Songs of the Future, by The Tomorrow Collective

Songs of the Future

by The Tomorrow Collective

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1.	Text Me 02:27	info	buy track
2.	Figure It Out 03:25	info	buy track
3.	Weeds 00:57	info	buy track
4.	North Star Falling 02:11	info	buy track
5.	C51 01:58	info	buy track
6.	In the Future 02:02	info	buy track
7.	This Is Your Country 02:57	info	buy track
8.	In Your Lifetime 01:55	info	buy track
9.	Banjotopia 01:53	info	buy track
10.	Lament 02:04	info	buy track
11.	Bread 02:29	info	buy track
12.	Trees 03:47	info	buy track
13.	Nature's Revenge 02:21	info	buy track
14.	Prayer 02:03	info	buy track
15.	Old School 02:10	info	buy track
16.	Put On Your Toque, Eh! 01:50	info	buy track
17.	Rock / Mountain 02:07	info	buy track
18.	Happy 02:02	info	buy track
19.	Slick Lick Shottis 01:58	info	buy track
20.	Twenty Something Sentry Man 03:21	info	buy track
21.	When She Comes 02:39	info	buy track
22.	The Waters Running Clear 02:13	info	buy track
23.	My Only Hope 01:47	info	buy track
24.	Less Global, More Local 02:15	info	buy track
25.	What Will I Dream? 02:36	info	buy track
26.	Ambient Parking Garage 02:05	info	buy track
27.	Freedom 02:25	info	buy track
28.	City That Moves 03:17	info	buy track
29.	We Still Have Time 03:12	info	buy track
30.	The Family Tree 02:37	info	buy track
31.	Say It Again 02:00	info	buy track
32.	Wrong One 01:59	info	buy track
33.	Give It A Whirl 02:17	info	buy track

about

Thirty-three songs about a possible future: a musical prophecy.

Consider this album a roadmap, a guideline, a composite of predictions––an assembly of cautionary revelations born from social and political anxieties present in the lead-up to a national election in an imaginary country.

The thirty-three compositions issue from a community of musicians and songwriters envisioning a positive future built from a thoughtful, hopeful, uncertain, fraught, and radical present.
Songs on this album were generated from a simple challenge: write a two-minute composition about our future––on short notice––imagine sounds to come.

The results shifted the imaginary of political discussions away from tired tropes of economic recovery, personal financial success, and innovation towards more of the same, sounding instead concerns about climate change, world peace, militarization, and the emancipatory possibilities of local community, to name a few.

Songs of the Future sings out an egalitarian roadmap for what is possible when ordinary people take control of the conversation about urgent social concerns––can creativity translate into social practices that offer up hope and resilience in difficult times?

To suddenly not know what to do next, to be at a loose end just before going somewhere, is to be listening.
––Amit Chaudhuri

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released April 23, 2021

Produced at the Sound Emporium, Guelph, Ontario by The Tomorrow Collective.

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