Bastille‘s Dan Smith recently played a new unreleased song while onboard a Greenpeace ship in the Bermuda Triangle.Titled ‘Blue Sky & the Painter’, Smith performed the track while sat on the prow of the iconic Greenpeace ship with his acoustic guitar.
The video sees him on the boat as the sun is setting with the vast Atlantic Ocean is around him.The area is famous as the home of the Bermuda Triangle – where ships and planes have supposedly disappeared without a trace.Speaking about the track in a press release, Smith shared: “The song is about Edvard Munch finally seeing a crack of light in life after a long period of darkness, and it felt like a theme that resonated with this particular opportunity that we now have to protect these vast blue spaces that we all depend on.”He continued: “I was invited onto this iconic ship to learn and help out, but when we found ourselves in unusually calm water within the Bermuda Triangle, 240 nautical miles away from the nearest land, it just felt like an ideal opportunity to collaborate with the crew on capturing this song.”Smith joined a voyage with Greenpeace UK on the ship the Arctic Sunrise to learn more about the importance of ocean protection.
The location in the Sargasso Sea was chosen because scientists have long recognised it as an area rich in marine life that needs greater protection from industrial fishing, shipping and other threats.The musician spent three days onboard and took part in scientific research, helped spot humpback whales, and deployed an underwater microphone to pick up the sounds of whales, dolphins and other sea creatures.
He also assisted with taking seawater samples from 30m below the surface to test for the DNA traces of marine animals and took part in.
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