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Women-led Flow album uses music and water to confront climate crisis
The Flow project has brought together women artists from around the world for an album centred on water, aiming to connect people emotionally with the climate crisis. Its members hope that music and other forms of art can help move climate debate beyond statistics and raise the profile of culture at Cop31 in Turkey.
The album features Charlotte Church, Maxine Peake and Nadine Shah, and is co-produced by Grammy winner Jennifer Decilveo. Church’s song moves from a meditative tribute to water into an expression of grief and anger, while Indigenous teacher Márcia Mura describes how floods, droughts, dams and pollution have changed the Madeira River. Flow will also accompany a documentary about women on the frontlines of the crisis, with Mura stressing the importance of Indigenous people telling their own stories.
In short
- Flow brings global women artists together around water and climate.
- The project will appear at Cop31 in Turkey.
- Indigenous voices feature in its album and documentary.
Explained simply
Flow is a project bringing women artists together to make work about water and climate change. Its album includes musicians and performers from different countries, alongside Indigenous teacher Márcia Mura, who speaks about changes to the Madeira River.
The project connects climate change with people’s experiences of floods, droughts, dams and pollution. It also plans to accompany a documentary about women affected by the crisis, with Indigenous people telling their own stories.
The artists hope music and other forms of culture can help people engage with climate change beyond figures and reports. They also want culture to have a higher profile at Cop31, the United Nations climate conference due to take place in Turkey.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “‘Music is the most powerful way of connecting to what’s happening’: can this album change your mind about the climate crisis?”.