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Revelators Sound System (MC Taylor and Cameron Ralston)- Revelators

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Artist: Revelators Sound System

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Released 29th July 2022.

Revelators Sound System is the collaborative musical project of MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) and Cameron Ralston. Recorded throughout 2020 and 2021, largely at Taylor’s home in Durham, NC and Richmond, Virginia's Spacebomb studio, where Ralston serves as the house bassist, the album is a deep meditation on community that caroms from root-down avant-funk and spiritual groove to solitary cosmic minimalism and twinkling dubby ambience. Importantly, ‘Revelators’ is a deeply emotional record, the running soundtrack to a world in confusion.

‘Grieving’, with its trunk-rattling double drums and searing electric Clavinet, imagines a rhythmic meeting of The Meters, post-‘Bitches Brew’ Miles and Can, before dissolving into a smoky, time-smeared coda that is a direct descendent of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s headiest Black Ark productions, while ‘Collected Water’ is a mournful, pointillistic improvisation between Taylor’s drifting guitar loops, Ralston’s loping double bass, and the melodic dancing between Daniel Clarke’s chiming piano figures, J.C. Kuhl’s insistent saxophone and Reggie Pace’s subtle, circular percussion.

‘Bury the Bell’ is a shimmering, Alice Coltrane-inspired piece for guitar, clarinet and orchestra that spins off into stardust. The album concludes with ‘George the Revelator’, a lush devotional epic built atop the on-the-one drumming of J.T. Bates that shakes and rolls with psychic, psychedelic fervour.

‘Revelators’ is a testament to the telepathic and soulful musical interplay between Taylor and Ralston. “We only ever talked about what emotion we were going for,” Ralston recalls. “We never talked about gear or fidelity.”

Taylor echoes this sentiment, elaborating, “This record is about grief. Grief, and whatever comes after. We were looking for away to communicate that musically.”

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