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

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 Taylors 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 Perrys headiest Black Ark productions, while Collected Water is a mournful, pointillistic improvisation between Taylors drifting guitar lo