REQUIEM REMIXES

Coup Sauvage & the Snips reunited summer 2020 to re-release Requiem for a Mountaintop. First released in 2015, the song was written after the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice. Equal parts elegy and call to action, it was our way to honor and celebrate the many black and brown lives lost as a result of police violence.

We never imagined the song would still be timely in 2020. Or that the list of names of people killed at the hands of the police would keep growing. All these years later, we are still angry, we are still in mourning, and we are still giving voice to our outrage the best way we know how - on the dance floor and in community. Now more than ever, we are dancing to rejoice, we are dancing for solidarity, we are dancing for our survival.

In response to new demands for racial justice, we re-released the single with four new remixes produced by local black, brown, and queer artists. All proceeds were donated to the Movement for Black Lives and ONE DC.