BONUS: Metra - Oops, All Music! - Ep 1

Big news, Metra compatriots! 

We are thrilled to share that, later this spring, MythMakers Media will release Metra - The Cast Album!

Support the creation of the album, and get access to upcoming bonus materials, at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical 

In the meantime, you can be the first to hear the newly remixed and remastered songs, from the comfort of your podcast feed. We're sharing them as they're finished--here's batch 1 of 3!

Songs:
"Welcome From the Nymphs"
"Back to the Past"
"Cori, Come Near"
"Cascade"
"Reporting for Duty"
"Take a Bite"
“Change the Myth”
“Sam and the Whale”
“A Nymphian Interlude”
“Diane’s Theme”

Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Produced by MythMakers Media
Featuring: Jeannette Bayardelle, Cherrye J. Davis, Alia Munsch, Cristina Obando Sanchez, Sierra Rein, Stephanie Bacastow, Matthew Trumbull, Corey Allen, Stephanie Willing, and Luke Wyngarden

Sound Editing and Design; Instrumentation Arranged and Performed; Vocals Arranged; and all Audio Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Ned Hartford

Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something

Look out this spring for info on the Bandcamp release, including special bonus features.

Happy Listening!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Mythmakers Media presents Metro A Climate Revolution with Songs, a serial scripted audio podcast, produced and mixed by Tom Mulbe. Hi, this is Ned Hartford, a guy who sounds suspiciously like Tom Mulby. But it's me, Ned Hartford. And you know what? I'm the person who arranged all the music, wrote all the music and the lyrics, and uh recorded all the audio, did all the mixing and sound design and mastering and all that kind of stuff. And I wrote the script along with my partner, the incredible theater director Emily Hartford, who you'll be hearing from soon in an episode that will drop shortly where we're gonna talk about the development of Matter from a stage musical to this musical audio drama podcast that you have now listened to. But starting today, we're going to present you with the first of three episodes that are simply the music of Matra. You see, when I was mixing and mastering this audio drama, I really wanted to make the music sound like it was a the same world as the dialogue. So I had a lot of limitations ultimately in how I was able to approach the music. And with these three episodes I get the chance to remix and remaster everything like I would if it were an album. And then once all these three episodes have dropped, we're going to put all the music up on Bandcamp so you can download it and listen to it and enjoy it whenever you want. And if you like the music once we get it all posted, go to Bandcamp, download it, and if we get enough interest, we'll put it on maybe title or something too. Anyway, for now, part one of Metra, a climate revolution with songs, just the music. Hope you enjoy, and thank you.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

One, two, three, woe ho.

SPEAKER_07 2:34

We are nymphs who live in trees, just like the handmaidens who serve the goddessaries, you know. Mythology like of its metamorphoses Tonight we're here to tell you the story, the story of Metra, who also is Cory. You'll get to meet Sam and the Glafonos, whom we call Aggie. We can we're close.

SPEAKER_10 3:12

Aggie Yo Boo Sister Not a go to Whoa Tonight we're going to start at the end.

SPEAKER_06 3:36

Well, not really the end. Cause then there's more. Then there's what we call an epilogue.

SPEAKER_07 3:43

And a whole lot comes before.

SPEAKER_05 3:45

So for now, let's see we're starting at the end. Now, you may be asking yourself, did Ovid ever start at the end?

SPEAKER_06 4:00

No, he did not. That's very clear. He told the plot from there to here. No, Ovid never started at the end.

SPEAKER_07 4:12

With linearity he said the tale he had to tell. But Ovid is dead, so what the hell? Woohoo. So let the old story end, let a better story start on you. Woohoo. You boys and girls. Change them and you can change them. You can change them. Old story and let a better story start. Let a big old better story start on you. Tonight we're going to start Sort of In the Year Twenty Fort And now we jump real fast to the past. Back from the year twenty forty-five.

SPEAKER_05 5:46

We're not there, back, back, back, back twenty forty-five. Back back. We're still not there. Twenty twenty-five. Back back back Oh we're there back. Twenty fifteen is where we arrive, so stop Stop right here, right now.

SPEAKER_10 6:13

Corey I've seen from childhood to a tea to the woman now standing here. I've watched you from afar. Now Cory, here you are. Don't be afraid now, Cory. Corey Comey.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

Dozens of tornadoes swept through Texas and Oklahoma yesterday, with possibly hundreds dead and thousands left homeless.

SPEAKER_09 7:27

Then one day you say, Hey, how did I get here?

SPEAKER_10 7:36

2030.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

And this is how strong this wind is. One day before landfall, the mega hurricane over expected storm surges of up to 40 feet. Unheard of storm surges. Let's get those campus turned around. Miami is a ghost town.

SPEAKER_09 9:00

Some drowned, some bird, some green.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

Today, the federal government declared a state of national emergency and martial law, suspending upcoming elections for the first time in our nation's history.

SPEAKER_09 9:46

So we plot, we plan we consult.

SPEAKER_08 10:33

The king collapses in the battlefield alone outside his empty castle.

SPEAKER_07 14:33

We hope you will allow us this interjection about the glovano's and her angry rejection of Sam's unwitting offer of songwriting education. Perhaps this explanation will provide a lucidation when you weigh the array of melody and rhyme that you stay through today stood the test of time. Do you wonder where the inspiration might have come from? For the most awesome music that you love to hunt. We bring it when we sprinkle it, when we sparkle, we bring it, point to the thing, and make it sparkle, make it sparkle, but we never get credit for the thing. We bring the goats on my buttons too high. We took over for the car, we wrote when they put the power to park a lot. But we were going after all the We bring it when we sprinkle it when we sprinkle, we bring weak for the thing that dream lips. Make it sparkle, make it sparkle, but we never get credit for the blink, we bring it away. People got a lot of nerve. Not giving dreams the credit we deserve. So maybe now you understand why I got so angry with your unwitting set.