Ben Lamar Gay
Ben LaMar Gay is a cornetist, composer, singer and producer from the South Side of Chicago. He grew up under the influence of the AACM and played in the city's jazz, hip hop, house, rock and Latin scenes before spending several years in Brazil. His records for International Anthem mix cornet, voice, electronics and percussion with ideas from jazz, Brazilian music and song. Gay returned to Chicago in the early 2010s and over about seven years made music of his own, which he drew on for his debut album Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun (International Anthem, 2018).
Still Life with Lemons
Still Life with Lemons began as a ‘Reflex’ commission from the Amsterdam venue Bimhuis. This album is a live recording of that special first performance. Powerful musical characters meet on stage in a spirit of exploration, friendship, and openness, …
Yowzers
Yowzers is a new album by Chicago composer, improvisor, instrumentalist and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay. The twelve track collection is a leap forward in the lexicon of Gay’s recorded output, and a veritable masterwork of ancient inner-body rhyt…
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Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun
Ben LaMar Gay’s de facto debut album, 'Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun', was our attempt to introduce the legendary Chicago composer / improviser / renaissance man to the rest of the world with a compilation of tracks from 7 albums he made o…
Certain Reveries
*222 copies limited release* In the tradition of toddler crayon scribbles on perfectly painted bedroom walls, multi-freshness composer Ben LaMar Gay expands on the teachings of Alabama star spirits and presents a collection of work involving sound, f…