Short Summary
Hello, my name is Dominic and we're Ginkgo Music. Ginkgo Music's mission is to protect and restore forest ecosystems worldwide though projects linking music and ecology: forest conservation through music.
We believe that music can play a part in shaping a new popular culture that addresses our relationship with the natural world. 'Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador' is our first release. It's an album accompanied by a 100 page book featuring lyrics, articles and wildlife photography. Each copy sold will raise money to permanently protect a bit of Ecuador's fabulous, mysterious and wildlife rich cloud forests. It will be released simultaneously in physical and digital formats just as soon as we have x1000 pre-orders of the physical product (book/CD): that's where you come in!
What We Need
1000 pre-orders of 'Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador' in its physical format (album with accompanying 100-page book) will enable us to make a simultaneous physical/digital release on the 18th October. Yes, that many pre-orders of the physical album will make it viable and affordable to all of us.
What You Get
A mellow orchestral-acoustic experience with forest soundscape interludes positioned between groups of songs, featuring 16 artists, including two Grammy Award winners, a 20-piece orchestra, dawn choruses recorded in Ecuador's cloud forests. The album was mastered at Abbey Road.
An accompanying 100-page book features wildlife photography, song lyrics, articles from biologists working in Ecuador, and poetry from Mexican environmentalist Homero Aridjis and Cambridge astrophysicist Rebecca Elson. The book is bilingual (English/Spanish).
Perfect for you, someone you love, and our planet.
TRACKS:
01. Río Canandé Reserve - Dawn Chorus | Coro del amanecer 1
02. Kate Walsh - You Are Home
03. The Nextmen featuring Zarif - Something Got You
04. Federico Aubele - Te Quiero a Ti
05. Cibelle - Instante de Dois
06. Nathan Ball feat. Adrianne Wininsky - Hideaway Snowflakes
07. Dobet Gnahoré - Kokpa
08. Cecilia Zabala - Canción Mojada
09. Valentin Gerlier - This is the Waltz
10. Río Canandé Reserve - Dawn Chorus | Coro del amanecer 2
11. Vânia Bastos - Os Fazedores de Chuva
12. Martha Tilston - Good World
13. Margarita Laso - Manungo
14. Alan Lacroix - August
15. Devon Sproule featuring BJ Cole - Plea for a Good Night’s Rest
16. Jorupe Reserve - Dusk (pauraque duet) | Anochecer
17. Jorge Drexler - Gracias
18. David McAlmont - Fog on the Mountain
19. Morgan Szymanski - Villa-Lobos: Prelude No.1 for Guitar
20. Jorupe Reserve - Dawn Chorus | Coro del amanecer 3
The Impact
Ecuador's unique mosaic of habitats within, East and West of the Andes make it one of the most species rich regions on planet Earth. To give you some idea: approximately 20% of all the known 20,000 butterfly species can be found somewhere in Ecuador. And that's just the butterflies....
Each album sold includes a £5.00 donation to World Land Trust (WLT), who will use the money to help their conservation partners in Ecuador expand wildlife reserves in one of the most biodiversity rich regions on our planet, including Nangaritza Reserve in Southern Ecuador, where Nature and Culture International are establishing a protected forest corridor between the Andes mountains and Amazon lowlands, with protected areas for its indigenous Shuar communities. The more successful is this album, the larger the area of forest we safeguard for generations to come.
By the end of this initial phase of the project we will have raised a minimum of £5000. Once we've met our target the album will be more widely distributed, raising more funds for World Land Trust's forest conservation work in Ecuador.
Risks & Challenges
The book design is complete, our printer and CD manufacturer lined up and ready to go. All we need is your order. The book is printed at high quality, so we need a minimum of 1000 pre-orders to manufacture it at a sensible price. It's as simple as that.
Other Ways You Can Help
- Donate £5 to the cause
- Share about the project with your friends
- Follow us on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
Thank you.