Albums that you put you into transcendental bliss

Mondeyano

funky16corners

asstro

I worked on the photo shoot and did all of the retouching for this CD cover and booklet. Yanni is a nice guy in person, and his house is


But lord does the music suck.

RAJ

Been digging Steve Roach alot lately....

ketan

^ cosine.  i grabbed that reissue recently...

ppadilha

I found this for a few bucks a while back, it's great to put on and space out:

RAJ

ppadilha said:

I found this for a few bucks a while back, it's great to put on and space out:

Great choice.... The whole album is amazing end to end.

klezmer electro-thug beats

rcwinkly

This album always gets me:



I also really like anything by Express Rising:

rcwinkly

I also just finished a mix that's semi-transcendental depending on your perspective:

https://www.mixcloud.com/rcwinkly/gentle-sounds/

Killing Me Softly Intro	The Singers Unlimited
Something	Bud Shank & The Bob Alcivar Singers
Cry Baby Cry	Ramsey Lewis
A Day In The Life	Gabor Szabo
My Own Revolution	The Novi Singers
An Elegy	The Free Design
Flight Of The Ibis	McDonald And Giles
Tiptoe on the Highest Hill	Twink
Sleepy Hollow People	Paper Fortress
Grains Of Sand	Marcus
We Can Fly	Portobello Explosion
Welcome To The Rain	Mid Day Rain
The Signs Part 1	David Axelrod
Winter’s Going	Bonnie Dobson
Four Robins Singing	Tyree Forrest
Today	Jefferson Airplane
Never My Love	Tom Scott
Crystal Blue Persuasion	The Dave Pell Singers
The Visit	The Cyrkle
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy)	Simon & Garfunkel
One Of These Things First	Nick Drake
Can't Find My Way Home	Blind Faith

ketan

'khan jamal - drum dance to the motherland' got me through my doctoral studies.

RAJ

Mark Isham - Film Music

klezmer electro-thug beats

I've never been able to connect to this kind of music - like, I'm one of those people who can't really put music on as a background to anything verbal (reading, conversation, work). It kind of monopolizes my attention - so the more meditative and mellow something is, the harder it is for me to get with. The closest thing for me so far I guess is drum/percussion-only recordings.

So what's a recommendation as an "in" to this kind of stuff for someone like this?

ketan

Godspeed - F# A#

ketan

klezmer electro-thug beats said:

I've never been able to connect to this kind of music - like, I'm one of those people who can't really put music on as a background to anything verbal (reading, conversation, work). It kind of monopolizes my attention - so the more meditative and mellow something is, the harder it is for me to get with. The closest thing for me so far I guess is drum/percussion-only recordings.

So what's a recommendation as an "in" to this kind of stuff for someone like this?

I think Music for 18 Musicians is really accessible and captivating.  Have you heard that? 

klezmer electro-thug beats

I've heard a little of Steve Reich (enough to get the joke in the cake video), but haven't sat down with it. I'll give it a go, thanks.

RAJ

klezmer electro-thug beats said:

I've heard a little of Steve Reich (enough to get the joke in the cake video), but haven't sat down with it. I'll give it a go, thanks.

Check out the Tycho albums.  It's a great gateway drug.  Also Gigi Masin and Gaussian Curve... alot of the MFM stuff is fantastic.

Jimster

The recent Josef Leimberg set is really growing on me.



"As I Think of You" has a mhadd vocal from Georgia Anne Muldrow which is worth admission alone.

klezmer electro-thug beats

Good call on 18 musicians... I can't say I was transcending our dimension but it does sit nicer in the background than most. I will check out Tycho etc next.