Resurrector – Grant McDonald Chambers (b1971)
RESURRECTOR, real name Grant McDonald Chambers, was born in New Haven, Conneticut. He is an electronic music producer best known as founder of Colorado/San Francisco Dub Hop band Heavyweight Dub Champion.
He is the co-producer of both Heavyweight Dub Champion studio albums and is main creator of the band’s philosophical ideology defined by the Last Champion Manifesto, a booklet included with the 2002 album, Survival Guide for the End of Time.
Resurrector now lives in San Francisco, CA and performs and produces for Heavyweight Dub Champion, Liberation Movement and Jillian Ann, among others.
Resurrector grew up mostly near Baltimore, MD, but lived in multiple countries where his father, a college professor, had visiting fellowships.
He attended University at McDaniel College in Maryland and University of Evansville’s Harlaxton Campus, near Grantham, in the 1990s and received a degree in Religious Studies from University of Colorado at Boulder
Chambers grew up mostly near Baltimore, MD, but lived in multiple countries where his father, a college professor, had visiting fellowships.
As a teen, he promoted punk concerts and frequented the D.C. punk scene. His father, Dr. Robert H. Chambers III was president of McDaniel College from 1984–2000. In 1988, as a high school junior, he promoted a punk concert in the basement of the McDaniel College President’s house. The event space was known as The Dungeon and the inaugural event was featured on the front page of the Carroll County Times.[4] He went on to promote concerts with DC hardcore punk groups Government Issue and M.F.D. among others.
Chambers attended University at McDaniel College in Maryland, Harlaxton College in Grantham, England .
In 1995, while living in Boulder, Colorado, he founded hip hop reggae group Roots Revolt. Many of the key players in Roots Revolt would later show up on Heavyweight Dub Champion recordings, including HDC co-founder Patch Rubin.
In 2010, Chambers went to Peru to learn about how music and vibration are connected to shamanism. This led to him recording more than 25 indigenous singers from the Shipibo Tribe at the Temple Of The Way Of Light near Iquitos, Peru and produce and release the album Onáyabaon Bewá – Messages from Mother Earth by Shamans of the Temple of the Way of Light.
In 2014, in collaboration with Peruvian based NGO Alianza Arkana and the Rubin Foundation, he led Liberation Movement to Peru with bandmates Sasha Rose, Noah King and filmmakers Mitch Schultz (Writer/Director of DMT: The Spirit Molecule), Donald Schultz and Jason Gamble Harter to document a concert and surrounding journeys to villages along the Amazon River.
Mitch Schultz stated, “Cross-cultural interfaces are paramount for accessing indigenous knowledge through a modern lens, or in this case the musical experience of Liberation Movement.”
In May 2014, Liberation Movement collaborated on a concert with Peruvian based NGO Alianza Arkana called “Jiwexon Axebo” in the Shipibo Tribe’s language and “Cultural Revival” in English. They “performed to 600 indigenous Peruvians”in the town square of Yarinacocha in Pucallpa, Peru and had two indigenous shamans perform with them. Also performing at the concert was a local Cumbia orchestra called Sensacìon Shipibo. The event was described as “a progressive leap forward, bringing together cultures in a productive and creative light and working together for a common purpose- the preservation of the rainforest, its people and traditions.”
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