Good relaxing music?

[zebraman]

I used to listen to lots of metal and hard stuff. I came to realize that just stresses me out more. Now i like more relaxing things. I like acoustic, bob marley, and some trance. I dont know much good artists and songs in these things so I wanted to see if you guys could give me some recomendations?

[richard.mac]

the Ministry of Sound Chillout Sessions albums have all that. too many good songs to name. check them out http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chillout-Session-Vol-2-Various-Artists/dp/B00005K3TL

[italiano40]

I like Jack Johnson, very relaxing to me

[Prof.]

IDK if you like classical but....

The Most Relaxing Classical Music In The Universe (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=3539970&s=143441)

I personally like Moonlight Sonata (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=159205977&id=159205943&s=143441):)

Sooooo incredibly peaceful. :)

[richard.mac]

The Most Relaxing Classical Music In The Universe (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=3539970&s=143441)

I personally like Moonlight Sonata (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=3539951&id=3539970&s=143441):)

Sooooo incredibly peaceful. :)

i dont quite think that fits what he likes :eek:

… I like acoustic, bob marley, and some trance. …

[dmr727]

Maybe some Sigur Ros?

[Prof.]

i dont quite think that fits what he likes :eek:
It's still relaxing:D

Also, anything by Keane (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=1187178&mt=1&s=143441)

[redwarrior]

Pink Floyd. Alan Parson's Project. I know there's more, but that's all I can come up with right now....

[MonksMac]

Try some Sade. It is very relaxing music that has a sort of smooth jazz feel.:apple:

[richard.mac]

Muse - Starlight?

[Drumjim85]

I hate to be a self promoting bastard, but check out my music.. Free downloads, liecensed under creative commons.

www.watching-cars.com/download

[jmadlena]

Iron & Wine is some great indie folk rock, specifically the older stuff. Samuel Beam recorded the first album on an 8-track in a cabin. How cool is that? Very chill and beautiful lyrics.

iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=3274302)

[Dagless]

I just go on my PSP radio thing and play Ambient. On my iPod/iTunes I'll play Tangerine Dream, amazingly deep and relaxing music right there.

[bornandbred]

I would say "Lemon Jelly" is perfect...or some "mr.scruff" stuff is also nicely chilled!
enjoy..

[remmy]

Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

[Dagless]

I would say "Lemon Jelly" is perfect...or some "mr.scruff" stuff is also nicely chilled!
enjoy..

Huzzah! I was going to mention them 2 as well, some Jelly can be un-relaxing (Come Down on me) but overall it's really great stuff.

Basically anything from the Spaced soundtrack is quite relaxing :D

[danedane5]

Aphex Twin, Pat Metheny, Kenny G christmas..Charlie Brown:D

[jammedpearl]

another vote for the folks at ministry of sound... and the trancier side of the essential mixes from radio one are awesome and free to dl..

good trance would also be the 'in search of sunrise' mixes by dj tiesto.

my opinion for the best chillout stuff though is Cafe del Mar - there are about 13 albums out now.. it's various artists and just great ambient music, really good when working in photoshop and the like...not much lyrics, just good sounds.

..one more note from the indie scene- the silversun pickups. not very well known yet, but they have a very good sound that doesn't get too hard.

[firestarter]

Anything by Air - the first album is great... check out 'Alone in Kyoto' from 'Talkie Walkie'

Anything by Zero Seven

Morcheeba's - Big Calm album is great ("The Sea" is brilliant)

Vangelis - The Balde Runner soundtrack is great (Blade Runner Blues is very cool)

Kate Bush - Get the Hounds of Love Album. 'The Nineth Wave' (the 'B side') is perfectly put together - dreamy, calm and full of ideas

Passenger's - Original Soundtracks 1 album. This is a collaberation between Brian Eno and U2 - with more emphasis on Brian Eno. Very calm

Anything by Brian Eno - Especially the ambient albums

If you're coming from Metal, you might like more chilled out stuff from a metal-type background...

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts is great ambient music from Trent Reznor

Eric Johnson has some really chilled guitar albums.

There's so much good stuff out there :-)

[capoeirista]

The Cinematic Orchestra

[HSTRIP]

Was going to mention Brian Eno (try On Land or Music for Airports), could also try American Analog Set, some Jose Gonzalez is nice and (depending on how 'chilled out' you want to get) Deuter 'Tibet: Nada Himalaya 2' is v.relaxing.

[Gray-Wolf]

A lot of new Age Music, some by George Winston, Diane and David Arkenstone and so on.

[yoyo5280]

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/verve_remixed_boxset.jpg
Return to Paradise-Mark De Clive-Lowe Remix- Verve//remixed and other songs from that album (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=83348293&id=83348264&s=143441)

Breath Me- SIA- Mylo Remix

Have a whole list! Will post later. Very classy shiz

[BCains]

Some Acoustic / Soft Rock:

Josh Ritter, Jack Johnson, Matt Costa, Nada Surf, Jason Mraz, Matt Pond PA etc

[bennyboyt]

death cab for cutie is pretty relaxing :)

[Melrose]

I would recommend an album by Enigma - Screen Behind the Mirror (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=771163&s=143441) or Love Sensuality Devotion (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=18762644&s=143441). They're a little atmospheric and meditative, but relaxing.

Also, Vangelis' Oceanic (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=6726408&s=143441).

[zebraman]

Wow thanks! all this music will keep me entertained for the next few weeks or months!

[bornandbred]

quantic soul orchestra.."the conspirator" or anything under the label jazzanova...

or if electronic is not your thing there is curtis mayfield!

enjoy!

[bartelby]

Vangelis - The Balde Runner soundtrack is great (Blade Runner Blues is very cool)

Kate Bush - Get the Hounds of Love Album. 'The Nineth Wave' (the 'B side') is perfectly put together - dreamy, calm and full of ideas

Anything by Brian Eno - Especially the ambient albums


Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts is great ambient music from Trent Reznor


Nice choices.

NIN- Still. Has some great tracks

Pete Namlook is always a safe bet.

There's loads of Philip Glass to choose from too.

[Melrose]

THe Bladerunner soundtrack is in general a good one, and the music is very moody, no doubt about it - but I wouldn't say you could listen to it all the way through expecting the same moodiness - the Bladerunner closing titles is not relaxing at all, and then the "One More Kiss" song (while memorable) isn't relaxing either..

I find the soundtrack to be a bit depressing, and only listen to it when I'm in one of those moods... you know...

[adamerr]

death cab for cutie is pretty relaxing :)

agreed.
ESPECIALLY Transatlanticism it is quite good.

[motulist]

James Taylor

Norah Jones

Grateful Dead

Carole king

[rhett7660]

RJD2. Has some great music to sit and veg to.

Music Scores. Kind of goes along the same lines as classical. There are some out there that will blow you away. The Fly, Transformers, Spider-Man, Black Hawk Down to name just a few.

If you are into classical, and since you are kinda of like me, like hard metal, death metal, hard core etc... I would look at composers that are from say Russia or Germany. Their music tends to be a little more dark and they use lots of chorals which I love, and it adds to the darkness of the music sometimes.

If you would like some suggestions let me know. I don't know if you like it or not......

[stainlessliquid]

thievery corporation (http://youtube.com/watch?v=04bg9IC9N6w&fmt=18)

morcheeba (http://youtube.com/watch?v=k1VSK2HWmN4&fmt=18)

massive attack (http://youtube.com/watch?v=fG8eQBSp9Ao&fmt=18)

portishead (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vozNQX6Ye1A&fmt=18)

air (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Q_X0lEpdD4&fmt=18)

zero7 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jj6yXxVc21Y&fmt=18)

jose gonzalez (http://youtube.com/watch?v=2UZsIGQaLKI&fmt=18)

[carlosbutler]

you could try some wynton marsalis, im doing exams now and finding it relaxing when listening. you could also try some latin/spanish guitar msuic, such as Paco de Lucia, santana or even some Rodrigo y Gabriela (i think thats how you spell these)

[tjcampbell]

Try the scores to some films.

You can pretty much bank on anything by

Hans Zimmer
Randy Edelman
James Newton Howard
James Horner

[tresbien]

death cab for cutie is pretty relaxing :)

+1 I was going to say death cab as well, especially their earlier stuff.

[3rdpath]

aqualung-"strange and beautiful"
brad mehldau-art of the trio
elliott smith-XO
avishai cohen-at home
john coltrane-ballads
anything by chet baker
the weepies-say i am you
pink martini
jonah smith
goldfrapp-seventh tree
damien rice-O
the blue nile-hats

and the obvious choices of air, zero 7, portishead

[Chairman Plow]

Pink Floyd. Alan Parson's Project. I know there's more, but that's all I can come up with right now....

Agreed on Pink Floyd. Love it.

[krye]

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene

[Stanley205]

Cat Power is good to relax too.

Her voice is amazing- you have no choice but to just chill

[pdxflint]

There is so much to choose from in the world of chillout music, so I'll just mention one artist nobody has suggested yet: Michael Brook.

He is a guitarist, of the ambient atmospheric mold. Some tunes are very reflective and mellow, others are a more rhythmic and electronic - a fairly wide range of styles. You may have heard some of his music as he did the soundtrack music for Into The Wild and An Inconvenient Truth. Plenty of albums to check out in iTunes or eMusic.com for downloads. Highly recommended. Way too many songs to pin down that are worth having, but just a few are The City, Preparation, and Slow Town from Albino Alligator; Ultramarine, Urbana, and Hawaii from Cobalt Blue; Light Star, and Silverized from RockPaperScissors; and the entire Into The Wild soundtrack and the entire album BellCurve by Michael Brook - they're really, really incredible. You might also want to check out Eddie Vedders Into The Wild soundtrack also for the songs he did for the same film.

Almost all Pat Metheney Group music, going way back to As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
to the present. Also, look for Lyle Mays' (Metheny Group keyboardist/pianist) solo albums - really high level jazz, much of it very relaxing.

Also, I'm reaquainting myself with Jan Hammer, of the old Miami Vice theme. He has played with Al Dimeola and John McLaughlin in the 70s and 80s, and some of his electronic keyboard sounds are a bit dated and 80s soundtracky sounding, but he has a unique sound and if you cherry pick his stuff there is a ton of really cool, music (not all relaxing, but a lot of it can be) Look more toward select cuts from In The Mind's Eye (Beyond, Voyage Home, Midnight, Nothing But Love) and from SNAPSHOTS 1.2 (Red Dragon, One Way Out, Theme From A Modern Affair.) These should get you started.

Three songs from Nuspirit Helsinki always make my chill list - Circular Motion, Orson (Album Mix), and Subzero.

Also, check out some older Conjure One, Delerium and Zero 7 music - all would go well together.

All the other suggestions are great too, and there are so many more.... you'll have a great time getting relaxed. ;)

[Henri Gaudier]

Be careful op ... hell is other peoples music.;)

Max Richter is my recommendation.

[Galley]

Check out Sirenes: The Beauty of the Female Voice (http://www.amazon.com/Sirenes-Beauty-Female-Various-Artists/dp/B0017TCSPS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1214350329&sr=8-1) :cool:

[davidanddavid]

Zero 7
Thievery Corporation
Kitaro

[rockosmodurnlif]

Anything by Air - the first album is great... check out 'Alone in Kyoto' from 'Talkie Walkie'

Anything by Zero Seven

Morcheeba's - Big Calm album is great ("The Sea" is brilliant)

Vangelis - The Balde Runner soundtrack is great (Blade Runner Blues is very cool)

Kate Bush - Get the Hounds of Love Album. 'The Nineth Wave' (the 'B side') is perfectly put together - dreamy, calm and full of ideas

Passenger's - Original Soundtracks 1 album. This is a collaberation between Brian Eno and U2 - with more emphasis on Brian Eno. Very calm

Anything by Brian Eno - Especially the ambient albums

If you're coming from Metal, you might like more chilled out stuff from a metal-type background...

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts is great ambient music from Trent Reznor

Eric Johnson has some really chilled guitar albums.

There's so much good stuff out there :-)
Yea, this guy nailed it.

Be careful op ... hell is other peoples music.;)

Max Richter is my recommendation.
Also right on point.

My recs

1. Kind of Blue Miles Davis
2. King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown Augustus Pablo
3. Light in the Dark Dark Soho
4. Damnation Opeth ( check out Kalle Kappner (http://www.last.fm/music/Kalle+Kappner) translating the songs to piano here (http://www.lenin01.de/music/piano_eng.php) for free )
5. Blow by Blow Jeff Beck

[RITZFit]

Outputmessage has some relaxing music. All electronic, different mood feels tho.

[Yaboze]

Pink Floyd, Sigur Ros, Death Cab for Cutie, Mum, Nick Drake

[bandaros]

djriver.com (http://www.djriver.com/)

Check out the "Ambient" section in Mixes.

[noodle654]

John Frusciante...some really good instrumentals on his albums.

[zebraman]

thanks guys. love the music uve posted

[mikeyPotg]

thanks guys. love the music uve posted

Depends on what you find relaxing, haha.

Depending on my mood, here's some of my suggestions.

Jack Johnson - pretty much anything.
Vitamin String Quartet - if you're into that type of thing, they remake popular songs as a string quartet! Pretty awesome.
RJD2 - Here's Whats Left
Andrea Bocceli - man I love this guy. especially around the holidays for some reason, hah.

[MacGeek7]

I would recommend:
Keane
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Pink Floyd
Jack Johnson

[MrSmith]

Cafe del Mar, Dreams series.
Delerium, too, as mentioned somewhere above.

And Pink Floyd. Goes without saying...

[ZMRoach]

Sea Change by Beck has been extremely relaxing for me for the last couple of weeks

[echosmyron]

dj shadow - endtroducing
boards of canada - music has the right to children
stereolab - dots and loops

i find all of these pretty relaxing. i can give more if you want.

[ophidean]

Porcupine Tree
Boards of Canada
Bon Iver
Panda Bear
Mum
Mogwai
GodSpeed you black Emperor
Grizzly Bear
Vangelis

[Xavier]

Explosions in the Sky
Mogwai
This Will Destroy You
Pelican
Hammock
God is an Astronaut


Basically any Post Rock stuff.

[RITZFit]

Almost everything off the album "Today" by Junkie XL

[gusious]

Depends on what you find relaxing, haha.


I agree! Maybe someone will find relaxing to hear Iron Maiden or Marilyn Manson!!!It's a very personal option...

Personally depending on my mood!!!:D

[MinorBidoh]

thievery corporation (http://youtube.com/watch?v=04bg9IC9N6w&fmt=18)

morcheeba (http://youtube.com/watch?v=k1VSK2HWmN4&fmt=18)

massive attack (http://youtube.com/watch?v=fG8eQBSp9Ao&fmt=18)

portishead (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vozNQX6Ye1A&fmt=18)

air (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Q_X0lEpdD4&fmt=18)

zero7 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jj6yXxVc21Y&fmt=18)

jose gonzalez (http://youtube.com/watch?v=2UZsIGQaLKI&fmt=18)

an outstanding suggestion. ive just been writing down a wee list and this is spot on stuff! I'd also recommend,

Blue States
DJ Shadow
Jakatta
Nightmares On Wax
'Back To Mine' - this is a series of compliation albums by various artists for a late night, chilled out groove. Tricky's and Maxi Jazz's were two of the best Ive heard.

[idsoftware]

Relaxing Music could be .


Enigma any album
ERA same
Enya same
thats relaxing to me, but maybe not to others.

you can try MTV Unplugged music from yorue favorite bands.


hope this helps.

Id Software

[Mudbugfish]

I like most stuff by Eno, the producer, (Coldplay, U2). His solo albums are great.

[mannix87]

I like the new album of Melody Gardot, cross between Norah Jones and Madeleine Peyroux.

I'd add:

Mum
Lali Puna
Sigur Ros
Zero 7
Notwist
Kings of Convenience
Camera Obscura
Stars
Feist
Cinematic Orchestra
Morcheeba
Madredeus

[macmikey2]

I'll second (or third) on Enigma. Anything!

Also, ATB's Chill Factor is very good.

Some others I chill to:
Acoustic Alchemy
Keiko Matsui
Both really good Smooth Jazz stuff

Another good collection, listen front to back, is Mood Food. Great collection of songs by some recognizable artists, like Crissy Hinds for example.

Mike

[jpmittins]

Shpongle (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Shpongle) (listen to all three albums in chronological order, then pick up the remix album)
Younger Brother (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Younger+Brother)
Celtic Cross (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Celtic+Cross)
Mystery of the Yeti (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mystery+Of+The+Yeti) second CD (http://www.discogs.com/release/82535)
Infinity Project (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Infinity+Project%2C+The) (haven't heard their first CD, but I've heard that it's less chill)
Ott (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Ott) (be sure to find a copy of Hallucinogen: In Dub (http://www.discogs.com/release/58836))
Tabla Beat Science (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tabla+Beat+Science) (I've only ever heard "Tala Matrix")
The Avalanches (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Avalanches%2C+The) (I've only ever heard "Since I Left You")

[FaustArp]

can't believe no one has posted these bands..

Great Lake Swimmers (highly recommended)
Mogwai
The Album Leaf
Elliott Smith
Damien Rice
Jon Foreman
Sufjan Stevens
Thom Yorke (The Eraser)
etc.. etc..

[munson]

The album "Colma" by Buckethead. Great, relaxing music, but not boring like some of the other things people have suggested.

[timerollson]

http://images.payplay.fm/i/n/infectious2/600/infectious2.jpg

[JustinW]

For me:
Pink Floyd
Jesu
some Isis
Sleep
Illes Csaba

[sunfast]

I like to listen to Boards of Canada to chillax

[luckypoke]

www.metasonics.com

Best I've ever heard.

[luckypoke]

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[three]

Anything by Ludovico Einaudi is relaxing to me. Ludovico is classical but it's not the boring classical you hear on the NPR stations that instantly make you fall asleep.

[Foreign Feeling]

james taylor. nuff said

[glowfly]

radiohead ..... good relaxing music or thorm yorks solo album, that had pretty good music !