Unreleased Music From The Archives of Mt. Egypt’s Travis Graves :: 1997-2017
Billowing through ancestral winds, where climatic sounds and eased tension exit a well lived body, entertained with historical scars that take the shape of mythical bolts of lighting crashing down upon rivers of wild truth. Where poetry bleeds a terrifying honesty from weathered fingers mutilated with paper cuts from the infinite miles ridden. A place where song and soft soothsaying thaws the graphite roads ahead from any sort of distorted past mistakes, while simultaneously clearing the complications of memory and thought from the eager soul bound with limitless expression. Between the sacred ghost and an old familiar breath upon the lonely, cherry tone skin of friends, family and fans, rests this unbreakable promise made within the walls of heaven above.
While your body undoubtably fades into the depths of the unknown Bardo, your heart and soul transcends outward to quickly be retrieved by everyone you ever touched and to everyone who ever touched you.
As we continue to mourn the monumental loss of the great Travis Graves, known creatively as Mt. Egypt, we’re constantly reminded by his community that loved and admired him during his short, but influentially creative, contagious life. With memories, modes of music magic and momentary mantras of past, present and future, Graves conjured a life of poetic professionalism like some multi-headed hydra featuring the baffled heads of Buffett, Brian Wilson, Dylan and Jonathan Richman, just to name a few. But without any comparison, Graves was truly a divine miracle beyond just the music he wrote. He was a vibe educated in personal perspective, comedy, unfazed love and the impeccable ability to explore any medium at hand.
We recently discovered the incredible treasure trove of unreleased and unheard material via the fine folks over at Secret Seven Records that Graves left behind during his creative wake. Many of the recordings featured in the collection express a simplistic, youthful honesty in their playful core, while simultaneously bringing its listeners to their battered knees. Featuring longtime friends Cass McCombs, Eamonn and Juliana McCarthy, Simon Evans, Graves’ father and others, this angelic archive truly allows Graves’ fans, friends and family a momentary peak into the brilliant mind and heart of one America’s unsung heroes. With incredibly intimate detail attached to each, unique recording, we get the sense of the great “digital diary” begin to unfold with entries such as “Less Alone - (People Project)”, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (a Dylan tune Graves often played), “Seven”, “Nate’s Song” and many other insightful pieces that truly represent who Travis was to the people who knew him best. All the music found throughout this delicate collection was complied by Graves’ longtime friend Greg Gardner, whom also executed the moving montage found in the film about his life entitled “Travis Graves: The Major Motion Picture”.
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