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Prog_Traveller 
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 20:43 |
I'm looking for some recommendations for soft, laid back mellow prog. Basically the kind of stuff you can play late at night without needing to play too loud or wake up the neighbors. It can be from any decade from any subgenre. 
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Bj-1
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 20:46 |
Try Soft Machine. Canterbury Jazz that is rarely very loud. Third (1970) and Fourth (1971) are both highly recommended!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 20:49 |
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 20:50 |
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jade warrior!
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 20:59 |
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Try Moon Safari and their album A Doorway to Summer.
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:00 |
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Soft Machine? Really? I'm not familiar with third but have heard the first two and fourth and I don't know if I would say these are quiet by any stretch of the imagination. Fourth in particular sounds like a very noisy jazz album(at least to me). Very upbeat and sqawky. Nothing wrong with it just not something to chill out too. Jade Warrior I'll have to check out. Ofcourse there's Sigur Ros. I only have the ( ) album so far and it's a great one to fall asleep to(not hard to do with that one....lol).
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:00 |
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Timothy Pure Blood of the Berry
After crying
Jon Anderson Olias of Sunhillow
Anthony Phillips
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micky
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:01 |
Traffic... I was listening to 'Shootout at the Fantasy Factory' last
night... after the opening title track with Reebop's congos making me
thrash my arms violently with some 'air congos' with some good
Winwood 'air guitar' thrown in..... it is a wonderful mellow and
rather laid back album.
...sitting all alone by fireside... listen to the wind.. through the chimney top.... 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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The Miracle
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:03 |
Some post rock is very mellow and dreamy. Like Godspeed You Black Emperor! or Sigur Ros. Their music is pretty sad, but it's beautiful sadness, not pyre depression. Canterbury is indeed pretty mellow, bands like Gond and Caravan are great. And try Operh's Damnation... haunting, mellow album. But remember that nothing else they put out is nearly as mellow!
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:03 |
Celeste "Principe di un giorno"
Clarion "Clarion"
Zauber - any album
Le Orme "Florian" and "Piccola rapsodia dell'ape"
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Drew
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:05 |
 The Miracle wrote:
Some post rock is very mellow and dreamy. Like Godspeed You Black Emperor! or Sigur Ros. Their music is pretty sad, but it's beautiful sadness, not pyre depression.
Canterbury is indeed pretty mellow, bands like Gond and Caravan are great.
And try Opeth's Damnation... haunting, mellow album. But remember that nothing else they put out is nearly as mellow!
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Cinema
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:08 |
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You might want to check out:
- Happy the Man
- Moon Safari
- White Willow
- Quantum Jump
- Camel
- England
- The Syn (not really soft, but far from hard)
- Jon Anderson (his first two solo albums)
- Kenso
- Mirage
- Frogg Cafe
- A Triggering Myth (especially Forgiving Eden)
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:31 |
Early Porcupine Tree "The Sky Moves Sideways"
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DallasBryan
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:34 |
80's
Holger Czukay - On the Way to the Peak of Normal
Gandalf - Magic Theater
Michael Shrieve - The Big Picture
90's
Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue
Steve Jolliffe - Zanzi
The Mermen - Amazing California Health and Happiness Roadshow
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:40 |
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Dirk
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:40 |
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I agree with the Traffic and Caravan suggestions above, some other suggestions:
Harmonium: "Si on avait besoin d'une cinquieme saison"
Camel: the "Snow goose" and Rajaz
Porcupine tree : "The sky moves sideways" is very mellow edit: i see that this one was already mentioned, terrific album.
Novalis: "Sommerabend", "Novalis" is better but not so mellow
Edited by Dirk
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:47 |
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I'd try Camel's Moondmadness or Snow Goose. Both great night-time albums.
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:55 |
Renaissance anyone.....
I couldn't imagine waking up the neighbors at 2 in the morning to the sounds of 'Sounds of the Sea' 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 21:58 |
Dirk wrote:
I agree with the Traffic and Caravan suggestions above, some other suggestions:
Harmonium: "Si on avait besoin d'une cinquieme saison"
Camel: the "Snow goose" and Rajaz
Porcupine
tree : "The sky moves sideways" is very mellow edit: i see that this
one was already
mentioned, terrific album.
Novalis: "Sommerabend", "Novalis" is better but not so mellow
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thanks for the agreement... gave it out of personal
experience.... Shootout at the Fantasy Factory is a great bottle of
wine, roaring fire, and girl who won't say no kind of album....
very laid back and mood inducing.. especially Tragic Magic.
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Posted: March 28 2006 at 22:00 |
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Space Prog is always a good way to go (Ozric Tentacles, Pink Floyd, Early Porcupine Tree).
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