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 Space4:10
- 2Journey7:39
- 3Wizard of the Waves0:34
- 4Kai Star10:38
- 5Angel's Grace1:49
- 6One10:57
- 7100% Hemp2:30
- 8Ocean's Destiny4:15
- 9Wise Owl6:16
- 10Child's Prayer3:36
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.
This is the complete album, all ten tracks and about 52 minutes, encoded at 320 kbps from the original CD masters.
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.