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Sacred Black Records is a classical music label and publisher dedicated to connecting audiences with world-class musicians through high-resolution sound recordings and publications. Sacred Black was founded in 2024 by guitarist, composer, and producer Matthew Cochran.
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September 28, 2026
Guitarist Stephen Mattingly Answers Authoritarian Violence with Compassion on For Whom the Bell Tolls
New album on Sacred Black Records pairs Roberto Gerhard’s rarely heard Hemingway score with elegies for Chile and Panama
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Featured Album
Stephen Mattingly, For Whom the Bell Tolls
In the early 1940s, Woody Guthrie wrote four words on his guitar: This Machine Kills Fascists. Guitarist Stephen Mattingly treats that line as a conviction, not a slogan. Mattingly’s solo guitar album, For Whom the Bell Tolls, brings together music written in response to authoritarian violence and in praise of the compassion that resists it.
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