Say Their Names
2020 | M.E. Taylor Music
Album Overview
Released June 6, 2020 on M.E. Taylor Music
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Evan Taylor performed original works, recorded in May—June 2020. These are the musical reactions to seven days of unrest in the name of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and countless other black men and women murdered in cold blood for nothing more than the color of their skin.
This is meant to be both a balm and a call to arms, figuratively speaking. Hopefully, no arms will be raised... but it’s a call to action to not let this moment slip by. And then another decade, score of years, or century go by before we actually rectify this great sin in our country.
“We explore his piece Lamentation for the Fallen from the Say Their Names album: a musical reactions to 7 days of unrest in the name of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and countless other murdered black men and women.”
—The Process
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Project Details
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Composer: Matthew Evan Taylor (BMI)
Mix and Production: Matthew Evan Taylor
Performance: Matthew Evan Taylor (soprano and alto sax, hulusi, flute, and clarinet.
Sample Audio: Danielle Moodie speaking on the podcast In The Thick in the episode entitled "Palpable Pain."