Ben LaMar Gay – Raven Sings The Blues
Ben LaMar Gay is a composer and cornetist who moves sound, color, and space through folkloric filters to produce electro-acoustic collages. His unification of various styles is always in service of the narrative and never solely a display of technique. A Chicago native, Ben’s true technique is giving life to an idea while exploring and expanding on the term “Americana.&rdquo. But in American society, which — at least in theory if not in practice — is designed to intermingle in a concept of E Pluribus Unum, what is the music of the people? What about in a worldwide digital age where an idea can travel the globe instantaneously with the tap of a finger or a click of a mouse?
You and the Music
Bio Ben LaMar Gay Ben LaMar Gay is a genuine original. An imbued composer, conjurer, channeler of cosmopolitan Blues and patently eclectic artist who Jeff Parker calls "hands down, one of my favorite musicians on the planet today." Gay is a Southside Chicago native who was raised in the tutelage of the legendary AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). Ben LaMar Gay is a composer and cornetist who moves sound, color, and space through folkloric filters to produce electro-acoustic collages. His unification of various styles is always in service of the narrative and never solely a display of technique. Ben LaMar Gay
Ben LaMar Gay is one of them. He is a musician, composer, songwriter, and singer, and his story seems to be, from the point of view of anyone who doesn’t know him personally, accessible only through the compilation Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun and ’s Open Arms To Open Us. Chicago, United States. Ben LaMar Gay is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who moves components of sound, color, and space through folkloric filters to produce brilliant electro-acoustic collages. 
Ben LaMar Gay — Edgar Miller Legacy
Ben LaMar Gay (cornetist) is pretty evangelical whilst poet/spoken word artist, Marvin Tate (who have a great "battle" on 'Hold Me, Hold Me') are joined by Rob Frys, Cooper Crain and Dan Quinlivan (these three being members of Bitchin Bajas who had an album out last year, 'Switched On Ra' (see what they did there?) and these guys love a spacey. Home About. Showing posts with label Ben LaMar Gay.
Ben LaMar Gay — International Anthem
The heart of any album from Lamar Gay has been his ensembles. A consummate bandleader, Ben gathers likeminded luminaries from the musical community, creating a unit that works in symbiosis, though not in any clockwork fashion. The band took pains to record the record together in the room, facing one another. Even among the progressive and transgressive offerings fostered by his labelmates at International Anthem, Ben LaMar Gay stands out. Past albums have been lauded for their fusion of folklore, jazz, blues, and soul; and all the elements are in play on Yowzers , pushed by a thread of avant experimentalism and communal interplay. Ben LaMar Gay – Raven Sings The Blues
Ben LaMar Gay is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, poet, and patently eclectic polymath who Afropunk has called “strikingly original,” Pitchfork has called “uncategorizable,” and Jeff Parker has called "hands down, one of my favorite musicians on the planet today.” He channels a radical array of sound, color, and space through the universal language of folklore; but despite. Home About. Showing posts with label Ben LaMar Gay. 
Ben Lamar Gay Discography
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Bio Ben LaMar Gay
Artist-in-Residence Ben LaMar Gay In the summer of Edgar Miller Legacy hosted composer Ben LaMar Gay at the Glasner Studio, a masterwork of art and architecture created by Edgar Miller (). His residency culminated in the public performance of a new work, The Manipulation of Lines & Breff. Gay’s showcase took place on June 17th. .