Cavalier King is Chris Taylor's heroic musical creation. It is also the name of his band. Taylor's album, The Sun Revolutions, comprises songs written while he studied, painted, and performed around the local indie rock scene in Brooklyn and the East Village.
Although composed in Taylor's little Brooklyn apartment, The Sun Revolutions is not a small record. Each song is an epic tale full of grandeur and sonic elegance, filled with echoes of everyone from Buckley to Morrison, U2 to Rufus Wainright, and yet each song is also uniquely its own.
The "Cavalier King" is a mythical hero who inadvertently annihilates the world in his vain attempt to save his true love and himself from the perilous schemes of his treacherous ministers. In a vengeful fury, the betrayed King sets in motion events that lead inevitably to the complete destruction of his native planet. Surviving the blast alone, however, he travels the galaxy on myriad adventures around the Sun while he laments the heavy losses he incurred during the first revolution. He eventually finds himself on the former water planet, Earth, and becomes the reluctant leader of a global insurrection. Bent on redemption, Cavalier King pledges not to repeat the mistakes he made on his home planet and so pioneers a new ethos in the galaxy. See Illustration
The Sun Revolutions was recorded both in Taylor's apartment and at Slaughterhouse Studio. With JJ O'Connell on drums, Chris on nearly everything else, it was engineered and mixed by Mark Miller and mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering. The Sun Revolutions was released February 7th 2006 by Rubric Records.
Taylor earned a degree in philosophy and religious studies while he simultaneously painted and pored over centuries of English literature. Learning to translate ancient Buddhist texts from Sanskrit, Chris was inevitably faced with a choice between the arduous pursuit of mastering a 3,000-year-old dead language and the equally challenging aspiration to write meaningful songs. It was a choice that would radically focus his attention on one of two dramatically different skills. Having had appreciated so much the achievements of others, he felt compelled to contribute works of his own.
By setting his sights on songwriting and visual art, Taylor has become a man obsessed with industry and bent on "making stuff" where there once was none. He spends nearly all of his time striving to express his vision. And just as his favorite philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, was prone to gardening, Taylor can be found arranging flowers while he is dreaming up songs or pondering mortality.