Music for meditation...

[JonW]

I know that Gareth, for one, likes to meditate to music. I find it very helpful when my practice feels like it's getting a little stale or, simply, when I feel like meditating to music.
Finding pieces of music that are ideal to meditate to, that's quite a challenge. For example, some of my favourite Miles Davis tracks have beautifully meditative passages in them, but then he'll get all skew-whiff on me.
Anyway, I'm starting a thread where I'll list the music that works for me when I'm on the meditation bench.
Please feel free to contribute your own suggestions.
Thanks, Jon

Brian Eno: 1/1
Brian Eno: 2/1
Brian Eno: 1/2
Brian Eno: 2/2
Brian Eno: First Light
Brian Eno: Steal Away
Brian Eno: The Plateaux Of Mirror
Brian Eno: Falling Light
Brian Eno: Another Green World
Eluvium: All The Sails
Eluvium: We Say Goodbye To Ourselves
Eluvium: Taken
Eluvium: Under The Water It Glowed
Eluvium: Rain Gently
Harold Budd: White Arcades
Harold Budd: Real Dream Of Sails
Harold Budd: Coyote
Harold Budd: Porcelain Ginger
Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd: How Close Your Soul
Aglaia: The Mysterious Fish Named Kun
Aglaia: The Tribe Of Flying Monkeys
Aglaia: Seven Ancient Glaciers
Alpha Wave Movement: Lucid Recollection Of An Aquamarine
Amorphous Androgynous: The Isness
Chicane: Early
Chicane: Calm
Cirrus Minor: Zula
Closedown: Bliss
Echospace: Abraxas
Global Communication: 12.18
Helios: Hope Valley Hill
Helios: The Red Truth
Helios: Mima
Invisible Path: Stare Deep Into The Clouds
The Necks: Sex
The Orb: Spanish Castles In Space
Phil Legard: Lifting The Veil
Robert Rich: Liquid Air
Solar Quest: Singtree
Tetsu Inoue: Karmic Light
Tylervision: The Last Human

[Gareth]

'Rain Gently' is some tune isn't it? Have you tried the album 'Copia' by Eluvium?: a beautifully meditative album, and my favourite by him.

I could go on about this all day, but I will need to consult my iTunes library first. Off the top of my head, you need to try A Winged Victory For The Sullen and Stars Of The Lid. Great stuff.

[JonW]

Copia is sublime. Likewise Stars Of The Lid.

[FeeHutch]

*Amazon wishlist grows even bigger*

[FeeHutch]

You're a star as always

[Gareth]

I've added Aglaia and Helios to my wishlist which is getting longer and longer.

() by Sigur Ros is also worth a try. It's in my top 10 albums ever, and it certainly makes a nice meditation if you can cope with a bit of Post-Rock. Agaetis Bryjun is pretty good too. The tunes Svefn-g-Englar & Samskeyti take me to another dimension...

[noegoman]

It is not what I would call relaxing music on the common meaning, but I encourage you to listen to Devil Doll. This music is weird, orchestral arrangements with some insane vocals by Mr Doctor, it's...different.

The point in his albums is that he sometimes adds 20-30 minutes of absolute silence inside, usually when the album is reaching its end, like in the albums "Dies Irae" and "The Girl who was... death". It's wonderful meditating in these minutes.

[NiallO]

There is really not too much music suited for this. However, there is a strange and highly original album with a duo of fiddle and cittern that is really excellent if you make a playlist avoiding the fastest tune. It is called Lamslatt, and you can find it in iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/no/album/lamsl ... 88845&l=nb

[paulpsych]

I've also found it on Spotify.
Quite lovely.

[NiallO]

...and it works quite well - ?