Singer and instrumental polymath Ben LaMar Gay has released the lead single, "Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks on You", from his forthcoming album, Open Arms to Open Us, which is due out via International Anthem/Nonesuch on November 19th.
Across this new album LaMar Gay enlists the talents of his unusual bandmates Tommaso Moretti on drums, Matthew Davis on tuba, and Rob Frye on woodwinds. In addition he recruited the talents of OHMME singers Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, bassist/vocalist/arranger Ayanna Woods, multi-disciplinary Rwandan artist Dorothée Munyaneza, poet A.Martinez, cellist Tomeka Reid, and vocalists Onye Ozuzu, Gira Dahnee, and Angel Bat Dawid.