# Recommend some peaceful music. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837 "2007-09-20T04:00:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/1 "2007-09-20T04:00:41Z")
Hi! My life is a little less melodramatic than it was last time I requested music, so I’m looking for something to (ahem) chillax to. Any recommendations for peaceful music? Examples: Enya, “Concerning Hobbits” from FotR, and “Wild Theme,” by Zamfir. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/2 "2007-09-20T04:06:22Z")
Ooooh, **Deep Forest**. A lot of **Air** stuff is pretty chill, as is **Stereolab**. I’m also fond of **Wagon Christ** for my more ambient moments. Though “moments” are all I manage to take for relaxing these days. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/3 "2007-09-20T04:14:00Z")
Tangerine Dream did a lot of that techno-melodic stuff. Very trancey. I love Koop’s _[Waltz for Koop](http://www.amazon.com/Waltz-Koop/dp/B000069B0U/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-0653648-0607939?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1190261584&sr=8-2)_, it’s got a smidge of jazz and some vocals. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/4 "2007-09-20T04:17:25Z")
A very old album called “Bless the Weather” by John Martyn will mellow you right out. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/5 "2007-09-20T04:24:28Z")
Two piano works by Claude Debussy Clair de Lune and La Cathédrale Engloutie Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise and Pathetique. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/6 "2007-09-20T04:30:16Z")
Anything by Nick Drake. ---
**Author:** ![Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Words_on_the_Interweb)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/7 "2007-09-20T07:20:19Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Two piano works by Claude Debussy Clair de Lune and La Cathédrale Engloutie Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise and Pathetique. [/QUOTE] You know, I completely misunderstood your post, and was listening to the band Clair de Lune, trying to figure out how they qualified as “mellow”. Then the brain kicked on. :smack: On topic; Mazzy Star is a good psychedelic mellow, David Gray can also be good for a more “adult contemporary” style. ---
**Author:** ![ShakWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@ShakWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakWave)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/8 "2007-09-20T09:08:43Z")
Hi Speaker, If you’re into Goa/Psy-trance, I would suggest Shpongle. Some of their songs are pretty relaxing, in a trippy sort of a way. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/9 "2007-09-20T09:15:12Z")
The [Live365](http://www.live365.com/index.live) Internet radio stations “The Lonely Lounge” and “Evening Melancholy” are mellow 24/7. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/10 "2007-09-20T16:42:18Z")
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead] Hi! My life is a little less melodramatic than it was last time I requested music, so I’m looking for something to (ahem) chillax to. Any recommendations for peaceful music? Examples: Enya, “Concerning Hobbits” from FotR, and “Wild Theme,” by Zamfir. [/QUOTE] [You could go to this page](http://www.wretchawry.com/happy/samples/index.html) and either use the player to listen to on the Flash player, or you can download… “Winter” “The Chariot” “Temporary and Eternal” (either version would be perfect) “Glory” “Given In” “Til The Dawn Breaks” or most of the others, though “Roy” and “100 Years” are not what you’re looking for. Not on the player, but downloadable: “Ra Is A Busy God” “Summer” (either version) “I Say” “Mother Sea” pretty much anything from The Keep and/or RhodeSongs “Ode” “Would That I Could” “If So” “Rhodes Waltz” “Ally Ally Oxenfree” “Given In” “The First To Cry” Or if you’d prefer instrumentals, [go to this page](http://www.wretchawry.com/happy/rarities/index.html) and download the 6 trance instrumentals. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/11 "2007-09-20T16:48:11Z")
Sinéad O’Connor’s cover of Elton’s “Sacrifice”. Beautiful rendition but be advised she tends to get a little loud. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/12 "2007-09-20T16:50:10Z")
Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports” is a classic of the ambient genre. In a similar vein, anything by Harold Budd or Daniel Lanois. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/13 "2007-09-20T16:52:42Z")
Look into the Buddha-Bar series. Awesome stuff I first heard in a little shop in Cairo and the guy literally could not believe I had never heard of it. It was like “Thriller” was playing and I asked “Who is this on your stereo?” ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/14 "2007-09-20T17:13:50Z")
I’m quite favorable to “Mein Herz Brennt” by Rammstein for drifting off to sleep. 😉 Seriously though, check out a band called Eastmountainsouth or Hem, they have a lot of mellow with soothing vocals. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/15 "2007-09-20T17:17:12Z")
Whenever I’m stuck in traffic, I put on Poi Dog Pondering’s song “Angelika Suspended”. That song kneads the knots out of my shoulders and is the audio equivalent of Calgon. ---
**Author:** ![Smith8762](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Smith8762](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smith8762)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/16 "2007-09-20T17:18:53Z")
Anything by [Kitaro](http://www.amazon.com/Kitaro/artist/B000AQ0FLI/102-0409860-7001734) or maybe some [Jean-Luc Ponty](http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Luc-Ponty/artist/B000AQ2VF6/102-0409860-7001734)? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/17 "2007-09-20T19:28:31Z")
When I used to do tech support, by the end of the day I couldn’t bear the sound of a human voice. My favorite remedies were: _Divinities: 12 Dances with God_, by Ian Anderson _The Nine Maidens_ and _The Lady and the Unicorn_, by John Renbourn [_The Fairy Round Dance Music For Flute And Harp_](http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Sep05/Elfenreigen_gmcd7294.htm), by Eppel, Topp _Live in Tasmania_, by John Fahey _The Armadillo Album_, by Leo Kottke ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/18 "2007-09-20T19:39:31Z")
“The Mummer’s Dance” by Loreena McKennitt. Actually, a lot of McKennitt’s work should suit you, that’s just the one that sprang to mind immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/19 "2007-09-20T20:16:19Z")
[QUOTE=snowblindfrog] Anything by [Kitaro](http://www.amazon.com/Kitaro/artist/B000AQ0FLI/102-0409860-7001734) or maybe some [Jean-Luc Ponty](http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Luc-Ponty/artist/B000AQ2VF6/102-0409860-7001734)? [/QUOTE] I came in here specifically to mention Jean-Luc Ponty’s “Imaginary Voyage”. ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/20 "2007-09-20T20:26:52Z")
Another Eno Suggestion: try the album Another Green World, and in particular the song named (I think) “Julie with”. J. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837.md?page=2)