Lockdown Sean Taylor

• 1 Herd Immunity, Pt. 1 06:11
• 2 The March Is On 04:17
• 3 No Borders 04:02
• 4 Moonlight Sonata 01:49
• 5 Black Lives Matter 07:14
• 6 Palestine 05:29
• 7 Fur Elise 02:00
• 8 Herd Immunity, Pt. 2 06:38
• 9 Lockdown 03:52
• 10 Free to Do as We Tell You 07:08
• Total Runtime 48:40

Info for Lockdown

2020 is a year that we will never forget. Fear and isolation painted the background for my latest album called Lockdown. Written and recorded during this most turbulent of years.

I have always found the darkness a dangerously productive spark for creativity. As the world has been turned upside down the songs and lyrics flowed and flowed.

The longest time I have ever been off the road has been tough. Every day I have woken up early and worked on the album. Lockdown was recorded at home in London with overdubs from producer and long-time collaborator Mark Hallman in Austin, Texas. Seven out of the ten tracks are political, spoken word pieces. Because we are fighting for our lives, now is the time to take sides. No more scapegoats. We are all complicit in our staged democracy.

More people have died from Coronavirus in the UK than any other country in Europe. The UK and America have been at the forefront of this failure of capitalism. Private companies and corrupt governments have failed miserably leading to thousands of preventable deaths. Herd Immunity.

Belief in capitalism has created this crisis: the endless pursuit of profit has led to a climate emergency. In turn a global mass movement of planetary defenders has been mobilised. The March Is On. The impact of Black Lives Matter, and climate justice campaigns, and Free Palestine movements challenge the establishment, offering hope and resistance. Black Lives Matter and Palestine.

In this time of economic and political unrest, minorities become the common enemy and are used as scapegoats. Chained to our phones, we are overwhelmed with a never-ending firehose of manipulation and hatred. Free To Do.

The celebration of diversity is the most effective challenge to the racism of the far right. The beauty of multiculturalism are the flowers that grow in the gardens of diversity. No Borders.

Lockdown has been a struggle for everyone. Yet for the first time in my life I have time to do the things I’ve always wanted to. I have been learning classical piano, and discovering a new world that is magical and challenging. Fur Elise and Moonlight Sonata.

Sean Taylor, vocals, guitars, piano & harmonica
Mark Hallman, drums, bass, hammond organ, lap steel & harmonica
Joe Morales, saxophone

Sean Taylor
sees the world as a dark and desperate place at the moment, but he finds salvation through music. With his new album, “The Beat Goes On” he has made a deliberate attempt to accentuate a positive message of enjoying life through arts, love, music, things that bring people together. He sings “lose yourself in music, feel every note that you hear”.

“Life is precarious especially as an artist…. Enjoy the moment when you can”.

There is a joy in performing again…. Sean has been performing for over 20 years. He finds the movement between different places, different towns, different audiences cathartic. There is a warmth in concerts, connecting with the audience, makes the songs come alive again. He found not touring really hard emotionally. He is used to being a troubadour (a wandering minstrel). He loved having this freedom, which was taken away. He dealt with his frustrations by writing music.

This album contains no booklet.