i am looking for the softest music in the world

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i've been finding myself in the mood for soft music a lot lately and have been really frustrated by its lack of representation on my ipod and record collection. ancient wisdom seems to think good music is supposed to have some tension, surprise, rythmic quirks etc but what do you listen to when you want to lie down on your couch and not be too stirred because you're half asleep but still want to listen to something delightful? so much music is trying to evoke some powerful emotional response, or transmit energy but what do you listen to when you want to drink tea and not think about anything?

plz to recommend warm buzz ambient, featherlight soft pop or rn'b, serene classical (i feel like indians have made a lot of this stuff), mega-bore indie or folk, and any other soft gold you've heard and loved. albums would be great but tracks are just as nice, if an artist has got one softest moment or what.

what a horribly formed "groke" (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:37 (fifteen years ago)

joao gilberto

Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:38 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.1000recordings.com/images/artist-e/eno-brian-290-l.jpg

I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

John Beltran - Ten Days of Blue - Peacefrog

the entire album fits your request

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6G2eVHZdIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIvS6OU7Buc

brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

Fila Brazillia - Soft Music Under Stars

mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

Tipsy - Bunny Kick

mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

John Cage's "4:33" is the obvious answer here.

Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

round five "na fe throw it"

geheimnis (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:46 (fifteen years ago)

also check out some of the stuff in the testpattern thread i posted

geheimnis (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:46 (fifteen years ago)

when i think of this type of music, i always remember something my friend said when listening to that John Beltran album.

'too much pillow and duvet'

brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:48 (fifteen years ago)

Jackie Gleason presents...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFk-RwNmK1g

rap-metal-alternative (herb albert), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:51 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqKVvaCN5M8

Chris, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:53 (fifteen years ago)

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Dw3YId5aL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

ljagljana (kkvgz), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

mo pillow & duvet needed in my life, there's only so many times a day you can listen to soul discharge

what a horribly formed "groke" (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:59 (fifteen years ago)

A lot of the music on this label would work.

http://www.noble-label.net/?en

double shyamalan (MaresNest), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

man i have so much of this stuff. there are a lot of good records on the noize board ambient thread but specifically ive been into ramses III - i could not love you more. also really like asa-chang & junray - junray song chang

Lamp, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:06 (fifteen years ago)

Movietone - The Blossom Filled Streets for real

Davek (davek_00), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:06 (fifteen years ago)

http://p9.p.pixnet.net/albums/userpics/9/8/1879098/4a637014ba34f.jpg

mandatory seersucker (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:46 (fifteen years ago)

http://i48.tinypic.com/5lrvgn.jpg

Moka, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

Morton Feldman -- nearly his entire catalog
John Cage -- the late "number pieces" are mostly very soft and sparse

Paul in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:17 (fifteen years ago)

re: Feldman, there is more than one existing thread here, but I'd pick out Coptic Light (orchestra), Triadic Memories (piano), and some of the pieces he wrote for his longtime collaborators at SUNY Buffalo -- Why Patterns?, Crippled Symmetry, and For Philip Guston.

Paul in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:21 (fifteen years ago)

Aphex Twin 'Collected Ambient Works' Vol 2
Various Artists 'Sleepwalk' mixed By Optimo (Espacio)
The Parsley Sounds comp

Duran (Doran), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

Not exactly the "softest music" ever, but my fiance likes to put on either of the first couple A Silver Mt. Zion albums at extremely low volume at bedtime, then drift off to sleep. Anything can be "soft" if played at low volume, really.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)

The stuff that really works for me when I feel like this is Bo Hansson?

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=ZtqhFY9MN8M&feature=related

Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7MABsjp1VE

a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:57 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkAZJxDNj4Q

Jazzbo, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)

Chopin's Nocturnes or his Berceuse.

If the US had a dictator we'd call him coach (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

One of my ultimate "soft" go to album is POP by Tones on Tail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gs4MJIcjx8

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:02 (fifteen years ago)

An obvious choice: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, the most relaxed music ever.

Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering

If it's airy-voiced Norwegian pussies with acoustic guitars you're after, you can't go wrong with Kings of Convenience.

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 20 May 2010 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

Well just being honest Animal Collective's Sung Tong's has a slew of songs full of minimalist, soft guitar pickings. Actually a really pleasant album for sunsets and all.

kelpolaris, Thursday, 20 May 2010 02:49 (fifteen years ago)

Mojave 3 - Love Songs on the Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvXtXqXWe8

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 May 2010 02:51 (fifteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_74XjRB1CJng/SFfcd6fETKI/AAAAAAAABPk/F9B4mjwRJWo/s400/HammockKenotic.jpg

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 May 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.hypnos.com/catalog/darla06.jpg

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 May 2010 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.1000recordings.com/images/artist-b/bhatt-vishwa-mohan-ry-cooder-94-l.jpg

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 May 2010 02:56 (fifteen years ago)

http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/b00006go9q01lzzzzzzz.jpg

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 May 2010 02:57 (fifteen years ago)

Mantovani & Orchestra - "Sweet Leilani"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU_hwOD61_w

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:00 (fifteen years ago)

Second Morton Feldman, would add Rothko Chapel to the recommendations.

silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:01 (fifteen years ago)

Autechre - Overand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urHFGXeWg78&feature=related

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcGV3whXtTs

Mark, Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:12 (fifteen years ago)

joao gilberto

― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:38 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Specifically, this album:

http://loronix.net/loronixcontent/capasloronix/AC/Joao+Gilberto+-+Joao+Gilberto+(1973)-image013.jpg

PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.wikiwak.com/image/Hosianna+mantra.jpg

Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 May 2010 11:16 (fifteen years ago)

Shameless plug, but you might like The Allender Band.

Wax Cat, Thursday, 20 May 2010 12:38 (fifteen years ago)

can dudes recommend some lite pop stuff now? some lite lite lite litest fm radio pussy shit?

what a horribly formed "groke" (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 20 May 2010 17:24 (fifteen years ago)

um, i think i meant am radio

what a horribly formed "groke" (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 20 May 2010 17:25 (fifteen years ago)

thanks so much for everything so far btw ya'll are the best!

what a horribly formed "groke" (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 20 May 2010 17:25 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXlQ8MLH6js

an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Thursday, 20 May 2010 17:36 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd7arhHEUl8

Chris, Friday, 21 May 2010 23:35 (fifteen years ago)

Oops, missed the "lite pop" comment sorry. Not for a second suggesting Soap & Skin is lite pop!

Chris, Friday, 21 May 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)

for soft pop, i'd try the album difficult dhapes & passive rhythms, some people think it's fun to entertain by china crisis. lite and relaxing.

hobbes, Friday, 21 May 2010 23:42 (fifteen years ago)

i mean what about the carpenters

69, Friday, 21 May 2010 23:44 (fifteen years ago)

a mix i did late one night in the dark while blazed and still listen to occassionally late at night in the dark while blazed ...

Cyrus vs The Magic Flute

beat boy damager, power 2 the people (Its all about face), Saturday, 22 May 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

feel free to continue posting non-lite pop softies if you've got something good

django weingart (samosa gibreel), Saturday, 22 May 2010 01:39 (fifteen years ago)

Stars of the Lid - And the Refinement of Their Decline (Kranky, 2007) imo

ksh, Saturday, 22 May 2010 01:42 (fifteen years ago)

also, Iron & Wine's first record

ksh, Saturday, 22 May 2010 01:42 (fifteen years ago)

Stars of the Lid is ambient btw

ksh, Saturday, 22 May 2010 01:43 (fifteen years ago)

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

the Simon & Garfunkel of mid-'80s corny indie fuxxage. only wussier than S&G ever really were.

not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Saturday, 22 May 2010 01:56 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.answers.com/topic/afternoon-tea-music

this series is excellent, as amg says very similar to Café Apres-midi series but with a slightly broader, better mix of sounds and genres imo. believe it was vinyl only still available out of Japan. I'd start w/ the 'orange iced tea' volume

eventually got teed up out of Mamba Panic (tremendoid), Saturday, 22 May 2010 03:51 (fifteen years ago)

this is pretty soft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNCx7LDv7Ng

Daniel Giraffe, Saturday, 22 May 2010 11:07 (fifteen years ago)

lindsey buckingham "trouble"

fuckd and bombd (r1o natsume), Saturday, 22 May 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6axzyFX-k

double shyamalan (MaresNest), Saturday, 22 May 2010 12:53 (fifteen years ago)

prefab sprout "we let the stars go"

fuckd and bombd (r1o natsume), Saturday, 22 May 2010 12:54 (fifteen years ago)

Soft summery techno:

http://bluecalx.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/every-man-and-woman.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBEt7p2_faQ

Tuomas, Saturday, 22 May 2010 13:00 (fifteen years ago)

Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon

http://mapsadaisical.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/imperialhorizonjpg.jpg

jonathan - stl, Saturday, 22 May 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)

Great album cover:

http://www.pytell.com/static/img/blog/entry-photo-20_t550.jpg

Mark, Saturday, 22 May 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

How about the slinkiest Italian funk master to ever live - Mike Francis? The way he sings, every syllable melts in his mouth like butter. Also, the piano bits are often very proto-house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdoWi_DF1kI&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH-BAUbUYBQ&feature=PlayList&p=FE767094EBDB40F5&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCmRr2ip5xw&feature=related

The Cafe Apres-midi series is great, if a bit pricey.

i'm a desperate bicycle (leavethecapital), Saturday, 22 May 2010 14:53 (fifteen years ago)

Nothing else I could suggest would be more appropriate than this.

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

Pheeel, Saturday, 22 May 2010 16:08 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxKqg0Fwsro

dud rock (crüt), Saturday, 22 May 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

Just listened to Beyond the Missouri Sky yesterday, by Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden. That counts.

Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Sunday, 23 May 2010 03:05 (fifteen years ago)


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