Hemp Music / Fields of Green
Fields of Green
Music for relaxation and wellbeing
Harp, flute and didgeridoo recorded in the hills behind Byron Bay. Breathe and relax to the didge, float along the waves of the harp, be carried by gentle guitar and let your heart open with angelic voices.
Adding cards, oil or books worth A$25 or more? Then the music is an add-on: A$5 for one album or A$8 for both.
The tracks
Press play for a 45 second preview of each one.
- 1Heart SpaceHarp and voice to open the heart.1:44
- 2Hemp Didge LandscapeThe 100% hemp didgeridoo on its own.3:10
- 3Angel's GraceHarp and guitar, slow and spacious.5:13
- 4100% HempHemp didge with percussion.1:31
- 5Gumaroy's DidgeA short solo from Gumaroy.0:27
- 6Ocean's DestinyThe piece that grew into the second album.2:20
- 7Wise OwlFlute and night sounds.1:50
- 8Child's PlayLight and playful, for the little one on the cover.1:23
The story
Fields of Green was the first album. Paul had spent seven years developing a mouldable hemp material and wanted to put something real in people's hands rather than talk about it, so the CD became the showcase: the tray was pressed from hemp plastic, the insert printed on tree-free hemp card, and the didgeridoo on the recording was made entirely of hemp fibre.
It was launched at the Byron Bay Community Centre Indigenous shop on Friday 22 August 2003, with Gumaroy playing live. The Byron Shire Echo covered it under the headline "Making plastic out of hemp". Ten percent of the profits went back into hemp plastic research.
The tracks here are the ones we still have from the original session files. If the full masters turn up, every buyer gets the complete album by email at no extra cost.
Credits
- Produced by Paul Benhaim and Tarshito
- Rob Neil: harp
- Si Mullumby: didgeridoo
- Gumaroy: didgeridoo (guest artist)
- Paul Benhaim: 100% hemp didgeridoo
- Flute, guitar and voices by the Fields of Green session musicians
Pressed on hemp plastic
The original CD tray was moulded from hemp plastic, the insert printed on tree-free hemp card and the didgeridoo made from hemp fibre. It was the first CD of its kind, made to show that a plant could do a petrochemical's job. Read how it happened.
Oceans of Blue
Seven long pieces, exactly sixty minutes. Didgeridoo, harp, gentle guitar, sitar, saxophone and voice, made for massage tables, yoga rooms and the hour before sleep.
Both albums together: A$14.95.