found a cd i was given some time ago by some friends.its a norweigen pianist called bruce someting or other. well it really not my usual bag but its actually really nice to listen too when unwinding. its the kind of piano you would get in a really huge swanky hotel bar.mood music i guess you could call it.
anyhow got me to thinking can anyone else recommend some other relaxing stuff?? doesnt have to be piano, can be anything from classical to full on chillout room stuff to chantting to whatever..
enlighten me!!

I am quite into Jonathan Goldman

This would be a good intro to his music
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chakra-Chants-Vol-1-Jonathan-Goldman/dp/B0006BGWQ4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1268057017&sr=1-3

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the cafe del mar compilations are really good… I recommend volume 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCQcpYx2j0

Oystein Sevag and Lakki Patey – Cahuita a nice example of a track from the album

Most stuff by Brian Eno – I really like Apollo atmospheres and soundtracks.

This free album made with the Tenorion is really nice – http://www.normanfairbanks.com/blog/?page_id=12

Bluemars.org has nice chilled streaming radio stations

I find Gillian Welch very relaxing too.

Satie's 3 Gymnopedies. Sublime.

Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works: Volume II

Extreme Noise Terror

Allegri's 'Miserere', first bootleg album ever (transcribed by a very young Mozart and flogged to an English dealer in sheet music.)
Beautiful and relaxing stuff.

Fat Freddie's Drop – New Zealand born Pacific Funk!

Feeling sleepy already…

nocturnes by rainer

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come back fat as a rat

top notch album, its like a 60 minute journey through america

also this by Global Communication from their 76 14 album is superb

The unwinding hours, the swell season (some of it), obviously sigur ros and the lark ascending by vaughn williams.

All do it for me!

+1 for KLF

I have the original CD from the 90s… I'm surprised it doesn't have a groove etched into it.

I don't know nufink about classical music – but Debussy is very relaxing

A bit of Durutti Column does the trick for me.

cafe del mar
thievery corperation
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Ludovico Einaudi – Contemporary (i.e. still alive) classical Italian composer / pianist. Best served through headphones whilst reclining with a fine malt. Gloriously relaxing experience.

Try a little Lemon Jelly or Groove Armada always find they just let the stress flow over you!!!

Also got to add another vote for KLF just timeless tunes…… :O)

Ulrich Schnauss is pretty good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjacfNpitlQ

2nd Thievery Corporation – very nice.

Elgar.

+3 for KLF, bloody great album. took me a while to track down a copy

Richard James is a god!

Uziq vs Auteurs

Richie Hawtin – DE9 Transitions

Eluvium

Barber's Adiagio for Strings, Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending… both sublime chill out music.

Surely the breathtaking Ima by B.T has got to be in here has'nt it?

This free album made with the Tenorion is really nice – http://www.normanfairbanks.com/blog/?page_id=12

Just downloaded that on your recommendation grum. Awesome!! Thanks

Mahler – Symphony No. 5 Adagietto
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No.2 Andante
Manuel Gottsching – E2 E4
Harold Budd & Brian Eno – Ambient 2 The Plateau Of Mirror
Sigur Ros – ()
The Global Communication track above if it's 14"31
Peter Broderick – Home

I like early Low stuff as well, so much space around the notes. If you find it uplifting rather than depressing then the first 3 albums are sublime. Some examples:

Low – Words

Low – Violence

Low – Over The Ocean

Richard James's dad comes in to my local bike shop. Come to daddy indeed 😉

Lots that fit this, depending on how ambient & dark you want to get. Try

Andrew Thomas "Between Buildings Trees"
Dakota Suite/Various "The Night Just Keeps Coming In"
Deaf Centre "Pale Ravine" (wish they'd record another)
Foehn "Hidden Camera Soundtrack"
William Basinski if you like long loop pieces.

listen to your inner voice …. 😈

anything by nu yoric and soul and if you want soemthing that relaxes you by challenging you then try the Mahavishnu Orchestra/Joe Zawinhal

http://www.myspace.com/trentemoeller
great chill out blokey

I've realised either Handel or Behemoth "Apostasy" do it for me, especielly when driving. Bear in mind, I almost fell asleep at the System of a Down/Sepultura/Slayer gig at Astoria, it was so relaxingly noisy 🙂

Terry Riley is ace, if a bit off the wall:

Steve Reich is similar, maybe a bit more regimented:

John Coltrane is really well-known in jazz circles, but his wife made some great records too. Some are noisy, some are just really lush sounding with lots of Indian instrumentation:

Raymond Scott wrote the music for a lot of the classic Warner Brothers cartoon like Bugs Bunny, but had a parallel life as an electronic composer. He made three records called "Soothing Sounds For Baby" that bear more than a passing resemblance to modern electronic stuff like the Global Communication track posted above:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZuzAA3tAz4

Oh and I love this song, from the album that got me interested in electronic music, "Snivilisation" by Orbital:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFgzXZNy3zo

How about Lifeforms by Future Sound Of London? It's genius. Or Lamb, also pretty chilled.

Harp Therapy……here