New or Used : Reissue new Format : LP Grading Cover / Record : M / M Label : international anthem recording company Year : 2025 Catalog No / Pressing country : IARC0017 - USA
Over the course of 2025 International Anthem will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi strip and dome logo.
"Ben LaMar Gay's de facto debut album, Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun (first issued in 2018) was our attempt to introduce the legendary Chicago composer / improvisor / renaissance man to the rest of the world with a compilation of tracks from “7 albums he made over 7 years but never made the effort to actually release.” The material showcases Gay's penchant for genre-hopping—from Reich-ian soundscape voyages to Don Cherry-esque polyrhythm treks to Jorge Ben-style vocal-and-string earworms—while keeping his singular musical voice in focus.
Tracklist A1 Vitus Labrusca A2 Muhal A3 Music For 18 Hairdressers: Braids & Fractals A4 Jubilee A5 A Seasoning Called Primavera A6 Miss Nealie Burns A7 Me, Jayve & The Big Bee A8 Uvas B1 Galveston B2 Swim Swim B3 Kunni B4 Melhor Que Tem B5 Gator Teeth B6 7th Stanza B7 Oh No...Not Again!
Ben LaMar Gay downtown castles can never block the sun
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Over the course of 2025 International Anthem will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi strip and dome logo.
"Ben LaMar Gay's de facto debut album, Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun (first issued in 2018) was our attempt to introduce the legendary Chicago composer / improvisor / renaissance man to the rest of the world with a compilation of tracks from “7 albums he made over 7 years but never made the effort to actually release.” The material showcases Gay's penchant for genre-hopping—from Reich-ian soundscape voyages to Don Cherry-esque polyrhythm treks to Jorge Ben-style vocal-and-string earworms—while keeping his singular musical voice in focus.
Tracklist
A1 Vitus Labrusca
A2 Muhal
A3 Music For 18 Hairdressers: Braids & Fractals
A4 Jubilee
A5 A Seasoning Called Primavera
A6 Miss Nealie Burns
A7 Me, Jayve & The Big Bee
A8 Uvas
B1 Galveston
B2 Swim Swim
B3 Kunni
B4 Melhor Que Tem
B5 Gator Teeth
B6 7th Stanza
B7 Oh No...Not Again!