Good mellow music?
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Topic: Good mellow music?
Posted By: Courtesy Flush
Subject: Good mellow music?
Date Posted: October 16 2009 at 09:56
| I have been listening to a lot of no-man lately and I am wanting some new stuff to listen to-perhaps something with good soundscapes, beautiful vocal harmonies, etc. Anything I can chill to. Any suggestions? |
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: October 16 2009 at 10:00
| Mike Oldfield |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: October 16 2009 at 10:09
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To be honest, Camel. Their debut features parts that would easily suit in a Heavy Prog album but are played with such mellowness and tranquility that no matter how hard it will be you will always be able to sleep to the sounds of it. ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 16 2009 at 10:49
| Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: October 16 2009 at 12:32
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Jade Warrior had an album titled "Kites". issued on eclectic label in 2006. Also on The Elements anthology which included the other 3 titles from their most progressive years as well. Kites is to me, is their most adventurous effort and their most timeless. It features a Japanese girls choir along with string quartet. It's very dreamy and soothing to the ear.
Mike Oldfield's Incantations creates the atmosphere that you are searching for but is more rhythmical like Phillip Glass.
Kada Estra would be a good choice. Constellations is beautiful. Eve is my favorite. Heesha Bailey is one of the greatest vocalists today. Her voice is melodic and errie. She creates soundscapes with harmonies that draw you into a unique mind set. Richard Wileman is a brilliant composer. You can accomplish escapism through his pieces. Weird Tales is the new release and it's much darker than the 2 mentioned above.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: October 16 2009 at 12:55
| Sigur Ros, Harmonium, Mew, AIR. From the other nominations I support Camel (Snow Goose especially) and Oldfield (Ommadown) and Talk Talk (Spirit Of Eden). |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 12:00
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Acoustic Alchemy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edkdVtDqKmQ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edkdVtDqKmQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgPhUw3Nx_Q - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgPhUw3Nx_Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj7vnVJZEkI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj7vnVJZEkI
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 13:15
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Perhaps some Vangelis, 1492 and El Greco are my favourites. There's hardly any vocals, but the soundscapes are brilliant at their best. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Fogon the Tyne
Date Posted: October 17 2009 at 13:32
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I would say Camel possibly some Greenslade and although not prog as such some Lisa Gerrard. mmm feel all realxed now Cheers ------------- I have become comfortably numb |
Posted By: shadowlane
Date Posted: October 18 2009 at 01:29
| Bo Hanssen's Lord of the Rings album, recorded/released in 1970. Original Swedish title: Sagan Om Ringen |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: October 18 2009 at 01:59
http://www.emusic.com/album/Bob-Harris-The-Great-Nostalgia-MP3-Download/11181305.html - http://www.emusic.com/album/Bob-Harris-The-Great-Nostalgia-MP3-Download/11181305.html  ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 18 2009 at 07:29
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Fripp's love cannot bear and let the power fall. and anything by eno ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: October 18 2009 at 11:01
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Post-Rock is the way to go I think.... Sigur Ros
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
or my personal favorite, Explosions in the Sky.
------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: Courtesy Flush
Date Posted: October 18 2009 at 22:08
| Thanks for the suggestions. There are certainly some good ones listed. |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: October 19 2009 at 00:33
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Meshuggah - Chaosphere Despite it's ugly cover it's as soft as a newborn puppy! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: October 19 2009 at 01:00
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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) |
Posted By: Kestrel
Date Posted: October 19 2009 at 01:41
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Brian Eno - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7732 - Ambient 4 , http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=8077 - Thursday Afternoon Brian Eno & Harold Budd - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10651l - The Pearl http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2619 - Fripp & Eno - Evening Star, Equatorial Stars Fripp & Travis - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=23588 - 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, http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=619 - Harmonium - Si On Avait and http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1097 - Maneige - Les Porches. |
Posted By: Trianium
Date Posted: October 19 2009 at 06:05
Camel and Mike Oldfield...what a wonderful mellow music 
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: October 19 2009 at 16:24
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CAMEL the first 4 or the last 4 albums
STEVE HACKETT the acoustic albums
HARMONIUM Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquième Saison ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: October 19 2009 at 17:22
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Check These: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1422 - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1422
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2810 - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2810
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2000 - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2000
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4130 - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4130
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3649 - 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=1078
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1617 - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1617
Among Others -------------  |
Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: October 19 2009 at 18:27
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/moe_blunts/?chartstyle=minimalDarkRecent"> 
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: October 19 2009 at 18:40
Oh you... And on that train of thought, Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse, not a distorted guitar within miles. |
Jake Kobrin wrote:Posted By: d.o.k
Date Posted: December 10 2009 at 12:20
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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 - http://lgab.tk |
Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: December 10 2009 at 15:09
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Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, 高木正勝 (the album Eating is superchill). |
Posted By: Citizen Erased
Date Posted: December 10 2009 at 17:48
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+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 
<a href="www.last.fm/user/jonzo67" targe |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 11 2009 at 15:03
Hi,
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! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: StrangerByTheMinute
Date Posted: December 31 2009 at 17:04
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Gazpacho - 'Night' or 'Tick-Tock'. The make beautiful Music.
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Posted By: Zebedee
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 06:57
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Nosound
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Friendship is like wetting your pants: everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 11:38
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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 By: whydontyoueatcarrots
Date Posted: January 09 2010 at 22:25
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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) |
Posted By: whydontyoueatcarrots
Date 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" 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 10 2010 at 02:51
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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. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: January 12 2010 at 07:32
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Laura Allan - 'reflections'
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |