Relaxing music?

[hbombgraphics]

Does anyone else listen to metal to relax? I can put on arch enemy or becoming the archetype and fall right to sleep.

[mutmoo]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxsSr-I-rJo[/youtube]

[Haki]

Do Make Say Think

Also these:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeg6jA2Ha1U[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pt7gtWHWTs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUAhfyMf59s[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TKs47RW-n8[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BdLc1umgHE[/youtube]

The last one isn't so much relaxing music but rather it seems to soothe me.

[DarkAxel]

my favourites are

Eno - Music for airports (also called Ambient 1)
everything by Hammock
Bass Communion (their ambient works like Drugged)
practically everything by Aes Dana

[madmax1012]

my favourites are

Eno - Music for airports (also called Ambient 1)
everything by Hammock

i'm on an Eno craze lately. and hammock is a fantastic band that's seriously making me rethink some of the musical directions i've been taking in my recent writing.

[Wes Mantooth]

I'm really digging the new Bon Iver album

[benjuro]

The Boris album "Flood". The "waves cresting above the city" five minutes into Part III may or may not be relaxing to you, but I can fall asleep to it

+1, absolutely. Much of the 2nd disc of DroneEvil is there as well...

Mogwai often does the job for me, although some of the stuff can get loud and/or chaotic.

There's an Australian band named Ender that has a fantastic s/t EP.

Muhr's Shepherd Blood is incredible if you like majestic trance-y heaviness.

For full disclosure's sake, know I'm also a guy who sometimes will listen to Sunn O))) to relax...

[jfrey]

Does anyone else listen to metal to relax? I can put on arch enemy or becoming the archetype and fall right to sleep.

I do, but I figured it wasn't really what people would be looking for in relaxing music.

It was a running joke when I used to live with roommates that one of them walked into my room one night thinking I was awake and found me face down asleep with this blasting out of my speakers
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6PQLpNad8[/youtube]

[charge]

Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses and Hymnen
Phonophoni
Arve Henriksen
David Behrman's On the Other Ocean
Morton Feldman
Miles Davis (especially Kind of Blue and In a Silent Way)
Brian Eno's ambient works
Aphex Twin's ambient works
Autechre's Amber
Boards of Canada
Sigur Ros
Incredible String Band
Steve Reich (any of his "Phases" pieces)
John Cage (Souvenir, for organ and Dream)
Eliane Radigue (Adnos I-III)
Ravi Shankar
Ustad Imrat Kahn (or any good surbahar player)

[Wes Mantooth]

Love relaxing to some Opeth, especially Burden

[hbombgraphics]

In the more traditional , not falling asleep to metal sense, I have always enjoyed Arvo Part: Which is very minimalist in nature but very relaxing. Mostly the Orchestra stuff though, although some of the vocal compositions are pretty good.

[madmax1012]

Opeth is a great band. I've also been into a lot of Fredric Chopin lately. the man was brilliant

[Joe Gress]

Minus the Bear
Explosions in the Sky
Red Sparrowes
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Native
Castevet (CSTVT)

[mutmoo]

I'm really digging the new Bon Iver album

[fuzzybassist]

try [the] commuter exit. theyre kinda local so i dunno how easy itll be to find their stuff but its cool:)