“Planet Earth is blue, And there’s something you can do...”
We told you about the new version of Brian Eno and David Bowie’s Get Real Sounds Right Mix (Featuring NATURE) on the David Bowie social pages a few days ago.
@soundsright.earth is a global music initiative by @museumfortheun to recognise NATURE as an official artist and to raise funds for her conservation.
Over to Brian to explain...
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Brian Eno: “Throughout my life I’ve wondered - how I can return something to the places I’ve taken ideas from? Music started out as the sounds of the natural world, and Sounds Right creates a system to give back to nature, helping to preserve the planet so that it can continue to inspire us for years to come.
In the nature remix of “Get Real”, a track I co-wrote with David Bowie 30 years ago, the animals are invading the song – it's like it has sprung leaks everywhere and these animals are coming in through every window and crack between the doors. They're sort of threatening - suddenly Nature has crept into the art.”
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Eno also recently told the Midnight Chats podcast about some of NATURE’S contributions to the new version of Get Real:
“It’s a powerful song – very good lyrics – and with this new kind of container that we're putting it in of being a song about our relationship with the Earth, I think it really works. The wild pigs sound really good...So yes, we'll have David, Bri and some wild pigs!”
“I’ve got a number of recordings of different animals here. I wanted big, slightly menacing animals in the song. Not birds and wind and things like that. So, I tried a Siberian tiger. That was a bit too overwhelming. I tried some rooks. I've always loved rooks, but they sounded like ducks in that context, which is not quite the same message.”
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A share of royalties from any song that credits NATURE as an artist will go to @EarthPercent, a charity founded by Eno. The organization will then distribute that money to conservation and restoration projects in the world’s “most precious and precarious ecosystems” under the guidance of the Sounds Right Expert Advisory Panel, a group of world-leading biologists, environmental activists, Indigenous People’s representatives, and experts in conservation funding.
So, listen to Get Real Sounds Right Mix (Featuring NATURE) frequently on major streaming platforms, to help the planet now.
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