PRESS RELEASE: Matthew Evan Taylor's Unheard Mixtapes 📼
Matthew Evan Taylor's The Unheard Mixtapes to be unveiled in five parts over five months
Composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor released the first installment of his Metropolis Ensemble-commissioned five-part series The Unheard Mixtapes earlier this week. Mixtape 1, entitled Follow to the End, begins a plaintive and epic odyssey in which Taylor explores, and ultimately achieves, the fraught goal of being himself. He boldly states in his notes for the project: “I am Matthew Evan Taylor, a musician who composes; a composer who performs; a performer who improvises. I am all of these things and more. The Unheard Mixtapes are my manifesto.”
For Your GRAMMY® Consideration
a "consistently rewarding label"
-The New York Times on New Amsterdam
It's GRAMMY® season, and we are so grateful to have worked with so much incredible, thought-provoking music, some of which is now on the ballot for your consideration.
Listen to some of the past year's releases.
Journey to Travis Laplante's Inner Garden
“head-spinning flights of circular breathing share space with sparse, prayerful lyricism”
-Rolling Stone on Travis Laplante
Sax player Travis Laplante returns with Inner Garden, a nirvana-inducing three movement work that showcases his passion for seamlessly merging improvisation and composition that was inspired by a dreamlike state he experienced when he received the commission from percussion/piano ensemble Yarn/Wire and Roulette. Out next Friday.
Mass for the Endangered from Sarah Kirkland Snider featured on NPR's All Things Considered
"Through her smart and resplendent exploration of age-old musical formulas, Sarah Kirkland Snider's eco-inspired Mass for the Endangered is a blast from the past that resonates profoundly in the present," says NPR's Tom Huizenga in his review of the new album on All Things Considered.
Mass for the Endangered is out now as a co-release with Nonesuch Records.