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You can already feel the vivid sci-fi fantasy world in our solarpunk music, despite this being just an early song demo and practice video of Sun Keeper's upcoming 70-minute prog record. But it does feature the unmixed drums of Blake Richardson from progressive metal titans Between the Buried and Me, and you can already envision the solar-powered city atmosphere bursting.

We've raised $1200 in one week of our fundraiser to help us make our lest hefty payment to Blake of BTBAM for his legendary drum playing on our entire record. Only $800 to go and we're turning to our solarpunk community to help us hit the goal and get Blake paid.

Soak up the sunny intensity and verdant uplift of our demo track, Seven Embers, then support Blake directly for his many hours of work on this record at this link:

https://gofund.me/58afbd90

More than 34 musicians from the progressive metal and rock communities, (full list at the link above), have begun working to help us record the rest of this lore-heavy behemoth of a record. I'm one of them!

I'm Connor, the guy in the video, and I've got a lot of guitar rehearsals and recording to do before our November 6th recording deadline, when the acclaimed audio engineer Jamie King will begin his mixing and mastering of the Sun Keeper record.

Help us reach our budget goals along the way so we can hire on even more unique musicians to appear on the record, like Shay Lewis from Artificial Language and Robert Edens from Native Construct. (Stars willing!)

Help us pay these musicians at the link, and look for content and project updates soon on all Sun Keeper socials.

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Is there a novel or did that get put on the back burner?

Hello! Well, over the years I presented the novel manuscript to a novel coach, and she helped me determine that the character I chose as the protagonist wasn't going to be easy to tell as a novel but WOULD work well for something else such as music album, comic, or game.

Fast forward to today. I am currently working with a team of about 30 people to record a 70-minute progressive rock and metal album that tells the story through the eyes of about 30 characters throughout the music. We're working with a lot of renowned artists in the progressive metal subgenre, and it's really taking off so far, but we have 5 months left of the recording process left.

I have always wanted to have a solarpunk / lunarpunk music project, and I'm so electric about this project. I know not everyone likes rock & metal music but this is a way we can get the Sun Keeper story world out into the world most easily, and our plan is to approach the story similarly to how Claudio from Coheed and Cambria does: release "story-music" and if there's enough interest for deeper lore, put out graphic novels or novellas that dive deeper into the lore, and self-publish the literature. We will explore all adaptations of the story we can scale to in the years ahead, but the music album is our "foot in the door" / "stepping stone" to begin proving to potential show-runners, game developers and more that there is interest in this world and that it is set up for a Transmedia approach where we can entertain with solarpunk storytelling across multiple mediums.

If you or anyone else are interested in following along with the project as we record and produce it, we have just recently made our Sun Keeper Discord server. It's very new and needs organizing, but it's the best way to keep up until we get our other social media set up and in use.

https://discord.gg/dNZ4txam

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I once again am boosting my playlist because I think it fits the movement perfectly in attitude. It has a lot of different cultural influences and has some nice ambient music in there too including a track from @thecarboncoast

I hope you enjoy! This has been punkofsunshine, have a good one and stay safe.

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only a few people are more interesting than reading hundred-year-old books in the rain #darkacademia #darkacademiafashion #darkacademiaaesthetic #darkacademiastyle #alt #alternativefashion https://www.instagram.com/p/CFzh3O8HBRo/?igshid=163owjenpbvxp

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solarpunks I need yall today. please vote in this little art contest on the best poster design (some are still WIPs) to help us pick a winner to make into posters which will be the first merch for the Sunkeeper eco-fiction series (The Carbon Coast, etc.)

please reblog. Here are the designs currently:

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This Day in History: Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United Sates. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

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Kadara Enyeasi, by Seye Isikalu

https://vimeo.com/301303739

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Juneteenth is here. may all the PoC out there blossom and bloom and be caressed with kisses of support and have their wounds soothed by nature and allies and justice and change

Photographer: Shantoria Divine

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asé

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Editing my contribution to a #Solarpunk compendium for an academic publication called Salvaging the Anthropocene at @westvirginiau. My first published solarpunk writing. I'm just warming up. Cheers to getting started. - EG https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMnPtjn7JV/?igshid=1lt2ptmmjbekd

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Ok honestly I was skeptical when seeing the headline but the early gameplay of this solarpunk 3D action platformer looks really good and it’s COMING TO NINTENDO SWITCH

fully backed

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Quit being eco-fascist dang it! Solarpunk is trying to make humans INTEGRATE and maintain symbiosis with nature. No humans are "the virus" and none of us should die or be stifled "for nature to thrive" - we just need to CHANGE how WE thrive back into a way that allows nature to ALSO thrive

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A new solarpunk (technically @tidalpunk) relaxing video of a place from my story world called Abystine.

Come visit the Ocean Tower at Abystine and enjoy all the nautical low-tech renewable energy vibes on the sea shore

Check the video description for story information and a link to the full playlist of solarpunk and lunarpunk scenes we've made so far

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A lovely podcast episode on the topic of solarpunk for the Imaginary Worlds podcast!

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Hey! I am an intern at the North Carolina Museum of Art in NC, USA. We're throwing a Solarpunk themed event and I was wondering if i could use some of the beautiful art on this page to put on the promo flyer. If so, are there any particular artists I should credit? Thanks so much!

Well, that query in general can go a lot of different routes in terms of general solarpunk art that was not necessarily commissioned for my own project. However, I do have about four pieces of art that I’ve commissioned to represent places in my story world, which is specifically a solarpunk story world. (you’ll see a couple lunarpunk examples as well, meaning night time centered solarpunk)

I’ll attach them all here in case you’re interested in any, since they would all be free use without any worries of legal complications and of course I could give you proper credits of each artist since I worked personally with them.

However I also could help you with good places to look for other solarpunk art and possibly hunt down the artists of the pieces. Email director@sunkeeperseries.com and we can figure out more for your project via email!

- Connor

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Solarpunk Beer? Optimistic Brewery?

Optimism Brewing Company in Seattle has three drinks on tap named after the solarpunk movement and I just wanted to share with yall.