La Palma & El Tucán · Zipacón, Colombia · 1,700 m

The farm where your coffee grew. Still recording.

Eighty minutes of it, free — four long recordings, one for each cup of the day. Everything else is here too, a minute at a time.

No sign-up and nothing to install. Headphones help.

Stone path climbing through the coffee plantation

For your coffee ritual

4 recordings · 80 min

Long enough to grind, brew and drink without hurrying. These four play in full, start to finish.

  1. A walker with an umbrella in the morning mist between coffee rows
    Before the first cup

    Morning Rain at La Palma

    Yours with every bag of coffee

    20:00 · complete · Field recording — rain through the canopy

    Rain at 1,700 m arrives in layers: a hiss through the canopy, then drops on broad coffee leaves, then quiet pooling at the base of the Geisha plants.

    Recording details
    Field recording — rain through the canopy · Geisha lot, upper hillside
    0:00 / 20:00
  2. Two green parrots on a branch
    While it brews

    Cloud Forest Birds

    20:00 · complete · Field recording — dawn chorus in the canopy

    First light, when the canopy is at its busiest. Arranged to stay level: nothing in it asks for your attention.

    Recording details
    Field recording — dawn chorus in the canopy · Tanagers, toucanets, Andean Cock-of-the-rock
    0:00 / 20:00
  3. Two people tasting coffee on a terrace above the valley
    While you drink it

    Coffee Farm Café Ambience

    20:00 · complete · Field recording — mill, patios, farm ambience

    Most café ambience has no idea what a coffee farm sounds like. This one was built on ours.

    Recording details
    Field recording — mill, patios, farm ambience · Warm piano and bass over the real room
    0:00 / 20:00
  4. Golden light over the coffee and banana trees
    The last cup of the day

    Sunset Birds

    20:00 · complete · Field recording + bioelectric signal, Geisha

    Here the hour before dark is the loudest one. Birds quiet all afternoon call across the canopy, the mist thickens, the temperature drops.

    Recording details
    Field recording + bioelectric signal, Geisha · Golden hour at 1,700 m
    0:00 / 20:00

The rest of the catalogue

8 tracks · one hour each

Everything else recorded here, a minute at a time. Each one runs a full hour.

  • Shade trees in the night mist Sleep

    Sleep Geisha

    A Geisha plant doesn’t stop at night.

    0:60 sample · full track 60:00

    Details
    Bioelectric recording, overnight · Geisha · HILA
    A Geisha plant doesn’t stop at night. Its signal keeps moving with the temperature drop and the dew, and that is what sits under these textures.
  • Green coffee cherries with a dewdrop Sleep

    Sleep Java

    Java pulses slowly and low.

    0:60 sample · full track 60:00

    Details
    Bioelectric recording · Java variety · HILA
    Java pulses slowly and low. We kept that cadence and built piano and analog pads around it.
  • Stone path through the coffee plantation Work

    Focus Sidra

    Fewer than a dozen farms in the world grow Borbón Sidra.

    0:60 sample · full track 60:00

    Details
    Bioelectric recording · Borbón Sidra · HILA
    Fewer than a dozen farms in the world grow Borbón Sidra. Its signal sits high and clean, and the track stays there.
  • Raindrops on a banana leaf Work

    Focus Banano

    The banana trees that shade our coffee have a more energetic signal.

    0:60 sample · full track 60:00

    Details
    Bioelectric recording · Banana, shade tree in the polyculture · HILA
    The banana trees that shade our coffee have a larger vascular system, and a more energetic signal with it: bright and moving forward.
  • A tall tree in the mist Slow down

    Meditation Chachafruto

    An Andean tree cultivated for centuries before specialty coffee existed.

    0:60 sample · full track 60:00

    Details
    Bioelectric recording · Chachafruto, Erythrina edulis · shade tree · HILA
    An Andean tree cultivated for centuries before specialty coffee existed. It grows here as shade, and its rhythms are far slower than the coffee beside it.
  • A creek running over stones in the forest Slow down

    Creek & Forest Ambience

    The hour between work and sleep.

    0:60 sample · full track 60:00

    Details
    Field recording — streams and forest floor · Shade-grown polyculture, between the rows
    Small streams run between the coffee, the fruit trees and the primary forest. The hour between work and sleep.
  • Ripe red coffee cherries on the branch Raw

    Geisha Plant Music

    The first thing HILA recorded here, left alone.

    0:60 sample · full track 13:55

    Details
    Bioelectric recording, unprocessed · Electrodes on living Geisha · HILA
    The first thing HILA recorded here: millivolt activity from Geisha plants, turned into sound and left alone. Quieter and rougher than the rest, on purpose.
  • White coffee flowers Raw

    Geisha Plant Bioelectrics

    The same plants, read around the clock.

    0:60 sample · full track 3:00

    Details
    Bioelectric recording, arranged · Geisha · HILA biosensors
    The same plants, read around the clock. Cloud cover and root moisture become slow filter sweeps and drifting pitch.

How this was made

On the farm, with HILA · Música de las Plantas

Real recordings, arranged into music.

A hand attaching a sensor to a coffee leaf

01 The plants are wired

Electrodes on living Geisha, Sidra, Java, banana and chachafruto. Plants run on electricity all day.

Working on a laptop in the field next to the plants

02 The signal becomes a score

It is mapped to pitch and rhythm. A plant has no melody. It has a cadence.

Monitoring the recording with headphones in the forest

03 Then we arrange it

Field recordings underneath, instruments on top. Some of it with AI tools. They work on the recordings; they don’t replace them.

Every bag comes with Morning Rain

Morning Rain at La Palma — yours with every bag of coffee.

Shop the Roasted Series
Roasted Series Geisha bag Roasted Series Tucán Blend bag Roasted Series Palma Blend bag

Keeping them

You can play all of it here, for free.

Buying gets you the files — twelve hours at 320 kbps — and those work offline.

The collection — coming soon

Everything here was recorded at La Palma & El Tucán, Zipacón, Cundinamarca, at 1,700 m. These are recordings, not a medical device, and we make no health claims for them.