Ben LaMar Gay
500 Chains
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Ben LaMar Gay - 500 Chains
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Released September 28, 2018
Available digitally via our Bandcamp page
500 Chains is a collection of music and storytelling (an "audiobook") composed & arranged by Ben LaMar Gay, featuring artwork by A. Martinez.
Seven pieces of animated, dynamic & melodic, colorful quartet music that sound, to our ears, like Andre 3000 (the balladeer) backed by a Mardi Gras marching band channeling Chicago style post rock & free jazz...
...featuring Ben LaMar Gay (on cornet, synth, voice & flute), Will Faber (on guitar, ngoni, synth, fretless 12-string guitar & flute), Josh Sirotiak (on tuba & flute), and Tommaso Moretti (on drums & flute)...
...buffered by 8 story stanzas narrated by Ben LaMar Gay that illustrate the "audiobook" experience of 500 Chains.
500 Chains is 1 of 7 previously-unreleased back catalogue albums included in the source material for Ben LaMar Gay's "Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun" compilation (IARC0017).
Notes
Written, Composed & Produced by Ben LaMar Gay.
Ben LaMar Gay – cornet, synth, voice, narration, flute.
Will Faber – guitar, ngoni, synth, fretless 12-string guitar, flute.
Joshua Sirotiak – tuba, flute.
Tommaso Moretti – drums, flute.
Recorded & Mixed by Richard Malstrom.
Mastered by David Allen.
Art by A. Martinez.
About Ben LaMar Gay
Chicago cornetist Ben Lamar Gay is one of the city's most adventurous and boundary-pushing performers with sound that touches upon avant-garde jazz, hip-hop, indie rock, Brazilian traditions, and experimental electronic composition.