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lucas

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Topic: Good mellow music?
Posted: January 12 2010 at 07:32

Laura Allan - 'reflections'

"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)

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Posted: January 10 2010 at 02:51

Herbie Mann's album, Stone Flute:

Booby (late edit, that should have been Bobby, and honest typo) Hutcherson's "Even Later" of Cirrus is a great one.

Edited by Logan - January 10 2010 at 12:32

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Posted: January 09 2010 at 22:27

And actually Bill Laswell and Klaus Schulze worked on an album together, it's got a title you prog nerds should like, "Obscured by Klaus" Wink

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Posted: January 09 2010 at 22:25

Helios - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5kZhJuyJC4 (chill electronica mixed with acoustic instruments)
Bill Laswell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh7PB7AsEBI (laswell is involved with a million projects)
Klaus Schulze - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUCYq2qLxJc (awesome vintage vid live from 77)
Jon Hopkins - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcLAW5lPgTM (electronica, often bordering on new age, but with phat beats, ha)
Yume Bitsu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krnIcchucJs (ambient/post rock)
Popol Vuh - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q19C220Vvo (lumped in with the Krautrock scene, but very unique, like world new age minus the cheesy factor)

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Posted: January 06 2010 at 11:38

Camel - The Snow Goose

Ashra - New Age of Earth

Return to Forever - Light as a Feather

Santana - Caravanserai

Gary Burton and Chick Corea - Crystal Silence

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

Anthony Phillips - The Geese and The Ghost

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

Frank Zappa - Guitar

King Crimson - Islands

Pink Floyd - Meddle

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Posted: January 06 2010 at 06:57

Nosound

Friendship is like wetting your pants: everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth.

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Posted: December 31 2009 at 17:04

Gazpacho - 'Night' or 'Tick-Tock'.

The make beautiful Music.

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Posted: December 11 2009 at 15:03

Hi,

harold budd - the pavilion of dreams (ambient with a slight jazzy touch)

brian eno & harold budd - the pearl (ambient piano/keyboards)

colin walcott - grazing dreams (world with sitar, percussions and trumpet)

Eno was the first to put together the whole Ambient thing ... with his own label that also had Budd, Laraaji and many others ... and all of the albums are really nice ... in my book this is the beginning of "New Age" alongside AshRa Tempel ...

I always thought that Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis are soft ... and quite enjoyable ... and a lot more exciting and "vivid" than a lot of meandering mindless music that passes for "new age".

Mike Oldfield is a different .... world ... quite soft in many spots and really well designed and composed stuff, and it really fits more into the "symphony" area by a rock musician than it does anything else ... and I think the "softness" is relative to the trip ... but I certainly enjoy Incantations, or Ommadawn ... a lot more than most people do!

ECM is known for its jazz ... but more than half of its label is "ambient" and quite experimental and I think that it transcends the word "jazz" into another level that should only be called "music" ... and nothing else ... but even so, I'm not sure that a lot of folks enjoys checking it out and listening to it ... where the music will never compare to "prog's" bizarre definitions ... specially when considering how progressive this stuff is within the musical spheres ... it's way out many times ... but try to get someone here to sit through Terje Rypdal and David Darling's EOS album ... it simply won't happen ... but they will talk of Rush and Emerson as prog in 3 seconds flat!

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Posted: December 10 2009 at 17:48

+1 to the Iona shout.

Anything off Beyond These Shores, Journey Into the Morn, Book of Kells or Open Sky gets thumbs up from me.

And lo, the mighty riffage was played and it was good

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Posted: December 10 2009 at 15:09

Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, 高木正勝 (the album Eating is superchill).

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Posted: December 10 2009 at 12:20

ere's one album from my secret garden :

Rothko : A Continual Search for Origins.

I'm not sure I can explain the secret behind this album, but it's just really really beautiful and has the immediate power to settle such a magnificient ambiance.

Most of it is guitar/bass guitar works with sounds recorded in switzerland's forests.

I can only highly recommend this album.

to be filed in : 70% ambient / 30% post-rock

my band : http://lgab.tk

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Posted: October 19 2009 at 18:40

Jake Kobrin wrote:

Meshuggah - Chaosphere

Despite it's ugly cover it's as soft as a newborn puppy!

Oh you...

And on that train of thought, Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse, not a distorted guitar within miles.

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Posted: October 19 2009 at 18:27

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Black Earth & Sunset Mission. The band invented their own style of music - doom jazz. Awesome stuff and these two albums are their best.

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Posted: October 19 2009 at 17:22

Check These:

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1422

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2810

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2000

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4130

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3649

Piirpauke, yet not add to PA.

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1078

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1617

Among Others

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Posted: October 19 2009 at 16:24

CAMEL the first 4 or the last 4 albums

STEVE HACKETT the acoustic albums

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Posted: October 19 2009 at 06:05

Camel and Mike Oldfield...what a wonderful mellow music Thumbs Up

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Posted: October 19 2009 at 01:41

Brian Eno - Ambient 4, Thursday Afternoon
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Pearl
Fripp & Eno - Evening Star, Equatorial Stars
Fripp & Travis - Thread

All fantastic ambient albums (although I'm a bit of a newcomer to the genre).

For more song/lyrical-based mellow music, I go for Camel - The Snow Goose, Harmonium - Si On Avait and Maneige - Les Porches.

Edited by Kestrel - October 19 2009 at 01:42

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Posted: October 19 2009 at 01:00

I would rather suggest ketha in this vein lol

caterpilla - changes (a jazzier dark side of the moon with female vocals all along)

iona - the book of kells (celtic folk prog, 70 % of the album is instrumental, vocals are assured by Joanne Hogg)

harold budd - the pavilion of dreams (ambient with a slight jazzy touch)

patrick forgas - synchronicité (same as above but replace the piano with keyboards)

life on mars - landing soon (AOR in teh vein of Heart with vocals reminiscent of Bonnie Tyler)

brian eno & harold budd - the pearl (ambient piano/keyboards)

anouar brahem - le voyage de sahar (world with oud, violin, accordion)

virginia astley - from gardens where we feel secure (pastoral/ambient/piano/flute with chant of birds in the background)

kit watkins - azure (ambient/keyboards)

gianni d'errico - antico teatro da camera (italian prog/pop with lush harmonies and slow tempo)

ataraxia - oil on canvas (folk:ambient with female vocals)

eishtlinn - s/t (irish folk with the vocalist of Mellow Candle)

colin walcott - grazing dreams (world with sitar, percussions and trumpet)

"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)

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Posted: October 19 2009 at 00:33

Meshuggah - Chaosphere

Despite it's ugly cover it's as soft as a newborn puppy!

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Posted: October 18 2009 at 22:08

Thanks for the suggestions. There are certainly some good ones listed.