Recommend me some extremely twinkly music.

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Twinkly in the vein of "The Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy."

Christmas/winter/seasonal tunes accepted and encouraged!

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:17 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdEJmGGwMBY

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:35 (eleven years ago)

this is kinda tough!

Liadov's Musical Snuff Box has a music box vibe but it isn't as twinkly/dreamy as a celesta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogEYzIiKGBQ

― example (crüt), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:42 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fq7WUbsRT8

― saer, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:43 (eleven years ago)

The main motif of Helium's "Medieval People" is kinda sorta twinkly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgwhH1YIy4c

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:47 (eleven years ago)

this may be of interest http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2002-6/thismonth/featurea.php

― example (crüt), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:48 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb6t7pL9vic

― saer, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:49 (eleven years ago)

uh that one music box song from Xenogears I guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEmTH7-nQUM

― anonanon, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:56 (eleven years ago)

fiber optic flower music boxes from the 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeKHsBfZ04k

― example (crüt), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:59 (eleven years ago)

instrumentals only or?

― salthigh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:59 (eleven years ago)

a few non-instrumental pop songs where twinkliness is used in service of a youthful/innocent aesthetic:

the knife "she's having a baby": http://youtu.be/9s8qhMbjuM0
(instrumental intro to) mandy moore "candy": http://youtu.be/NkVsJGl5d6E
inoj "love you down": http://youtu.be/q96o9AvJO0M

― dyl, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:12 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO6i9YPtEd8

― everything, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:21 (eleven years ago)

https://lullatone.bandcamp.com/album/while-winter-whispers

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:22 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsHrdIk9FWs

― saer, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:23 (eleven years ago)

Osborne - 16th Stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2cVKEnSrIc

― anonanon, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:26 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyC5OnAN-EM

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:43 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otLpsUHSe58

― imago, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:55 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTyHFo3kns
Maybe a bit wide of the mark but it does sound a bit Vince Guaraldi-esque and it twinkles.

― xelab, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:08 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4SlbKF-t10

― xelab, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:08 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTCm4n3dPZc

― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:12 (eleven years ago)

anything by Mum probably

― anonanon, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:14 (eleven years ago)

i feel like there's some twinkliness to this tune. can't listen to confirm right now. all-time fave wintry tune, either way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88eo8xk7idw

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:29 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oSvRKadOBk

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:30 (eleven years ago)

The middle-eight of this song is the twinkliest thing ever recorded, maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrqXxPRHXWY

― imago, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:42 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzopVDaovQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIePECMivcs

― DDD, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 23:05 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQJHNrsMoFU

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 23:41 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIA6r3iVZdY

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 23:45 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh0a3gALtSU

― clouds, Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:30 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9YezPSmFpQ

― clouds, Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:31 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebSwg6A615c

― clouds, Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:34 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i1SqFJ3K8Q

― clouds, Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:35 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIJxrAHuk7Q

― clouds, Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:39 (eleven years ago)

santa maria - LaLaLaLaLaaa

― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 November 2014 01:15 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Nky9lo8Nc

Vangelis - La Petite Fille De La Mer

― Willl, Thursday, 6 November 2014 01:24 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7X4mHEmPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsRDpsItq0

― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 November 2014 01:26 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhGy7se9VM

― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 November 2014 01:31 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHTFmJk7fH0

and yeah múm (green grass of tunnel)

― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 November 2014 01:46 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIS-CUUXo2o

This Mortal Coil - Meniscus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APSTHg3O8-4

XTC - Frost Circus

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:14 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFoY7SqaVPY

― salthigh, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:22 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iizum9hqsAM

― salthigh, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:26 (eleven years ago)

― uhwelluh, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:29 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsVhwQsh86c

― uhwelluh, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:31 (eleven years ago)

^ this edmond hall one is really good thanks!

― saer, Thursday, 6 November 2014 06:40 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7guHqujmrs

― clouds, Thursday, 6 November 2014 15:05 (eleven years ago)

Ghost - Daggma (not on Youtube)

― sleeve, Thursday, 6 November 2014 15:32 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKh4kqMiV-I

― imago, Thursday, 6 November 2014 15:37 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6RBf_j5Y7A

― nebulous British ilxor (ogmor), Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:04 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vxv5_k6VDw

― Siegbran, Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:14 (eleven years ago)

https://lullatone.bandcamp.com/album/while-winter-whispers

Really feeling this. Thanks.

― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:27 (eleven years ago)

cool!

no one's posted 'nannou' yet, so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Pkx37kYf4

― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:32 (eleven years ago)

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love that raymond scott. and iasos ofc lush

― nebulous British ilxor (ogmor), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:36 (eleven years ago)

Nearly posted the Iasos (both are great for sure)

― saer, Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:38 (eleven years ago)

well now that we're on to twinkly harps...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP4BpqmwyUs

― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:47 (eleven years ago)

only moderately twinkly, but intersting

http://chaoscontrolled123.tumblr.com/post/76305632587/luke-and-i-were-looking-at-hieronymus-boschs

"so yes this is LITERALLY the 600-years-old butt song from hell"

― caucasity and the sundance kid (goole), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:50 (eleven years ago)

wow, that Iasos. sent me down a rabbit hole.

― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:57 (eleven years ago)

anyone got something really frosty and haunting. ambient, reverb-heavy, evocative of a twinkling icicle deep inside a cavern maybe?

there is some video game music that was written specifically to evoke that image. not reverb-heavy necessarily, but like this: http://youtu.be/bcXuwXKsqMY

and that reminds me of these ultra-twinkly bits of n64 music, one very aptly named: http://youtu.be/uKuGt94jTpw http://youtu.be/KS-T_8N73jQ

― dyl, Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:57 (eleven years ago)

Videogame music is a really great call. DKC and Mario 64 really nailed that sound.

― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:00 (eleven years ago)

this track of mine has been described as 'sparkly' on more than one occasion
http://soundcloud.com/chantssound/oubliette

― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:00 (eleven years ago)

The Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie rec is pretty much what I've been looking for. Great recommendation. Many thanks.

― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 6 November 2014 23:04 (eleven years ago)

Colleen - What is a Componium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIlf0cdrUsQ

― peace, joy, pancake (doo dah), Thursday, 6 November 2014 23:41 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ebnQFHuOg#t=82

― Willl, Friday, 7 November 2014 03:04 (eleven years ago)

from 1 minute in anyway

― Willl, Friday, 7 November 2014 03:05 (eleven years ago)

mmmmm, i might have to cop that Colleen record. this is the best thread.

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 7 November 2014 16:23 (eleven years ago)

and maybe i can direct contributors to this thread, which died instantly:

rolling non-denominational pretty electronic music with beats

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 7 November 2014 16:28 (eleven years ago)

I really enjoyed that Moondog - Viking track

― Willl, Friday, 7 November 2014 16:58 (eleven years ago)

The Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie rec is pretty much what I've been looking for. Great recommendation. Many thanks.

On that note, is there something in a similar vein that's even more minimal out there?

― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 7 November 2014 17:02 (eleven years ago)

twinkly cave ambiance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxQVBySlbLo

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 7 November 2014 17:06 (eleven years ago)

Part III of Reich's 'Drumming' is pretty twinkly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fm3DdSejYE

― Bloody Snail, Friday, 7 November 2014 17:20 (eleven years ago)

Love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9zOsKLvElA

― gazelle atlantica, Saturday, 8 November 2014 21:33 (eleven years ago)

muZiQ
Uziq

the Lurkers

― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Saturday, 8 November 2014 23:46 (eleven years ago)

Twinkly instrumental metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ7-bLQiERA

― Siegbran, Sunday, 9 November 2014 12:00 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSJ6T8m2KW8

forgot this lil baby

― saer, Saturday, 15 November 2014 19:04 (eleven years ago)

most of laura barrett's stuff fits the bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44AUNuv8WQ

― katherine, Monday, 17 November 2014 00:34 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNxb_5ix6KA

― JMac from Way Back (JMac), Monday, 17 November 2014 00:42 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8I5s8ogke8

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:09 (eleven years ago)

my liege, might i recommend why patterns by morton feldman. he really hit it out of the park with this one,and the enchilada. good morrow squire

http://www.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=BVj0TNFX3u8

just my $0.02

― fuhgeddaboudit! (missingNO), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 14:10 (eleven years ago)

A bit of Roberto Cacciapaglia - Sonanze. See also the 3rd Movement which is probably actually twinklier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApvtuEkvunQ

Also heading a bit into icicles in caves territory there. F***ing lush though.

― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 15:54 (eleven years ago)

this Cacciapaglia is just what I needed right now. thank you!

― example (crüt), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 16:29 (eleven years ago)

yeah great album

― dogen, lord soto zen (clouds), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:42 (eleven years ago)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzh88gZfNgc

Xela - For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:22 (eleven years ago)

HTTP://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzh88gZfNgc

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:22 (eleven years ago)

Sigh

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:23 (eleven years ago)

that's a nice album

― dogen, lord soto zen (clouds), Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:11 (eleven years ago)

Yeah I love it. Rather unique too, I know nothing like it, though a lot of great twinkly music came out around or just after 2000, esp from Japan (Daisuke Miyatani, Shuta Hasunuma, Susumu Yokota, Piana) and things like Talkdemonic, Kettel, Secede, ISAN, Lullatone. All highly recommended.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:22 (eleven years ago)

Colleen's The Golden Morning Breaks = also essential

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:23 (eleven years ago)

oh yeah yokota's "sakura" is great winter listening

― dogen, lord soto zen (clouds), Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:28 (eleven years ago)

Yes! Thread reminds me of how much I loved all of this stuff. Have been a bit out of it but will replay this stuff soon, 'tis indeed the season.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:30 (eleven years ago)

Not listened to The Grinning Cat for years, I was in love with that and a lot of Yokota's stuff.

― xelab, Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:57 (eleven years ago)

deuter - "night rain"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZA7KfU9Ekw

― brimstead, Saturday, 22 November 2014 21:13 (eleven years ago)

has this been posted already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w9sETCjHJg

― kobaïas fünke (clouds), Saturday, 22 November 2014 22:25 (eleven years ago)

Erroll Garner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tAU3GM9XI

― forbodingly titled It's True! It's True! (Eazy), Saturday, 22 November 2014 22:32 (eleven years ago)

four weeks pass...

I love pretty much every song posted in this thread. Great winter soundtrack. Thanks yall.

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 December 2014 18:44 (eleven years ago)

my browser can't do yt threads so apols if this has been said but a square answer is moon safari era air

― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Sunday, 21 December 2014 18:49 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Zodiac - taurus the voluptuary,1967
Hutchinson/Smith/Tsukerman - noon,1982
(interpretation of Marin Marais' Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris,1723)

>anyone got something really frosty and haunting. ambient, reverb-heavy, evocative of a twinkling icicle deep inside a cavern maybe?

at least for some seconds
Insect Surfers - polaris

― meisenfek, Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:24 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

i twinkled as hard as i possibly could, and made this mix, sometimes thinking of this thread.

https://soundcloud.com/loveisnoiseblog/love-is-noise-mix-026-chants-bedtime-mix

tracklist:

Chants - ???
Conor Elmes & Tony Falco - The Wheel (blend)
Brian Blade & the Fellowship - Down River
Laraaji - I Am Sky
Koreless - Last Remnants (slowed)
Jeri-Jeri - Xale Rhythm
Greg Fox - It’s Ok
Anenon - Lithograph
Keenya - Dust
*hitmayng - one
Iasos - Crystal Petals
Laraaji - Kalimba
Swim Choir - Delayed Flight
M’Ba Saka Naba (ft. Azubire & Asumaya) - If You Give
Keenya - Blue
George Duke - Peace

― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:45 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAm9U-1Qkc

― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:52 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bXaJdr_ABU

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:00 (eleven years ago)

I wonder if Iasos was an influence on the mid-90s atmospheric jungle scene. If you took an LTJ Bukem Drum 'n' Bass record, then took out all the drums, and the bass, you'd be left with an Iasos record.

― 3×5, Monday, 16 February 2015 19:51 (eleven years ago)

i think Jess once joked about a mix consisting of only the floaty intros to jungle/d&b tracks. i would like to hear that mix.

― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:02 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVzsycr7Lvc

― dollar general (am0n), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:14 (nine years ago)

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