Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs

Emily & Ned Hartford sit down to talk about the origins of Metra, adapting the show from a stage musical to an audio drama, and how they approached shaping a story about climate liberation while living in our dumpster fire of a time.
(We'll be back soon with more re-mastered songs from the upcoming cast album!)
Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something

Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical

Metra is Written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Dialogue Directed by Emily Hartford
Produced by MythMakers Media

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

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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 2!

Songs:
“Welcome MythMakers”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 1”
“Sam Introduces Aggy”
“Metra’s Mother”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 2”
“The Sweet Old Woman’s Theme”

Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Produced by MythMakers Media
Featuring: Jeannette Bayardelle, Cherrye J. Davis, Fred Inkley, Corinna Schulenburg, Alia Munsch, Cristina Obando Sanchez, Sierra Rein

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!

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 2!

Songs:
“Welcome MythMakers”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 1”
“Sam Introduces Aggy”
“Metra’s Mother”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 2”
“The Sweet Old Woman’s Theme”

Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Produced by MythMakers Media
Featuring: Jeannette Bayardelle, Cherrye J. Davis, Fred Inkley, Corinna Schulenburg, Alia Munsch, Cristina Obando Sanchez, Sierra Rein

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!

Feel free to read the below instead of listening if you prefer:
Hey there Metra listeners – this is just a quick quality control check from your friendly neighborhood podcaster.

This afternoon we realized that the version of today’s episode playing on Apple Podcasts was published in mono—much to the chagrin of Ned, who so painstakingly crafted the mix and mastering of all these songs in stereo. As far as we can tell, no other platforms were affected. After some troubleshooting, it looks like we’ve gotten Apple to re-publish the episode in stereo as of about 7:30 this evening, March 11th. So, if you are an Apple Podcasts listener and you downloaded the episode earlier today, you can access the stereo version by clicking “Remove download” and then re-downloading the episode. If you like.

We hope this won’t happen again! It does make us look forward to the full album release on Bandcamp later this spring—where we’ll have total control of the sound and promise you a gorgeous listening experience.

Thanks for listening.