{"title":"Cameron Graves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCameron Graves grew up in Los Angeles absorbing hip-hop, rock, heavy metal, classical music and jazz simultaneously, and never subsequently treated them as separate territories. His father Carl Graves was a soul singer. He formed an R\u0026amp;B and fusion duo called The Graves Brothers with his brother Taylor. He worked as a film and television composer, which brought him into contact with Stanley Clarke, who became a mentor alongside Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, both of whom told the West Coast Get Down musicians directly, as Graves has described it, that they needed to carry forward the jazz-rock fusion legacy that the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report and Return to Forever had built. Graves describes his own music as \"thrash-jazz.\" Kamasi Washington describes it as \"an almost unbelievable combination of modal jazz, romantic era European classical music, and mathematical death metal.\" His debut solo album was \"Planetary Prince\" (Mack Avenue, 2017), named after his pseudonym which in turn comes from the Urantia Book, a cosmological spiritual text that also influenced Jaco Pastorius's \"Havona\" on Weather Report's \"Heavy Weather\". The follow-up \"Seven\" (Mack Avenue, 2019) pushed further into the jazz-rock fusion direction, with guest guitarists including Andy Timmons and Alex Skolnick alongside the WCGD rhythm section. He remains active and Los Angeles-based.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cameron-graves-planetary-prince-mack-avenue-records-2lp","title":"Cameron Graves - Planetary Prince (Mack Avenue Records 2LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCameron Graves - \u003cem\u003ePlanetary Prince\u003c\/em\u003e | 2 x Vinyl LP - 2017 Mack Avenue Records (MAC1123LP, vinyl mastered by Kevin Gray, pressed at RTI)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCameron Graves grew up in the same Los Angeles music magnet programme as Kamasi Washington, Miles Mosley and the Bruner brothers, and by the time the West Coast Get Down formed in the mid-2000s he was its pianist. His influences are easier to list than to reconcile: Chopin, Coltrane and Van Halen, with Prince and Morris Day thrown in. He worked with Jada Pinkett Smith's nu-metal band Wicked Wisdom and with Stanley Clarke before appearing across all three discs of Washington's \u003cem\u003eThe Epic\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003ePlanetary Prince\u003c\/em\u003e is his debut as a leader, and the title doubles as his pseudonym, taken from The Urantia Book, a cosmological and spiritual text that gives the album its track titles and its scope. \"Satania Our Solar System\" is the book's name for our corner of the universe. \"Adam \u0026amp; Eve\" and \"The Lucifer Rebellion\" reframe familiar stories through the book's alternative theology. \"Andromeda\" and \"Isle Of Love\" look outward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music is dense and relentless. Graves plays piano the way a guitarist plays metal: with force, velocity and an intensity that treats the instrument as something to be driven rather than touched. But the compositions are structured, not chaotic. \"El Diablo\" locks into a groove for seven minutes while the horn section (Washington, Porter, Dizack) trades phrases over it. \"Adam \u0026amp; Eve\" runs past thirteen minutes with space for everyone. Hadrien Feraud, a French bassist known for his fusion work, plays bass on six of the eight tracks. Thundercat (Stephen Bruner) takes the remaining two, \"The End Of Corporatism\" and \"Isle Of Love,\" and his brother Ronald Bruner Jr. drums throughout, holding the album together through every tempo change. Graves produced and mixed the album himself at James Hardman Studios and Sterling Silver Productions in Van Nuys. Gavin Lurssen mastered the digital release at Lurssen Mastering. Kevin Gray mastered the vinyl separately at Cohearent Audio, and RTI pressed it, giving this double LP the same production chain as the Blue Note Tone Poet Series. This is the 2017 Mack Avenue Records pressing (MAC1123LP).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Avenue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44168387395643,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/a2558956661_10_59b4dbdd-ffe2-474b-aa5e-1d37e233634d.jpg?v=1789087599"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/cameron-graves.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}