Mothership Earth - read the amazing story behind the song and hear it in full!

May 7

Hello!

Mothership Earth - read the story behind the song and hear the BONUS TRACK!

This is the Urdu version of the global environmental campaign THE MOTHERSHIP EARTH SONG see lyrics and more at https://www.mothershipearthsong.com

THE MOTHERSHIP EARTH SONG

'A part of the global campaign to persuade us and governments of the world to treat climate change as a top priority. The Mothership Earth Song is a plea for help from Mother Earth sung in different languages.

There are versions in English, Welsh, Yoruba, Czech, Arabic, Gaelic, Scots, French, Cantonese German….I just checked that so far there are 28 different languages. Amazing.

The Mothership Earth Song Project - started by Keith Bartlett and Paddy Cuneen - is a campaign to put pressure on us and Governments worldwide to prioritise Climate Change as the ultimate challenge for humanity.

The song is a plea from Mother Earth for help in combating climate change. We are translating this into as many languages as possible and presenting it through as many media outlets as possible, with the aim of holding the climate delegates to account at the COP 26 conference in November 2021.

The strength of the project will be in the diversity of female voices all singing the same plea with their unique interpretations. We believe this is a universal message and that song and music is a universal language that speaks to us all uniquely regardless of our ethnicity, so this song unites us as one in the shared plight of mother earth against climate change.

The Mothership Earth Song Project is a non-profit organisation supporting Greenpeace. We hope you can join us.'

The text above tells you about the project.

I got involved when the wonderful Sianed Jones said she been asked to arrange and sing the Welsh version of this song, translated by Christine Watkins. She wondered if I wanted to get involved and do the Urdu version.

Hell yes!

I had just starting working in my new home studio and the aim was to write some new material. But another aim was to learn to record.

So it seemed to make sense to use this opportunity to sing a song that was already written, to translate that idea into Urdu and use it to learn about music recording and production.

It was interesting but very challenging to sing a song written by someone else in such a different style to my usual work. It took me AGES to even work out the notes - no musical training means I am ridiculously slow at this…but hey! It was all good learning and a great way of getting to grips with my new space.

I LEARNT A LOT!

I learnt how to set up my mic and about getting a good level in the recordings. How to layer and edit vocal takes.

But the most ironically ridiculous thing (you have to imagine it as I took no videos) is that one line says

‘The heat will grow and grow and grow.’

I was recording , remember, in a studio which is basically a box lined with thick duvets.

My studio has a line of windows along one wall and in the afternoon the sun beats down and the temperature can go as high as 40 degrees.

So imagine me with a fan strategically placed so it would cool exactly where I was standing to record, then I would turn it off for a take, trying not to be overwhelmed by the building suffocating heat.

‘The heat will grow and grow and grow.’

Indeed.

Method singing?!!

I did do it though, and despite what I wrote above, it is no joke.

The heat WILL grow

WE MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

This is what I did.

Here finally is the promised video of

THE MOTHERSHIP EARTH SONG

Remember the newly mixed and MASTERED version will be released along with my album on the 9th June - save the date!

LYRICS:

THE MOTHERSHIP EARTH SONG:

Listen my children we don't have much time
You must help me. Please. Will you help me now?
The waters rising will engulf you all.
Will you help me? I can't do this alone.

The forests are burning blocking out the light
I can't fight this. I can't fight this alone.

Plastics appearing
Almost everywhere
Why do you not seem to care?
Warnings for so many years.
Fallen on deaf ears.

You have a last chance now to make a change.
Will you help me please?
Just help me now

The heat will grow and grow and grow.
Destroying all you've ever known.
But it's not too late for you to make that change

Will you join me?
Pledge to help me save our world.

Do let me know what you think?

With my love!

Samia X