Biography
Revelators Sound System serves as the instrumental studio project helmed by M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger together with bassist and producer Cameron Ralston of the Spacebomb House Band. Their approach fuses woozy avant-funk and spiritual jazz grooves with spacy minimalism and dubwise ambience.
As longtime friends, the pair began the project near the close of pandemic quarantine in late 2020, treating it as a musical meditation on community. They tracked material both separately and in tandem at Taylor’s home studio in North Carolina and at the Spacebomb studio in Richmond, Virginia throughout 2021. Guests enlisted during the sessions included clarinetist Stuart Bogie, saxophonist JC Kuhl and Drew Sayers, pianists/keyboardists Daniel Clarke and Devonne Harris, pedal steel guitarist Rich Hinman, and drummers Philo Tsoungui and Pinson Chanselle. The resulting four-track album Revelators emerged in June 2022. Its hypnotic modal grooves reflected the influence of early spiritual jazz, Krautrock’s repetitive riffing, the tripped-out funk of Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis and Sly Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On, and Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Black Ark experiments, all refracted through a homegrown, humid, laconic Southern sensibility.
As longtime friends, the pair began the project near the close of pandemic quarantine in late 2020, treating it as a musical meditation on community. They tracked material both separately and in tandem at Taylor’s home studio in North Carolina and at the Spacebomb studio in Richmond, Virginia throughout 2021. Guests enlisted during the sessions included clarinetist Stuart Bogie, saxophonist JC Kuhl and Drew Sayers, pianists/keyboardists Daniel Clarke and Devonne Harris, pedal steel guitarist Rich Hinman, and drummers Philo Tsoungui and Pinson Chanselle. The resulting four-track album Revelators emerged in June 2022. Its hypnotic modal grooves reflected the influence of early spiritual jazz, Krautrock’s repetitive riffing, the tripped-out funk of Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis and Sly Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On, and Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Black Ark experiments, all refracted through a homegrown, humid, laconic Southern sensibility.
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