BEN LAMAR GAY – Open Arms To Open Us – LP – Dawn Cherry Vinyl

LABEL: International Anthem Recording Co

CAT NO: IARC51LPI

BARCODE: 789993991860

Tracklisting:

01) Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks On You.(featuring Ohmme)
02) Hood Rich Happy
03) Bang Melodically Bang
04) Aunt Lola And The Quail
05) Mestre Candeias Denim Hat
06) Oh Great Be The Lake
07) I Be Loving Me Some Of You
08) Nyuzura(featuringDorothe Munyaneza)
09) Slightly Before The Dawn
10) Lean Back.Try Igbo(featuring Onye Ozuzu)
11) Dress Me In New Love
12) Touch. Dont Scroll(featuring Ayanna Woods)
13) I Once Carried A Blossom(featuring A.Martinez)
14) In Tongues And In Droves(featuringTomeka Reid)
15) SPhisticated Lady(featuringGira Dahnee And Angel Bat Dawid)
16) We Gon Win

BEN LAMAR GAY Open Arms To Open Us

LP Indies Exclusive Limited & Numbered Edition 160g Dawn Cherry Vinyl

Ben LaMar Gays 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 artists previously unreleased music. Open Arms to Open Us is the 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, its a beaming expression of Gays 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 Dorothe Munyaneza, poet A.Martinez, cellist Tomeka Reid, and vocalists Onye Ozuzu, Gira Dahnee, and Angel Bat Dawid.

See below for tracklisting