‘Music is the most powerful way of connecting to what’s happening’: can this album change your mind about the climate crisis? — SkimNews
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- Flow, a music collective of female artists from Bangladesh, Canada, the UK, India, Brazil, and Zimbabwe, released a full-length album centered on water and climate change, co-produced by Grammy winner Jennifer Decilveo.
- Nikita Llerena, project manager for Flow, stated that COP summits are beginning to recognize art and culture as essential to advancing climate dialogue beyond data-driven awareness.
- Charlotte Church contributed a song titled My Mother, the Ocean, blending sound healing and electropop to express grief and rage over environmental loss and humanity’s disconnection from nature.
- Márcia Mura, an Indigenous teacher from the Brazilian Amazon and member of the Mura people, emphasized that Indigenous women are defenders of water and must be included in climate initiatives through self-representation.
- Maxine Peake closes the album with a spoken-word piece about a woman protecting her riverbank from corporate development, symbolizing grassroots resistance and the power of collective small actions.
- Shingai, vocalist of the Noisettes, drew from her Zimbabwean heritage to sing in Shona about environmental conservation, grounding the album in diverse cultural relationships with water.
Why it matters: The album shifts climate communication from data to emotional resonance, centering women and Indigenous voices often marginalized in policy spaces. By securing a featured slot at COP31’s opening cultural event, Flow gains a platform to influence how climate urgency is framed—potentially reshaping public and political engagement through art.
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