Music for Relaxation

Beautiful Voices Mixes

Take a trip to MDB Mixes web site to find DJ mixes of ambient music. There’s a forum too but it’s not too busy at the moment.

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Deep Meditation Experience

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Ambient Music Archive

I just stumbled upon Ambience for the Masses…a section of the sleepbit site. What a resource! Ambient music separated into Albums, artists or Sound categories to make it easy to find just about every bit of music that’s been recorded by every artise. It’s definite stop over point for anyone with an interest or enjoyment of ambient music.

Ambience for the Masses

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Space & Ambient Music By Gulan: Sphere

Another release by Gulan, whose work is inspired by the music of Klaus Schulze, Michael Stearns, Robert Rich, Tangerine Dream. The tracks range from ambient electronica to more of a Berlin-school feel.

I am not usually into meditation music, and frankly bought Sphere because I liked the sound clips that I heard. But, after listening to the CD front to back, I was amazed at the journey that this music takes you through. Unlike other ambient music that sounds like repetitive sheet music, this album comes off like a work of art with great ingenuity.

Beautiful passages with slight variations that sweep your mind into the journey that is Gulan.

The first two tracks start with much motion and activity, the long third track Altai changes the mood with placid tonal passages, then tracks 4-6 bring you back into a flurry of mind trips. The last track, Synthetic-x is a fitting poignant ending. I just hope that there is a sequel to this album I will certainly buy it!

“Sphere”, which comes with great cover art, starts in the same manner as his album “Cassiopeia”: warm, drifting textures of the title track embrace the listener with tranquil, ethereal sonics.

The 11-minute “Airway-2″ is more active, as the textures have a stronger symphonic and deepening sound and are accompanied by nice sequencing.

Next comes “Altai”, the longest track on the album, an almost 18-minute tranquil, slow meandering floater, nicely followed by the expanding, planetarium soundscapes of “Cosmophonia”.

“Airway-4″ and returns to the more active, sequenced style. The only minor point on the album is the freeform “Abstracto”, which sounded a bit rough to my ears.

All in all, “Sphere” is a well produced and composed cosmic journey which lots of ambient/space fans will surely embrace.

Nicely done !

By:  Denis Bespalov

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The 5 must-have Brian Eno albums for relaxation

As Brian Eno invented ambient music we thought it would be a good idea to list our favourite five albums for relaxation.

1 Music for Airports
In 1st place is the LP that started the ambient phase of music for many of the followers. Music for Airports was the first of four releases of the Ambient series on EG called Ambient Music Volume 1. This four track legendary album has two tracks with minimal vocals on tape loops running at different speeds to collide with each other in a harmonic and gentle way. While the other tracks have piano melodies on tape loops of different lengths. Each track has similar sound pattern but equally very distinct. You can’t fail to relax with this album. Eno conceived the idea of these peices while stuck at Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany.

2 Plateaux of Mirror
Plateaux of Mirror is an Eno collaboration with US pianist Harold Budd. Here wre are treated to 10 lovely tracks of piano and ambience form a brilliant partnership. The Album is the second volume of of the Ambient Music series

3 Music for Films
Music for Films  is a classic album with some beautiful tracks, bringing all types of ambient relaxation possibilities. More varied than Eno’s Ambient Music series providing a more pleasurable selection to choose from. Some of the tracks are faster and more rhythmic but there are also some classic soundscapes to drift off to.

4 Discreet Music
Eno collaborated with Robert Fripp on No Pussyfooting in 1973. This was minimal music but it was two years later where Eno took stages further into the ambient genre releasing Discreet Music. This was the first true ambient release. On the obscure label, it was relatively obscure release and didn’t sell like Music for Airports but paved the way for such releases a few years later. Discreet Music is a calming album that uses tape loops to generate the music on side one, while side two has slowed down versions of Pachelbel’s Canon.

5 On Land
On Land adds elements of nature into the what’s now becoming a familiar Eno style. Less meditative but highly relaxing collection of tracks.

Well that’s our choice. We love most of Brian Eno’s albums but many are more pop or rock based so didn’t need including here.

Let us know what you think. List your top five Brian Eno albums below.

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