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Björk said of the song was based on a dream during a cross-Atlantic flight to New York where; “a tsunami of millions and millions of poverty-stricken people" swelled high above the airplane she was a passenger on. Eventually, the wave overtook the plane, hit land and razed the White House into oblivion. "It's a quite chaotic song," she said of Volta's first single. "Lyrically, it's a collection of all of these images" burned into her memory, from her trip to Indonesia as well as her vivid, in-flight reverie. bit.ly
3D on the anti-pollution message in Hymn Of The Big Wheel [NME Magazine – June 1991]: "Hymn Of The Big Wheel does build a bigger picture than the rest of the tracks on Blue Lines, because the rest are kind of unfocused – they just drift around and round in their own way, which is what we’re into, rather than paint an obvious picture or leave a message. We’re as worried about things like pollution as everyone else, it’s just we don’t want to write about it so obviously. We ain’t got no solutions to the problems, we’re just the same as everyone else living it. We’re just pointing things out to ourselves, rather than to everyone else. It’s just a story about a man talking to his son, talking about the future or what’s gonna happen, what’s it all about? Just questions, y’know."
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Originally sung by Mick Jones, the supermarket in question was the International, located at 471–473 Kings Road, beneath the World's End Estate. 31 Whistler Walk was where Joe Strummer lived at the time with his girlfriend Gaby Salter, her two younger brothers and her mother. The song's lyrics describe someone struggling to deal with an increasingly commercialised world and rampant consumerism. With lines such as "I came in here for that special offer – guaranteed personality", the protagonist bemoans the depersonalisation of the world around him. The song speaks of numbness from suburban alienation and the feelings of disillusionment that come through youth in modern society. bit.ly
Grammy-nominated synth-pop duo Sylvan Esso have been using their music and public profile to talk about climate change for a few years now. Their 2018 single “PARAD(w/m)E” disguises bleak observations of a post-apocalyptic world beneath jubilant beats and an infectious chorus. We asked vocalist Amelia Meath about the creation of that song:
“That one did like the magical thing that songs sometimes do where we wrote the music and the lyrics and melody at the same time together in the studio with our friend John Green. And that is it mostly, up here, I think it was because we'd been hanging out in L.A. and whenever I'm in L.A., I always think about doom. It's like doom and apocalypse are pretty close in Los Angeles because there's no water there and it's a desert that's been created--like turned into a playground. I thinkabout that every time I'm there.”
Chip Giller is the founder of one of our Climate partners, Grist. "Founded in 1999, Grist is a beacon in the smog — an independent, irreverent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck."
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RudeGiRL is a female tribute band to The Clash out of Minneapolis, MN featuring Emily Bee, Jessie Bryan, Jilleo Candyhands, Deidre Caron, Jenny Forster Warner, BT Hanson, and Anne Welna.
Kyoto Now! (stylized as KyotoNOW!) is a student-led movement at colleges and universities across the United States, through which students hope to make American universities commit to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The name of the movement reflects the Kyoto Protocol, which the USA currently is not considering ratifying.
Cornell University's Kyoto Now! was the first of such groups formed, after a sit-in protest in then President Rawlings' office. The group demanded that the University commit "to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent below the 1990 levels of emissions by 2007. These reductions are not on a square foot basis, but based on the total campus emissions." Hal Craft, VP at the time, signed the Protocol, committing the University to emissions reductions, and the school is now on track to meet that commitment through construction of a combined heat and power plant that will take waste heat produced by the cogen plant and use it to heat the campus buildings. The writer of "Kyoto Now!", Greg Graffin, is, in fact, an alumnus of Cornell University. bit.ly
Cornell University's Kyoto Now! was the first of such groups formed, after a sit-in protest in then President Rawlings' office. The group demanded that the University commit "to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent below the 1990 levels of emissions by 2007. These reductions are not on a square foot basis, but based on the total campus emissions." Hal Craft, VP at the time, signed the Protocol, committing the University to emissions reductions, and the school is now on track to meet that commitment through construction of a combined heat and power plant that will take waste heat produced by the cogen plant and use it to heat the campus buildings. The writer of "Kyoto Now!", Greg Graffin, is, in fact, an alumnus of Cornell University. bit.ly
In this song, ANOHNI finds herself lamenting her birth, taking her from her natural state (one with the earth) to life as a human being. Her observations of mankind’s hatred and destruction towards both the environment and itself have left her wishing she had never been born.
Released for the Women’s March On Washington, CocoRosie wrote, "We share a new song to inspire the weary-disappointed hearts of so many crest-fallen citizens. We just started working on a new album, but “Smoke ‘em Out” begged to be turned loose on the world now, as a means of participation during these turbulent yet invigorating times. Joined on guest vocals by our fellow Future Feminist ANOHNI, “Smoke ‘em Out” welcomes the new character who will be occupying the White House with a mob of women and children armed with forks and knives. In the wake of this un-natural disaster, we feel a call to rise, shout, and burn the house down." bit.ly
‘111’ is a photographic portrait of the neighbourhood and people of Breiðholt. Photographer Spessi’s portraits feature people from many different walks of life, as he feels a certain familiarity in Breiðholt. “There is a Breiðholt everywhere in the world,” he said. Breiðholt is unlike any other neighbourhood or community in Iceland—Many Icelanders refer to Breiðholt as ‘the only Icelandic ghetto’—and Spessi has chosen to shatter the commonly held prejudices that have come to exist about the neighbourhood and its people.
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In this song, London-based percussionist and producer Korwar cycles through a series of stereotypes used to define him as a brown man, who grew up in India (even though he was born in the United States.)
The nine-minute track builds like a free jazz composition. Its multiple instruments capture the defiance of the lyrics. Spoken word poet Zia Ahmed provides the vocals.
“I’m Shiva. I’m al Qaeda. I am auditioning for the role of Terrorist #1,” Ahmed raps. “Yeah, I can do that in an Arabic accent.”
Korwar combines electronic motifs and Indian classical music sounds for his rumination on identity. As he contends, “The question deep down is what you think is your own, and how much right you have over a certain piece of land.”
The imagery of “Bol” shows a brown man trying to conform with British society. And yet, the man recognizes no matter how much he sips tea like all the British do he will still be an outcast. bit.ly
“London Calling” captures the concerns of global ecological catastrophe and decline that these events portended and yokes them to larger concerns that had become apparent in the 1970s. Strummer’s lyrics bespoke the downsides of modern society and limitations of future economic growth. Oil shortages following embargoes in 1973 and 1979 and projections of resource decline from books such as The Limits to Growth suggested the abundance that had shaped the post-World War II era for Western Europe and the United States would come to an abrupt end. Engines across the world might “stop running.” Strummer’s reference to the “wheat growin’ thin” implied large-scale famine, which many people feared as concerns about runaway population growth pervaded the international politics of the decade, too. At the same time, the Three Mile Island incident exposed dark ironies of technologies that had helped to generate that abundance (the “nuclear error,” as Strummer calls it). They contained risks, some hidden, some all too apparent, and the trade-off for cheap energy and consumer goods was that any point some unanticipated technical or human error could lead to disaster.
The song conjures a similar sense of impending doom from these trends. The phrase “London Calling” is a reference to BBC reports that were broadcast during the darkest periods of World War II. “This is London Calling,” a voice would say, before delivering the news to people who worried about their very survival amid the most destructive war in human history. By 1979, Strummer felt that a similar situation was on the horizon. bit.ly
The song conjures a similar sense of impending doom from these trends. The phrase “London Calling” is a reference to BBC reports that were broadcast during the darkest periods of World War II. “This is London Calling,” a voice would say, before delivering the news to people who worried about their very survival amid the most destructive war in human history. By 1979, Strummer felt that a similar situation was on the horizon. bit.ly
For the first time, the band's traditional songwriting credits of Strummer and Jones were replaced by a generic credit to the Clash, and the band agreed to a decrease in album royalties in order to release the 3-LP at a low price. https://bit.ly/2UxCQoE
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Cut the Crap is the sixth and final studio album by the English punk band the Clash, released on 4 November 1985 by Epic Records. It was recorded in early 1985 at Weryton Studios, Munich, following a turbulent period: co-founder, lead guitarist and co-principal songwriter Mick Jones and drummer Topper Headon had been dismissed by lead vocalist Joe Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon. Their recently re-instated manager Bernie Rhodes replaced Jones and Headon with three unknowns: guitarists Vince White and Nick Sheppard and drummer Pete Howard. During the tense recording sessions, Rhodes and Strummer fought with each other for control over the band's songwriting and musical direction.
Strummer wrote most of the songs. During production, Rhodes tried to take control of arrangements, track sequencing and the final mix. His production choices, which rely heavily on synthetic drum sounds and sampling, are widely derided. Strummer disowned the album and dissolved the Clash within weeks of its release. https://bit.ly/39irHfo
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Strummer wrote most of the songs. During production, Rhodes tried to take control of arrangements, track sequencing and the final mix. His production choices, which rely heavily on synthetic drum sounds and sampling, are widely derided. Strummer disowned the album and dissolved the Clash within weeks of its release. https://bit.ly/39irHfo
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As we "Clash For Climate" this International Clash Day, we want people to know not just what the problems are but to be knowledgable about how we can do our part.
Beyond just making changes in our own lives, there are organizations, activists, and climate advocates working right now toward solutions to put our planet back on track. In the sections below, you'll find the organizations and activists who need your support to help Planet Earth survive... and thrive. Find out how to reach them here: www.kexp.org/internationalclashday/climate-resources/
Beyond just making changes in our own lives, there are organizations, activists, and climate advocates working right now toward solutions to put our planet back on track. In the sections below, you'll find the organizations and activists who need your support to help Planet Earth survive... and thrive. Find out how to reach them here: www.kexp.org/internationalclashday/climate-resources/
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez has been fighting for the cause since he was six years old. His mother Tamara Rose is the founder of Earth Guardians – an organization that trains youth to be leaders in environmental, climate, and social justice movements. Martinez now serves as Earth Guardians' youth director. Martinez also credits his values as coming from his father who is of Mexica descent, an indigenous people of Mexico, instilling in Martinez respect to the environment and all pieces of creation. bit.ly
Now 19-years-old, Martinez has spoken at the United Nations several times and was awarded the U.S. Volunteer Service award by President Obama in 2013. He is currently one of 21 plaintiffs in a case against the U.S. government for neglecting to take action against climate change. He put out his debut album Break Free in 2018 and authored the book We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet in 2017.
As KEXP heads into our Clash For Climate focus for International Clash Day, we caught up with Martinez to learn more about the work he's doing in activism, finding sanctuary in his music, and getting his advice on how people can help do their part to fight for their future. bit.ly
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Damon Albarn got the idea for Plastic Beach while on a beach next to his house: "I was just looking for all the plastic within the sand." Then, the first time Albarn went to Mali, he was taken to a landfill where he saw people "taking every little bit, a little bit of fabric to the fabric regenerators, or the metal and the cans to the ironsmiths and the aluminium recyclers, and it goes on and by the time you get to the road, they're selling stuff." When Albarn went to a landfill outside London to record the sound of seagulls for the album, he noticed a juxtaposition between the way the two countries dealt with rubbish. They've got more snakes... like adders, grass snakes, slow worms, toads, frogs, newts, all kinds of rodents, all kinds of squirrels, a massive number of squirrels, foxes, and obviously, seagulls.
"This is part of the new ecology. And for the first time I saw the world in a new way. I've always felt, I'm trying to get across on this new record, the idea that plastic, we see it as being against nature but it's come out of nature. We didn't create plastic, nature created plastic. And just seeing the snakes like living in the warmth of decomposing plastic bags. They like it. It was a strange kind of optimism that I felt... but trying to get that into pop music is a challenge, anyway. But important." bit.ly
"This is part of the new ecology. And for the first time I saw the world in a new way. I've always felt, I'm trying to get across on this new record, the idea that plastic, we see it as being against nature but it's come out of nature. We didn't create plastic, nature created plastic. And just seeing the snakes like living in the warmth of decomposing plastic bags. They like it. It was a strange kind of optimism that I felt... but trying to get that into pop music is a challenge, anyway. But important." bit.ly
This song was inspired by a classmate of Clash guitarist Mick Jones - a man named Robin Crocker. In an interview with The Guardian in 2008, Crocker explained: "Mick Jones and I sat together at Strand boys' grammar school [in south London]. We had a fight over who was better - I thought Chuck Berry and he thought Bo Diddley. It was a hugely disciplinarian school. The headmaster used to have a wooden leg, so he got the nickname Hobbler. We were marched down to Hobbler's office to explain ourselves and Mick said, 'We were arguing about rock'n'roll, sir.' Hobbler raged, 'Rock'n'roll is not on the curriculum in this establishment!' and was so furious that all this gob landed on his lapel. Me and Mick fell about laughing and that was it - firm friends and the end of any respect for authority for ever. Mick had the longest hair and tightest trousers in school. I was a hooligan, basically, because I was bored.
After school I was working as a journalist and got laid off. I fell in with a bunch of people and we decided to rob some banks. I ended up in the Old Bailey. It was like being back in Hobbler's office. I ended up in a maximum security jail on the Isle of Wight. By the time I got out Mick had formed the Clash. One evening he came over with an acoustic and played me 'Stay Free.' Somebody once said to me it's the most outstanding heterosexual male-on-male love song, and there is a lot of truth in that. It's a memento of a glorious band, a glorious time and a glorious friendship. Unfortunately, I didn't Stay Free. I did a wages snatch in Stockholm and got banged up again." https://bit.ly/2tDX84K
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After school I was working as a journalist and got laid off. I fell in with a bunch of people and we decided to rob some banks. I ended up in the Old Bailey. It was like being back in Hobbler's office. I ended up in a maximum security jail on the Isle of Wight. By the time I got out Mick had formed the Clash. One evening he came over with an acoustic and played me 'Stay Free.' Somebody once said to me it's the most outstanding heterosexual male-on-male love song, and there is a lot of truth in that. It's a memento of a glorious band, a glorious time and a glorious friendship. Unfortunately, I didn't Stay Free. I did a wages snatch in Stockholm and got banged up again." https://bit.ly/2tDX84K
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Every February 7th, music lovers worldwide come together to celebrate International Clash Day. What began as a tribute to The Clash’s music and legacy has evolved into a banner celebration of the issues and message they stood for. The Clash were unapologetically confrontational and champions of the oppressed, always striving for the possibility of a better world. That’s why in 2020 we’re using the holiday to Clash For Climate for, as Joe Strummer once said, “The future is unwritten.”
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As a grassroots organization, 350 Seattle's goal is to bring people together to make systemic change in how we address climate change. With their team of activists, they organize everything from hearings and legislation to protests and blockades. Find out how you can participate here: www.kexp.org/internationalclashday/climate-resources/
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Yorke said that this was the song where he found his lyrical voice. He cut the vocal, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, in one take, then the band filled in its parts around him. Yorke said the song began as "A very nice melody which I had no idea what to do with, then you wake up and find your head singing some words to it.
The band were finding it difficult to nail this song and decided to take a break and catch a Jeff Buckley gig at Highbury. When they returned to the studio mesmerized by Buckley's set, Yorke sang the song twice before breaking down into tears. According to Q magazine April 2008, Jonny Greenwood played on this an old Hammond organ, whose tone controls required resetting after every bar. bit.ly
The band were finding it difficult to nail this song and decided to take a break and catch a Jeff Buckley gig at Highbury. When they returned to the studio mesmerized by Buckley's set, Yorke sang the song twice before breaking down into tears. According to Q magazine April 2008, Jonny Greenwood played on this an old Hammond organ, whose tone controls required resetting after every bar. bit.ly
"Monkey Gone to Heaven"'s main theme is environmentalism. The song mainly deals with humanity's destruction of the ocean and "confusion of man's place in the universe". "On one hand, it's [the ocean] this big organic toilet. Things get flushed and repurified or decomposed and it's this big, dark, mysterious place", Black later said, "It's also a very mythological place where there are octopus's gardens, the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, and mermaids." Francis came up with the song's hook, "this monkey's gone to heaven", long before the song itself was written. The line itself forms a basis for the song, which revolves around humanity's relationship with the divine and environmentalism. bit.ly
"Four Horsemen" was The Clash's attempt to lighten the tone of London Calling in the midst of very apocalyptic and dark-sounding songs such as the title track, "Clampdown," and "Death Or Glory." It features deliberately humorous lyrics, presenting The Clash as the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse in the style of Monty Python-esque parodies who are in the middle of a bit of a rubbish day ("One was over the edge, one was over the cliff, One was lickin' em dry with a bloody great spliff. When they picked up the hiker he didn't want the lift, from the horsemen"). It acts as an attempt to poke fun at themselves, showing that they acknowledge that their lyrics veer close to pretentious at times.
This song was only ever played live once: at the Russrock Festival in Finland, in August 1979. One can only assume that the band didn't play it all too often in case audiences just didn't get the joke of the lyrics. https://bit.ly/2StuyLH
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Paul Douglas, respected meteorologist with over 35 years of television and radio experience, shares, “Climate change is more than an environmental problem or an economic challenge. It’s a moral and spiritual imperative. A new level of climate volatility and weather disruption will affect everyone… It’s not your grandfather’s weather anymore." He's just written “Caring for Creation (The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment)” which he co-authored with Mitch Hescox, leader of the Evangelical Environmental Network, the largest evangelical group dedicated to creation care.
The WA governor, Jay Inslee, stopped by KEXP to speak about climate change, its effect on mental health, and ways we can move forward collectively.
The lyrical content of the song is said to be articulated from the perspective of a visiting alien "concerned about what has happened to [Earth] since the last time he passed through." AllMusic's Matthew Greenwald suggests that this motif is adopted to "[address] the older generation and their flaws and judgements against the youth of the 1960s," which Hendrix supposedly does "with a sense of idle curiosity rather than distaste, not unlike an alien visiting the planet Earth for the first time." bit.ly
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Moby announced that all proceeds from his 16th album All Visible Objects would be donated to a range of charities and organizations dedicated to a more sustainable future. "Power Is Taken" plays as a call to action, with siren synths and powerful vocals from D.H. Peligro ‑ best known as the drummer of the Dead Kennedys.
How can we be kinder to the environment, and ourselves? One simple step: Cut back on meat. A 2009 study found that four-fifths of the deforestation across the Amazon rainforest could be linked to cattle ranching. And the water pollution from factory farms (also called concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs)—whereby pigs and other livestock are contained in tight quarters—can produce as much sewage waste as a small city, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Further, the widespread use of antibiotics to keep livestock healthy on those overcrowded CAFOs has led to the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that threaten human health and the environment in their own right.
Eating too much meat is no good for our health, with overindulgence linked to increasing rates of heart disease, cancer and obesity. Worldwide, between 1971 and 2010, production of meat tripled to around 600 billion pounds while global population grew by 81 percent, meaning that we are eating a lot more meat than our grandparents. Researchers extrapolate that global meat production will double by 2050 to about 1.2 trillion pounds a year, putting further pressure on the environment and human health.
For those who can’t give up meat fully, cutting back goes a long way toward helping the environment, as does choosing meat and dairy products from organic, pasture-raised, grass-fed animals. “Ultimately, we need better policies and stronger regulations to reduce the environmental impacts of livestock production,” says EWG’s Kari Hammerschlag “But personal shifting of diets is an important step.” https://bit.ly/38c7Yy6
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Eating too much meat is no good for our health, with overindulgence linked to increasing rates of heart disease, cancer and obesity. Worldwide, between 1971 and 2010, production of meat tripled to around 600 billion pounds while global population grew by 81 percent, meaning that we are eating a lot more meat than our grandparents. Researchers extrapolate that global meat production will double by 2050 to about 1.2 trillion pounds a year, putting further pressure on the environment and human health.
For those who can’t give up meat fully, cutting back goes a long way toward helping the environment, as does choosing meat and dairy products from organic, pasture-raised, grass-fed animals. “Ultimately, we need better policies and stronger regulations to reduce the environmental impacts of livestock production,” says EWG’s Kari Hammerschlag “But personal shifting of diets is an important step.” https://bit.ly/38c7Yy6
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Pride in any place we live is on how well we treat it, and the Clash were instrumental in speaking up for the disenfranchised and hope for making the world a better place. Find out how you can participate in making your place a better place here: www.kexp.org/internationalclashday/climate-resources/
JoyCut has a green philosophy and all of their production is 100% tied to a sustainable future. Commitment to environmental issues has led JoyCut to participate in many sustainability green projects and campaigns. From recording the anthem Clean Planet, composed as a testament to Mother Nature's rights, to recording at studios completely powered by solar panels, JoyCut recycle and up-cycle all sorts of materials and machines as part of its setup.
"We use only mater-bi and biophan for the packaging, and water based inks and vegetable glues for printing." JoyCut works towards reducing its environmental impact as much as possible. "Nature has always been at the heart of our philosophy, because it inspires us conceptually during our musical research and exploration, as well as allowing us to innovate. It's been a real eye-opener for us, after such a long time, to discover that innovation can also come from nature: nature, although it is pastoral and fierce, doesn't just stand there watching us and is also capable of interacting and even becoming technology. We carried out various sustainability campaigns with International Associations, such as 350.org, and our very own Italian Climate Network, but above all, we carried out a campaign called GhostTreesForest." bit.ly
"We use only mater-bi and biophan for the packaging, and water based inks and vegetable glues for printing." JoyCut works towards reducing its environmental impact as much as possible. "Nature has always been at the heart of our philosophy, because it inspires us conceptually during our musical research and exploration, as well as allowing us to innovate. It's been a real eye-opener for us, after such a long time, to discover that innovation can also come from nature: nature, although it is pastoral and fierce, doesn't just stand there watching us and is also capable of interacting and even becoming technology. We carried out various sustainability campaigns with International Associations, such as 350.org, and our very own Italian Climate Network, but above all, we carried out a campaign called GhostTreesForest." bit.ly
JoyCut is formed by Pasquale Pezzillo, the founding member (contents, voice, guitar, electronics), Gaël Califano (industrial percussion) and Giannicola Maccarinelli (tribal drum).
Having opened and toured with bands such as Arcade Fire, Editors, Art Brut, Modest Mouse and Sebadoh, the trio won over North American fans on their first proper US tour in spring of 2014. On the tour they were introduced to Nic Harcourt of KCSN has become a supporter. The VISA World Cup commercial score was secured through their SXSW International Day Stage Performance.
Together with the magazine came a leaflet explaining how bio-plastic is made, and a CD showcasing the nature of our sound, a free CD wrapped in 100% biodegradable packaging, made of plant-derived glues and water-based inks; even our band merchandising can consist of biologic and natural fibers." JoyCut has a green philosophy and all of their production is 100% tied to a sustainable future. Commitment to environmental issues has led JoyCut to participate in many sustainability green projects and campaigns. en.wikipedia.org
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke performed in December 2015 at Pathway To Paris, a benefit concert to fight climate change. The band has since announced that select performances from the event will be released digitally as a live album; proceeds benefit 350.org and the United Nations Development Programme. The Pathway To Paris album features music from Yorke, Patti Smith, Flea, Warren Ellis, Fally Ipupa, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith, and Rebecca Foon, plus talks by Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, and Jo Scheuer. bit.ly
“People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money. You are failing us, and the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.” -- Greta Thunberg
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Rebecca Foon is a Canadian cellist, vocalist, and composer from Montreal, Quebec. Foon currently records under the alias Saltland and is a member and co-founder of the Juno Award-winning modern chamber ensemble Esmerine. She has also been a member of several groups associated with the post rock, experimental and chamber music scene of Montreal and New York City, including Set Fire to Flames, A Silver Mt. Zion, Fifths of Seven with Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug, and Esmerine. With Jesse Paris Smith, Foon co-founded Pathway to Paris, an international concert series bringing together musicians, writers and environmental activists to help raise consciousness and create action in support of a robust international climate agreement. pathwaytoparis.com
Wild bees need our help. Many populations are declining due to habitat loss, disease and pesticide poisoning. Domesticated honeybees managed for honey production and agricultural services are also struggling.
As our most important pollinators, bees provide one-third of the food we eat. They also allow wild plants to reproduce and produce berries, fruits and seeds. Bee losses pose a risk to our life support systems. Each of us can create habitat to support local bee populations. Bees are more likely to thrive in your backyard, community or patio garden and on mixed farms than on acres devoted to single crops. Urban settings mean short flight paths and a variety of different plants and flowers to sample.
Learn how to create a bee sanctuary here: davidsuzuki.org
As our most important pollinators, bees provide one-third of the food we eat. They also allow wild plants to reproduce and produce berries, fruits and seeds. Bee losses pose a risk to our life support systems. Each of us can create habitat to support local bee populations. Bees are more likely to thrive in your backyard, community or patio garden and on mixed farms than on acres devoted to single crops. Urban settings mean short flight paths and a variety of different plants and flowers to sample.
Learn how to create a bee sanctuary here: davidsuzuki.org
Watch Mr. Rogers perform this sweet track with Joe Negri & Yo Yo Ma: www.youtube.com
The Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees campaign is a major forest restoration effort with a goal of planting a billion trees across the planet. Trees provide so many benefits to our everyday lives. They filter clean air, provide fresh drinking water, help curb climate change, and create homes for thousands of species of plants and animals. Planting a Billion Trees can help save the Earth from deforestation. The Nature Conservancy has a solution we can participate in: bit.ly
During the production of the album, Gaye actively participated in the songwriting process for the first time, adding political and social statements to the songs and stepping back from the love songs he was known for.
Gaye wrote the music of the song in collaboration with other two Motown hitmakers Al Cleveland and Four Tops member Renaldo “Obie” Benson, while the lyrics were written solely by Gaye, who was inspired by the stories that his brother Frankie told him when he came back from the Vietnam War. In this song he fears the oil in the ocean, he celebrates the blue sky, he speaks in the name of animals which are dying , he warns on the overpopulation of the planet and even if fifty years have passed, his words remain, unfortunately, so very present. bit.ly
Gaye wrote the music of the song in collaboration with other two Motown hitmakers Al Cleveland and Four Tops member Renaldo “Obie” Benson, while the lyrics were written solely by Gaye, who was inspired by the stories that his brother Frankie told him when he came back from the Vietnam War. In this song he fears the oil in the ocean, he celebrates the blue sky, he speaks in the name of animals which are dying , he warns on the overpopulation of the planet and even if fifty years have passed, his words remain, unfortunately, so very present. bit.ly
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Sometimes life and events--political, ecological, cultural--can certainly get us down, but the fact is, WE HAVE POWER. You have a voice, singular and yours. Fight for what you believe in; choose and support representatives and organizations to speak and fight on your behalf.
Joe Strummer said, "The future is unwritten." Let's keep writing it, and if we don't like what's happening, let's rewrite it!International Clash Day 2020: Clash For Climate | www.kexp.org/internationalclashday/
www.amazon.com/The-Clash/e/B000APF3RK
Joe Strummer said, "The future is unwritten." Let's keep writing it, and if we don't like what's happening, let's rewrite it!International Clash Day 2020: Clash For Climate | www.kexp.org/internationalclashday/
www.amazon.com/The-Clash/e/B000APF3RK
"Without people, you are nothing." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6BZhNP_kg
Founded by Canadian musician/activist Rebecca Foon and Jesse Paris Smith, Patti Smith's daughter, Pathway to Paris is an initiative in partnership with 350.org that brings together musicians, artists, activists, academics, politicians and innovators to participate in a series of events and dialogues to help raise consciousness around the urgency of climate action and the importance of establishing an ambitious, global, legally binding agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015.
Pathway to Paris kicked off with an intimate evening of music and speakers at Le Poisson Rouge immediately following the People’s Climate March in New York City in September 2014, with a series of similar events unfolding in New York and Montreal over the ensuing year. Find out more about PtP here: pathwaytoparis.com and catch a highlight reel of the concert, featuring Thom Yorke, Flea, Michael Stipe, Smith, Foon, Smith, Bill McKibben, and Naomi Klein here: bit.ly
Pathway to Paris kicked off with an intimate evening of music and speakers at Le Poisson Rouge immediately following the People’s Climate March in New York City in September 2014, with a series of similar events unfolding in New York and Montreal over the ensuing year. Find out more about PtP here: pathwaytoparis.com and catch a highlight reel of the concert, featuring Thom Yorke, Flea, Michael Stipe, Smith, Foon, Smith, Bill McKibben, and Naomi Klein here: bit.ly
In 2019, it was announced that Jónsi and Swedish composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff had formed a new musical collaboration they were calling Dark Morph, and on 10 May 2019, they released their first album, also titled Dark Morph. The project "promises to explore the ramifications of ongoing environmental collapse to the oceans and its inhabitants." The album consists mainly of ambient sounds, often simulating the sounds of animals and nature, and contains very few actual melodies. https://bit.ly/2UyCiin
Please VOTE. International Clash Day 2020: Clash For Climate | www.kexp.org/internationalclashday/
Please VOTE. International Clash Day 2020: Clash For Climate | www.kexp.org/internationalclashday/
Time to dance! Have a favorite track or want to let us know how you're doing? Email: dj@kexp.org or interact online: @djmichelemyers #kexp
Time to dance! Have a favorite track or want to let us know how you're doing? Email: dj@kexp.org or interact online: @djmichelemyers #kexp.