Relaxation Music.
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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. -
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=04100204042750516786Rain on a tent:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/campingRainNoiseGenerator.php?l=25243729294861544349&a=1&am=1I 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.
Pronouns: they/them - ME/CFS since 2017
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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! -
@Dencds Has to be Supertramp: Even in the quietest moments
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@Dencds I like the sound of my fan. Nothing quite like white noise. Most music is too busy to tolerate for long.
ME/CFS since 2014 - also ASD - fairly young - socially inept
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@RatsAreFluffy Same here. Such joy when you find the perfect fan that doesn't rattle or tick.
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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 - #3The 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
InspiritGentle 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 -
@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.
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@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) -
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Had a search for "music" and am glad this thread popped up. @Dencds I checked out the first one you suggested called Touchdown Bob James and its really nice and chill!!
Just a quick one I wanted to share. Its a Korean song called Tomorrow. I don't think the composer had chronic illness in mind when she wrote it but when I listen to it, it feels like she wrote it for me. English lyric translation below if you'd like to understand.
Lyrics:
When everyone is going back
Are they walking with happy steps?
Did they really fulfill their dreams?Like doing piled up homework
All the promises were written
I already see the bright sun that woke upAnother day has gone
Tomorrow comes again
The world moves busily
Crying at the words of my father who has only looked aheadThe more I count, the more I hurt
My mother’s increasing wrinkles
Even if it’s a little late, she says it’s okay, with a kissAnother day has gone
Tomorrow comes again
The world moves busily
Crying at the words of my father who has only looked aheadI cry for a long time again
Making promises
The traces of myself from yesterday
They leave to find my dreams above in the blue sky
I make a promise to the stubborn tomorrow
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@stevengao That was lovely; thanks for sharing. And I’m glad you found this thread as I’ve realised I’ve never seen it. Lots of links to music. I know what I’m doing today.
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In a pretty bad crash this Easter weekend, so been laying low at the moment. I decided to spend a little while translating a song I quite like to pass the time, something I used to do alot when I was actively language learning. I noticed there is something quite romantic when listening to words in a song that aren't in your native tongue. I think because when you listen to a song in your own language, the words have a fixed meaning that is bound by our experience, social and cultural constructs. But when you listen to a foreign language you don't have those things. The meaning and interpretation is only limited by your imagination.
One of my favourite songs called Heart. When I first listened to this song many years ago it sounded like a love song, but when I listen to it now, it sounds like me thinking about me and my health.
When I smile, thats you
When I feel down, thats you
When I hold back tears, thats you
When I cry, thats youAs I look at you I take in a warm breath
The painful feeling. Thats because of you isn't it?Its ok if you don't recognise me
Even if you don't come find me
There will be a small light shining here
Always shiningI can't take my eyes off of you
Its blinding my eyes all day
The sad feeling. Thats because of you isn't it?Its ok if you don't reply to me
Even if you don't console me
There will be a small light shining here
Always shiningEverything in the world dies and is reborn
Even when we grow old again
This brave and daring heart won't be wrinkled
It'll be alive and shining
Always alive
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Thank you @stevengao.
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@river said in Relaxation Music.:
Autumn walk:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/autumnWalkSoundscapeGenerator.php?l=04100204042750516786Rain on a tent:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/campingRainNoiseGenerator.php?l=25243729294861544349&a=1&am=1Riverbank:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/rainyRiverbankSoundscapeGenerator.php?l=06013350504056414616&a=1&am=1&BetPokiesJust so the relaxation does not turn into nostalgia, but otherwise I like everything
