Danish pop star Bjorn Vido and Soweto rap legends Trallavelle Twins collaborate for climate awareness
By CityLIfe Arts Writer
On Sunday May 1, 2022, those who were lucky enough to go out and have some fresh air had fun at the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, West of Johannesburg where they watched performances that carried messages of consciousness about the vulnerability of the earth, especially because of the deteriorating climate change globally.
This is because Danish pop star Bjorn Vido joined forces with the Johannesburg rap legends Trallavelle Twins, to take account of themselves and send out a message of consciousness about the climate crisis.
This show followed the release of a joint single and music video by Bjorn Vido and the Trallavelle Twins titled Singing down from Mars.
No, they are not singing for the aliens, but trying to bring attention and perspective to the climate crisis, in a cool way, so people actually listen and hopefully change their habits.
The song is a part of the “Music in Space Project.that will be performed from a football stadium in Soweto, playing live concerts in space via Satellites and Weather Balloonson July 10, 2022.
In fact the climate campaign by Bjorn has been going on for some time now, picking up momentum when he first played at a concert at the South Pole for the penguins some years ago. The concert went viral and got picked up by several TV channels around the world from CNN to African, American and Asian media. The point was to show that we have to collaborate with each other to survive and live a full life, like the penguins. If they don’t join forces in the arctic winter, they won’t make it.
This time Bjorn and Trallavelle are going to space. The point is to use what the astronauts call “The Overview Effect”. A phenomenon that occurs, when you see Earth from space. No borders. No politics. Just a lonely little blue dot flying around alone in space.
With that sight, you automatically change perspective and habits.
With the song “Singing Down from Mars” Bjorn and the twins, try to recreate the same feeling, by playing via Satellites in 40000 km sending the audio and video signal down to a Weather Balloon rising to 45km, before a controlled decent in a parachute.
There will also be an opportunity for public participation so that everybody can join the project, and send in their personal message -to Earth from Space.
The song has just been obtained to be played in rotation at the New York Hip Hop TV station “Who?Mag” by multi Grammy Award winner Rob Schwartz.
Bjorn is living like a digital nomad, and has been traveling the world for the last 1 1/2 years. Still controlling his Copenhagen sound design studio
and office “CPHsound Design”, via online.
Bjorn is a multi award winning composer, musician, sound designer and marketing guru, with award like Canes Lions, Epica and an Oscar Nomination, with specialising in the Green transformation.
All the songs on the coming album, contain a story about Bjorn and Gaia. Gaia is both a female name and also means Mother Earth in Latin. In this way you can listen to the music like normal pop music or get into a deeper level, where Bjorn represents all people and Gaia the Earth.