IL CANTONE

I love to share music on Twitter, above all new age music but not only. Lately I’ve received some emails from twitter friends asking me for my favorite music.

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I thought that it would be great to share an extensive and complete list of all my favorite new age music.

I’ve always been a nervous guy. As time passed by, my nerves led to anxiety, sleep disorders, headaches and some other negative effects of the stress produced by our modern world-system, daily life challenges and some unexpected and disruptive events of life. Throughout my life, I’ve been looking for good relaxing music to sooth my nerves and calm my restless mind. Then, one fine day, I saw the amazing movie of Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, in fact, it was one of the reasons why I studied filmmaking. I was amazed by the plot, the characters, the beautiful images, the dark future and its post apocalyptic atmosphere but, above all, I was fascinated by the music of the film; I had found a priceless treasure: the music of Vangelis. But, I had found much more than a fantastic album and a great musician: I had discovered a new world of sensations. He was the first new age composer I knew but, after a while, I started to know many others (Brian and Roger Eno, Constance Demby, Alva Noto and so on). Each of them have their own style but they share something in common: the good quality of their music.

Benefits of listening to this new age relaxing music

• Reduces stress and anxiety

• Induces sleep

• Reduces negative emotions

• Many other related health benefits

Reduces blood pressure, boosts the immune function, improves body movement and coordination, reduces the feeling of fatigue, decreases heart and respiratory rates, and a long etc.

• Improves productivity

• Improves memory performance

• Boosts concentration

• Unleashes your creative potential

I listen to this music while working, above all when I need to be creative, in fact I’m listening to it right now.

• Brings joy into your life and makes you experience new emotions and sensations

In fact, I’ve been moved to tears several times by some of these songs, but don’t tell it to anyone :P.

Next, an extensive list of my favorite relaxing music across the universe:

Note: If you wish to purchase a copy or copies through the links below I would get a commission (4% of the final price). It doesn’t affect the purchase price and you can help support this blog.

You can listen to samples of the songs from each album clicking the link I provide. Once in the Amazon Store you will see, just below the image of the album cover, a “Listen to Samples” link, follow it and voilà!

I’m always looking for new music, so stay tuned because I will keep updated the list.

ALVA NOTO (+ Ryuichi Sakamoto)

• Insen

AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS

• Tales of Ephidrina

ANUGAMA

• The Lightness of Being

APHEX TWIN

• Selected Ambient Works Volume II

ATB

• Trilogy

• Addicted to Music

BILL LASWELL

• Dark Massive/Disengage: Ambient Compendium

BIOSPHERE

• Substrata

• Insomnia

BRIAN ENO

• Ambient 1: Music for Airports

• Music for Films

• Neroli

• Apollo

• The Shutov Assembly

BROKENKITES

• Fugue State

CENTROZOON

• Blast

CHRIS BOCAST

• Trough the Airlock

CONSTANCE DEMBY

• Aeterna

• Light of This World

• Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate

• Sacred Space Music

• Set Free

CRAIG ARMSTRONG

• As if to Nothing

DR. JEFFREY THOMPSON

• Inner Dance

ERIK WOLLO

• Emotional Landscapes

FENNESZ (+ Ryuichi Sakamoto)

• Cendre

GLEISBERG

• Buddha Lounge, Vol. 2

HANS ZIMMER

• Gladiator

• Regarding Henry

• The Last Samurai

HAROLD BUDD

• Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror

• The Pearl

• The White Arcades

• The serpent

JAMES HORNER

• Braveheart

JOHAN JOHANNSSON

• Englaborn

LIQUID MIND

• Relax: A Liquid Mind Experience

• Liquid Mind V: Serenity

• Liquid Mind VI: Spirit

• Liquid Mind VII: Reflection

• Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep

MANEKI NEKO

• Auracle

MARSEN JULES

• Les Fleurs

MARKUS GUENTNER

• 1981

MICHAEL MANNING

• Public

MICHAEL NYMAN

• Gattaca

• The Piano

MICHAEL WHALEN

• My Secret Heart: Romantic Meditations for Ambient Piano

NINE INCH NAILS

• The Downward Spiral

PASS INTO SILENCE

• Calm Like a Millpond

• Pop Ambient 2006 (Various Artists)

ROBERT FRIPP

• The Equatorial Stars

ROGER ENO

• Voices

• Between Tides

STARS OF THE LID

• Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

• Refinement of the Decline

SYSTEM SEVEN

• 777

TY BURHOE

• Invocation

VANGELIS (my favorite composer)

I’ve written a special post about Vangelis, check it out.

The list is ordered by preference with the date of publication of each album. If the album is a compilation you will see a “C”.

1- Blade Runner (1994)

2- Reprise (1999) C

3- The city (1990)

4- Antartica (1983)

5- 1492 The Conquest of paradise (1992)

6- L´Apocalypse Des Animaux (1973)

7- Direct (1988)

8- Chariots of Fire (1981)

9- Oceanic (1996)

10- Alexander (2004)

WILLIAM BASINSKI

• Melancholia

That’s all, but stay tuned because I will update the list regularly. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do 🙂

My Twitter: @DavidCantone

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