Ben Lamar Gay
Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Dec 28, 2018
9:00 PM CST
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$15 (advance), $18 // 21+RYLEY WALKEROHMME (Duo)BEN LAMAR GAY-------------------After the much-loved self-titled release, OHMME released their debut full-length, Parts, to eager fans at the end of this summer. Continuing with their harmony-driven, interweaving approach to making unconventional songs, Parts finds them grounded and comfortable, while still innovating. The complexity they have in the studio is just as stunning live. Producer/vocalist/cornetist/and more, Chicago-based BEN LAMAR GAY has been sitting on seven unreleased albums that pull from his membership in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), travels to Brazil, and countless genres. He officially released his debut, Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun, an amalgamation of favorites spanning his previous unreleased work. The result is music that is as poppy as it is experimental, with unexpected sound palettes that you have to hear to believe.
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Ben Lamar Gay Biography
One of the most prolific collaborators in our city’s creative music community, he makes active contributions to Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi, Nicole Mitchell’s EarthSeed, Mike Reed’s Flesh & Bone, Matthew Lux’s Communication Arts Quartet, Joshua Abrams’s Natural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas & many more. He’s a default descendent and a long-time participant in the AACM (i.e. the legendary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). And he’s well represented in the International Anthem catalogue as well. Beyond being the brains behind Bottle Tree – the future funk suite we released in April of 2017 that was named “#1 Best Album of the Year” by London’s EZH Magazine (c/o founder Tina Edwards) and on NPR’s Sound Opinions (c/o producer Ayana Contreras) – he was a core component of Makaya McCraven’s Highly Rare and a cornet cameo on Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die (both of which were included in the New York Times’s “Best Albums of 2017”). Suffices to say, Ben LaMar Gay is nearly omnipresent in the current zeitgeist of progressive jazz sounds sprouting from Chicago.
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