ECO Music Challenge Season 2

I received a copy of the album from the ECO Music Challenge Season 2. There are 15 eco-songs written by local talents and that includes “World Without Fences”, the Clean & Green Singapore 2012 theme song.

 

Yup, you should have heard this on the TV by now. “World Without Fences” is the winning song for this season. It starts with the light strumming on the guitar and the gentle voice of Robert Sunga.

After listening to all the songs on the album, my personal favourite is still “World Without Fences”, although “Take a Stand” and “Set Her Free” are pretty good as well.

The message behind the music challenge is to promote GREENESS – doing our part to save the environment. We all have a role to determine what kind of world our future generations live in.

And it is amazing, from one music challenge, how much talented people we can find. We do have talented Singaporeans who write and create great music and people who sing well. The songs covered several genres – Rock “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, Jazzy “Save Our Earth” and you can definitely dance to “Set Her Free”.

I bet the contestants had a great time learning from their mentor, Mr Clement Chow and knowing one another. It is always encouraging to meet like-minded people and know that it is worth what you can fighting for.

You may want to give this album a try and get it online or from the NEA Customer Service Centre.

“All proceeds from the sales go to the Singapore Nature Society to support the appreciation of our unique bio-diversity at Semakau Landfill.”

What have you done today to save our earth?

Eco Music Challenge 2011 SHOWCASE!

Participants from last year’s edition of the NEA Eco Music Challenge (EMC) came back to the Timbre @ The Substation to present an awesome performance! There’s Inch Chua as the poster girl for this year’s EMC. She said something like this which I thought was very well said:

“When two dots meet, everything suddenly make sense and wah-lah I am on my way…”

Ok, to be honest, I only remembered the “two dots” meeting one another, the other half of the line was something that I squeezed out of my brain. Inch was referring to composing songs and going green when she mentioned the two dots. So when these two components meet and combine in the EMC, she felt that it was a perfect platform for her to showcase her songs and to promote environmental awareness.

 

The stage at Timbre @ the Substation was all set up and ready for our performers! Hit it!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I have previewed some of the songs submitted for this year’s Eco Music Challenge and I felt that the standards are very very high. Most of them, I would say, can be put into an album and is ready for sale. Now who said Singaporeans are not creative and we don’t have enough talents? We just need time and with the right opportunities, they will rise.

Now if you are reading this post for some reasons, pick up your guitar and start composing something. This is a great way to step into the local music industry and doing good at the same time. You have nothing to lose but everything to gain.

Last day of submission is 20 June 2011 via the official EMC website, http://nea.ecomusic.sg/

Need some inspirations for your work? Go to the website and take a look what others have done and be impressed…. (^.^)v

NEA Eco Music Challenge 2011

Into the second year, The NEA Eco Music Challenge 2011 is back and so far the songs submitted are pretty awesome. It is great to see and hear the works of young Singaporeans. Standard is very high, now who said Singaporeans are not creative?

Here’s an entry which I think is not very mainstream but yet nice. Enjoy!