ON A MOUNTAIN CLIMB
Song to be released on 01.20.25
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On January 20, 2025, Purple Mountains™ will release a collaboration song, On a Mountain Climb, by talented young artists from five high schools across America—from Hawaii to Philadelphia. The recording artists are tasked with producing a revolutionary song that is undeterred by current setbacks in the United States and promotes a remixed culture of belonging heading into 2025, forty years after the release of Prince's America. This ambitious project will also include cover art featuring past work by a Minneapolis visual artist depicting MLK Day ten years prior to the song's release date. Start climbing together!
America
by Prince and the Revolution
...ON A MOUNTAIN CLIMB. "America" is a sardonic attack on the mid-1980s United States, referencing Communism, and worrying about nuclear war, a common theme in Prince's lyrics in the 1980s. This 10-minute live video was shot on October 27, 1985 during a "One Off" performance in Nice, France at Théâtre de Verdure.
HSRA
One of the 5 featured U.S. high schools
HIGH SCHOOL FOR RECORDING ARTS. For over 25 years HSRA has been transforming the lives of young people in Saint Paul, MN through music and socially conscious hip hop culture. HSRA re-engages students who were pushed or kicked out of school to becoming high school graduates and life-long learners.
Leslie Barlow
One of the featured American visual artists
WITHIN, BETWEEN, AND BEYOND. Leslie Barlow is an artist living and working on occupied Očeti Šakówin and Wahpekute land now known as Minneapolis, MN. Barlow is interested in reimagining our relationship to our racial identities through healing our collective understanding of belonging and what it means to be family.
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