OPEN ARMS TO OPEN US by BEN LAMAR GAY
| SKU | 120260 |
| Artist | BEN LAMAR GAY |
| Title | OPEN ARMS TO OPEN US |
| Label | INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM RECORDING COMPANY |
| Catalog # | IARC 0051LP |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 46 - 2021 |
| Format | Vinyl - EULP |
| EAN Barcode | 789993991853 |
| Import | |
| € 26,99 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks On You.(featuring Ohmme)
- Hood Rich Happy
- Bang Melodically Bang
- Aunt Lola and the Qua
- Mestre Candeia’s Denim Hat
- Oh Great Be The Lake
- Be Loving Me Some Of You
- Nyuzura(featuringDorothée Munyaneza)
- Slightly Before The Dawn
- Lean Back.Try Igbo(featuring Onye Ozuzu)
- Dress Me In New Love
- Touch. Don’t Scroll(featuring Ayanna Woods)
- I Once Carried A Blossom(featuring A.Martin
- In Tongues And In Droves(featuringTomeka Reid)
- S’Phisticated Lady(featuringGira Dahnee and Angel Bat Dawid)
- We Gon Win
Description
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 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 universefor 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 MacieStewart, bassist/vocalist/arranger Ayanna Woods, multi-disciplinary Rwandan artistDorothée Munyaneza, poet A.Martinez, cellist Tomeka Reid, and vocalists Onye Ozuzu,Gira Dahnee, and Angel Bat Dawid.
