Emotional instrumental music

[soulfulofsoul]

Which explosions in the sky would you suggest?

I'm beginning to wonder if instrumental music doesn't just reach you on some level that music with vocals can't? I think it might, but this might just be a passing mood. Hmmm

 

[matt m]

I dunno where to start with this one... i mean I could go on all week just on jazz stuff... Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble, Django...

equally I could for weeks with improv stuff: Derek Bailey, AMM, Axel Dorner, John Butcher...

...then whole universes of classical stuff: late Beethoven quartets, every note Glenn Gould ever played, Ligeti's piano concerto blah de blah...

not forgetting folk stuff and world stuff and trad music...

how many lifetimes ya got?

 

[Spandex]

To me most techno (as in dance music) is not emotional

 

[purplex]

 

[Silva]

Which explosions in the sky would you suggest?

I'm beginning to wonder if instrumental music doesn't just reach you on some level that music with vocals can't? I think it might, but this might just be a passing mood. Hmmm

Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever and All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone here.

My favourite of their tunes is perhaps this one:


In the same style, Riding Panico can also have very powerful instrumentals:

 

[Clair De Lune]

Yawning man.
Mono

 

[Hocus Eye.]

 

[klang]

Steve Reich's

-Dessert Music and
-Music for 12 Musicians

are deeply moving instrumentals

 

[grosun]

Pretty much anything by fucking Ravel (tho' not bolero innit)

Steve Reich - "Tehillim"

Anything by the necks, tho' Mosquito would be my fave

Miles Davis - "He Loved Him Madly" (a tribute to Duke Ellington who'd died a month previously)

What kind of emotions are you after tho'.. like, most of what I'm thinking of (& most other posters seem to have thought of) is of the beautiful/spine-tingling/sad/euphoric sort... but you can have angry, depressed, whatnot if you like!

 

[Citizen66]

Gnossiennes 1 by Erik Satie.

 

[Ted Striker]

Deux - Deux (a house record)

The bit in Karate Kid (I think it's in 1 and 3) which acts as a montage and includes Daniel spying Mr Myagi perform the crane kick on the water breaker. Can't remember what it's called, but is definitely by Bill Conti and is on the soundtrack

 

[klang]

John Fahley if you like it slightly blues-countryesque!

 

[ouchmonkey]

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue 50 years old. everyone likes it

 

[El Jefe]

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue 50 years old. everyone likes it

or Sketches of Spain, although apparently the jazz snobs reckon that's muzak or something

("sing hosanna, the jazz snobs are all going home")

 

[soulfulofsoul]

They did nothing for me emotionally at all. I still don't think techno will ever be emotional to me. Its made for the dancefloor really, just a completely different vibe. They might be a bit transcedental but just not very evocative.

I'm hoping for stuff that makes me feel like crying I guess.

When I recommend an artist or band to someone I usually tell them my favourite album as well. To me it just makes sense. There are very few bands or producers that are just consistently good on every album. And quite often I have got into a band years later when I got one of the 'right' albums.

I'm a little surprised that people just tell you who they are into, they might have put out heaps of albums, and I could really do with being pointed to your favourite to start with.

Thanks for all this though, most of them are niiice.

 

[Boycey]

both electronic but 2 that get me everytime are "goodbye regrets" by frivolous and "the girl with the sun in her head" by orbital

 

[Spandex]

They did nothing for me emotionally at all. I still don't think techno will ever be emotional to me. Its made for the dancefloor really, just a completely different vibe. They might be a bit transcedental but just not very evocative.

I guess we got different tastes then. Those two make me well up whether it's on the dancefloor, sat on the sofa, in the bedroom, or doing the washing up.

When I recommend an artist or band to someone I usually tell them my favourite album as well. To me it just makes sense. There are very few bands or producers that are just consistently good on every album. And quite often I have got into a band years later when I got one of the 'right' albums.

If I'm recommending, I'll usually go for individual tracks rather than albums. There's an endless amount of good tunes, but most albums have some bumpy moments on them.

 

[Orang Utan]

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue 50 years old. everyone likes it

yes - though most of his other stuff sounds like a fire in a pet shop

 

[llion]

Brian Eno - Apollo album, especially An Ending (Ascent). Enough to make a grown man cry.
I fina lot of The Black Dog's stuff is strangely emotional, especially a remix they did of an Alter Ego track called 'Tanks Ahead'.
Elgar's cello concerto.

 

[llion]

Link for the Black Dog track:

 

[stavros]

Brian Eno - Apollo album, especially An Ending (Ascent). Enough to make a grown man cry.

OTM. You can take all of his "Ambient" series too.

 

[grosun]

I'm hoping for stuff that makes me feel like crying I guess.

Gavin Bryars - "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet"

okok, i suppose it has vocals, but it's the same little snatch of song looped over & over again.. absolutely stunningly beautiful.. or if you want strictly no vocals, you could try his "The Sinking of the Titanic" which is also lovely.. for both pieces, it's worth reading about them before hearing.. not that they won't sound great without, but they're better with!

 

[braindancer]

Brian Eno - Apollo album, especially An Ending (Ascent). Enough to make a grown man cry.

Yes Yes Yes!

If there is a heaven, which there isn't, but if there was, then this track would be playing.... And Brian Eno would have done a special remix for God which lasted forever, rather than the 4 and half minute version he did for us mere mortals on earth.



Lovely performance of the piece by BJ Cole and Icebreaker here too - apparently they recently performed the whole album at the Imax.... How did I miss this?

 

[El Jefe]

shit, I LOVE Icebreaker.

 

[soulfulofsoul]

An ending (ascent) is good, great even but not the best thing ever...don't get why so many people go on about it the way they do.

Just looking at stuff on this thread, the classical stuff, particularly Gnossiennes 1 by Erik Satie (which I'd never heard before) is waaay better. I even think Forgive by burial is probably equal. Probably.

 

[El Jefe]

did you try the Arvo Part?

 

[kabbes]

If you liked Gnossiennes 1, have you tried other Eric Satie stuff? There is the famous Gymnopédie 3, of course. But all the Gymnopédies are beautiful.

 

[soulfulofsoul]

did you try the Arvo Part?

Yep, pretty cool. For some reason it reminded me of an ending ascent, dont ask me why but they are vaguely similar and it just did.

 

[soulfulofsoul]

If you liked Gnossiennes 1, have you tried other Eric Satie stuff? There is the famous Gymnopédie 3, of course. But all the Gymnopédies are beautiful.

Eric Satie is incredible. Thank you!