The song Rainforest, also known by the names of Raining Forest or Jangale Barani, was released yesterday. It has become a favourite track with many people after a live performance on BBC TV (2009). Due to high demand, it’s been chosen as the debut single before the new album release.

Rainforest emphasises the problem of deforestation of tropical forests around the World. All the facts say that we are losing vast tracts of one of the Earth’s greatest biological treasures. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth’s land surface; now they cover a mere 6%. If deforestation continues at its current rates, scientists estimate nearly 80 to 90% of tropical rainforest ecosystems will have been destroyed by the year 2020.

The central metaphor of the song compares the desperate existence of the Rainforest’s soul with the plight of the pit canary, naked and defenceless, “… imprisoned in the air of exhaustion”.** Optimism and hope for a “new spring” exists, but without human intervention it is seen as impossible: The Rainforest is a dejected prisoner caught between the remembrance of green times past and the present deterioration. Where, he asks, can it lead? To the great state of enlightenment where he may finally be joined with the infinite existence…?

English lyrics:
I am the rainforest air
I am the Spirit of Autumn, fully naked
My story that of canaries
Imprisoned in the air of exhaustion
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Spring is on its way, and I think about the open leaves of tomorrow.
Without you I’m in danger of perishing
Sometimes you make me smile like the sun
Sometimes you make me cry like a cloud
But when can I join your infinite existence?