Hemp Music / Oceans of Blue
Oceans of Blue
Music for relaxation
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.
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.
- 1Red EarthGrounding. Didge and slow drums.8:00
- 2HarmonyHarp and voice in harmony.7:48
- 3Shining SonSitar and gentle guitar.8:53
- 4Fields of GreenA long return to the first album's theme.8:30
- 5Oceans of BlueThe title track. Saxophone over water.7:30
- 6Indigo EyeThe deepest piece, for meditation.9:58
- 7Here and NowComes back to the breath to finish.9:11
The story
Oceans of Blue followed a year later, made with Tarshito as a full hour of unbroken calm. Where Fields of Green is a collection of short pieces, these seven tracks run seven to ten minutes each, long enough to settle into.
The sitar and saxophone give it a warmer, more inward feel than the first album. It was pressed on the same hemp plastic tray and hemp paper insert, and features a track with Chris James.
Play it from the top and let it run. It was sequenced to carry you from red earth to open ocean and back to the present.
Credits
- Produced by Paul Benhaim and Tarshito
- Tarshito: composition, guitar, sitar and keys
- Featuring Chris James
- Didgeridoo, harp, saxophone and voices by the Oceans of Blue 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.
Fields of Green
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.
Both albums together: A$14.95.