Seems like everybody’s moving out to the sun while the sun is here, everywhere!

Yes, I’m an artist (I was a user on Spotify) but what does it mean when the industry is always changing a lot. I just uploaded my bio, music biography and it’s not clear to me what these people (do you know one of them?) are planning? It’s still a mystery to me but anyhow they accept me and that’s quite a difference with the past. Not only my latest releases (like Freedom of Love and The Climate Song) but a complete album ‘Nylon Numbers’. Yeah, folks I work hard on it but it seems music has to be in a box and you have to have a lot of viewing friends. And I don’t.

That’s why I’m wondering what the future will bring in our singer-songwriter / music culture. Is there still ‘a culture’ or is it like war troops they move, go where the provisions are (and the money goes).

https://artists.spotify.com/c/artist/1Ec1luFLYwp6WwWePWJEyU/profile#about

and then The Climate Song worldwide there are protesters / activist for climate justice and would you like to share it…would you?

Ah! Thanks…no news? Climate activists have said it is a badge of honour that the head of the world’s most powerful oil cartel believes their campaign may be the “greatest threat” to the fossil fuel industry. The same war is going on in the media who are blaming the protesters of violence while the climate movement is nonviolent anyway. Extinction Rebellion from Utrecht were framed negatively, accused of violence by some journalist and it was just a lie….yes they are afraid of the new generation!

– Alle gordijnen dicht
– Geen ramen

Here’s news from an incredibly popular dude in our new protest city where the air is free, free at last.

What happened? I wasn’t satisfied with the first edits from the Climate song so I start editing all over again. We worked hard for weeks to get the Climate song recorded. So I talked about the Climate Song to some of the students for climate maastricht https://www.facebook.com/students4climateMaas. They were curious to hear the ‘the Climate song’, I wrote with Noémi Shirin and Martín Sáez del Val while Sophie Bt joined singing a little later.

Some of the ‘students for climate Maastricht like Delphine De Potter, asked me as a ‘local’ to join them (by the way, I was the only local who expressed solidarity, partly due to activism from Becky Lockwood, Elaine Donderer, Eeva Massi. 
So me, the ‘local’, and the students for climate had a meeting above de Brandweerkazerne to talk about collaboration. Then I invited the students to come to listen to the ‘Climate Song’, they were pleased and quite happy with the result when I played the song in the studio. They asked me to join them on a garden party concert but after that I didn’t hear anything anymore. So they told me they would share and promote the Climate Song on their FB site and what happened…they didn’t do it.

So what is going on? First participating as a local and then being banned? It’s not the first time I am being banned because of what, being different? Being not like the rest of the group? Being subversive?

So thank you for the generous solidarity and inviting this ‘local’ but if you really want to remain genuinely credible then change the ‘psychological climate’, attitude towards people who want to contribute something creatively to a better world. With fake-double attitude nobody believes you anymore; I still join the climate movement with a lot of love. So listen to the Climate song, thanks for sharing and stop isolating people. We all wanna change the world!

l/ r Martín Saéz del Val / Noémi Shirin / Sophie BT

The first Climate song ever written; words music Bert Smeets co-writers Noémi Shirin, Martén Saéz de Val.

https://youtu.be/d3HckJWF65E

Noémi Shirin, Sophie BT, Martin Saéz del Val and singer-songwriter Bert Smeets are Bert Smeets & Los AmEcos, an international collective from France/ Canada / Germany / Spain / the Netherlands / UK with a lot of students from other countries like Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, India you name it but they have one thing in common…..being young and rebellious and aware of the climate facts.

CLIMATE SONG

If you want the world is a friend 

if you walk hand in hand

Now the sun, will it shine 

shine all night, to the other side

If you want the birds to sing

if you want another spring 

Join in now, in our cause 

for climate justice and for love 

If you want the sea to be calm and not rising anymore, anymore, anymore (what  are we fighting for…what we’re fighting for)

What are we fighting for? What we’re fighting, we’re fighting for more

If you want our kids to grow old, and if you want their stories told

Don’t give up all your hope and find each others hands to hold  

If you want the sea to be calm and not rising anymore, anymore (what  are we fighting for…what we’re fighting for)

What are we fighting for?

Ah we’re fighting, we’re fighting for 

justice (justice), no plastic (no plastic), no poison (no poison), no killing (no killing) 

justice