500 Chains

500 Chains is a collection of music and storytelling (an "audiobook") composed & arranged by Ben LaMar Gay, featuring artwork by A. Martinez. Seven pieces of animated, dynamic & melodic, colorful quartet music that sound, to our ears, like Andre 3000 (the balladeer) backed by a Mardi Gras marching band channeling Chicago style post rock & free jazz... ...featuring Ben LaMar Gay (on cornet, synth, voice & flute), Will Faber (on guitar, ngoni, synth, fretless 12-string guitar & flute), Josh Sirotiak (on tuba & flute), and Tommaso Moretti (on drums & flute)... ...buffered by 8 story stanzas narrated by Ben LaMar Gay that illustrate the "audiobook" experience of 500 Chains. 500 Chains is 1 of 7 previously-unreleased back catalogue albums included in the source material for Ben LaMar Gay's "Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun" compilation (IARC0017).