After nearly 5 many years since its formation, legendary reggae group Mystic Revealers continues to be on a mission to unfold constructive messages by way of its music.
Lead vocalist Billy Mystic and proprietor of the Jamnesia Surf Camp in Bull Bay, defined {that a} tour, in addition to a number of tracks set for launch, are within the works.
“We’re going to proceed to do nice music. We consider in music with a message, as a result of the message that we put out is essential to us and that’s what it’s all about. Proper now, we’re trying to go on tour and we’ve got fairly a couple of unrecorded supplies, plus among the music that we had produced beforehand… once we replicate, it appears as if our music is much more related in these occasions. It has stood the check of time when it comes to the lyrics and the message. If there’s a reward, so might it’s. However, the reward for us is being a useful device within the fingers of the Almighty to ship out His phrase on the planet,” he mentioned.
He added: ”Jah Calls upon the youths as a result of they’re sturdy.”
To that finish, he shares that the band is once more sharing its vitality and platform with two rising acts; Ky-enie King and Dahvid Slur.
Mystic Revealers fashioned within the late Nineteen Seventies in Bull Bay. The band’s founding members are nonetheless its core: Billy Mystic (whose given identify is Billy Wilmot), bass guitarist Leroy “Lion” Edwards, and drummer Nicholas “Rimshatt” Henry, who joined the group within the late 80s.
In the course of the Covid pandemic in 2020, The Band launched its Jah Jah Folks album. The album options highly effective tracks which are in step with the Mystic Revealers sound and message together with songs comparable to Blue Nile, Businessman, and Simply Can’t Deny It.
The band was, at one level, signed to the Washington, D.C.-based Ras Data in addition to Mesa Bluemoon Data, an affiliate of Atlantic Data.
Based on Billy Mystic, that partnership performed a pivotal position within the group’s progress.
“They have been capable of help us not solely with placing the music on the market, however, aiding with touring and that kind of factor. It additionally gave us a sure degree of legitimacy within the trade as a result of Ras Data was a serious label on the time,” he reasoned.
Apart from his longstanding music profession, Billy Mystic was additionally identified for his position as CC within the Jamaican drama collection Royal Palm Property. Having toured the world with the remainder of the group and sustaining a constructive presence within the music trade, Billy Mystic defined that his musical course of is natural.
“Normally, after I write a tune, I see my guitar and I really feel like I wish to decide it up. As a musician, typically you begin to idiot round with some chords, and also you stumble throughout a sure development of chords and throughout the notes between these chords and the way they work collectively, you would possibly be capable of pick a melody that sounds interesting. By buzzing that melody, Jah begins to ship the lyrics that can fill that melody. So, it’s nearly as if I’m simply enjoying the accompaniment and listening to what Jah goes to counsel,” he mentioned.
