Ben LaMar Gay

The latest offering on IARC from the Chicago composer, improvisor, and musical folklorist - a regular feature artist on the IARC roster and one of modern musics most prolific creatives, working alongside Mike Reed’s Separatist Party, Joshua Abrams’s Natural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas, Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi, and many more. The album recalls the high-minded freedom of Liberation Music Orchestra, the glitched-out electronic webs of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, the unbridled rhythms and sandpaper bellows of Bukka White, and the harmolodic cartoon glory of Arthur Blythe’s Illusions.