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Episode 44 is a profile of “Canopy Meg” — forest ecologist Meg Lowman, whose work revealed the “eighth continent” of life in treetop canopies everywhere. Dr. Lowman talks with Warren Senders about her long career exploring forests all over the globe, and we share music on tree themes (including Meg’s own composition from 6th grade as played by Cool Tunes team member Seth Handelman!).
#RainForests #Trees #Ecology #Music #Environment
Music and Video
"The Perfumed Forest
Wet With Rain"
Abdullah Ibrahim
from "Dollar Brand at Montreux"
Enja ER-3079
Interview with Meg Lowman
May 29, 2026
"The Leaf Detective"
Video trailer courtesy
Heather Lang
"Now Every Tree Renews"
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
The 200 Singers
October 30, 2022
"Underneath The Pines"
COPYRIGHT 1996 David Dodson
Sung by Kallet, Epstein & Cicone
from "Heartwalk" — Overall Music OM-3
"First Indian Sketch"
Charles Tomlinson Griffes — Composer
The Kreiner Quartet
Friends of Recorded Music
Disc 5-A
"Somersaults in Song/
Hannibal Air"
Composed by Meg Lowman
Seth Handelman — clarinet
"Hark Each Tree Its Silence Breaks"
Henry Purcell — Composer
Performed by La Tempesta, Poland
December 17, 2016
"The Birks of Aberfeldie"
Lyrics — Robert Burns, Tune traditional
Performed by Jean Redpath, from
"Sings the Songs of Robert Burns Vol. 5"
Philo 1093
Scotland photographs
courtesy Meg Lowman
Sounds of the Tambourine rainforest,
Australia, recorded by Jereme Hegge
Yagua Elders sing Ancestral Songs
January 19, 2026
Outside Iquitos, Peru
Courtesy Conscious Collective &
Paititi Institute
Amazon canopy walkway video
Courtesy Tree Foundation
"Saghan bana bole re koyaliya"
Khyal in Raga Maru Bihag
Sung by the Kashyap Brothers
Vadodara, India, April 4, 2020
Courtesy Komal Nishaad
"Prayer of Praise to the Creator"
Bahta Church, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Unesco Anthology of African Music
BM 30L 2304
Ethiopia photographs & video
courtesy The Tree Foundation
Ba'Aka Pygmy video
Courtesy Michelle Kisliuk
"Alus — Spirit of the Tiger"
Hala Alus, Ulu Nenggiri, Kelantan
December 3, 1941
Upper Perak, Malaya
From "Temiar Dream Music of Malaya"
Folkways FE 4460 (1955)
Penang Bioblitz video
courtesy Tree Foundation
"Redwood"
Paul Chihara — composer
Rose Wollman — Viola
Ross Erickson — Percussion
April 24, 2013
"Tree of Life"
Dorothy Carter & Bob Rutman
From "Waillee Waillee"
Celeste CR 1004 (1978)
"Fleurette Africaine (African Flower"
Composed by Duke Ellington
Performed by Ed Eastridge
August 2014
"Now Every Tree Renews"
Thomas Weelkes — Composer
The Electric Madrigal Society
Directed by Elliot Thompson
"Lý Cây Đa (The Banyan Tree)"
Vietnamese folk song
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Episode 43 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet celebrates the 250 thanniversary of our country, with songs of tribute to what America is really all about – the strength of immigrants, and the richness of the diverse cultures they bring to the party; the nobility of the working man and woman, upon whose shoulders we all stand; the gifts of freedom and democracy, as we extend our hands to those less fortunate who need a lift up – and how that act lifts all of us.#democracy250, #america250, #steveearle, #brockpeters, #cashvilletrashpandas, #balladforamericans, #alisonmoore, #jeanroheVideos"City of Immigrants"performed by Steve Earle"Ballad for Americans, Part 4"performed by Brock Peters"Handful of Earth (The Worker's Song)performed by The Cashville Trash Pandas"Liberty"performed by Alison Moore"National Anthem: Arise! Arise!"performed by Jean Rohe
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Episode 41 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet speaks to the plight of workingclass folks suffering under the thumb of corporate exploitation, the rise of fascist cruelty, and the betrayal of America’s social compact by leaders who seem determined to undermine our ethics and betray our trust. But just naming these evils for what they are is the first step to creating a community of resistance and righteousness.
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Episode 40 is a dive into the extraordinary world of Climate Choirs, as Warren interviews Chris Hutchings of the UK-based clearinghouse Choirs For Climate. Hear and watch choral singing on environmental themes, including many selections of Hutchings' own music as well as performance excerpts from the 1000-singer mega-concert presented in Finland in 2024 by Choirs For Ecocide Law.
For more information check these links:https://choirsforclimate.com/https://www.stopecocide.earth/choirs
https://craftycarrot.co.uk/another-world/
"Another World"
Jane Lewis, composer
text by Arundhati Roy
Choirs For Climate Concert,
March 5, 2025,
Edinburgh, Scotland"Let Them Not Say"
Chris Hutchings, composer
Jane Hirshfield, text
The Piedmont Singers
Helena von Rueden - director
April 22, 2021
"Warming Warning"
Chris Hutchings, composer
Milan Jazz School Choir,
Giorgio Ubaldi, Director
August 15, 2024,
Milan, Italy
"I Was Listening To A Pogrom"
Michael Rosen, text,
Chris Hutchings, composer
Loré Lixenberg — Voice,
Rolf Hind — Piano
“Occupy The Pianos" Concert,
October 18, 2020,
St John’s Smith Square, London
"When The Snow Came"
Chris Hutchings — Composer
Kantos Chamber Choir
Ellie Slorach — Director
December 18, 2021
"Why We Sing"
Chris Hutchings, composer
Choirs For Climate Concert,
March 5, 2025,
Edinburgh, Scotland
"The Turmut-Hoer's Song"
Sung by Fred Perrier & Villagers
West Lavington, Wiltshire, 1951
From Lomax & Kennedy:
"World Library of Folk & Primitive Music"
Columbia SL 206
"Melisommelos, or the Bees Madrigal"
Rev. Charles Butler (1623)
Choir of Little St. Mary's
Simon Jackson, Director
"Our House Is On Fire"
Commoners Choir
March 29, 2023
"The Rules"
Chris Hutchings - music and lyrics
Performed by Grex Musicus,
Kirsi Tunkkari - conductor (Finland)
Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland, April 27th, 2024
"Creation"
Kevin Fox - music,
Astrid Vang Pedersen - text
Performed by Flok (Helsinki, Finland)
Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert,
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki,
Finland, April 27th, 2024
"We Used to Know"
Astrid Vang Pedersen- music and lyrics
Performed by Philomela,
Jennifer Moir - conductor (Finland)
Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert,
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki,
Finland, April 27th, 2024
"I Wanna See You Free"
Simon Tandberg Christensen - words & music
Performed by Vaskivuoren Lukion Kamarikuoro,
Anni-Kaisa Haukka - conductor (Finland)
Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert,
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki,
Finland, April 27th, 2024
"Ask Not"
Peder Karlsson - music and text
Performed by Tampereen Ihankaikkinen
Kuninkaallinen Tuomiokuoro,
Petra Poutanen, conductor (Finland)
Choirs for Ecocide Law Mega-concert,
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki,
Finland, April 27th, 2024
"Send Lazarus"
Chris Hutchings, composer
Choirs For Climate Concert,
March 5, 2025,
Edinburgh, Scotland
"Monster"
Chris Hutchings, composer
March 28, 2025,
Oxford University
Museum of Natural History
City of Oxford Choir,
Duncan Aspden, director
"Hope" — Merzi Rajala - music,
Emily Dickenson - text
Performed by Vaskivuoren
Lukion Kamarikuoro,
Anni-Kaisa Haukka -
conductor (Finland)
Choirs for Ecocide Law
Mega-concert,
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki,
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Episode 39 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is about honoring the rebirth of springtime, the workers who bring life to the community, and the elders who have held strong to the harmony of the planet despite centuries of opposition and pollution. Building on the mandate of April’s Earth Day, now is the time to put those good ideas into action, and move forward together to bring peace and justice to an ailing world.
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Episode 38 does a deep dive into the back-story of American environmentalism, tracing the roots of the movement back two centuries to the emergence of industrialization in the early 1800s. Warren Senders interviews historian Chad Montrie (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) about his work linking labor and environmental causes, with a huge list of song selections dating back to 1837.
Music & Video
"Woodman, Spare That Tree!"
Daniel P. Smith, Jr — Voice & Guitar
Lyrics by George Pope Morris
Music by Henry Russell
(youtube.com/@danielpsmithjr)
Chad Montrie interview
recorded March 13, 2026
"D.D.T. Blues"
George Brunis — Trombone & Voice
Commodore CB-13
"Pay Day At Coal Creek"
Pete Steele — Banjo & Voice
Library Of Congress
Archive of American Folk Song AAFS 68
"The Factory Girls' Come-All-Ye"
Diane Taraz — voice
from "A Silver Dagger - Exploring
Women's History Through Folk Songs"
(www.dianetaraz.com)
"Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming"
Composed by Stephen Foster
Losey's Instrumental Quartet
Edison 80679-L
"Friends, think not..."
Anonymous, from "The Voice Of Industry"
October 23, 1946
Read by Sharada Sundaram-Senders
"Po' Black Sheep"
Nathan Frazier — Banjo & Voice
Frank Patterson — Fiddle
from "Altamont: Black Stringband Music
from the Library of Congress"
(Rounder 0238)
"Tim Moore's Farm"
Lightnin' Hopkins — Guitar & Voice
Gold Star Records 640-A
"Bull Frog Blues" (1928)
William Harris
Gennett 6661
"Barndomshemmet (My Childhood Home)"
Henry Corsell — Voice
Wallin Records WR 109 (1923)
"Jolietcke Deklice (Joliet Girls) Polka"
Daichman Brata in Perush Dance Orchestra
RCA Victor - V-23004-A
"Chicago Buzz"
Junie Cobb & Johnny Dodds
Century 3006/Paramount 12382
"Slievenamon/Dublin Hornpipe"
Johnny McGreevy — Fiddle
Eleanor Kane — Piano
Decca 12062
"The Land of The Noonday Night"
Music by Eleanor Smith
Lyrics by Ernst Howard Crosby
Jocelyn Zelasko — Voice
Amanda Sabelhaus — Piano
from "Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs:
The Music of Protest and Hope in
Jane Addams' Chicago" (Haymarket, 2020)
(hullhousesongs.org)
"Happy Days are Here Again"
The All-Star Troubadours
Van Dyke 81829
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
First Inaugural Speech
March 4, 1933
Found Footage of
California CCC Camp (1935)
Courtesy YouTube user MutantKitty
"Wood Tick"
William Jamerson — Guitar & Voice
Hedberg Public Library,
Janesville, WI, September 22, 2013
(http://www.billjamerson.com/)
"Cadillac Assembly Line"
Lurrie Bell — Guitar & Voice
JSP Records CD 2134
"We've Gotta Fight Pollution Now"
Joe Lisi — Guitar & Voice
from "It's The UAW All The Way"
LEM Productions ESS-1185
"El Picket Sign"
El Teatro Campesino
from "Rolas de Aztlan:
Songs of the Chicano Movement"
Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40616
"Silent Spring"
Lena Horne — Voice
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Yip Harburg
Stateside Records SS 246
"Silent Spring"
Carmen McRae — Voice
Atlantic 45-2807
"Silent Spring"
Gary Burton Ensemble
Carla Bley — Composer
from "A Genuine Tong Funeral"
RCA Victor LSP-3988
"Rent Strike Blues"
Jimmy Collier — Guitar & Voice
from "We Won't Move:
Songs of the Tenants' Movement"
Folkways Records FS 5287
"Ecology Man"
Danny Boyd and
the Sounds of Young Los Angeles
Soyla 1372, Courtesty SoulMarcosa
"Smog Gets In Your Eyes"
Allan Sherman — Voice
The Ed Sullivan Show,
October 16, 1966
"Mother Earth"
Memphis Slim & The Houserockers
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Episode 35 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is about working together, in communities both small and large, to overcome the multiple assaults on humanity we all experience now – the rise of fascism, the chaos of pointless wars, the degradation of the climate, propelled by corporate greed and political denial. It’s a formidable array of foes we face, but if we keep our eyes on the prize and work as a unified resistance, we shall overcome.
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Episode 36 introduces two skilled and passionate composers, Kris Davis and Sumi Tonooka. Both women have made artistic homes for themselves in the jazz tradition, and both often venture into other realms and genres with great assurance. Although they've never met each other, their recent works are complementary, and this episode presents them side by side.
Composer and pianist Kris Davis encountered a new word, "solastalgia," coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht. It means "the homesickness you have when you are still at home, and your home environment is changing in distressing ways," and it inspired the "Solastalgia Suite," featuring a virtuoso performance by Poland's Lutoslawski Quartet, and released earlier this year on Pyroclastic Records, Davis' own record label. Warren Senders interviews Davis about the piece and its complex emotional layers.
Sumi Tonooka grew up in Philadelphia, and came up in the city's intensely creative jazz community. Her recent recording is also a suite, titled "Under The Surface." With her group, Alchemy Sound Project, she created a set of pieces built around the idea that trees and arboreal ecosystems communicate with one another, sharing nourishment, support, and protection. She talks with Warren about her work in music and activism.Music and Video
Kris Davis interview
February 5, 2026
"The Known End"
from the Solastalgia Suite
(Pyroclastic PR-44)
"Ghost Reefs"
from the Solastalgia Suite
(Pyroclastic PR-44)
"Softly, As You Wake"
from "Run The Gauntlet"
Kris Davis — prepared piano, Robert Hurst — bass,
Johnathan Blake — drums
"Pressure and Yield"
from the Solastalgia Suite
Dizzy's, New York
June 13, 2024
"Interlude"
from the Solastalgia Suite
Dizzy's, New York
June 13, 2024
"An Invitation to Disappear"
from the Solastalgia Suite
(Pyroclastic PR-44)
"Degrees of Separation"
from the Solastalgia Suite
Dizzy's, New York
June 13, 2024
"Towards No Earthly Pole"
from the Solastalgia Suite
(Pyroclastic PR-44)
Sumi Tonooka Interview
January 29, 2026
"Under The Surface"
Alchemy Sound ProjectSumi Tonooka - piano;
Erica Lindsay - tenor saxophone;
Samantha Boshnack - trumpet;
Michael Ventoso - trombone;
Gregg August - bass;Salim Washington - multi reeds, bass clarinet, flute and tenor saxophone;
Johnathan Blake -drums
(ARC-6770)
"Saveur"
From "Under The Surface"
Alchemy Sound Project,
Exuberance, Philadelphia,
December 17, 2025
"For Stanley"
From "Under The Surface"
Alchemy Sound Project
(ARC-6770)
"Only The Midnight Sky
and Silent Stars"
San Francisco Conservatory
of Music Orchestra
Conductor: Edwin Outwater,
February 2023
"Interval Haiku"
From "Under The Surface"
Alchemy Sound Project,
Exuberance, Philadelphia,
December 17, 2025
"Mother Tongue"
From "Under The Surface"
Alchemy Sound Project
(ARC-6770)
"Heavy-Footed"
from "Run The Gauntlet"
Kris Davis — piano, Robert Hurst — bass,
Johnathan Blake — drumsEvery attempt has been made to secure permission from copyright holders of audio and video content used in this program. The use of copyrighted material is for non-commercial, educational purposes, and is intended to provide benefit to the public. Copyrighted material used is supplementary and illustrative, and does not detract from the commercial value of the original content. "Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet" uses only the minimum amount of copyrighted material to fulfill its educational purpose. We believe our use constitutes "Fair Use" of this material as provided for in the US Copyright Act of 1976, Sections 106A-117.
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Episode 35 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is all about holding on in the face of the oppressive forces confronting us. Holding on while we resist the violence and injustice – racial injustice, climate injustice, social injustice –with hope. And with song. Now, as in the Civil Rights movement of the 60’s, music is a way to bond and unify us in whatever acts of peaceful resistance we can muster. No act is too small to confront the enormity of the evils we face. Email your Representative, talk to friends and family, boycott businesses that enable the corruption, above all VOTE. And by all means, sing.
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Episode 34 — “Lunar New Year, with Rebecca Boyle”
Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is going to the Moon! We celebrate the Lunar New Year with a special all-things-moon episode built around a full-length interview with science writer Rebecca Boyle, whose book, “Our Moon” was a New York Times bestseller in 2024. We learn about how the moon helped make Earth what it is, and about its influence on our climate, our tides, and our culture. Along the way, we’ll hear moon-inspired music from all over the world, including guest composer Janelle Chang, who joins us to talk about her arrangement of “Moonlit Night,” an ancient piece of Chinese classical music.
Music and Video
"Paper Moon"
Vocalese of Lester Young Improvisation
Eddie Jefferson — Voice
from "The Jazz Singer"
Inner City Records IC 1016
Rebecca Boyle interview
with Warren Senders
January 15, 2026
www.rebeccaboyle.com
"How High The Moon"
Teddy Wilson Sextet
(David W. Niven Jazz Archive)
"New Moon"
Tony Vacca & Tim Moran
from "Wizard's Dance"
(Fretless LP FR 163)
https://www.tonyvacca.com/
"Tis Autumn"
Woody Herman & His Orchestra
Decca 4095-A
"Moonrise On The Lowlands"
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
Reissued on RCA AXM2-5507
"The Complete Fletcher Henderson"
"Tin Pan Alley Cat"
Animated film by
Dave Tendlar, 1960
(public domain)
"Blah, Blah, Blah"
George & Ira Gershwin
Matthew Cook — Voice
Josephine Riggs, piano
August 8, 2020
https://www.matthewhylandcook.com/
"Tidal Boogie"
Meade Lux Lewis — Piano
Asch Records 352-1A
"Moonlit Night"
Arrangement of traditional
Chinese piece for pipa
by Janelle Chang
Pang-Yi Lee - pipa
November 28, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/@janelleyi-chenchangcompose4518/videos
"Claire de Lune"
Composer — Claude Debussy
Sondra Bianca — Piano
Tops R1014
"An den Mond (To the Moon)"
Composer — Franz Schubert
Lyrics — Ludwig Christoph Holty
Courtney Fletcher — Voice
Marika Yasuda — Piano
February 2019
English translation by Richard Wigmore
https://www.courtneyjfletcher.com/
"Moonlight Play Song"
Recorded 1975, Obimo, Nigeria
UNESCO Anthology of African Music
Barenreiter Musicaphon BM 30L 2311
"Chandani Raat Ati Bhaave"
Sharad Sathe — Voice
Magnasound C4HV 0217
https://sharadsathe.com/
"By the Light of the Silvery Moon"
Little Richard — Voice, piano
London Records 45-HL-U-8831
https://rockhall.com/inductees/little-richard/
"Raga Chandrakauns"
Zia Moihuddin Dagar — Rudra Veena
Air India Radio recording,
HMV LP, STC 04B 7384
NASA Moon Landing Footage
(Public Domain)
"Oh, Dear Moon"
Hafız Şaşı Osman Efendi
Columbia 78 81007-F (W 32064-1)
Reissued by Rounder Records,
"Masters of Turkish Music"
(Rounder LP-C 1051)
Louie Gohmert Clip
Online Congressional Hearing,
June 9, 20
"The Rising Of The Moon"
Áine Tyrell — Voice,
Nick Martin — Uilleann pipes
July 2016, Hyde Park Barracks
Sydney, Australia
Courtesy Irish Australian
Online Song Library
https://www.ainetyrrell.com/
There's A Moon Out Tonight"
The Capris
Planet Records P-1010 (1959)
"I've Got A Message From
The Man In The Moon"
Patricia Hammond — Voice
Matt Redman — Ukelele & Voice
https://patriciahammond.com/
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Episode 33 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet strikes a somber note to the chaos unfolding in our streets – violence led by agents of destruction wearing ICE uniforms. These are dark times in our country, around which we hope music can shed some light, echo what’s in our hearts, generate a little catharsis, and maybe even light a spark of resistance.
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Episode 31 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet meets the New Year with new resolve to inspire all our listeners to do something healing for our planet. It can be making “good trouble,” as John Lewis once told us; it can be raising awareness with song; it can be coming together in community. Or simply being a caring person to those around you. We dedicate this episode to the future.
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Episode 30 (Season 2) is a profile of the legendary activist collective The Church of Stop Shopping, led by Reverend Billy (William Talen) and Savitri D. Beginning with anti-consumerist actions in New York's Times Square in the 1990s, the church grew into a powerful performing force, with infectious gospel grooves, dozens of voices in harmony, and Reverend Billy's heartfelt, eloquent anti-consumption message delivered in true prophetic voice.
Warren Senders' interview with Reverend Billy and Director Savitri D is interspersed with video of the Church's music-filled activism and activism-filled music, and supplemented with historical and cultural context.
To learn more, go to revbilly.com.
Music and Video
"I Am Not The Only One"
The Stop Shopping Choir
from "The Sun Is A Star That Keeps Me Warm"Richard Nixon, Lloyd Shopping Center
Portland, Oregon, September 13, 1960
KGW Vault, Portland
George W. Bush
CNN, December 2006
"On The Road!"
Reverend Billy and the
Church of Stop Shopping"Bye, Bye Buying"
Reverend Billy
December, 2013Billy Graham Crusade
Film recorded 1957
Billy Sunday Warns America
Film recorded 1926
"It's The End of the World"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
Joe's Pub, Public Theater, New York
Sep 18, 2014
"Can We Be Strange Enough to Change Enough?"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 22, 2025
"Paradise Now"
The Living Theater
Berlin Sports Palast
January 10, 1970
from "Signals Through The Flames"
Mystic Fire Video
Augusto Boal clip
Centro de Teatro do Oprimido
"Money Makes The World Go Around"
Bread & Puppet Theater
Glover, VT
September, 2019
(Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)
"Reverend Billy Exorcises BP At Tate Museum"
London, UK
Jul 19, 2011
"Love Earth"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 22, 2025
"The Fabulous Unknown"
Reverend Billy and
the Stop Shopping Choir
from "The Sun Is A Star That Keeps Me Warm"
"Monsanto's Deadly Secret in Central Park"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
New York City, Apr 1, 2016
"Fabulous Bad Weather"
Reverend Billy and the
Stop Shopping Choir
Lyrics by William Talen & Savitri Durkee
From "The Earth Wants You"
Brooklyn, Apr 7, 2016
Interview with
William Talen & Savitri D
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Episode 29 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet enters the holiday season with songs and talk about coming together to make things better. Whether it’s finding peace in sharing voices musically, even in the midst of war; of joining hands to combat social injustice; of convening world leaders to confront climate change; or just helping each other through the dark times of recent decades. We enjoin you to dispense with the consumerism of the season, and spend quality time with those you love. Share more – buy less. And have a happy holiday.
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Episode 27 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet starts out with a song about ordinary Americans banding together this month to celebrate No Kings Day. But most of the show will be focused on the disparity between the obvious importance of food and farming, to the struggles that farmers have faced every day for over a century – from sharecroppers to struggling family farms, to the plight and heroism of Hispanic farmworkers in today’s fields. Along the way we’ll hear short clips from an interview with Michael Grunwald, author of We Are Eating the Earth, sharing a new perspective on the perils of global farming.
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Episode 26 profiles the Climate Music Project, a San Francisco-based team that brings together scientists, musicians, and graphic artists to create new ways to communicate climate science. The CMP's innovative multi-media presentations offer hard data with an emotional score and compelling visuals to transform audience members' personal engagement with climate change. We feature interviews with co-founders Stephen Crawford and Fran Schulberg, climatologist Garrett Boudinot, and composer Erik Ian Walker, along with excerpts from five of the CMP's groundbreaking pieces.
Music:
"What If We...?"
composed and performed
by Wendy Loomis
with Royal Kent
"Why Does The Sun Shine?"
Performed by Tom Glazer
From "Space Songs"
Motivation Records
MR 0312
"Why Does The Sun Shine?"
"Why Does The Sun
(Really) Shine?"
Performed by
They Might Be Giants
Late Late Show
December 11, 2009
"Der Rufer"
Composed by Michael Edgerton
Performed by
Bremer Schlagzeugensemble
October 10, 2021
"Particle Partita"
Composed by Edward Cowie
Performed by
Peter Sheppard Skærved &
Mihailo Trandafilovsk
St. Michaels Church,
March 1, 2019
"Icarus In Flight"
Composed by Richard Festinger
Performed by
The Telegraph Quartet
San Francisco, 2018
"Climate"
Composed and performed
by Erik Ian Walker
"Audyssey"
Composed and performed
by Eduardo Del Signore
"Voices of the Animals"
Composed and performed
by Scarlet Rivera
Explorers Club, New York City
October, 2024
"I Wanna Be Cool"
Words and music by
Will Kimbrough & Brant Miller
Performed by over 2600
young people from 4 continents
Music Declares Emergency
& The Climate Music Project
"What If We...?"
composed and performed
by Wendy Loomis
with Royal Kent
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Episode 25 is a mixed bag of tunes, starting out with Pay Attention by Joyce Johnson Rouse, singing with her group, Earth Mama. It’s a simple – even childlike – doo-wop kind of song that asks us to pay attention to the earth, and all the wonderful things it gives us. But it also makes clear our responsibility to keep it clean and whole.
Building on Earth Mama’s insistence to take responsibility for our planet, next is Crys Matthews, singing her Waking Up the Dead, a song about our generational responsibility to the slaves, some dead hundreds of years, now buried in the cemetery Crys finds herself walking through. She feels their suffering and celebrates their struggle to achieve the freedom they got only in death. But she also offers her gratitude for all they went through toget her to her own freedom – and wonders: Who were they? It is a moving ode to freedom and responsibility.
And speaking of freedom, our next song, No Kings, comes with a montage of all the demonstrations that arose on No KingsDay last June 14 – one of the largest protests in US history. The song says “No Kings in the USA,” and we all know it’s talking about that corrupt Man Who Would Be King, sitting in the White House. It’s a boisterous, rousing piece of soul music, rejoicing in the knowledge that “No man owns the USA.” It’s a good reminder that the second No Kings Day is coming up soon, on October 18. And courage is contagious, so tell all your friends.
Finally, we round out today’s episode. with something of the spoken word – Come Write a Song With Us, by Lu Aya, co-founder of The Peace Poets – a hip-hop and spoken word crew from the Bronx. Lu is an educator, musician, and champion of social justice. His poem tells us we are all interwoven, and songs have the power to embody that idea.
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Episode 24 — "Old and New Sunlight"When we remember that fossil fuels are simply the sunlight that fell on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, it changes our perspective on energy use. It's ALL solar power; the only difference is whether it's old or new. All these forms of energy have their own music, and this episode of "Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet" brings together songs of coal miners and anti-mining activists, the songs of oil drillers and of those fighting to preserve their lands, the songs of anti-fracking campaigns...and songs from all over the world in acknowledgement and gratitude to the Sun — along with film clips and interviews for a fascinating musical journey through Earth's energy economy, hosted by Warren Senders.
Music:
"The Sun's Gonna Shine In My Door Someday"
Big Bill Broonzy
"Our Mr. Sun"
Directed by Frank Capra, 1956
Bell Systems Science Series
Public Domain, courtesy A/V Geeks LLC
"Black Lung"
Hazel Dickens, 1990
Film by Mimi Pickering
Courtesy of Appalshop Films
"42 Years"
Nimrod Workman, 1983
From the Alan Lomax Collection,
American Folklife Center,
Library of Congress
Courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity
"Coal Miners' Song"
Traditional Folk Songs of Japan,
Collected by Ryutaro Hattori,
Folkways Records FE 4534
"Ham Hai Coal India"
Promotional Video
Ministry of Coal, Government of IndiaInterview with film-maker and activist Surya Shankar Dash, India
"Niyamraja's Lament"
Dombu Praska,
Niyamgiri Hills, November 2013
Film by Surya Shankar Dash
"Dharini — Earth Festival"
Domgria Kondh Tribespeople
Niyamgiri Hills, April 2016
Film by Surya Shankar Dash
"Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti Victory March"
Domgria Kondh Tribespeople
Niyamgiri Hills, April 2016
Film by Surya Shankar Dash
"I'm A Tool-Pusher From Snyder"
Slim Willet
Star Talent 770-B
"This Old Rig"
Freddie Frank
Permian Records
PR 1001-A
"Energy Crisis"
Public Service Announcement
US Department of Energy
"There is Only So Much Oil In The Ground"
Tower Of Power
From "Urban Renewal", 1974
Warner Brothers BS 2834
Interview with Eco-Musicologist Olusegan Titus, Nigeria.
"Black Tide"
Ubrei-Joe Jeru
Film courtesy Olusegan Titus
"Niger Delta"
Nneka Egbuna
From "No Longer At Ease", 2008
Yo Mama's Recording – YPS 88697111381
"Frackin' The Hole"
Wes St. John
KECO Radio, April 22, 2011
"Before The Drilling Rigs Got Here"
Thom Chacon
from "Buy This Fracking Album"
www.thomchacon.com/
"Frack Attack"
Quintin "Jitsvinger" Goliath — lyrics, vocals
Loris Raimondi — music
Pete O'Donoghue, Travys Owen — sound & animation
Produced by Pippa Ehrlich and
Treasure Karoo Action Group
"Tum Jaago Mohan Pyaare"
Khyal in Raga Bhairav
Pt. Narayanrao Vyas
HMV 78 N-7525
"Lile"
(Hymn to the Sun"
Anchiskhati Choir, Tbilisi, Georgia
March 14, 2010
"An die untergehende Sonne, D 457"
(To the setting sun)
Robert Elibay-Hartog — Baritone
Dante Lorenzo DiIanni — Piano
London, April 15, 2012
"Solar Energy"
Ambition Boyz, January 21, 2022
O-Rymz, Ox-Milez
Trainees at Solar Installation Program
Don Bosco Academy,
Kamuli, Uganda
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Airing September 1 is a special edition of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet - it's our one year anniversary. We're offering an expanded show this time, with each of our producers looking back on what we've accomplished, and presenting a variety of music videos that stand out as representative of the year gone by. Some of the songs are reprises from earlier episodes, others are new. And for the centerpiece of the episode, we are proud to present an interview with the renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, Third Act, and author of numerous globally recognized publications about climate change and its ramifications - all while remaining optimistic about the future. So welcome to our birthday party, and enjoy the show.
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Episode 22: Music Beyond Humanity — A Profile of Inter-species Musician David Rothenberg
Clarinetist, author, and philosopher David Rothenberg has spent his life making music far removed from the usual contexts of performance stages or recording studios. Rothenberg's collaborators have included cicada swarms, katydids, nightingales, lyrebirds, warblers, whales, and dolphins. His experiences have given him a unique and valuable perspective on our human musicality and how it relates to the totality of Earth's ecosystems. In this episode we hear David interacting musically with his non-human collaborators, and thinking aloud about what they have to teach us in a time of climate transformation. Featuring videos by Lewis Rapkin along with underwater footage and interviews from 2021 and 2025.
Music & Video
"Summer Symphony — Bug Music"
Video produced by Lewis Rapkin, Oscillator Media
"Helsinki Nightingale Clarinet Dawn"
Video produced by Lewis Rapkin, Oscillator Media
Paul Winter Consort
"Wolf Eyes", Living Music CD LD0018
R. Murray Schafer
"Music For Wilderness Lake", Kalvfestivalen 2014, Sweden
"Bug Music: David Rothenberg's Insect Choir"
Video documentary by Jennifer Berglund & Ian MacLellan
"Sago Beetle & Mouth Resonator"
Mahisu, Wam Tribesman, Warengema Village, East-Sepik, New Guinea
Recording by Robert MacLennan, 1961
"Cicadas and Clarinet" — Princeton, NJ, June 2, 2021
Video produced by Reuters
"Dawn Chorus Plus One"
Video produced by Lewis Rapkin
"Live with Humpback Whales in Hawaii"
Directed by François Noulens, Produced by Christophe Cosse.
"Whale Muse Seek" — Film by Maria Batlle, 2017
All other video and audio material by David Rothenberg.
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