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fiji
islands (
1999 ) Source sound for Moorish Idol. |
Approximately 10 hours available. |
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| the approach | 1.9 MB | Locking the door of our beachfront bungalow to drift toward the evening's festivities in the communal long house. Hard to belive, but this is not edited at all. |
| cane train | 1 MB | A sugar cane-laden train crosses our path. Cane is a major industry, as it was in Hawaii where I spent my highschool years. |
| clapping music | 750KB | We visited an elementary school on Beqa, a small outer island fortunate to have one. There the students sang a number of songs for us; in this one the rhythm is clapped loosely out. |
| david's place | 1.3 MB | The island band tunes and ponders. They were short on repetoire but high on everything right. |
| dawn | 1.5 MB | I happened to wake and instinctively begin recording inside our tent just before the birds began their morning counterpoint. |
| departing tavewa | 2.2 MB | The mercurial channel crossing from the limestone Yasawas, in Fiji's west. Hours of roaring diesel. |
| diver down | 1.4 MB | Dive boat clatter before our first early-morning dive. The diving in Fiji is breathtaking. |
| hello, joe | 350KB | I'm not sure why I include this snippet from a windy motor launch. The Joe in question was one of our divemasters and the charismatic son of a well-respected and kind parliamentarian, Bill Aul. Not long after we left Bill was taken hostage in a misguided coup. |
| joe | 725 KB | A different Joe entirely, this one the foreman of the cane processing plant heard in the background. He hailed my wife and was understandably more interested in her than me. |
| lizards | 725 KB | Forgive the poor quality; I cranked the gain on this one to make the guttural churrupings of the gecko-like lizards in the trees more audible. Recorded at night close to the water's edge. |
| mangrove cicadas | 1 MB | Walking across an island, we paused amid the mangroves for half an hour to listen to the rise and fall of the cicadas. This is the merest excerpt. |
| marlin bay band | 825 KB | We stayed a week on Beqa, home to the wonderful Marlin Bay resort. Several afternoons we sat with the band while they shared kava and songs. |
| night ashore | 1.5 MB | Indigo waves and crickets. The stars overhead. |
| no costumes | 710 KB | Comfortable chaos between songs at the elementary school mentioned above. |
| parliament | 670 KB | The precoup Parliament debates a measure to request reparations for Fijian troops exposed to nuclear testing around Christmas Island. |
| preacher's favorite | 770 KB | A snippet of a preacher and his translator broadcasting (through a boxy amp) in a park. The odd thrumming in the background is a bus driver revving his engine to attract passengers. |
| school days | 710 KB | Another song from Beqa elementary school. |
| shell shopping | 1 MB | Fellow tourists shell shop while the village weeds are wacked nearby. |
| silent night | 680 KB | The perils of mixing kava and cheap Fijian beer, kindly demonstrated by backpackers at our bargain resort. |