Thanks for the invitation to chat, Lo, which I won’t take up as I am hard to put to sleep with music with words!! Mine is all droney stuff on a meditation app, or shakuhachi flute. Anything more exciting keeps me listening and I don’t sleep! Nuts isn’t it. I’d love to hear any sleep covers you create - “pillow slips”?? And thanks for posting Andy, my god what a fabulous voice he had. Crossed that moon river in style, he did.
Well I'm going to have to make 'pillow slips' merch for my sleep album Genevieve, love that idea!! I also can't go to sleep with lyrics ( apart from that one Bob Dylan song weirdly) - the sleepy playlist here is 6 hours of instrumental gentle quiet music that doesn't dip into too spooky or melancholy - I find some classical/ instrumental music ends up sounding funereal and then its too sad for sleeping!
I think a discussion about music that helps you sleep is relevant, especially now - when there is a wider accessibility to music, and when we are laden with greater stresses and the omnipresence of digital media that often keeps us awake.
A few years back, someone posted a plea on a friend's FB page, requesting suggestions for music that people used to induce sleep. It was interesting to see that, like many things, it was quite individualistic.
This, coupled with your comment about music around a theme, reminded me of an album that kind of does both. Simon Bailey creates and coerces sound in beautiful ways. As well as releasing his own work, he has released several cover albums which enhance the musicality of the originals with beautiful subtleties. Most recently, he wrote his first soundtrack (which is built around the theme of the film) and is also calming enough to help the listener feel soporific.
Interesting connection of the digital media that soothes us also over stimulating us! I was not familiar with Simon Bailey and had a listen, thank you - lovely music - not sure I could sleep to it, but as you said, these things are so individual!
Thanks for the invitation to chat, Lo, which I won’t take up as I am hard to put to sleep with music with words!! Mine is all droney stuff on a meditation app, or shakuhachi flute. Anything more exciting keeps me listening and I don’t sleep! Nuts isn’t it. I’d love to hear any sleep covers you create - “pillow slips”?? And thanks for posting Andy, my god what a fabulous voice he had. Crossed that moon river in style, he did.
Well I'm going to have to make 'pillow slips' merch for my sleep album Genevieve, love that idea!! I also can't go to sleep with lyrics ( apart from that one Bob Dylan song weirdly) - the sleepy playlist here is 6 hours of instrumental gentle quiet music that doesn't dip into too spooky or melancholy - I find some classical/ instrumental music ends up sounding funereal and then its too sad for sleeping!
I think a discussion about music that helps you sleep is relevant, especially now - when there is a wider accessibility to music, and when we are laden with greater stresses and the omnipresence of digital media that often keeps us awake.
A few years back, someone posted a plea on a friend's FB page, requesting suggestions for music that people used to induce sleep. It was interesting to see that, like many things, it was quite individualistic.
This, coupled with your comment about music around a theme, reminded me of an album that kind of does both. Simon Bailey creates and coerces sound in beautiful ways. As well as releasing his own work, he has released several cover albums which enhance the musicality of the originals with beautiful subtleties. Most recently, he wrote his first soundtrack (which is built around the theme of the film) and is also calming enough to help the listener feel soporific.
Interesting connection of the digital media that soothes us also over stimulating us! I was not familiar with Simon Bailey and had a listen, thank you - lovely music - not sure I could sleep to it, but as you said, these things are so individual!