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Attention! All music you hear on this website is recorded environmentally friendly, with solar power, in Turtuga Blanku's Green Machine.
______________________FourCulture -a magazine for outside of the box art, music, literature and societal views- is promoting I See Stars:
To read the full review, click here.
______________________When visiting New York City the music video of Turtuga Blanku's I See Stars was shot. It was pretty cold, but Times Square is a well suited location to go with the lyrics of I See Stars. All editting and post-production took place in the warm, sunny Caribbean, using only solar power.
Double click in the youtube-screen to go to a bigger version or click on this link: I See Stars on YouTube
This video is available in up to 1080p HD, so please use the Youtube 'change quality'-button to select the settings of your choice, to watch in higher quality.
______________________I was invited by Sean Paton to step by the radio station ´MegaHitFM´ to promote a couple of my songs during his radio show.
The Turtuga Blanku songs I See Stars, Golden Bubble and No More were played and we had a nice conversation about my solar-music, solar-studio and sustainability.
______________________The new song I See Stars is now available for a listen. Press play on the homepage.
You can also listen to I See Stars on SoundCloud: Turtuga Blanku on SoundCloud.
If you like what you hear and want to support Turtuga Blanku's solar power music, you can buy this tune (and others) through the shop-page or at BandCamp.
A music video of I see Stars will soon be released on youtube as well.
______________________A new song is about ready to be released. Keep an eye out for I See Stars.
______________________There’s something about the video of No More that I would like to.. well have to make a confession about. It’s the part where this fish turns into a skeleton while the river runs dry. The fish is a butterfly fish (Forcipiger longirostris). And you will find those only in salt water and not in rivers.
So, to picture this fish in the video during the lyrics: “If you cannot deliver as the rivers run dry”, is... well.... wrong! (But the imagery is so good!)
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______________________The lyrics of No More have been translated into Japanese by blog writer Neco:
Read more of the translation here. Find the original lyrics here, and watch the animated music video on YouTube.
You can download No More for free by right-click 'save link as' on this link: TurtugaBlanku_NoMore.mp3.
______________________I was contacted by a Japanese blog-writer who had written a blog entry about my music: Ecological Music searched by Japanese Cat. She also directed me to an article on a Japanese eco-website.
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Turtuga Blanku on the Scientific American website, read more here.
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Clean Technica has been covering the cleantech industry since 2008, before it was popular for mainstream media to dedicate blogs or subdomains to the topic. Zachary Shahan from Clean Technica wrote a nice blog-article about Turtuga Blanku music and Turtuga Blanku's webhome.
Read more here: Turtuga Blanku on Clean Technica
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Radiostation 'MegaFM' gave Keep On Dreaming some airplay.
______________________It's there... The full animated music video of Turtuga Blanku's No More can now be viewed on YouTube!
Double click in the youtube-screen to go to a bigger version or click on this link: No More on YouTube
______________________I did two radio interviews on Radio Limpi, which is a live radio program that is put together in parallel -and broadcasted simultaneously- by two radio stations. You can find one of the interviews here (select '10 december Tusnara Rincon', interview starting at 15:28): Radio Limpi
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Additionally, the song Golden Bubble got some nice airplay on both BonFM and MegaFM.
______________________I was contacted for an interview in The Catalyst Magazine, an independent magazine run through music label 'Sunshine Rebel Records'. To read the interview and to browse through the magazine, click on the interactive image below.
The mission of The Catalyst is 'to promote musicians and artists who are carving their own path and leading us into a future filled with change'.
______________________Because of the tropical climate and me working with all studio windows open to be able to cope with the heat, the instruments are affected as well; in the morning, the guitar will be tuned differently then in the afternoon simply because the wood of the guitar is affected by the temperature and humidity changes.
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I had started this song and had recorded quite a lot of guitar parts when I found out that ...
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Alan Weisman is Laureate Associate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies and author of the book 'The World Without Us'.
Weisman: "Reduce the number of people on earth"
______________________The lyrics of this song (partly) originate from 2003. I had written a couple of verses worth of lyrics for another (non-released) song, but never felt that they worked quite well with the song. When I came across them again, I decided to adapt these lyrics and add to them, resulting in the lyrics that I have now used for No More.
While I was working on the lyrics of this song, I was inspired by a film called “The Corporation” (Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan). Several prominent people are featuring in this film, including Naom Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Michael Moore and Naomi Klein. (Vandana Shiva also participated in my ‘5Q-Interview’-series).
But the person in this film who inspired me most was ...
______________________Following the release of No More is a page dedicated to the lyrics of the song: No More lyrics-page.
______________________No More is now available for a listen. Press play on the homepage. You can download No More for free by right-click 'save link as' on this link: TurtugaBlanku_NoMore.mp3.
You can also download No More on SoundCloud: Turtuga Blanku on SoundCloud.
Feel free to share No More with your friends, family or colleagues. If you like what you hear and want to support Turtuga Blanku, you can buy this tune (and others) through the shop-page.
______________________The 5Q-interviews are being turned into creative YouTube versions starting with Simran Sethi's 5Q-interview.
Double click in the youtube-screen to go to a bigger version or click on this link: Simran Sethi's 5Q-interview on YouTube
All music is -off course- by Turtuga Blanku and you may spot some new material.
______________________A completely new photo gallery has just been uploaded. You can check out the images here: Photo Gallery
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______________________Turtuga Blanku music is now also released through BandCamp.
BandCamp allows for immediate download of Turtuga Blanku tracks in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
You can name your own price (minimum price is set to ensure that not only PayPal, but the artist also makes some money). (However,) buying music through Bandcamp does not require a PayPal account.
______________________Global Dimming, a (BBC Horizon) documentary by Dr. David Sington.
In the aftermath of the planes hitting the WTC in New York, the entire US fleet was grounded for three days. This resulted in immediate and dramatic changes in the weather. The change in temperature range during those days was ...
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