“Wake Up,” New Song & Music Video by Platypus Planet

Song Deals with Recovery Through Progress and Truth

 

Platypus Planet have a new song and music video, “Wake Up."

The group and music are the creation of German Starseed/Singer/songwriter/ keyboardist/ multi-media music leader Anna Black. The band’s core consists of Anna and three more passionate artists: drummer Frank Nolte (Germany), bassist Alexis Bietti (France), and what Anna calls Platypus Planet’s enigmatic secret weapon, keyboardist Robeone (United States).

Notables in the prog rock community have contributed to her meditative and electronic-inspired progressive music including Imaginaerium’s Clive Nolan & Laura Piazzai on a recent single called “Inner Peace.”

Lifesigns/Strawbs/ Dave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear guitarist Dave Bainbridge joins Platypus Planet on the new meditative and electronic-inspired progressive music single “Wake Up.”

The music video for “Wake Up” shows imagery and Anna performing with a message. about why so many people are awakening and changing these days, moving away from lower vibrational people that take energy from them.  The story spotlights on recognizing and defining pain, progressing, and going through the process with truth.  Anna says, “The song is a call to break through the noise, to let go of the versions of ourselves we've been taught to perform, and to reconnect with something real. It’s about waking up to the truth that there’s nothing to fear in being who you are.” 

She says the theme of her songs are about serving, “As I wake up, I’m helping you wake up.”

The music video and song resonated with Fan MamaChar Leonard, who posted on her social media, “I believe this one will be added to my morning routine! “   

 

Anna, Frank, Alexis, and Robeone are working on their first album to be called, “Echoes of the Soul.” There are other songs on the upcoming album out, in addition to “Wake Up” and “Inner Peace,” songs already on streaming media include “Sincerety,” “Identify,” and “Song of Sorrow.”

“Wake Up” 

Eyes are blinded,
Touch is grinded,
No one to feel it,
No one to heal it,
Calling,
You to wake up,

You need to wake up,
You need to wake up,
Wake up,
You need to,

Listening on the surface,
I tell you what my truth is,
Now stand up,
And be yourself,
There's nothing you can't do,

Listening on the surface,
I tell you what my truth is,
Stand up,
And be yourself,
There's nothing you can do,

Let yourself be your truth,
Wake up,

Eyes are blinded,
Touch is grinded,
No one to feel it,
Calling,
You to wake up.

 

C 2025, Anna Black, All Rights Reserved 

Dedicated to Greta Thunberg & Pete Seeger

Songs of The Environment, Leadership, the Pandemic

Wake Up   Orleans Adult Album Alternative, trumpet, group harmony, wake up, people, “wake up!” environment, pollution, “stop throwing plastic in the sea/can’t you let the fishies be!” ecology, snow, lightning, birds in flight, seasons, signs of life, “the day’s gonna come” air pollution, water pollution, #MusiciansUnitedForSafeEnergy,  

 This Darkness  Rachael Sage female singer with CSNY protest guitar sound, environment, the song is about the Dakota Pipeline, keywords:  see myself, grieve myself, somebody's fool, hate, “I don’t know why you’re full of hate.”   

 

Beez (I Know Where The Beez Have Gone Slambovian Circus of Dreams Rock, slow tempo, environment, Americana, vocals like Tom Petty, “Stopped controlling the world,” lyrics offer ideas on how to increase the bees to visit plantlife. “the bees are in my yard, I know where the Beez Have Gone,” “Reteaching me the facts of life” “creatures great and small”    

Freedom Hymn CC Clevenger patriotic southern rock starting with a drum roll & Charlie Daniels/ Molly Hatchet style guitars & voice, respect for our military, hook is "thank you Air Force & Marines, Coast Guard, Army and Navy to the men and women." recites Pledge of Allegiance.

Backbone Emily Hurd  country, female lead vocals, like Alison Krauss, rising above obstacles, against the people that got in the way of her success or love, it breaks her heart but you played your part building my backbone. 

One Good Man   Cornelius Eady male vocals percussion, John Henry's hammer, one good man shook people up against the odds, mock the devil straight to his face, Resist 

Divided We Fall Bill Leverty  hard rock/classic rock, male vocals, bass, lead   guitar, dangerous song, standing up to a troublemaker who can anything than anyone else.  "You're a natural--natural disaster."  

A Void  Andrew Alling acoustic/singer-songwriter Neil Young style with guitar and harmonica male vocals  A Void in relationships, why are we against the world? DirtyWords, time to heal, rock & ground shaking poetics. 

Songs by Leslie Mandoki Mandoki Soulmates and #WeSayThankYou w/ Ian Anderson

Wake Up by Mandoki Soulmates  Male-fronted version.  Powerful, funky, reconnecting with early rebellious roots.  

Note: we also have a version that starts with a female. 

 

Torch  by Mandoki Soulmates a slow and gentle song about idealism and passing our fight on to the next generation. Vocals seem like Peter Gabriel.  Bruce Hornsby influence. Passing on the Torch. Be strong, be brave. Leslie Mandoki says, 

" We must stand up for a peaceful, free world and we have to pass on the „The Torch“ to the next generation!!!"

Old Rebels by Mandoki Soulmates lead vocalists have rough voices, like Smokie and Bret Michaels, chime-y keyboards and bongo, Hammond B3, and Udu. Leslie says, :“The explosion of military spending on the scale of the cold war shows a catastrophically wrongheaded development, and we need to be much, much louder against racism!”'

 #WeSayThankYou  Thoughtful Piano song about the pandemic virus, paying tribute to the frontline workers, first responders, the doctors, nurses, grocery workers, to anyone who took care of our daily needs and kept the world turning for all of us. Pretty flute parts. Ian stands up to the speculators in the lyrics.  

Living In the Gap by Mandoki Soulmates Tower of Power, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago-ish, horns and Quincy Jones style electric Moog bass. A song about how to bridge over the division with music as the greatest unifier, “we need a revenge of analog, we're living in the great divide.” It's a plea for communication and against disunion through the destructive nature of our echo chambers and filter bubbles. Incredible Hammond B3 solo by Cory Henry, bass solo by Richard Bona, guitar solo by Al Di Meola and Saxophone solo by Supertramp´s John Helliwell.

Young Rebels by Mandoki Soulmates Letters to the new kids, 1970s influence, jazz and rock, an old song with a new beat--the young rebels are angry, and don't know how to deal with it.  “Are we old rebels with a new dream, or are we young rebels with an old dream.” 

 

New Playlist: Thank you, Greta & Pete, from the musicians

I dedicate the hashtag #IKnewYouWhen to a man that was “a great radio teacher,” who also sang folk music with my fellow classmates at Fredonia State. Dan Berggren taught me how to listen—really listen, which is one of the reasons I keep listening to new music.

It’s a joy to watch my teacher grow his career, and a blessing to spread the word about his songs about the environment. Dan’s song “Looking for Answers” is about a daughter asking her father if we’ll have a future because of what’s going on with our environment. This past November a review in the Saratogian described Dan, “Resembling a young Pete Seeger.” YEAH!  😊 

All my songwriters have a little Pete Seeger in them. In fact, John and Johanna Hall worked with him on the Clearwater. John's influence on teaching us about the environment is earth-shaking, especially the No Nukes concerts in the 1970s. He and Johanna Hall, who had the sync to end all syncs STILL THE ONE have a vintage song WAKE UP from Orleans II. With classic Orleans’ harmony and trumpet, this is a hooky song with clever lyrics.  Note that WAKE UP is with Sony Publishing, and is NOT a ONE-STOP.

WAKE UP Orleans  Adult Album Alternative, trumpet, group harmony, wake up, people, “wake up!” environment, pollution, “stop throwing plastic in the sea/can’t you let the fishies be!” ecology, snow, lightning, birds in flight, seasons, signs of life, “the day’s gonna come” air pollution, water pollution, MusiciansUnitedForSafeEnergy, This song is co-written by John and Johanna Hall, the couple that wrote the most incredible sync, “You’re Still The One.”  

GLOBAL WARMING Phoebe Legere  Singer Songwriter, Piano and soaring female vocals and strings, vocals in English and French, rising sea levels, oceans, "I place a piano on the tongue of the world to give it a voice to cry.”    
  

LOOKING FOR ANSWERS Dan Berggren Folk, daughter asking about what the environment will look like when she grows up. Long term / Short term materialism, greed, easy answers, ask questions, learn what's ahead.  


DON’S THEME Joe Olnick Instrumental guitar, influences like David Gilmour, Alex Skolnick, Kyuss, Roy Bucchanan. Emotional, atmospheric, sad, orchestral, slow, dirge    Mellow and quite proggy,pretty. The guitar soloing is slow and expressive. As it continues a bluesy edge is introduced to the piece. This continues to grow with style and class.  


BEES AND ZOMBIES Rebecca Loebe Theatrical Folk, Gilbert & Sullivan-y. If Jim Carrey was a soprano, singing a train-of-thought song with symphonic piano backup singers. About the environment. Rebecca telling someone about environment problems, and the person takes another seat. At the end, someone else tells her about the bees, and guess what! She moves away... The video is a delight, like a school play with children and a slightly panic’d male teacher. 

THIS DARKNESS Rachael Sage Pop, Dream Pop/Chamber Pop, female singer with CSNY protest guitar sound, environment, the song is about the Dakota Pipeline, keywords:  see myself, grieve myself, somebody's fool, hate, “I don’t know why you’re full of hate."
 

A TERRIBLE PICKLE  Dean Friedman  A Music Hall song with ukulele about the world being in a terrible pickle. Some mentions of Australia-related nature-- Koalas and eucalyptus trees, all kinds of mentions about the environment, the oceans are rising. Kyota accord.  


MARY MAGDALENE Gary Lucas & Jann Klose Upbeat folk song with Irish singalong energy, singer sounds like Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran. About Superstorm Sandy, hunkering down and praying during a horrible storm that took place in Long Island, 2012. The City never had a hurricane like this.  It told New Yorkers that global warming is real


NOBODY KNEW Carmine Appice’s Guitar Zeus Hard Rock, Like the heavier parts of the Beatles’ “I’m the Walrus” and “Strawberry Fields,” Brian May guitar, vocals by Kelly Keeling. “Nobody knew who’s running the White House,” gas, all we wanted, here we are, Hear me now. Nobody Knew where they were going. “There’s a hole in the blue sky” "Thought it would last."


Spotify Playlist dedicated to Greta Thunberg
Thank you from the musicians