List music that makes you calm, relaxed and contemplative

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Specific songs or musical pieces that reduce your anxiety level and/or put you in a "meditative" state.
Thanks

[Phillycat]

1. Classical, mostly

Arpeggio in Strings but I can't remember the composer. Brahms piano pieces. Mozart anything.

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. Stereolab, Blue States, Hooverphonic

Stuff like that.

[myrna minx]

3. Ralph Vaughan William's Fantasia.

It is beautiful and haunting.
http://www.amazon.com/Vaughan-Williams-Fantasies-Ascending-Variants/dp/B000004CVM/sr=1-2/qid=1160077618/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-6183594-2338334?ie=UTF8&s=music

I also enjoy the soundtrack to the Hours.
http://www.amazon.com/Hours-Score-Philip-Glass/dp/B00007BH3Y/sr=1-1/qid=1160077667/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-6183594-2338334?ie=UTF8&s=music

[myrna minx]

9. How could I forget? Anything by the Cocteau Twins. n/t

[supernova]

4. Meditation music, downtempo electronica

All good stuff for me to work and study by.

Enigma, Thievery Corporation, Delirium,

[underpants]

5. Radiohead's OK Computer

and the Garden state soundtrack.

[idgiehkt]

6. anything by Shakira

in Spanish.

Harder music seems to calm me down emotionally better than anything and get me focused. It definitely reduces my anxiety, whereas softer meditative music sometimes makes it worse.

[MissMillie]

7. The Blue Nile

"Hats" is my fav CD by them

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Enigma's "Gravity of Love"

Barber's Adagio

Virtually anything by Enya

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin. Awesome album!

[datasuspect]

10. pure moods

use in conjunction with aromatherapy and past life regression.

i like to rub some crystals and chant a little too while the candles burn.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

11. King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King"

Dunno what it is about that album, but it triggers both the relaxation and contemplative centers of my brain.

Also -- Peter Gabriel's Passion (sndtrk to The Last Temptation of Christ)

[greendog]

12. Ravi Shankar / Ali Akbar Khan......"Ragas"

John Renbourn......"The Black Balloon"

[tjwmason]

13. Rennaissance polyphony.

Best of all is Allegri's Miserere mei, but oodles of other motets, Mass settings &c.