Composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor releases the second installment of his Metropolis Ensemble-commissioned five-part series The Unheard Mixtapes on October 27 on New Amsterdam Records. Mixtape 2, entitled Language of the Unheard, is an intense and visceral reaction to the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. After seeing the video of Ahmaud’s slaying, Taylor explains: “that sense of being shut off was made even more acute by the quarantine and the unyielding whiteness of Vermont, a beautiful place to live inhabited by people who haven’t earned their liberal/ progressive reputation.”