422ppm
UK producer See How is returning with deep garage banger 422ppm, an environmental statement of intent featuring an original spoken word performance from prominent UK activist, writer, councillor and TV pundit Chantelle Lunt.
Channelling the likes of Jamie xx, Overmono and Bicep, the track weaves together an evolving soundscape, taking us on a journey across time while charting the destruction of the natural world.
Chantelle says, “I wrote this poem to remind people that we are essentially guests on this planet, and that somewhere along the way we’ve lost sight of our original mission – to be guardians of the world around us. The words are taken from my poem ‘Pass The Mic’, which poses the question ‘whose voices are we centering when we talk about the climate emergency?’ Because too often the ones controlling the narrative are not the ones suffering the brunt of climate catastrophe in the Global South – people whose indigenous knowledge and practices point to our original mission of guardianship.”
See How says, “When I started the initial ideas for this track, the planet had reached 422 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. By the time this track is released, we will have passed 430ppm. Circling back to the phrase ‘guard this land, so that all can breathe’, I wanted to platform Chantelle’s message of guardianship, to say that from our dark past, there is still hope to be found in those who remember our original mission”.
