Ben LaMar Gay EU Tour Dates Announced // Certain Reveries + Open Arms to Open Us stocked & ready to ship
((( photo by Chelsea Ross )))
Ben LaMar Gay in Europe
March 2023
Ben embarks on a tour of the European continent very soon, along with his classic quartet featuring Tommaso Moretti (drums), Matthew Davis (tuba), Will Faber (guitar), and himself on cornet, synth, and vocals.
Check out the full list of dates below and catch them if they hit your city!
17.03 GENT/ Belgium - Noordslatfonds vzw/Handelsbeurs Concertzaal
18.03 LEUVEN/ Belgium - 30CC/Schouwburg
19.03 BIEL/ Switzerland - Le Singe
20.03 ZÜRICH/ Switzerland - Moods
22.03 LILLE/ France - L'Aeronef
24.03 PANTIN (PARIS)/ France - La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues
25.03 SAN VITO AL TAGLIAMENTO (PN). Italy
- Auditorium Comunale di San Vito al Tagliamento
26.03 PADOVA/Italy - Teatro Torresino
27.03 BERLIN/ Germany - ZigZag Club
28.03 KATOWICE / Poland - NOSPR - Chamber Hall
29.03 WARSAW/ Poland - Jassmine
30.03 OSLO/ Norway - Nasjonal Jazzscene, Victoria
*FULLY STOCKED*
Ben LaMar Gay
Certain Reveries
Cassette & Digital Out Now
In the tradition of toddler crayon scribbles on perfectly painted bedroom walls, composer Ben LaMar Gay expands on the teachings of Alabama star spirits and presents a collection of work involving sound, fabric, movement, rivers, shadows, Lagosian memories, light and listening.
((( photo by Alejandro Ayala )))
*ALSO AVAILABLE*
Ben LaMar Gay
Open Arms To Open Us
Available on LP, CD & Digital
Highlighted in the New York Times’s Fall 2021 preview, Open Arms to Open Us is a dispatch from “postmodern folklorist” Gay’s current place in space, filled with imaginative arrangements and his “wise and confiding baritone.”
Produced and recorded at International Anthem Studios in Chicago between March and June of 2021, across sixteen tracks Gay fluently interweaves jazz, blues, ballads, R&B, raga, new music, nursery rhyme, tropicalia, two-step, hip-hop and beyond in a beaming expression of his signature omni-genre “Pan-Americana” brew.
Alongside his own sizable toolkit of instruments (cornet, keyboards, synthesizers, flutes, percussions), Gay surrounds himself with steady bandmates (including Tommaso Moretti on drums, Matthew Davis on tuba, and Rob Frye on woodwinds), while also shining the spotlight on female artists from his cast of regular collaborators (including 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).
*DELUXE VINYL PACKAGE*
CHICAGO SUNSET COLOR VINYL
Open Arms to Open Us in vinyl form is a 33rpm 160 gram LP (pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago) in a heavyweight matte jacket, with insert sheet, IARC obi strip and dome patterned inner sleeve.
And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only.
Today is Bandcamp Friday!
That means our friends at Bandcamp are waiving their revenue share on all sales from midnight to midnight Pacific Time to support musicians and independent labels on the platform. Be sure to visit our page and grab anything you may have missed:
((( Photo by Chelsea Ross )))
