Music to calm minds by
by danhon
I put out a general distress call on Twitter the other day: “Recommendations for music that will calm the mind?”
In the interests of sharing a beneficial resource, I hereby present my Twitter follower’s Music To Calm Minds By (not available in the shops, etc.):
- Bach (in general, and also specifically oboe concertos and the Brandenburg concertos)
- Boards of Canada
- Air
- KLF – Chillout
- The Blade Runner Soundtrack
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra
- Morcheeba
- Brian Eno – Music for Airports/Films
- Philip Glass solo piano
- Anything on Last.fm radio tagged “calm“
- David Axelrod
- Halcyon On and On
- Autechre’s Flutter33
- LC1
- Faure’s Cantique de Jean Racine
- The Field, From Here We Go Sublime
- The Neck
- the Pop Ambient series on Kompakt
- Napalm Death
- Gavin Bryars
- Glenn Gould playing Bach (Goldberg or Well Tempered Clavier)
- Sigur Ros
- Astrud Gilberto
- Iron and Wine
- Wilco
- Kings of Convenience
- Nouvelle Vague