Join us for an unflinching musical exploration of our warming world. These artists dare to face our environmental fears, transforming climate anxiety into compelling soundscapes that echo the urgency of our times. Each track serves as both warning and witness to the changing Earth.
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Laura put these songs together (with a little help from Bart) to help you know you’re not alone in your concerns and cares, your love of the environment and our Earth, and to hopefully help you relax. This show aired a few days after the United States 2024 election.
“Songs of Psychedelia” invites listeners to dissolve the boundaries between consciousness and cosmos through sounds that celebrate our profound connection to Earth. From Jens Jarvie’s ayahuasca-inspired prayer of devotion to The Bevis Frond’s indie rock ode to nature, we journey through experimental soundscapes where Russian acorns bloom and Swiss forest mushrooms dance. After the break, Bly Wallentine transports us to windswept Utah canyons, Myndflower illuminates moss-covered trees at Pagan festivals, and Finnish rockers Pennies by the Pound contemplate watery mysticism. Derek Monypeny’s Mojave Desert guitar meditations channel spiritual elders before we conclude with Jimi Hendrix’s alien visitor questioning what we’ve done to our planet. This collection represents the finest tradition of psychedelic music: not escape from reality, but diving deeper into it—discovering that when we truly open our perception, we find ourselves inseparable from the living world. Join us for an hour of mind-expansion that roots us more deeply in Earth love rather than carrying us away from it.
This episode features music in celebration of Autumn, Samhain, Halloween, Harvest and the changing of the season from late summer to being well into fall [for the Northern Hemisphere]. Songs reminiscent of change and decay, ending of the year, letting go of the past, honoring loved ones who’ve passed and maybe a ghost or two.
This episode is part two of a series in recognition of all those impacted by Hurricane Helene. We feature music and musicians from affected areas particularly Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. These aren’t songs about hurricanes; in keeping with the themes of our series, this is music that celebrates the Earth in diverse ways. Y’all are in our hearts and thoughts, and we wish you as rapid and complete a recovery as is humanly possible.
This episode is part one of a series that Bart and I wanted to do in recognition of all those impacted by Hurricane Helene, and those who are being impacted by Hurricane Milton right this minute as the show is being created. We wanted to feature music and musicians, in the United States, in or from affected areas particularly Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. You are in our hearts and thoughts, and we wish you as rapid and complete a recovery as is humanly possible.
Though we often focus on songs in English, that’s only because we’re linguistically challenged. We’re always interested in hearing songs that celebrate the Earth in other tongues. Love of Earth is global, as is concern over ecological crisis, and nothing illustrates that better than songs in rich array of languages. We barely scrape the surface here.
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World Migratory Bird Day is twice a year, in the spring and fall. The next one is October 12th, 2024 and the key message is PROTECT INSECTS, PROTECT BIRDS. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, insects are the most diverse group of organism on the planet, they’re integral to our nutritional systems, their populations appear to be declining significantly around the world and they are especially important to the survival of birds, particularly during migration periods. So this episode is “For the Birds” [and “For the Insects”].
Poem “Respect for Cockroaches” by Laura Chamberlain Dedelow, 2006
More information on how to help: FWS.gov and MigratoryBirdDay.org
Inspired by the 10th International Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra, this episode of Earth Eclectic first tours Galicia for songs of the Earth, then tours the world for songs of degrowth.