Ben LaMar Gay Announces New Album Certain Reveries, Shares 11-Minute Song “Água Futurism”: Listen – Pitchfork

Chicago-born composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay has announced a new album: Certain Reveries is due out November 11 via International Anthem. The album is single longform composition broken up into 11 track for its digital release, and features Gay alongside percussionist Tommaso Moretti.

Accompanying the announcement, Gay has shared a new 11-minute single called “Água Futurism,” which arrives with a new music video. The vidsual was directed by Chris Strong, and follows Gay and Moretti as they perform the track live in a low-lit room. Check it out below.

Certain Reveries follows Gay’s 2021 album Open Arms to Open Us. In 2019, he released an original score for the documentary This Is Bate-Bola, which explores the Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, and Portuguese roots of Brazil’s annual Carnaval celebrations, with a specific focus on Rio de Janeiro.

Certain Reveries:

01 You Ain’t Never Lied
02 Parade Debris
03 To Be Behaved Upon
04 Salt Air
05 Lingering Orb
06 The Bioluminescence of Nakedness
07 Warmth Be Unto You
08 Drunkard’s Path
09 Skin
10 Água Futurism
11 New Tongues Tell Old Fibs