Ray continued to produce music and run the popular Club Skaville around the capital and the rest of the country.
In 2021, Ray featured with rising UK reggae artist Keri-Ann‘s debut release ‘Neither One Of Us’, produced by Likkle Minty. A rework of the Gladys Knight & The Pips classic, paying homage to Lovers Rock, and Ray was recruited for a swooning sax version re-dubbed ‘Neither Sax Of Us’!
London born Ray once said “I’ve played on a couple of hit records but don’t ask me to play like any other players… I only do Ray Carless and I love to play my saxophone in my own style, tenor and soprano saxes are the horns with which i feel most comfortable.”
He certainly looked most comfortable that day, playing effortlessly in the Beggar & Co (The Original Light Of The World) line-up at our third Summer Soulstice back in 2009 and again performing with Hi-Tension five years later… Rest in peace maestro.