Odessa Chen – Archives of the Natural World (2011)

Singer-songwriter Odessa Chen explores our role in the extinction and displacement of animals as well as our increasingly disconnected relationship to nature. The Archives of the Natural World investigates what we lose, and what we have already lost, by forcing species into extinction. Her music seeks to move the listener to act on the belief that species have an inherent right to exist, regardless of human ambition. Odessa explores these issues with songs about the extinct Carolina Parakeet, extinct wolves, moths, and endangered Key Deer and wild horses.