Up Down Sideways

As they work in cooperative groups preparing the terraced fields planting saplings or harvesting the grain and carrying it up impossibly steep slopes the rice cultivators of Phek sing The seasons change and so does the music transforming the mundane into the hypnotic The love that they sing of is also a metaphor for the need for the other the friend the family the community to build a polyphony of voices Stories of love stories of the field stories of song stories in song Up down and sideways is a musical portrait of a community of rice cultivators and their memories of love and loss created from working together on the fields