We are happy to share “Songs in the Key of Collaboration”

In Martin’s words:

Prompted by a serious water crisis in Cape Town, I set out to explore songwriting as a response to anthropogenic environmental impact, broadly speaking.

With this album I also back on a plethora of human and non-human encounters in a project which earned me a PhD from Aarhus University in 2023, and which was fundamentally inspired by the concept of “the Anthropocene.” A term suggesting that humankind has become a force wielding global geological impact.

Environmental crises will continue to impact the planet for generations to come. Droughts, floods, sea level rise, wild weather events, and resulting changes to sense of place and identity will follow.

Engaging with such issues, the songwriting of this project serves as a response to environmental impact, which I think of in terms of “the overwhelm” of the Anthropocene.
Songwriting collaborators have come from South Africa, Denmark, the DRC, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Ghana, England, and Sweden.

10 of 35 songs written in the project are presented on this album. They comprise a meeting of sentiments and ideas from different people, different countries, and very different living situations.

A song is a drop in a very big pond, but I believe in ripple effects and taking action by sharing ourselves, our experience, and knowledge. That may sound radical, but I believe inaction and non-sharing is actually more radical 😊❤️

DO add this album via your streaming service , and let’s show the algorithms that actual humans make art with and for other humans in this world still 😉