3Arts | Ben LaMar Gay

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• BEN LAMAR GAY
• BEN LAMAR GAY
• BEN LAMAR GAY ANNOUNC NEW ALBUM, SHAR SONG WH OHMME: LISTEN
• BEN LAMAR GAY RELLS SOUTHERN SUMMERS ON “AUNT LOLA AND THE QUAIL”
• BEN LAMAR GAY ANNOUNC NEW ALBUM CERTA REVERI, SHAR 11-MUTE SONG “ÁGUA FUTURISM”: LISTEN
• BEN LAMAR GAY HONORS THE LEGENDARY EDDIE HARRIS WH BALOGUN, A TRIBUTE TEXTUR AND LORS
• CHIGO MIL POLYMATH BEN LAMAR GAY BREAKS EVEN HIS OWN SHAPE-SHIFTG MOLD ON HIS SOLO BUT

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. 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.” He fds the answer rhythm, “the one tens that travels great distanc and nstantly surviv the cmblg of fas.”Rhythm, turns out, is also a potent tool for openg up what uld be a borrle fearsome work of experimental mic to the popular ear.

BEN LAMAR GAY

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”).LaMar 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.

BEN LAMAR GAY ANNOUNC NEW ALBUM, SHAR SONG WH OHMME: LISTEN

In addn to rich barone vols, an, balafon, r, zher, and a host of percsn stments, LaMar Gay also ntribut some fantastilly sharp songwrg on Open Arms, such as the geoly gloomy, mor-key dread of “Oh Great Be the Lake” and the grandiloquent “Aunt Lola and the Quail,” a wealth of ias never g at the expense of brevy.For all this, Open Arms is very much a llective work. Prologue by Ben LaMar Gay:. Ben LaMar Gay – r, voice, an, balafon, synths, temple blocks, programmg, manipulatns, percsn, cítara, bass synth, triangle, paniro, beatbox, kick dm, thgs.

BEN LAMAR GAY RELLS SOUTHERN SUMMERS ON “AUNT LOLA AND THE QUAIL”

All songs posed by Ben LaMar Gay (Tobany G Sound ASCAP), except "Nyuzura" posed by Ben LaMar Gay & Dorothée Munyaneza, and "I Once Carried A Blossom" posed by Ben LaMar Gay & A. Produced by Ben LaMar Gay & Dave Vettrao.

BEN LAMAR GAY ANNOUNC NEW ALBUM CERTA REVERI, SHAR 11-MUTE SONG “ÁGUA FUTURISM”: LISTEN

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.” He channels a radil array of sound, lor, and space through the universal language of folklore; but spe the wily attributed geni of his work, his artistic approach and general meanor are characterized by an enarg humblens and warm humany. Chigo-born poser, sger, and multi-stmentalist Ben LaMar Gay has announced the new album Open Arms to Open Us, which is out November 19 (via Internatnal Anthem/Nonuch).

Watch the Gay-directed vio for the track rerd his album om March to June 2021 at Internatnal Anthem Studs Chigo. Gay said of his new album:Open Arms to Open Us als wh rhythm as an herance of rmatn—sort of like DNA or RNA. Own the Earth, ” often leav me wh only one thg to look forward to: Arms to Open Us follows Ben LaMar Gay’s 2018 but Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun, which piled material that he’d ma over the prev seven Arms to Open Us:01 Sometim I Fet How Summer Looks on You [ft.

BEN LAMAR GAY HONORS THE LEGENDARY EDDIE HARRIS WH BALOGUN, A TRIBUTE TEXTUR AND LORS

Ben LaMar Gay at the 35th St Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Chigo. Chigo poser and rist Ben Lamar Gay mak mic that transcends phyil borrs and nceptual boundari. Today, he shared “Aunt Lola and the Quail, " the fourth sgle om his sophomore album, Open Arms to Open Us, out November 19 on Internatnal Anthem and Nonuch Rerds.

This terplay rells the summers Gay spent on his Aunt Lola's land Alabama as a child.

"Aunt Lola and I would stand still and listen together, " Gay said a statement scribg the song's spiratn.

CHIGO MIL POLYMATH BEN LAMAR GAY BREAKS EVEN HIS OWN SHAPE-SHIFTG MOLD ON HIS SOLO BUT

Gay will perform the album full at Brooklyn's Public Rerds on January 18, 2022 as part of the NYC Wter Jazzft. Chigo-born poser, volist, and multi-stmentalist Ben LaMar Gay has announced a new album: Certa Reveri is due out November 11 via Internatnal Anthem.

The album is sgle longform posn broken up to 11 track for s digal release, and featur Gay alongsi percsnist Tommaso Moretti.

Acpanyg the announcement, Gay has shared a new 11-mute sgle lled “Água Futurism, ” which arriv wh a new mic vio. The vidsual was directed by Chris Strong, and follows Gay and Moretti as they perform the track live a low-l room.