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. 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. 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. 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.

BEN LAMAR GAY

Produced by Ben LaMar Gay & Dave Vettrao. 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 at the 35th St Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Chigo. Chigo poser and rist Ben Lamar Gay mak mic that transcends phyil borrs and nceptual boundari.

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

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.

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

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. Certa Reveri follows Gay’s 2021 album Open Arms to Open Us.

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

But when the Jazz Instute of Chigo asked poser and r player Ben LaMar Gay to ntribute to their celebratn of Eddie Harris — the late artist who pneered the electrified tenor sax, vented several other hybrid stments (the reed tmpet, the saxobone, the guan) and released a full LP of edy songs tled The Reason Why I’m Talkg S–t, as well as dozens more solo rerds prisg origal mic and standards — he tried somethg different. Sadly, Gay’s schled March 8, 2020 performance at the event was ncelled due to the COVID-19 panmic, and he was forced perform his creatn om home two months later. Based not directly on Harris’ life but on Gay’s over-stimulatg experience at a Nigerian market, the project pays homage to the man’s vibe rather than his acplishments.

Balogun premier today wh The FADER and arriv njunctn wh Gay’s new album, Certa Reveri.

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

In honor of the new projects’ tanm release, Gay took time out of his European tour to rpond to our burng qutns about Balogun’s blurry them. Ben LaMar Gay: Thank you.

Ben LaMar Gay Cred: Maren Celt. Chigo’s Ben LaMar Gay is one of the most mercurial micians a cy full of them.

Micians are often jt as omnivoro their tast and terts as listeners are, and Gay is a mol for such broad thkg and creativy. On May 4, Gay will release Downtown Castl Can Never Block the Sun, his long-overdue solo but, on Internatnal Anthem. Gay picked s songs om a huge trove he rerd over the past seven years—he’d nceived of that material as seven separate albums, but he never ma an attempt to release any of them.

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

When I ran to Gay last night, he lled this his greatt-hs album, jokg about those old late-night TV ads for Time-Life mic llectns that terpt their termably scrollg lists of track nam wh the amped-up exhortatns of a pchman tellg you what PO box to send your money to. On “A Seasong Called Primavera” Gay sg-talks over a lean, fect electro groove that’s remiscent of vtage R Janeiro baile funk, and the lyrics reference his upbrgg Chigo—he name-checks Cajmere‘s techno h “The Perlator.

“Miss Nealie Burns” uld be a samba sg-along wh a touch of Django Rehardt, but Gay’s horn njur the swg era, wh wild effects worthy of early De Ellgton tmpeter Bubber Miley. This morng the Rear is pleased to share the irristible “Swim Swim, ” a stuttery track domated by piquant stmmg on what sounds like a vaquho (a Brazilian lute) and Gay’s nversatnally soulful vols. Gay claims s vibe was spired by the exprsns and gtur of Giulietta Masa the classic Feri Felli film Nights of Cabiria.

On Friday, March 23, Gay will perform wh Brazilian sger Dill Costa, dmmer Carlos Pri, and synthizer player Alex Inglizian (who will electronilly manipulate Costa’s voice on samba and bossa nova standards) at the Co-Prospery Sphere to celebrate the release of a documentary short lled This Is Bate Bola, for which Gay created the soundtrack.