Relaxation Music.

Dencds

What do you like to listen to for relaxing that makes you feel better?

Here are my choices:
Bob James albums like Touchdown,One On One,Restoration.Obsession.Lucky Seven,Two Of A Kind,
Another artist is Tony Oçonnor. Rainforest Magic,Mariner,In Touch,Dreams and Discoveries and Love Songs. Tony lived on the Sunshine Coast,Queensland.

river

I'm glad you started this thread, I was thinking of something similar!
I don't know if this counts cause it's not really music, but I recently discovered mynoise.net and I love it (there's an app as well, but I've found it buggy on Android and a bit confusing to use on iOS so wouldn't really recommend it). Here is the list of all the noise generators: https://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php. You can make your own presets or try the ready-made ones. These links are to my own presets of some of my favorites:

Autumn walk:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/autumnWalkSoundscapeGenerator.php?l=04100204042750516786

Rain on a tent:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/campingRainNoiseGenerator.php?l=25243729294861544349&a=1&am=1

Riverbank:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/rainyRiverbankSoundscapeGenerator.php?l=06013350504056414616&a=1&am=1

I adore music but it takes a lot of energy to listen to so I don't listen for relaxation, more for motivation when I'm not too sick and just need an emotional boost. mynoise also does generative music which I enjoy sometimes (I listen to it in the iOS app, I think it's paywalled) but I do find it harder to listen to than the natural sounds.

Dio_Raven

I just found this the other day https://www.radio.net/s/radionature. Other than that, I love a good bit of cello! There is a great studio ghibli cello playlist on youtube and I also enjoy some of Yo-Yo Ma's stuff. If I'm having issues sleeping I go for swamp sounds with rain and frogs. I find music can be over stimulating if I'm really "heady" but less layered simple and slow stuff is usually ok, vocals are generally out.
When I'm having a good day I will listen to my normal music because I miss it so much!

crashdummy

@Dencds Has to be Supertramp: Even in the quietest moments

RatsAreFluffy

@Dencds I like the sound of my fan. Nothing quite like white noise. Most music is too busy to tolerate for long.

gretch

@RatsAreFluffy Same here. Such joy when you find the perfect fan that doesn't rattle or tick.

pemdelapem

For me it varies a lot depending on what my body is doing. I have lots of music that I've collected over the years that works for me and won't try to describe it all in one go.

Talking about ambient noise, I prefer minimalist ambient music to ambient noise. Some examples:
O Yuki Conjugate - Departure
Aphex Twin - #3

The ABC has an online radio station called ABC Kids that plays ambient music, usually laid over nature sounds, from midnight to 6am. This music can be accessed on-demand in one-hour blocks through the ABC Listen app or this webpage.

An artist who straddles ambient and choral music is Julianna Barwick:
Labyrinthine
Inspirit

Gentle acoustic songs are another form that can work for me. If they're in a foreign language my brain can't latch onto the lyrics. E.g.
Clannad - Buachaill Ón Éirne
Ayub Ogada - Salimie
Geoffrey Oryema - Makambo

river

@pemdelapem thank you for the links, I'm listening to the Aphex Twin one right now and looking forward to checking out the others. At some point in the past I listened to the whole of the Selected Ambient Works, I'd forgotten how beautiful it is.

I enjoy minimalist ambient music too. One of my favorites is an artist called 36. They have an album called dreamloops which is very soothing. Actually it's split over 3 albums (I've linked to the first one) but you can find them all compiled into one album on Spotify.

pemdelapem

@river I enjoyed dreamloops, thank you. All tracks but one hit the spot (#3 had a bit too much going on).

One of my recent discoveries is Kate Rusby, a folk singer from Yorkshire with a very grounded adventurous streak. Most of her work is a bit livelier but her slow, almost metronomic renditions of traditional songs work on me like lullabies:
Bogey's Bonnie Belle
The Witch of the Westmorland
Night Visiting Song
Hunter Moon (an original composition of hers, metronomic but not quite as level as the others)