Ambient and other areas
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but don't know here to start. Any recommendations out there please? Also any starting points for jazz and classical.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nah-Fern-Gas/dp/B0018LMKGW...
Jump in at the deep end and try Nah und Fern by Gas.
Just read the reviews.
Jump in at the deep end and try Nah und Fern by Gas.
Just read the reviews.
Monty Zoomer said:
The Cafe Del Mar albums are nice.
I was going to say the same - more towards the chill end of the spectrum than out and out ambient, but the early ones are very good - after that they went a little too commercial IMHO... 3 and 6 are two particularly fine examples that spring to mind!I think Bossa is the nicest jazz, a lot of the other stuff seems nonsensical to me. Try the Bossa N ... albums for the newish music and try stuff like Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz for the older Bossa.
For classical, I like stuff like Sabre Dance, Orpheus in the Underworld (Le Can Can,) Mozart's 40th and Bolero. You can find different versions of them all on You Tube.
Enjoy
For classical, I like stuff like Sabre Dance, Orpheus in the Underworld (Le Can Can,) Mozart's 40th and Bolero. You can find different versions of them all on You Tube.
Enjoy
For a bit of ambient modern classical try Felt by Nils Frahm. It's music that's is played on a Piano so softly that it stops being a Piano and becomes something else. It's rather wonderfull IMHO.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Felt-Nils-Frahm/dp/B005GI2...
After that once you are lulled into a relaxing place try Ravendeath 1972 by Tim Hecker. Play it loud, rattle the windows, annoy the neighbours scare the pets.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravedeath-1972-Tim-Hecker/...
Maybe try Internet Radio, something like: http://www.sky.fm/ and http://www.jazzradio.com/ channels.
You can get reasonable feeds for free with better feeds for the price of a pint a month. If you sign up for one you get access to the other.
You can get reasonable feeds for free with better feeds for the price of a pint a month. If you sign up for one you get access to the other.
Google [bot] said:
Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
Over 20 years old and still stunning.
Agreed - an absolute classic, but not necessarily the 'chill' that I get the feeling the OP is looking for - definitely one to have a listen to on youtube or similar before splashing the cash on!Over 20 years old and still stunning.
(Just remembered it's on the floor of my car somewhere and hasn't been aired for far too long - one for the road tomorrow morning I think!
)Have a listen to https://soundcloud.com/andyp10 and see what you think - chillout, ambient and balearic is my kind of thing, and I think the Balearic Social mixes are great.
See if you can find an album from the early 90s called The Wind Collector by Gigi Masin. Most of it is on YouTube.
See if you can find an album from the early 90s called The Wind Collector by Gigi Masin. Most of it is on YouTube.
leedogg3 said:
Thanks for suggestions, just about to go on Amazon now. Any suggestions for introduction to classical and jazz?
Classical, as you can imagine, is a very broad church that encompasses every mood from fighty (e.g. Mars from The Planets Suite) to meditative (e.g. The Miserere by Allegri). For "chillout" classical, a good starting point - IMHO - would be any of the works by Ludovico Einaudi. It's pretty much all soft and reflective piano pieces, and very easy on the ear.If I was to put together a 10 piece compilation of classic "chill", it'd be something like this:
Piano Concerto no.21 Andante: Mozart
Serenade for Strings: Dvorak
Thomas Tallis Fantasia: Vaughan-Williams
Nocturne no.1: Chopin
Metamorphosis no.5: Philip Glass
The Bluebird: Charles Villiers-Stanford
The Lark Ascending: Vaughan-Williams
The Shepherd's Song: Canteloube
Piano Concerto in A minor: Greig
Berceuse: Chopin
Have a gander on the 'tube as they're all on there. Maybe check out the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony no.5 as well; it is quite melancholy in places, but very relaxing to listen to.
kiteless said:
Classical, as you can imagine, is a very broad church that encompasses every mood from fighty (e.g. Mars from The Planets Suite) to meditative (e.g. The Miserere by Allegri). For "chillout" classical, a good starting point - IMHO - would be any of the works by Ludovico Einaudi. It's pretty much all soft and reflective piano pieces, and very easy on the ear.
If I was to put together a 10 piece compilation of classic "chill", it'd be something like this:
Piano Concerto no.21 Andante: Mozart
Serenade for Strings: Dvorak
Thomas Tallis Fantasia: Vaughan-Williams
Nocturne no.1: Chopin
Metamorphosis no.5: Philip Glass
The Bluebird: Charles Villiers-Stanford
The Lark Ascending: Vaughan-Williams
The Shepherd's Song: Canteloube
Piano Concerto in A minor: Greig
Berceuse: Chopin
Have a gander on the 'tube as they're all on there. Maybe check out the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony no.5 as well; it is quite melancholy in places, but very relaxing to listen to.
Errrr, doesn't the quality of these tunes differ strongly who's playing?If I was to put together a 10 piece compilation of classic "chill", it'd be something like this:
Piano Concerto no.21 Andante: Mozart
Serenade for Strings: Dvorak
Thomas Tallis Fantasia: Vaughan-Williams
Nocturne no.1: Chopin
Metamorphosis no.5: Philip Glass
The Bluebird: Charles Villiers-Stanford
The Lark Ascending: Vaughan-Williams
The Shepherd's Song: Canteloube
Piano Concerto in A minor: Greig
Berceuse: Chopin
Have a gander on the 'tube as they're all on there. Maybe check out the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony no.5 as well; it is quite melancholy in places, but very relaxing to listen to.
dinkel said:
kiteless said:
Classical, as you can imagine, is a very broad church that encompasses every mood from fighty (e.g. Mars from The Planets Suite) to meditative (e.g. The Miserere by Allegri). For "chillout" classical, a good starting point - IMHO - would be any of the works by Ludovico Einaudi. It's pretty much all soft and reflective piano pieces, and very easy on the ear.
If I was to put together a 10 piece compilation of classic "chill", it'd be something like this:
Piano Concerto no.21 Andante: Mozart
Serenade for Strings: Dvorak
Thomas Tallis Fantasia: Vaughan-Williams
Nocturne no.1: Chopin
Metamorphosis no.5: Philip Glass
The Bluebird: Charles Villiers-Stanford
The Lark Ascending: Vaughan-Williams
The Shepherd's Song: Canteloube
Piano Concerto in A minor: Greig
Berceuse: Chopin
Have a gander on the 'tube as they're all on there. Maybe check out the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony no.5 as well; it is quite melancholy in places, but very relaxing to listen to.
Errrr, doesn't the quality of these tunes differ strongly who's playing?If I was to put together a 10 piece compilation of classic "chill", it'd be something like this:
Piano Concerto no.21 Andante: Mozart
Serenade for Strings: Dvorak
Thomas Tallis Fantasia: Vaughan-Williams
Nocturne no.1: Chopin
Metamorphosis no.5: Philip Glass
The Bluebird: Charles Villiers-Stanford
The Lark Ascending: Vaughan-Williams
The Shepherd's Song: Canteloube
Piano Concerto in A minor: Greig
Berceuse: Chopin
Have a gander on the 'tube as they're all on there. Maybe check out the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony no.5 as well; it is quite melancholy in places, but very relaxing to listen to.
It does affect the quality of the finished product (so to speak), but it doesn't affect the quality of the initial ingredients. Chopin's Nocturne no.1 is still a beautiful piece of music, for example, and I prefer Maria Joao Pires' recitals of it rather than (say) Murray Perahia's. But I've not heard a better version of Chopin's Berceause than Murray's.
You can go further. Does the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra do a better version of Mahler's 5th than the Berlin Phil? If it's the latter, who do you prefer conducting? Von Karajan? Rattle? Abbado?
As I said originally, classical is a broad church and - like churches and religion, I suppose - the core material matters most; the differences are in the interpretations of that.
kiteless said:
You make a good point.
It does affect the quality of the finished product (so to speak), but it doesn't affect the quality of the initial ingredients. Chopin's Nocturne no.1 is still a beautiful piece of music, for example, and I prefer Maria Joao Pires' recitals of it rather than (say) Murray Perahia's. But I've not heard a better version of Chopin's Berceause than Murray's.
You can go further. Does the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra do a better version of Mahler's 5th than the Berlin Phil? If it's the latter, who do you prefer conducting? Von Karajan? Rattle? Abbado?
As I said originally, classical is a broad church and - like churches and religion, I suppose - the core material matters most; the differences are in the interpretations of that.
I've always wondered why in a popmusic store CDs are stored by performer, and in a classical music store CDs are stored by composer. I'm a Bach fan but nothing bothers me more to hear a fuge played too quick and without feeling.It does affect the quality of the finished product (so to speak), but it doesn't affect the quality of the initial ingredients. Chopin's Nocturne no.1 is still a beautiful piece of music, for example, and I prefer Maria Joao Pires' recitals of it rather than (say) Murray Perahia's. But I've not heard a better version of Chopin's Berceause than Murray's.
You can go further. Does the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra do a better version of Mahler's 5th than the Berlin Phil? If it's the latter, who do you prefer conducting? Von Karajan? Rattle? Abbado?
As I said originally, classical is a broad church and - like churches and religion, I suppose - the core material matters most; the differences are in the interpretations of that.
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