CHANGSTAR: Audiophile Headphone Reviews and Early 90s Style BBS

Lobby => Music and Recordings => Topic started by: rhythmdevils on January 10, 2013, 03:48:17 AM

Title: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: rhythmdevils on January 10, 2013, 03:48:17 AM

There are a lot of times lately that I have need for a certain kind of music and I need more.  I do some restorative type yoga almost every day.  During the summer I lay outside with my headphones in the garden or sometimes at a park.  I have a couple friends who are massage therapists and accupuncturists, and they practice on me pretty often, and need more music like this themselves.  Sometimes I also get prostitutes to lay on the beach with me and model expensive headphones.  You get the idea.  It's not background music beacuse I'm not doing something else, I'm listening to it and I don't want cheezy smaltzy crap.   

Can you recommend more music like this?  I'm open to all genres.  It has to be mellow, slow and soothing, but not too cheezy which is the challenge.  No Kenny G type crap.  I'm not lighting any candles or rubbing myself in oil.  I'm sure there is some great music from around the world that fits this.  Only Indian music I have is pretty fast and complex, and the slow stuff I have heard is super cheezy (and not really Indian music).  Most of the ambient music I have isn't really that relaxing, it's trying too hard to be abstract and spooky and is often kind of jarring.  Which is great but doesn't really work for this.

Here's what I currently have in my collection that I have found to fit these occasions:

Angus Stone- Broken Brights
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile, This is Augustus Pablo
Beach House
Beck - Sea Change
Cass Mccombs - Wit's End, Dropping the Writ
Cat Power
Congos - Congo Ashanti
Damien Jurado (some of his albums are too fast)
Daniel Lanois - Shine
Doveman - With my Left Hand I Raise The Dead
Eluvium
Goldmund
Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra
Helios
John Foxx and Harold Budd - Drift Music
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
Lambchop - Mr M, Is a Woman, Ohio
Laura Gibson - Beasts of Seasons
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Mum - Finally We Are No one
Patrick Watson
Sigur Ros
Stars of the Lid

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: anetode on January 10, 2013, 04:42:43 AM

You could always go back to the ambient house days of the early 90s with The Irresistible Force, The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld or KLF's Chill Out.

Other random suggestions:
Miho Hatori - Ecdysis
Memory Tapes - Player Piano
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
Jean-Michel Jarre - Hong Kong
Underworld - Everything, Everything
Nobukazu Takemura - Child's View
Engima... (oh shit, in Kenny G territory now)
Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
REM - Up
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
Faithless - Reverence
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
Cocteau Twins - Stars and Topsoil

Or there's always classical. I don't know, different people relax to different things. Personally, I'd blast something like Squarepusher. (Over an LCD in a beach hut in bora bora, surrounded by hookers, googleli style)

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Dyaems on January 10, 2013, 04:55:59 AM

all of yoshiko kishino's releases. very good background/ambient/lounge music IMO. i think its genre is jazz

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Kunlun on January 10, 2013, 05:00:17 AM

Speaking as an acupuncturist in private practice, I actually don't play music in my clinic, but...

The north Indian Classical bamboo flute (bansuri) is very nice, Hari Prasad Chaurasia is its best known and most senior exponent.

Two excellent cds on the now-defunct Nimbus label which you can get as mp3s on Amazon, etc. are his performances of Raga Kaunsi Kanhra, and Raga Ahir Bhairav, both very meditative performances.

If you want to learn more about Indian classical generally, I'm your cat. At its best, it can be extraordinarily deep, subtle and profound. Z.M. Dagar's playing of the rudra veena (sometimes called a rudra bin) is one of the best examples.

I hate new age garbage, but there is this one stupid new age cd called harmony or something that everybody seems to love like it was crack. A friend in the field even burned a copy for me, although I haven't listened to it (lest I fall under its spell), it's apparently like the platonic archetype of music for acupuncture/massage.

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Marvey on January 10, 2013, 05:09:37 AM

My old acupuncturist friend always played Brian Eno.

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Cristello on January 10, 2013, 05:39:32 AM

Moonwalking, Late Night Alumni (http://youtu.be/SQktoR0tr1w)
Epilogue, Late Night Alumni (http://youtu.be/GL7aJyBpbPM?hd=1)
Main Street, Late Night Alumni (http://youtu.be/r-RxMUUPfwo)
This is Why (less is more mix), Late night Alumni (https://soundcloud.com/latenightalumni/late-night-alumni-this-is-why) [free download]
I Knew You When, Late Night Alumni (http://youtu.be/QthGmjiw07Y) [May no longer be available?]
Finally Found (LNA Reprise), Late Night Alumni (http://youtu.be/LZ6Fs4-vhl4)
Light Reading, Late Night Alumni (http://youtu.be/1lhVpOMavYg) [more up-tempo, but smoother than butter...]
Golden (Acoustic Version), Late Night Alumni (http://youtu.be/H5LKTfXomxc) [original is also an excellent choice]
and probably more...

You can tell I like LNA, can't ya?
Just give 'em a listen! I know you'll like it too.
(if you ever get the chance to see them live, GO...)

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Maxvla on January 10, 2013, 08:26:12 AM

I love me some Chill/Trip Hop, a genre I would suggest you investigate fully. One of my favorite bands is Zero 7. Most of their music is sort of a slow acoustic rock with electronic elements that has enough complexity to hold interest, but not enough to cause any sort of strain. It's marvelous.

Here's a few from Zero 7 I love:

Spinning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY3gX679UNI)
Look Up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du-JKGXV74w)
Pageant of the Bizarre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tydYcjMo1Pw)
Waiting to Die (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxxIZ_LIfHI)

Another group I like is a bit more of the traditional trip-hop electronic flavor - Smoking After. Here's (http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/3291) a link to their album Impasse which is free to download. My favorite is Opium which I have uploaded to youtube in a higher sound quality version than the streamer from that site uses. This was introduced to me by james44 from HF in Muppetface's previous diary thread about 1500 pages ago. This song has some really enjoyable bass to go along with the relaxing melody and harmonies.

Smoking After - Opium (http://youtu.be/JUkSLFOrURc)

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Deep Funk on January 10, 2013, 08:39:55 AM

Sphongle?

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Maxvla on January 10, 2013, 09:03:19 AM

Really enjoying that Late Night Alumni, Cristello. Good stuff.

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: olor1n on January 10, 2013, 12:43:19 PM

Nick Drake - Pink Moon (http://youtu.be/aXnfhnCoOyo)
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver (http://youtu.be/bo6lKQYVUBU)
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (http://youtu.be/KON4gNpcy08)
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation (http://youtu.be/9_g0TpTmIIk)
Real Estate - Days (http://youtu.be/eef8pougjg0)

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Hands on January 10, 2013, 02:26:08 PM

"Mellow, slow, and soothing" made me think of Loscil. No idea if it's anything near what you're looking for, but it doesn't hurt to suggest it!

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: timjthomas on January 10, 2013, 02:57:03 PM

Tord Gustavsen Trio

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: Aravind on January 10, 2013, 05:37:02 PM

These are some of the regular stuff I listen to...very soothing...very good music...some are very melancholic though
Brian Crain - Piano opus
Olafur Arnalds - And they have escaped the weight of darkness, Another happy day
Message to bears - Departures
Kristin Rule - The knife that cuts the tear
Ludvico Einauldi - Echoes
Cloud kicker - Let yourselves be huge
Yanni - In the mirror

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: LFF on January 10, 2013, 06:01:22 PM

Anytime I want relaxation, Erik Satie goes on.  :)p1

Title: Re: Music for Relaxation, Massage, Accupuncture, Sitting on beaches with LCD-3s, etc
Post by: wiinippongamer on January 10, 2013, 10:56:51 PM

Some of burial's stuf fit the description quite well, for me atleast.

couple examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS38JBh5gcw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDXuou-6dvg&list=LLrjA3FhqtGjQulrTcwZXY3A&feature=mh_lolz