13
Tribes
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Orchestras
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Countries
70%
Returned
Voice of the Earth is a registered 501(c)(3) foundation pairing Indigenous artists with the world’s leading orchestras.
70% of the revenue from every release returns to NGO partners connected to each tribe.
Productions
RELEASED FEBRUARY 2026
Nana, with Raine Piyãko
A collaboration between the sacred music of the Amazon and an 84-piece symphonic orchestra recorded in Hungary.
Raine Piyãko is Vice President of Yorenka Tasorentsi, an Indigenous-led institution integrating traditional knowledge with modern technique. He is the son of its President, Benki Piyãko, whose community has planted over 3 million trees by hand across the last decade, working toward 10 million within the next.
70% of the revenue from Nana goes to Yorenka Tasorentsi, funding reforestation and community projects in the Amazon.
OUT NOW · K'PELLE: ONE WORLD, ONE SONG
Hope, with Kat Graham
Our first release from the Gikuyu recordings.
"Hope" features the lead singers of Mwaki, the eleven person group we formed with the Gikuyu community in Kenya. It closes K'Pelle: One World, One Song, the new album from Kat Graham, released on World Refugee Day.
Kat Graham is an actress, musician and producer, known to millions for her role in The Vampire Diaries. She has written and recorded with Babyface and Prince, and she is a Governor of the Recording Academy's Atlanta Chapter, where she works on advocacy for artists' rights.
As a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador she has visited displaced families in Jordan, Ethiopia and Central America, advocating for refugee women and girls, work rooted in her own grandparents' experience as refugees. Her short film for Black Lives Matter was nominated for an Emmy.
K'Pelle is a peace project built on the belief that music carries across borders.
The full orchestral album from the Gikuyu recordings follows.
FOUR STREAMS TO GIVE BACK TO THE EARTH
What We Are Creating
Thirteen tribes, thirteen orchestras, across twenty-six countries.
13 Albums
One for each tribe, each recorded with a different orchestra. Songs carried for generations, set against the full weight of a symphony orchestra.
The first is released and the second is in production.
A Feature Film
A cinematic portrayal of the collaboration itself, following the music between two worlds. A journey through the emotional depth and beauty held in each, the ceremonies and the symphony, without placing one above the other.
Two Documentary Seasons
Each episode goes deeply into the life of a single tribe and the topics they choose to share with the world.
Their ceremonies, their way of living, and what music means to them.
Live Concerts
Chants carried for thousands of years, held by a full orchestra in the great concert halls. The emotional weight of hearing both traditions live opens people in a way nothing else does, and that is where the greatest support for each tribe is gathered.
The Model
Contribution
Donations and grants fund recording, film production, and orchestral commission.
→ Production
Each tribe is paired with an orchestra. Albums and film are produced.
→ Distribution
Streaming, film and live performance generate revenue.
→ Earth
70% returns to NGO partners connected to each tribe.
WITH A FOCUS ON
Reforestation · Land conservation · Water preservation · Community development
The remaining 30% sustains the foundation and funds the next production, so each release pays toward the one after it.
FOUR MINUTES
why we started this
Ryan Whitewolf on the origins of the foundation
TWO WORLDS AS ONE
The Power of Music
RECIPROCITY
Until recently, most societies lived in reciprocity with the natural world. Voice of the Earth exists to build modern systems aligned to that principle rather than against it. Supporting this work is an exchange in the same spirit. We receive the music, and what it generates returns to the Earth it came from.
WHAT SHAPES THE WORLD
Music and media shape what a culture values. Attention decides what a society protects, and music is the one language that crosses every border, carrying an emotional depth that builds a bridge between these worlds. Our work is to put these songs in front of people, and to give Indigenous wisdom a platform in doing so.
THE ORCHESTRA
The orchestra is the ancestral musical origin of the West. Placing it alongside chants that date back thousands of years is not a translation of one into the other. It is two lineages meeting as equals, and an invitation toward unity between modern society and the natural world.
STAY IN TOUCH
The next recording is already underway.
Follow it from first ceremony to final release.
GIKUYU X SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
In Production
In early 2026 we travelled to Kenya to record with the Gikuyu, and formed Mwaki, an eleven person group drawn from the community. We were welcomed into ceremony and granted permission to share these songs with the world. That trust is the foundation of the work.
Filming on 12K cinema cameras and Cooke S4/i lenses. We are now in production, weaving these recordings together with an orchestral symphony.
WHO IS BEHIND THIS
The People
Ryan Whitewolf
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, working as WHITEWOLF. Adopted into an Indigenous lineage in Australia at six weeks old and raised within it. He has since spent years studying ancestral traditions of sound across the Americas, Asia and Australia, travelling through thirteen countries with elders and chiefs to learn how music is used to connect people to the natural world. He has worked with the Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra (Hungary), Firdaus Orchestra (Dubai), Orquesta Solistas de América (Mexico) and L'Orchestre Mozart Toulouse (France). Recognising that Indigenous wisdom and the connection to nature it holds are a remedy for much of what the world now faces, and that music connects people emotionally in a way nothing else does, he founded Voice of the Earth with the mission to bridge these worlds.
James Tamplin
BOARD MEMBER
Co-founder and CEO of Firebase, which he led from 2008 until its acquisition by Google, where its tools went on to power more than three million applications. He is now building Kradle.ai, setting the standard for evaluating how frontier AI systems behave and reason in high-stakes conditions. He co-founded Covid Act Now and sits on the board of the carbon removal company Charm Industrial.
Julien Benichou
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Conductor. Music Director of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony for seventeen seasons, now Artistic Director of the Washington Opera Society and Permanent Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Marseille. He has conducted at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and the United Nations Day Concert, and premiered Way of the Rain at Carnegie Hall, featuring Robert Redford and Al Gore. In 2024 he was named a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ambassador to the United States.
Levison Wood
ADVISOR
Explorer, writer and photographer, and a former officer in the British Parachute Regiment. He has filmed in
over a hundred countries, presented eight television series and written eleven best-selling books, walking the length of the Nile, the Himalayas and the Americas. Chancellor of Staffordshire University, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an ambassador for UNICEF.
HOW TO GIVE
Support the Work
Donations fund production directly. The 70% return applies to the revenue each release generates once it is out in the world, and continues for as long as the music is heard.
RECOGNITION
Larger contributions carry acknowledgement in the productions they help make.
$1,000
Named on the supporters page
$10,000
Album production credit. Limited to ten per album
$25,000
Documentary episode credit. Limited to five per episode
$100,000+
Feature film credit. By arrangement
Credits attach to the production currently in progress or the one
that follows.
Voice of the Earth Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) in the
state of Delaware. Contributions are tax-deductible in the United States.
EIN 99-4900594.
For larger gifts, wire transfers and donor-advised fund grants, contact ryan@voiceofthe.earth.