Ben LaMar Gay - Yowzers (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Yowzers is a new album by Chicago composer, improvisor, instrumentalist and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay. The twelve track collection is a leap forward in the lexicon of Gay’s recorded output, and a veritable masterwork of ancient inner-body rhythms and intuitive melodic storytelling.

It’s worth mentioning that a leap forward for Gay is no small feat. The musical ground he has covered in the last decade, both as a bandleader and collaborator, is immense. His de facto debut album—the 2018 compilation Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun—properly introduced the world to Gay by placing fifteen stylistically diverse tracks from seven then-unreleased albums next to one another, letting the populace outside of Cook County in on an unintentionally best-kept-secret that Chicagoans had already been marveling at for quite some time. That secret has become even more open in the years since, with the full unveiling of those seven previously-unreleased albums, the release of his critically-acclaimed 2021 song cycle Open Arms To Open Us, and the explosive free sonics of 2022’s Certain Reveries.

TRACKLIST

1. Ben LaMar Gay - yowzers
2. Ben LaMar Gay - the glorification of small victories
3. Ben LaMar Gay - there, inside the morning glory
4. Ben LaMar Gay - roller skates
5. Ben LaMar Gay - for Breezy
6. Ben LaMar Gay - I am (bells)
7. Ben LaMar Gay - promontory
8. Ben LaMar Gay - John, John Henry
9. Ben LaMar Gay - damn you cute
10. Ben LaMar Gay - cumulus
11. Ben LaMar Gay - touch
12. Ben LaMar Gay - leave some for you



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