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.
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Pretty much anything by Nick Drake |
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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Joan Baez "Diamonds and Rust" |
Playboy August 2001 with a flashlight |
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 |
Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa" and Gorecki's "Symphony No.3" |
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. |
Pink Floyd-DarkSide of the Moon - The Great Gig in the Sky. |
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' |
They all sound better in the dark. No distractions. |
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 |
Archetribe "Earthtones"
Dave |
My fave is one hot babe . . . |
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? |
Koyanisqaatsi by Phillip Glass |
Another fav. would be the song Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. |
rachmaninovs' 'isle of the dead' |
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the electric prunes-underground....a blacklight is optional |
Jerry Garcia singing "Black Peter" on the live "Bears Choice" LP. Very haunting in the dark. |
anything from lucinda williams or emmylou harris |
"Heartattack and Vine" by Tom Waits |
"Late for the Sky" by Jackson Browne
"Doctor Wu" by Steely Dan |
