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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: scores to help you RELAX     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 5:35 PM     By:   connorb93   (Member) Hey everyone. Currently looking for scores that you might deem relaxing. Lots of stress and emotional stuff going on these days and I'm hoping for recommendations for music that's soothing, maybe a bit introspective, without being downright sad. I've thought of a few examples like ISLANDS IN THE STREAM and STANLEY & IRIS. What scores help you guys feel calm?    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 5:40 PM     By:   mgh   (Member) I find Desplat's The Tree of Life very calming and meditative.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 5:40 PM     By:   mgh   (Member) oops    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 5:44 PM     By:   Last Child   (Member) "Islands In The Stream" is a good one. Except for the shark attack, most of the music has a life of it's own outside of the film. Other Goldsmith suggestions like "Lonely are the Brave" and "Chinatown." Certain episodes of shows like original Star Trek, Outer Limits and Lost in Space reassure me. Comfort food for the soul. Maybe there are some TV shows you feel that way about. My fav film soundtrack to relax to is Jeff Alexander's "Day of the Evil Gun." Gentle western guitar strumming and flutes. Sort of a continuation of his famous Twilight Zone ballad in "Come Wander With Me." Some highlights. When I'm pissed off at the world and would go to Defcon 1 if I had the chance, I listen to Fred Karlin's "Chosen Survivors," Gil Melle's "World War III" or "Battle of the Bulge" for catharsis. Unfortunately only the Bulge is released.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 5:51 PM     By:   msmith   (Member) Children of a Lesser God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMJurEA7X6Q&list=PLH0q_HZi-puENCBZGElV5lb-K9rCpt_Ai    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 6:04 PM     By:   Viscount Bark   (Member) Much of Lalo Schifrin's "Earth II."    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 6:09 PM     By:   willymcnilly   (Member) "Aglaja" by Preisner is my favourite lately. I think his "Valley of Shadows" was also pretty relaxing. Also "Age of Adaline" by Rob Simonsen, and "Carried Away" by Broughton are a few of my favourites to relax to.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 7:22 PM     By:   Mose Harper   (Member) "Aglaja" by Preisner is my favourite lately. LOVE this score! Wonderfully contemplative. This may be my favorite style of score, as I like to cue stuff like this up softly in the background as I read. Quartet especially seems to have a bunch that fall into this category for me. Badelamenti - The Comfort Of Strangers Gaigne - el olivio Gaigne - Amaren Eskuak Gaigne - El Faro De La Orcas Coulais - Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Yared - The Lover Coulais - The Seasons Morricone - Butterfly Abril - El Hombre y la Tierra Doyle - Great Expectations Lai - Visit To A Chief's Son Morely - Watership Down Goldstein - Jane & Payne Iglesias - Ma Ma Kieboom - Wild Perez Del Mar - Le Tortue Rogue Sarde - l'Ours (The Bear) Montes - Frágil Equilibrio Ortolani - Valentnia Kaper - Green Mansions Barry - The Betsy Barry - Robin And Marian Williams - The Accidental Tourist Hisaishi - Princess Mononoke* Einhorn - Dead Of Winter* Grusin - Heaven Can Wait Piccioni - More Than A Miracle Goldsmith - The Russia House Mandel - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea Hamlisch - The Swimmer Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451/Walking Distance Zimmer - The Thin Red Line* Lewis - The Madwoman Of Chaillot* Desplat - The Painted Veil Desplat - La Fille Du Puisatier Legrande/Williams - The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (Both are great. I like the unused Legrand score as much, if not more than the Williams but both are great and a nice respite from more traditional action orientated Westerns) Barry/Shire - The White Buffalo* Some of these, like Mononoke, will inevitably have a few action/fortissimo breaks, but the substantial amount of more chill passages in the score still make them well worth the rec. IMO.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 7:44 PM     By:   Advise & Consent   (Member) "Aglaja" by Preisner is my favourite lately. LOVE this score! Wonderfully contemplative. This may be my favorite style of score, as I like to cue stuff like this up softly in the background as I read. Quartet especially seems to have a bunch that fall into this category for me. Badelamenti - The Comfort Of Strangers Gaigne - el olivio Gaigne - Amaren Eskuak Gaigne - El Faro De La Orcas Coulais - Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Yared - The Lover Coulais - The Seasons Morricone - Butterfly Abril - El Hombre y la Tierra Doyle - Great Expectations Lai - Visit To A Chief's Son Morely - Watership Down Iglesias - Ma Ma Kieboom - Wild Perez Del Mar - Le Tortue Rogue Sarde - l'Ours (The Bear) Montes - Frágil Equilibrio Barry - The Betsy Barry - Robin And Marian Williams - The Accidental Tourist Hisaishi - Princess Mononoke* Einhorn - Dead Of Winter* Piccioni - More Than A Miracle Goldsmith - The Russia House Mandel - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea Hamlisch - The Swimmer Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451/Walking Distance Zimmer - The Thin Red Line* Lewis - The Madwoman Of Chaillot* Desplat - The Painted Veil Desplat - La Fille Du Puisatier Legrande/Williams - The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (Both are great. I like the unused Legrand score as much, if not more than the Williams but both are great and a nice respite from more traditional action orientated Westerns) Barry/Shire - The White Buffalo* Some of these, like Mononoke, will inevitably have a few action/fortissimo breaks, but the substantial amount of more chill passages in the score still make them well worth the rec. IMO. Very nice list Mr. Mose Harper. However, I (slightly) beg to differ. Herrmann's Fahrenheit has many cues that have his characteristic "nervous energy" for lack of a better word. Thusly, I tend to program out the "Firemen" cues, along with a few others, when I wish to have a purely "relaxing! listen.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 7:55 PM     By:   Mose Harper   (Member) yeah, no doubt there are a bunch of antic cues in that list of scores. Some judicious cherry picking and playlist making would probably be in order. The part of the Herrmann disc I was flashing on was more the TZ- Walking Distance cues. I had put it into a playlist with a bunch of other stuff I wanted to "break in". I was doing something else at the time and had all this playing in the background. In the middle of the Walking Distance tracks, I had to stop what I was doing and surrender to a reverie. It was indescribably beautiful. There's a whole lot of Delerue that prompted a similar reaction and that I was remiss in leaving out as well.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 8:04 PM     By:   Advise & Consent   (Member) In the middle of the Walking Distance tracks, I had to stop what I was doing and surrender to a reverie. It was indescribably beautiful. Wow! Totally spot-on!    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 8:19 PM     By:   Josh   (Member) Blade Runner, until the end titles kick in.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 9:15 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) Children of a Lesser God. That was the first score that came to my mind. So I'll add another instead, Kiki's Deliver Service. Edit: Weird cant find the actual OST on YouTube. This is a rerecording and a little more robust than the actual score.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 9:23 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) The Bear- Life of Riley- Just put this on loop!    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 9:33 PM     By:   Advise & Consent   (Member) To Mr. Solium: another great work from P. Sarde, only slightly marred by the Tchaikovsky connection. Otherwise, a fine, fine listening experience.    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 10:28 PM     By:   EdG   (Member) A few soundtracks that have a calming effect on me: Apollo - Atmospheres And Soundtracks (For All Mankind) by Brian Eno Horizon Zero Dawn by Joris de Man and others (though it takes a little careful selection) Stepmom by John Williams Friday Night Lights by Explosions In The Sky Hero by Tan Dun Interstellar by Hans Zimmer Battlestar Galactica by Bear McCreary (again requires a little careful selection) Tron Legacy by Daft Punk Blade Runner by Vangelis Blade Runner 2049 by Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch The Banquet (aka The Legend of the Black Scorpion) by Tan Dun L’Apocalypse des Animaux by Vangelis    Posted:   Sep 15, 2019 - 11:44 PM     By:   drivingmissdaisy   (Member) LOTS of Horner that's for sure    Posted:   Sep 16, 2019 - 12:17 AM     By:   Tobias   (Member) I guess it is different from person to person but for me personally I can`t say that "soothing" music by John Barry and/or Georges Delerue helps me relax as I think it may help many other people but not me. Strangely enough the only score that helps me if I am angry, sad or just need to calm down is, believe it or not Brad Fiedel`s Terminator 2, yes that particular score helps me relax and it works each and every time for me. I am like a new and improved person after listening to that score with a better self belief and ready to tackle whatever happens next.    Posted:   Sep 16, 2019 - 12:50 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Several of the scores mentioned here have energetic tracks that break up the mood. The perfect 'relaxing' album, to me, is when you press 'play' and let it play out in full without interfering or making playlists. This is the type of music I listen to the most these days; I occasionally listen to upbeat, action-driven scores still, but they are basically exceptions. As for recommendations, I wouldn't know where to start or stop. There are so many. I would also need to know if you prefer acoustic ensembles or if, say, electronic music is up your alley as well.    Posted:   Sep 16, 2019 - 1:47 AM     By:   Slackattack   (Member) As many others have mentioned, there are many out there! Go-to's for me include: Flowers In The Attic, Haunted Summer, Creation, The Hurricane, An Unfinished Life (Christopher Young) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolfe, The Dead (Alex North) The Revenant (Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto) A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Vince Guaraldi) A Very Long Engagement, The Straight Story (Angelo Badalamenti) Abzu, Horn, Journey, Sunset (Austin Wintory) Alexandra (Andrey Sigle) Angela's Ashes, Memoirs of a Geisha (John Williams) Iceman (Bruce Smeaton) Brothers (Johan Soderqvist) Ethan, Overlord (Paul Glass) Calvary (Patrick Cassidy) Los Mundos Sutiles, Las Manos De Mi Madre, really just about any Pascal Gaigne score Cousteau: Amazon, Cousteau: Cape Horn, Parc Oceanique Cousteau, The Shooting Party (John Scott) Dead Man (Neil Young) Dead Ringers, Map To The Stars, The Betrayal, The Silence Of The Lambs (Howard Shore) Ermessenda (Arnau Bataller) Far From Heaven, To Kill A Mockingbird, Laurette (Elmer Bernstein) The Blue Lagoon / Return To The Blue Lagoon (Basil Poledouris) Girl With A Pearl Earing, The Imitation Game (Alexandre Desplat) Haunting Villisca (David James Nielson) The Presence (Conrad Pope) Islands In The Stream (Jerry Goldsmith) Jackie (Mica Levi) Jesse Stone, House Of Cards (Jeff Beal) Le Moine, Tambien La Lluvia (Alberto Iglesias) Mr. Holmes (Carter Burwell) Phantom Thread (Johnny Greenwood) The Dark Side Of The Light (Gus Reyes) The Leftovers (Max Richter) The Duke Of Burgundy (Cat's Eyes)     General Discussion: scores to help you RELAX    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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