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- Summary: The latest full-length release for Ben LaMar Gay features guest appearance from Angel Bat Dawid, Gira Dahnee, A.Martinez, Dorothée Munyaneza, Ohmme, Onye Ozuzu, Tomeka Reid, and Ayanna Woods.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Experimental, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Experimental Rock, Experimental Electronic, International
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Dec 21, 2021Gay more than succeeds in weaving all of these seemingly disparate sounds together, and Open Arms to Open Us has the engaging feeling of walking through a kaleidoscopic multimedia art installation.
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MojoDec 21, 2021The whole of Open Arms is much larger than the sum of its parts. [Jan 2022, p.89]
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The WireDec 21, 2021Gay’s latest is a deep dive into memory but emerges as a triumphant celebration of a past and future antilineage, uniquely conjured from the inner complexities of an artist not tortured by the past but possessed by it. [Dec 2021, p.50]
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Dec 21, 2021Open Arms to Open Us is adventure writ large, a rhythmical hymn to boundless possibility.