"Late for the Sky" by Jackson Browne
"Doctor Wu" by Steely Dan |
"Heartattack and Vine" by Tom Waits |
anything from lucinda williams or emmylou harris |
Jerry Garcia singing "Black Peter" on the live "Bears Choice" LP. Very haunting in the dark. |
the electric prunes-underground....a blacklight is optional |
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rachmaninovs' 'isle of the dead' |
Another fav. would be the song Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. |
Koyanisqaatsi by Phillip Glass |
Jelena Jensen the zaftig nude model?
Or do you mean Janine Jansen the violinist? |
Bon Hiver..."For Emma, Forever Ago"...aka Justin Vernon....a couple glasses of good wine enhances the experience as well.... |
My fave is one hot babe . . . |
Archetribe "Earthtones"
Dave |
Portraits in Jazz - Evans Gillian Welch - Revival Calexico/Iron and Wine - In the Reins Beyond the Missouri Sky - Haden and Metheny |
David Johanssen and the Harry Smiths. An underated gem of a blues album called Shaker. Downright hauntingly beautiful in the dark. |
Fields of the Nephilim- Elizium & Revelations, and anything dark and mysterious. |
They all sound better in the dark. No distractions. |
Chris Whitley - 'Perfect Day' Cowboy Junkies - 'Trinity Sessions' Ry Cooder - 'Paris Texas' Latin Playboys - 'Latin Playboys' Roger Waters - 'Amused to Death' |
Scott Cossu - "Reunion" Andreas Vollenweider - "Book of Roses" Chris Botti - "Slowing Down the World" "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" Soundtrack Any Satie |
I love Supertramp. My favorite is 'Live in Paris'. Great version of Crime of the Century. |
Pink Floyd-DarkSide of the Moon - The Great Gig in the Sky. |
"Pink Floyd-DarkSide of the Moon"
The quintessential - How did that take two days to find its way here. |
Schoenberg string quartet #4, third movement, Julliard Quartet performance ON VINYL |
Morton Feldman. Start with Rothko Chapel.
And I second the "Paris, Texas" soundtrack, though I can't stand Wim Wenders films. And the Trinity Sessions. And, yeah, everything sounds better in the dark. |
Pieces I often choose in such setting among others are: Respighi;Piano Quintet,String Quartet,Six Pieces for Violin and Piano on a Chandos CD by The Ambache. Bax; Quintet for harp and Strings,Elegiac Trio for Harp Violin and Flute, Fantasy Sonata for Harp and Violin,Sonata for Flute and harp on a Naxos CD by Mobius. Joseph Jongen; Chamber Music for Flute and String Quartet on a Cypres CD by Ensemble Arpæ. Charles Koechlin String Quartets No.1 & 2 on a Ar Re-Se CD by the Ardeo Quartet. Chausson:Poème, Piano Trio, Pièce,Andante at Allegro on a Hyperion CD by the Chilingirian Quartet. McEwen; Violin Sonatas 2,5,6, Prince Charlie and String Quartets on Chandos CD's by Olivier Charlier and Geoffrey Tozer and The Chilingirian Qt. Albert Roussel Chamber Music on a Brilliant Classics CD and so on... |
Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa" and Gorecki's "Symphony No.3" |
Lustmord-The Place Where The Black Stars Hang Pete Namlook-Air I&II Global Communication-76:14 Irresistible Force-Flying High Coil-although they actually have a series called Musick To Play In The Dark I prefer Stolen & Contaminated Songs Steve Roach-The Magnificent Void Michael Stearns-The Lost World Tangerine Dream -Phaedra Steve Hillage-Rainbow Dome Musick Klaus Schulze-Mirage |
Playboy August 2001 with a flashlight |
Joan Baez "Diamonds and Rust" |
Vikingur Olafsson - Johann Sebastian Bach - piano solos. Evgeny Kissin and James Levine - Schubert The Carnegie Hall Concert - four hands. Simone Dinnerstein - Something Almost Being Said - Bach and Schubert - solo piano. Isabella Faust - J. S. Bach - Sonatas and Partitas - solo violin Lucia Micarelli - Meditation from Thais - Jules Massenet - violin and piano (Lang Lang). Keith Jarrett - Jasmine. Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night. Ben Webster - Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson. Eva Cassidy - Songbird and Simply Eva
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Pretty much anything by Nick Drake |
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. The whole album start to finish. Wow. And I do not even do drugs.
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Off the top of my head
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Jefferson Airplane -
Surrealistic Pillow Pat Martino - Starbright Pat Metheny - Bright Sized Life |