Description
Open Arms to Open Us is 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 universe for 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 Gays signature omni-genre, Pan-Americana brew.
Featured artists on the album include: OHMME singers Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, bassist / vocalist / arranger Ayanna Woods, multi-disciplinary Rwandan artist Dorothe Munyaneza, poet A.Martinez, cellist Tomeka Reid, and vocalists Onye Ozuzu, Gira Dahnee, and Angel Bat Dawid.
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