Echo of Species 10 - Moonbow

@moonbowmusic
_ _ _

This episode features tracks from Arve Henriksen (@arve-henriksen), Ulla (@ullastraus), Chihei Hatakeyama (@chiheihatakeyama), αίών, Theta Wave, Emily A. Sprague (@mlesprg), Carbon Based Lifeforms (@carbon-based-lifeforms), State Azure (@state-azure), FRKTL (@frktl), Kareem Lotfy (@kareemlotfy), Saphilieaum, Octo Octa (@octoocta), Mabe Fratti (@mabefs), Unknown, M. Geddes Gengras (@green-machines), Pataphysical (@pataphysicaltransmission), Legion of Green Men (@legion-of-green-men), Vida Vojić (@vida-vojic), Carmen Villain (@carmenvillain), Dolphin Midwives (@dolphinmidwives), ose, sonmi451 (@sonmi451), Biosphere (@officialbiosphere), Andrea, Stephan Haluska (@stephanhaluska), spoken words by Donna J. Haraway, and materials from the podcast "For The Wild"
_ _ _

Moonbow's words about their participation:
"Recently I have been enamoured by the work of Donna J. Haraway: a professor, writer and scholar whose work critiques the seprativist perception between humans and non-humans. Imagined as an alternative to the term "Anthropocene", Haraway instead proposes a successive epoch, which she calls the "Chthulucene", wherein multi-species kinship thrives.

Interspersed with samples taken from an interview with Haraway on "For The Wild", one of my favourite podcasts, the mix I have made is a proposed soundtrack for such entangled worlds. It is an ambient deep listening journey that spirals through multiplicities of landscapes, seasons and atmospheres. Many of the tracks that feature in the mix, I listened to over the last year whilst recovering from a physical, chronic illness that was the result of overworking like a machine within our capitalist system. Listening to ambient music and spending time in my small, but wild, garden, played a crucial role in my healing. I strongly believe that a slower, attentive, less extractive pace is what is needed in the route towards climate justice -- and so it was important to me to include many of these tracks in the mix."

Thanks to Donna Haraway & For The Wild Podcast for granting permission to use samples. 

Please visit https://forthewild.world/podcast
Donna J. Haraway’s work can be found here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
_ _ _

To know more about Moonbow:

Moonbow is the project of London based multidisciplinary artist El Hardwick. Alongside working as a photographer and music video director, their avant-pop music production interweaves a vortex of ambient soundscapes, maximalist sci-fi rhythms and political lyricism. Meanwhile, their colourful DJ sets and mixtapes are an exercise in storytelling that delve into melancholia & euphoria, old & new, organic & synthetic. A refusal to be defined by genre, gender or media underpins Moonbow’s artistic voice, which is at once eclectic and also undeniably their own.

Soon to release their debut album on 33-33’s label, the record will be released alongside a book of prose and collaborative photography created by Hardwick. Titled "8" the project imagines a climate fiction narrative where technocratic powers use the last reserves of energy, on an otherwise resource-depleted-earth, to mass migrate to cyberspace. However, when it is discovered that there is only limited bandwidth and resources to do so, a familiar story of corruption unfolds. Interweaving issues of colonialism, industrialisation, borders, net neutrality, and dogmatic constructs of the “good versus evil narrative”, the story is told from the perspective of several fictional alter egos, who are in a relationship with a capitalist system that favours extraction over nurture.

You can support Moonbow here: https://elhardwick.com/

You can support artists directly: https://buymusic.club/list/moonbow-echo-of-species-mix-tracklist?fbclid=IwAR0XaezV_PWFPGfx5x5DA-_y54NBgroJctwuqDpQn4ZmyFkUFj2C3lIy8K4

🌳1x tree has been planted to balance the carbon footprint of this upload (Project Povo da Floresta).

Echo of Species 10 - Moonbow

Echo of Species ~ The ecological collapse through artists' eyes. From a wide spectrum of classical, ambient, psychedelic & electronic music styles.
__________________

The contemporary environmental issues we face - pollution, global warming, extinction of species, etc. - are insufficiently expressed and conceptualised in the musical world, despite the fact that many artists have strong ecological convictions. Echo of Species is a place where they will take turns, each contributing a chapter to this deep listening story, by grasping climate urgency and proposing their artistic vision, without boundaries. A podcast series where each episode features an artist's unique selection of music interlaced with spoken words about the ecological collapse, from speeches, archives or recordings. The musical atmosphere can broadly be defined as experimental, from a wide spectrum of classical, ambient, psychedelic & electronic music styles. The artists help to craft the line-up and participate in the curation process. Like a relay race, they will pass the baton of conscience onto the next composer, thereby adding an element of unknown to the collection. The musician takes on the role of a trans-disciplinary agent of change, touching upon the feelings and emotions of the listener. Our aim is to ease the emotional bond between ourselves and nature. Through the eyes of these artists and their aesthetic response to the irreversible sixth mass extinction, we aspire to drive the catalyst that may prick our collective consciousness. Let's dive into this creative emulation and question ourselves. The clock is ticking.

1 episode published = 1 tree planted 🌳 (Project Povos da Floresta)