Iris Trio - Project Earth: The Green Chapter (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Canopy: Ia. Boreal
02. Canopy: Ib. Poem Old Growth, Pacific Northwest
03. Canopy: II. Old Growth, Pacific Northwest
04. Canopy: III. The Barrens
05. Canopy: IV. Canopy
06. Canopy: V. The Laurels
07. Poem The Grasslands
08. The Grasslands
09. Poem Red Spring
10. Red Spring

After a critically acclaimed run of Project Earth: Blue Chapter, the Iris Trio releases The Green Chapter of the project, with captivating new commissions by celebrated Canadian composers Sarah Slean and Andrew Downing and original poetry by T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Karen Solie. Slean’s collaboration with Solie is a written homage to the incredible life of trees, while the Downing-Solie creation explores the farming practices and dwindling habitat of unbroken shortgrass prairie, including the stranglehold of multinational corporations on farming. An interdisciplinary address to environmental crises and the beauty worth protecting, The Green Chapter has been praised by Miranda Massie, Founder and Director of New York City's Climate Museum, as striking and beautiful, its presentation of spoken poetry combined with musical performances perfectly calibrated, and the principals' performances staggeringly accomplished, in sync, and alive.