| Gay, Ben Lamar / Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun |
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| Album: | Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Gay, Ben Lamar | Added: | Jun 2018 | |
| Label: | I A R C | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-07-04 | Pull Date: | 2018-09-05 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Sep 2 | Aug 12 | Jul 29 | Jul 22 | Jul 15 | Jul 8 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 04, 2021: | Stranded at Settembrini's (rebroadcast from Oct 21, 2021) Music For 18 Hairdressers: Braids And Fractals | 4. | Sep 01, 2018: | Music Casserole Oh No... Not Again! | |
| 2. | Oct 21, 2021: | Stranded at Settembrini's Music For 18 Hairdressers: Braids And Fractals | 5. | Aug 10, 2018: | Old Fart at Play Swim Swim | |
| 3. | Jun 04, 2020: | Stranded at Settembrini's Melhor Que Tem | 6. | Jul 28, 2018: | Music Casserole Oh No... Not Again! |
| Album Review |
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| Tom McCarter Reviewed 2018-06-29 | ||
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Reviewed: 2018-06-29 Genre: General (X) FCCs: none Review: Gay is some kind of post-industrial master of structural manipulation, the kind of guy who can fit a song into the most unlikely of unoccupied spaces the same way an urbanite grocery store or parking lot will spring up in a place never meant to hold either. Everything fits if you make it to fit. If You Like: King Krule, early Dr. John, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Funkadelic, Steve Reich Track Review (favorites denoted by *): 1/ Vitus Labrusca (0:32) – spacey heavy metal noise> fade *2/ Muhal (3:43) – heavy drums start> midtempo heavy metal hip-hop> heavy organ solo> uptempo jam with scattered vocals> quick stop 3/ Music For 18 Hairdressers: Braids And Fractals (2:26) – percussive synthesizer start> fast jam slows to uptempo with horns & repetitive riff> quick stop 4/ Jubilee (3:23) – spoken vocal/heavy funky percussion starts> morphs into chanting with midtempo heavy jazz jam with trumpets> quick stop *5/ A Seasoning Called Primavera (3:51) – vocals start with rap lyric & psychedelic midtempo deep undertone> > chorus chanting like a New Orleans funk beat> quick stop *6/ Miss Natalie Burns (2:48) – piano/trumpet starts> wild uptempo jam with vocals> quick stop 7/ Me, Jayne, & Big Bee (1:46) – trumpet starts> slow tempo jam, like a funeral dirge> slow sax solo> quick fade on spoken vocal 8/ Uvas (4:19) - modulating synth starts> slow tempo jam, almost like chanting> slow cheesy soundtrack like Buck Rogers> segues into chanting> slow jam> slow fade 9/ Galveston (3:46) – heavy repeated synth space chord starts> space jam> slow fade & some percussion> stop *10/ Swim Swim (3:23) – funky guitar starts> spoken sing song vocals over the top of spacey uptempo jam> fade *11/ Kunni (3:47) – spacey start> midtempo spacey jam with slow vocal overlay> morphs into uptempo spacey jam> builds in volume & intensity> quick stop 12/ Melhor Que Tem (3:29) – spacey start> slow space jam> fade 13/ Gator Teeth (1:23) -intermittent chimes start> percussion like Morse code> quick stop 14/ 7th Stanza (0:57) – slow jam with spoken word poem> quick stop *15/ Oh No... Not Again! (4:53) – repetitious synth chord starts> midtempo space jazz jam heats up to wild fast tempo> guitar solo with repetitive riff> horns kick in> wild midtempo jam> quick stop | ||
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