Open Arms to Open Us "Chicago Sunset" Color Vinyl + MP3 Bundle

Open Arms to Open Us "Chicago Sunset" Color Vinyl + MP3 BundleOpen Arms to Open Us lives up to NPR's claim that "there is no one universe for Ben LaMar Gay, he just sonic booms from one sound to another." On the album, recorded at International Anthem studios in Chicago, Gay interweaves jazz, blues, ballads, R&B, raga, new music, nursery rhyme, Tropiclia, two step, hip hop, and beyond in his most colorful and communicable work yet, an expression of his signature omni genre, "Pan Americana" brew.

notes by band members Nels Cline and John Stirratt

which features an inspired collection of songs by Bob Dylan

The <em>New York Times</em> calls it "dreamy

Rokia Traoré’s Beautiful Africa earns five stars from the Observer

"which draws on everything from the childlike simplicity of a borrowed French folk song to edgy

and Larry Klein

Stephin Merritt wrote music and lyrics to this 1699 play

Nico Muhly

" The Independent calls it "by some distance the most powerful

and they are still remarkable

"Plant and his collaborators create music that overflows with irrepressible life force

“Insidiously infective songs