I made this mixtape on Saturday June 6, 2020, after a morning of peaceful protest with ~15,000 people at the California State Capitol. After weeks of complete despair, I came home this afternoon feeling hope for real change in America, a reckoning and a rebuilding of something new.

I went to the piano and played music that felt right in the moment: Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Paul Simon, Angelica Negron, Florence Price, Kurt Weill, Eve Beglarian… all kinds of American sounds.

These are single takes recorded straight to tape, with the sounds of home life running through them - the dog snoring, a car driving by, the late afternoon breeze in the trees, and a few wrong notes. This is my memory of this day when I marched in a beautiful crowd of American people, in solidarity, resolution and the very beginnings of some hope.

This is a limited-edition run of 50 copies. Proceeds from this mixtape benefit the ACLU, keeping up the fight for civil rights in America.

If you need a cassette player, the good people at Moodies Records and Tape - a Black-owned musical mecca for more than three decades - will be happy to help you out.

xox