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Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun

by Ben LaMar Gay

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Shiny compact disk in 4-panel digipack.

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  • IARC0017 - Frozen Concord Grape Colored Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Frozen concord grape colored 12" vinyl LP packaged in deluxe Stoughton-printed tip-on jacket, with 4x5 photo insert card, IARC obi strip & dome patterned inner sleeve. Only 222 copies in existence, its all black from there on.

    *International orders of more than 2 LPs will be shipped DHL 2-day. Please email for exact pricing / discounts on multiple item shipping!

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  • IARC0017 - Classic Black Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Classic black 12" vinyl LP in deluxe Stoughton-printed tip-on jacket, with 4x5 photo insert card, IARC obi strip & dome patterned inner sleeve.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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about

"Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun" is as much a 'greatest hits' as it is a 'debut album' for Ben LaMar Gay. It's a collection of music composed, performed & produced by the anomalous Southside Chicago-born, sometimes Brazil-residing artist, compiled from 7 albums he made over the last 7 years but never made the effort to actually release.

With its title taken from the mantra Ben repeats across several tracks on "Grapes" (1 of the 7 aforementioned albums), "Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun" is our effort to channel the rainbow of sonic expressions, art & poetry beaming from the ark of his unreleased catalogue into a cohesive & communicable compilation. It's as good of an introduction to Ben LaMar Gay as we could fit onto a single LP. To call it "eclectic" would only scratch the surface. This music is everything.

credits

released May 4, 2018

Compiled & Sequenced by Scott McNiece & Ben LaMar Gay.

Mastered by David Allen.

Cover Art & Photos by Maren Celest.

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The IARC mission is to make positive contributions to the changing state of the music industry, and to vitalize the demand for boundary-defying music by presenting unique sounds in appealing packages to untapped audiences.
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