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Steve Feld

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$25

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Suikinkutsu:
A Japanese Underground Water Zither

Hypnotic sound composition featuring zen handwashing basin and cicadas.

 CD

$15

The Time of Bells, Vol. 4:
Soundcapes of Italy, Denmark, Finland, Japan, and USA/Iraq

The fourth volume ranges the most widely, including shepherd songs, the last of the master reindeer bell makers, an urban carrilon, and three tracks exploring bells of peace.

$15
CD

We are sorry to say that due to production difficulties, Bells4 has been delayed until Fall 2007.

Liner Notes

The Time of Bells, Vol. 3:
Musical Bells of Accra, Ghana

This time, Feld's focus is the use of bells in modern African music. We hear the meeting of traditional music and jazz, featuring a truck horn ensemble and a group inspired by Coltrane.

 CD

$15

The Time of Bells, Vol. 2:
Soundcapes of Finland, Norway, Italy, and Greece

The second volume centers on the ways bells serve both the powers of authority (church and state), and disruption (festivals and protest).

$15
CD

RealAudio1 2:32
RealAudio2
2:13
RealAudio3 2:04

The Time of Bells, Vol. 1:
 Soundcapes of Italy, Finland, Greece, and France

The first in a series of four CDs that will focus on the culturally rich sounds of bells. Church bells, animal bells, and costume bells are presented in the context of modern European life, woven with music of festivals and church services.

 CD

$15

Read Liner Notes from Rainforest Soundwalks

Read Interview
with Feld about
this CD

Nulu, Night
MP3

Galo, Afternoon Night
MP3

Keafo, Morning
MP3

Rainforest Soundwalks:
Ambiences of Bosavi, Papua New Guinea

COVR "Other Music" Release of the Year runner up, 2001

Released in partnership with the Bosavi People's Fund, which receives 50% of gross sales.

Ten years after his groundbreaking Voices of the Rainforest, which presented the songs of the Bosavi people in the context of their natural soundscape, Steven Feld returns with his pure environmental sound followup. Four extended immersions into the quieter times of day draw us into the rich sonic interplay of birds, insects, amphibians, and the forests vegetation. Sublty crafted in the studio, this disc offers a hint of the near-infinite depth of the rainforest's voice.

 CD

$15

Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea

This specially-priced 3-CD set is a treasure trove of recordings made over a 25 year period among several indigenous villages around Mount Bosavi in Papua New Guinea. The discs chronicle the changing cultural context within which the local people join in the "lift-up-over sounding" of the forest's voice.

 3CDs,
90p book

$25

Bells and Winter Festivals of Greek Macedonia

This is the disc that began Steve's worldwide Bells quest. While working on Bright Balkan Morning, a book/CD about music in settled Romani (Gypsy) culture, Steve found himself with many more recordings centered on bells than could be worked into the book project. Folkways bit at the idea of releasing a bell-centric disc, a mention on NPR spurred a surprising sales run, and the rest is history.
 CD

$17