Anohni & Yoko: I Love You Earth (4K)
I LOVE YOU EARTH
There are so many of us in the world who are now awakened, ready to act to save our world. So let’s work together to save this planet. Together. That’s how we will change the world. We change, and the world changes. Have trust in what you can do. Have trust in how fast we can change our world for the better. Why? Because we have to. Believe that we are one and together we will make it. Love is what connects all lives on Earth.
love, yoko
Written by Yoko Ono, Anohni and Yoko’s duet ’I Love You Earth’ is both an Instruction Piece and a powerful affirmation. It is a protest song of imagination, peace and love.
With shimmering vocals and perfect acceptance, Anohni loves everything about the Earth and the way the Earth is. Yoko loves the sky, the wind, rivers, mountains, all species and the forests that give us oxygen to breathe. The Earth is a world of amazing biodiversity. As we lose more and more of nature, the climate grows more unstable, putting all species at risk. Yoko wants to scream. Instead, she sings with love and a voice like the hush of home.
’I Love You Earth’ is a lullaby, a love song for planet Earth, our beautiful and much-loved home. Anohni and Yoko pay homage to the Earth at this turning point in the climate crisis. A point at which we must act now to repay our love for the planet that has done so much to nurture us. Yoko’s song and film, made in collaboration and support for The Rainforest Trust, reminds us that ‘together we can love the Earth and save the world’.
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I Love You Earth
Vocals: Anohni & Yoko Ono
Piano: Thomas Bartlett
Recorded by Chris Allen at Sear Sound
Mixed by Yuka Honda
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Written by Yoko Ono
© Ono Music c/o Downtown DMP Songs (BMI)
Film Producer: Yoko Ono
Film Editor: Simon Hilton
© 2021 Yoko Ono
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About Variations:
During lockdown Sage Gateshead commissioned four stellar international artists, Anohni and Yoko Ono, John Grant, Moor Mother and Tune-Yards, to each create a new music film reflecting their experience of the climate crisis and pandemic. Release of the new music films coincides with COP26, the annual United Nations global summit to tackle climate change. This year’s climate summit, held in Glasgow, is being described as the last chance for governments to commit to the change needed to prevent climate catastrophe.
Variations is a quartet of musical variations on themes of covid variants, that sent the world into lockdown, and climate variations that could tip the Earth’s systems into an uninhabitable state. Four songs with accompanying films by four artists that express love for the Earth, all species and the air we breathe. The songs are an expression of grief and loss for the world we had that has changed, a testimony of injustice and a plea to work together, to imagine change and act now.
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