshua Abrams among others. All that chang wh the release of the fifteen tracks, picked out as favour om Gay's back talogue by fay members.

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A snapshot of Gay's passn for jazz, poetry, hip hop and electroni, Downtown Castl might be an d portra of Chigo self. South Ameri gets a look too—Gay has worked Brazil—as do the soul of movie soundtracks. Over this, Gay ton like a streetwise mystic, payg tribute to Muhal Richard Abrams, the Chigo piano legend who died 2017.

Based on an old Alabama recipe, Gay celebrat the sprg r of okg after a tough Chigo wter.

BEN LAMAR GAY DOWNTOWN CASTL CAN NEVER BLOCK THE SUN

Later, the eerie "7th Stanza" is a harmonium whisper above which Gay narrat a fable of sctive fortry. Downtown Castl is a bright para of humany, led by Gay as s dazzlg grand marshal. Ben Lamar Gay: r, synth, voice, narratn, flute; Will Faber: guar, ngoni, synth, etls 12-strg guar, flute; Josh Sirotiak: tuba, flute; Tommaso Moretti: dms, flute.

Ben LaMar Gay is a poser and rist who mov sound, lor, and space through folkloric filters to produce electro-atic llag. 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.

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“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.

BEN LAMAR GAY SOUNDTRACKS SOUTHSI CHIGO WH AN IRREGULAR GROOVE

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. Open-md, adventuro and multi-llectible, certaly gas the tle of the bt, liberal-jazz album of the sometim lacks hn, Ben LaMar Gay's 'Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun' is a vibrant, chaotic but that draws s fluenc om a variety of jazz styl, most notably Brazilian and Ain.

Product scriptn Downtown Castl Can Never Block The Sun is as much a greatt hs as is a but album for Ben LaMar Gay. Beyond beg the bras behd Bottle Tree the future funk sue we released April of 2017 that was named #1 Bt Album of the Year by Londons EZH Magaze and on NPRs Sound Opns (c/o producer Ayana Contreras) Ben LaMar Gay plays on both of our biggt 2017 releas, Makaya McCraven's Highly Rare and Jaimie Branch's Fly or Die.

Ben LaMar Gay is already almost omniprent the current zegeist of progrsive jazz sounds sproutg om Chigo, but the release of Downtown Castl will be his first moment squarely the center of the spotlight. 1 kHz / 16 BSource: Digal downloadAlbum Artist: Ben Lamar Gay Album Name: Downtown Castl Can Never Block the SunGenre: Experimental Jazz, Indie, Neo SoulRelease Date: 2018ArtWork: not clud Size: 258 mbTracklist:01.

Ben LaMar Gay: Vis Labs [00:00:32]02.

Ben LaMar Gay: Muhal [00:03:43]03. Ben LaMar Gay: Mic for 18 Hairdrsers: Braids & Fractals [00:02:25]04.

Ben LaMar Gay: Jubilee [00:03:22]05. Ben LaMar Gay: A Seasong Called Primavera [00:03:51]06.

Ben LaMar Gay: Miss Nealie Burns [00:02:48]07.

Ben LaMar Gay: Me, Jayve & the Big Bee [00:01:45]08. Ben LaMar Gay: Uvas [00:04:19]09.

Ben LaMar Gay: Galvton [00:03:46]10. Ben LaMar Gay: Swim Swim [00:03:22]11. Ben LaMar Gay: Kunni [00:03:47]12.

Ben LaMar Gay: Melhor Que Tem [00:03:28]13. Ben LaMar Gay: Gator Teeth [00:01:23]14.