Favorites Alone In Quiet Darkness


Wondered if others have favorites while listening alone and calmly with the lights off. One selection of mine would be Supertramp's song, Crime of the Century at a fair volume.
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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
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.
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
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
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...
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.
Schoenberg string quartet #4, third movement, Julliard Quartet performance ON VINYL
"Pink Floyd-DarkSide of the Moon"

The quintessential - How did that take two days to find its way here.
I love Supertramp. My favorite is 'Live in Paris'. Great version of Crime of the Century.
Scott Cossu - "Reunion"
Andreas Vollenweider - "Book of Roses"
Chris Botti - "Slowing Down the World"
"The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" Soundtrack
Any Satie
Chris Whitley - 'Perfect Day'
Cowboy Junkies - 'Trinity Sessions'
Ry Cooder - 'Paris Texas'
Latin Playboys - 'Latin Playboys'
Roger Waters - 'Amused to Death'
Fields of the Nephilim- Elizium & Revelations, and anything dark and mysterious.
David Johanssen and the Harry Smiths. An underated gem of a blues album called Shaker. Downright hauntingly beautiful in the dark.
Portraits in Jazz - Evans
Gillian Welch - Revival
Calexico/Iron and Wine - In the Reins
Beyond the Missouri Sky - Haden and Metheny
Bon Hiver..."For Emma, Forever Ago"...aka Justin Vernon....a couple glasses of good wine enhances the experience as well....
Jelena Jensen the zaftig nude model?

Or do you mean Janine Jansen the violinist?
Jerry Garcia singing "Black Peter" on the live "Bears Choice" LP. Very haunting in the dark.