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Follow on Google News | The Wild Foundation Commissions Rapper Baba Brinkman To Create Wilderness-Awareness Album. Out 12/16The WILD Foundation & Canadian hip-hop artist and playwright Baba Brinkman announce the upcoming release of The Rap Guide to Wilderness, a collection of 7 songs commissioned by WILD capturing the spirit of their commitment to wilderness conservation.
By: The WILD Foundation The Rap Guide to Wilderness is a thought-provoking hip-hop celebration of nature and all the ways it contributes to human wellbeing. Brinkman seamlessly blends the relentless energy of rap with a deep environmental consciousness that educates as well as entertains. The album addresses current environmental issues such as biodiversity loss, habitat loss, de-extinction and the delisting of wolves. More importantly, the mission of the album is to promote public awareness of wilderness and its key services to human health and prosperity, stressing the importance of humans having a relationship with wild nature, not just taking from it. This concept of integrating human existence with nature is the center of The WILD Foundation’s initiative, “Nature Needs Half (http://www.wild.org/ Brinkman was commissioned for this project because “Baba is a talented artist with a mission – to help people understand themselves and the world they live in and depend upon. We envision this release as becoming a part of the "wilderness toolkit” we continue to develop – involving policy, communications, science, and culture -- for use to communicate with and inform professionals, the public, youth, and policymakers” Brinkman has shared the stage with a number of high profile science thinkers, from Stephen Hawking to physicist Brian Cox to The God Delusion author, Richard Dawkins. Brinkman will debut songs from The Rap Guide to Wilderness at the IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia this November; a once-every-ten- The Rap Guide to Wilderness is scheduled for release in the US on December 16th, 2014. Preview the album here: http://music.bababrinkman.com. Watch the video for Tranquility Bank (feat. Aaron Nazrul) here: https://www.youtube.com/ For more information on Baba Brinkman visit: www.bababrinkman.com l www.facebook.com/ For more information on The WILD Foundation visit: www.wild.org l www.facebook.com/ ALBUM TRACK LIST 1) Go Wild 2) Tranquility Bank (feat. Aaron Nazrul) 3) Party of Life (feat. Tia Brazda) 4) Walden Pond 5) Bottleneck (feat. Sean Ross) 6) Never Cry Wolf (feat. Wyckham Porteous) 7) Seed Pod ABOUT BABA BRINKMAN Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, writer, and former tree-planter who has personally planted more than one million trees. He is also a scholar, with a Masters in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. To date Baba has written or co-written five hip-hop plays, all of which have toured the world and enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway in New York. His newest play, The Rap Guide to Religion, is currently running at the SoHo Playhouse and the album of the same name is slated to come out in spring 2015. He has also released ten original rap albums on his independent label Lit Fuse Records, including the upcoming, The Rap Guide to Wilderness, which explores the contributions of wild nature to human happiness. Baba’s show, The Rap Guide to Evolution, won the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award in Edinburgh, where Brinkman performed for six full seasons. The show was also nominated for a “Drama Desk Award” in New York, in addition to a sold-out week at the Sydney Opera House. Brinkman has made appearances at multiple TED conferences, opened for Stephen Hawking at the Seattle Science Festival, performed for a sold-out crowd of 3,500 at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, and was a guest performer on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. Brinkman is also a pioneer in the genre of “lit-hop” or literary hip-hop, known for his adaptations of The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Gilgamesh. He is a recent recipient of the National Center for Science Education’s “Friend of Darwin Award” in 2013 for his efforts to improve the public understanding of evolutionary biology. When he is not on tour, Brinkman resides in New York City. ABOUT THE WILD FOUNDATION As the heart of the global wilderness community for over 40 years, The WILD Foundation protects wilderness while meeting the needs of human communities, working across cultures and boundaries by collaborating with local peoples, organizations, the private sector, and governments to create dynamic practical projects and communications initiatives. WILD’s work promotes and demonstrates Nature Needs Half (http://www.natureneedshalf.org/ End
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