Music maker/activist/REVERB.ORG co-founder, Adam Gardner reaches back to the nascent years of his now ubiquitous nonprofit "dedicated to empowering millions of individuals to take action toward a better future for people and the planet." 

Adam chats with Perry about how life on the road with his beloved band Guster inspired him and his wife Lauren Sullivan, to become major players in the climate space. When REVERB first started up in the early aughts, "green was just a color," but now the organization can boast great strides in the endeavor of concert and event greening, the spearheading of multiple programs to reduce concert and tour footprints and engaging fans at shows to take action. Adam also gives props to Billie Eilish, Bonnie Raitt and Dave Matthews, and other music/climate trailblazers, and updates us on Guster happenings.

Adam's choice for Hottest On Record is 2012's "Lost In The Light" by Bahamas, an artist whose firepit-friendliness got him through the heavy pandemic months. 

Gardner urges all of us to visit musicclimaterevolution.org, a REVERB launched campaign, partnered with Climate Control Projects, that is working to unite the music community in the fight against the climate crisis. 

For episode 17 of the Creative Climate Podcast, Perry and Kirsten get into it with the supremely talented London-based, British-Ugandan Musician/Songwriter/Activist, LOVE SSEGA. 

Ssega was introduced to us through Alison Tickell from Julie’s Bicycle. Raving about him on our 15th episode, we were sufficiently inspired to reach out and ask him to come on the podcast. 

Ssega is a founding member, lead singer/songwriter for Clean Bandit, an electro-classical band that collaborated with the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestras. He performed in front of 45,000 at Glastonbury on the Other Stage, live on BBC’s Jools Holland and to festival crowds from Tokyo to Rome.

Over the past few years, he has developed his solo repertoire which  invokes a distinctive, impassioned, and angular R&B electro-rap hybrid that is proving to be a serious voice in climate activism, particularly bounding off his life as a South Londoner. 

Ssega was moved by the story of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debra, a 9 year old girl who lost her life, afflicted by asthma that worsened as a result of the profound air pollution around London’s highly polluted through road, the South Circular. 

His music and his activism around this local problem, which of course illuminates a larger problem, led to his being selected for Seasons For Change’s Common Ground, led by Julie’s Bicycle and Artsadmin, on a national, year-long Climate Justice and Arts Activism commission in the build up to the UN’s COP26 environmental conference. 

His project “Airs of the South Circular” centres around uplifting Black voices in the climate crisis, specifically in response to air pollution and the communities around the South Circular.

“Airs of the South Circular” – multi-arts project – includes an album of new music, a specially-commissioned “Project Earth” comic by Andrew Kiwanuka, an information pamphlet of interviews and viewpoints and a visual trailer introducing the area.

Love Ssega's words and music can be found here: https://www.lovessega.com/

In this episode of The Creative Climate, Perry’s CCP colleague Kurt Langer joins as a guest host and interviews two participants from Climate Live Japan. Singer & track maker extraordinaire ermhoi, and Hanae Takahashi, one of the young organizers of the event, join the podcast to discuss climate change, music and how it all connects. 

Climate Live is a youth organized international concert series that took place online Saturday April 24th, 2021.  Concerts were organized in 30 locations around the globe to raise awareness about climate change.  The Japan team produced one of the largest of the events, broadcasting it live on YouTube from LOFT in Shinjuku. Climate Live International is planning more concerts around the world for October 16th, 2021.  Climate Control Projects has been honored to be serving in an advisory role to the international team since 2020.

ermhoi is an Irish Japanese track maker and singer.  She creates her own world and expresses it through a variety of languages and musical genres including pop, ethno, dance and improvisation.  Her first album Junior Refugee was released in 2015  through the Salvaged Tapes record label.  ermhoi, although essentially a solo performer, is also a member of Black Boboi and Millennium Parade. Her latest release Ep, “Thunder” is available on all streaming services.

ermhoi fans will love hearing her give (possibly) her first interview in English, though it honestly sounds like she’s done it a thousand times before.  She discusses her creative process, her connection to climate change, and also allows us to share the title track from her most recent EP “E” as our “Hottest on Record.”

http://ermhoi.com

Instagram: @ermhoi

Twitter:  @Dooonermhoi

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3kabIShRaQYKg8afAZ1kIc

Bandcamp: https://ermhoi.bandcamp.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFIfL3l7sKCRQKk4_HINvvA

Hanae, who in addition to being the country representative of ClimateLive Japan, is also a member of Fridays For Future Tokyo and studies art and media communications at university. The best places to follow her work with ClimateLive are here:

Web：https://www.climatelivejapan.com/

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Twitter：https://mobile.twitter.com/climate_ja...

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