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- Ben LaMar Gay
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- Open Arms to Open Us
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- International Anthem
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- IARC0051D
- Release Date
- November 19, 2021
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Ben LaMar Gay's critically-lauded 2018 break out Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun was more like a greatest hits than a debut album, as it compiled the best of the prolific but obscurity-prone Chicago native artist’s previously unreleased music. Open Arms to Open Us will be our first release of brand new, freshly baked tunes by Gay, a collection recorded entirely at International Anthem studios in Chicago between March-June 2021.
He is an artist that has been called “visionary” by the New York Times. Jeff Parker has called him “one of my favorite musicians on the planet today.” NPR says “there is no one universe for Ben LaMar Gay, he just sonic booms from one sound to another.” Gay lives up to all these statements and more, putting all his best feet forward on this new album. Fluently interweaving jazz, blues, ballads, R&B, raga, new music, nursery rhyme, Tropicalia, two-step, hip-hop and beyond in his most colorful and communicable work yet, it's a beaming expression of Gay’s signature omni-genre, “Pan-Americana” brew.
Featured artists on the album include: OHMME singers Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, bassist/vocalist/arranger Ayanna Woods, multi-disciplinary Rwandan artist Dorothée Munyaneza, poet A.Martinez, cellist Tomeka Reid, and vocalists Onye Ozuzu, Gira Dahnee, and Angel Bat Dawid.
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Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks on You.
Ben LaMar Gay featuring Ohmme
3:27
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Hood Rich Happy
Ben LaMar Gay
1:26
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Bang Melodically Bang
Ben LaMar Gay
3:09
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Aunt Lola and the Quail
Ben LaMar Gay
4:15
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Mestre Candeia's Denim Hat
Ben LaMar Gay
1:53
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Oh Great Be the Lake
Ben LaMar Gay
3:00
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I Be Loving Me Some of You
Ben LaMar Gay
2:07
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Nyuzura
Ben LaMar Gay featuring Dorothée Munyaneza
3:26
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Slightly Before the Dawn
Ben LaMar Gay
3:25
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Lean Back. Try Igbo
Ben LaMar Gay featuring Onye Ozuzu
1:19
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