500 Chains, by Ben LaMar Gay

500 Chains

by Ben LaMar Gay

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dDarkwater Superb album, everything from beginning to end. Favorite track: One Thousand Butterflies.

Angel Bat Dawid Ben Lamar Gay plays music for the Folks and 500 chains is a wonderful exploration of sounds stories, visions, and transcendental poetry! Favorite track: The River, The Warden, and You.

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1.	1st Stanza 02:23	buy track
2.	The Escape, The Chase 09:38	buy track
3.	2nd Stanza 01:12	buy track
4.	Fireflies 05:31	buy track
5.	3rd Stanza 01:06	buy track
6.	Lamps 11:17	buy track
7.	4th Stanza 01:52	buy track
8.	The River, The Warden, and You 03:14	buy track
9.	5th Stanza 01:23	buy track
10.	From Alter Boy to Villain 05:33	buy track
11.	6th Stanza 01:56	buy track
12.	One Thousand Butterflies 07:27	buy track
13.	7th Stanza 00:56	buy track
14.	Oh no...not again! 04:44	buy track
15.	8th Stanza 04:30	buy track

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500 Chains is a collection of music and storytelling (an "audiobook") composed & arranged by Ben LaMar Gay, featuring artwork by A. Martinez.

Seven pieces of animated, dynamic & melodic, colorful quartet music that sound, to our ears, like Andre 3000 (the balladeer) backed by a Mardi Gras marching band channeling Chicago style post rock & free jazz...

...featuring Ben LaMar Gay (on cornet, synth, voice & flute), Will Faber (on guitar, ngoni, synth, fretless 12-string guitar & flute), Josh Sirotiak (on tuba & flute), and Tommaso Moretti (on drums & flute)...

...buffered by 8 story stanzas narrated by Ben LaMar Gay that illustrate the "audiobook" experience of 500 Chains.

500 Chains is 1 of 7 previously-unreleased back catalogue albums included in the source material for Ben LaMar Gay's "Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun" compilation (IARC0017).

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released September 28, 2018

Written, Composed & Produced by Ben LaMar Gay.

Ben LaMar Gay – cornet, synth, voice, narration, flute.
Will Faber – guitar, ngoni, synth, fretless 12-string guitar, flute.
Joshua Sirotiak – tuba, flute.
Tommaso Moretti – drums, flute.

Recorded & Mixed by Richard Malstrom.
Mastered by David Allen.

Art by A. Martinez.

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