Song for trip... your opinions.

[sobriquet]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to get everyone's (who wants to download it) opinion on what they think of the following music intended for listening to on a trip. It plays for 6:55 and the reason I like it is the interesting blend of instruments in this Arabic lute, Piano Accordion, and Piano.

Several times this piece has moved me to tears when the piano part reaches a crescendo between about 4 minutes into the piece and 5:21 when it transitions to the next instrument.

The beginning has a 'Cirque du Soleil' surreal type effect on me, and the rhythmic transitions between the the instruments is nice.

But the piano, oh that piano piece is sublime.

It has a beautiful melancholy that I absolutely love. I sometimes wish they'd forgotten about the rest of the album and just played around this melody for the entire 60 mins.

Here it is for download and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. BTW the song is called "Le Voyage de Sahar" by Anouar Brahem, an Algerian (French based) lute player who is well known for his world fusion type experimental music.

It's the title song for his album released just this year and I believe it translates to:

The Voyage of Awakening .... "sahar" is a dawn/morning or symbolically awakening.

Here is the link and I hope you can comment on it...

http://rapidshare.com/files/7434738/Le_Voyage_de_Sahar.m4a

Edited December 16, 2006 by sobriquet

[Pala]

What do I need to play .m4a files?

[sobriquet]

Quicktime or iTunes

[Μορφέας]

you can play it in Real Player

Wow Iv not herd anything like this, Its so slow and swaylike and hypnotic

Its lovly

[hairyplant]

I likey very much, beautiful sounds!

[Green Osiris]

Phew..thanks for linking me here sob

The 'arabian lute' or more precisly the 'oud' is close to my heart as an instrumental sound. Cheers muchly for sharing this cool song. Do you have much from tjis outfit of musicians ? Keen to experience what else hey may have up their sleeves.

If you dig stuff of an eastern 'cultural' nature in vibes, I am reminded of an artist/project called Rabih Abou-Khalil, and a particular album "Roots & Sprouts". A well-paced album of lyric-free eastern jazz style with lovely production values, considering they didn't have support from faceless multinational record companies.

The line up is:

Rabih Abou-Khalil: oud

Selim Kusar: nay

Yassin El-Achek: violin

Glen Moore: bass

Glen Velez: frame drum

Mohammad Al-Soous: darabukka

You know the oud already. The 'nay' is a reed flute, and the 'darabukka' is closely sonic to a djembe, or upright hand drum. It's very good shit. If you are interested, I can burn you a copy of this great album. PM me.

[sobriquet]

Hi Green Osiris,

Anouar Brahem has been doing projects with various musicians for a decade or more now. Although he plays the oud his compositions are very generous in their support of the other artists who collaborate on his albums I've found.

I too absolutely love the oud and its sound which I was introduced to at first on another of my absolute favorite albums "Almoraima" by Paco de Lucia; where he as a flamenco guitarist performs with an oud and the sound is absolutely groundbreaking from a flamenco perspective.

Anyhow here are three more of my favorite songs from Anouar Brahem which you may like to download and experience also. I have all his album releases in lossless file formats meaning a CD with original quality can be burnt quite readily

Anyhow the first file is from the album "Thimar" in which he performs with John Surman and Dave Holland..

http://rapidshare.com/files/7783973/02_Kashf_1.m4a

The second is from the "Madar" album a collaboration with the famous clarinet artist Jan Garbarek and Shaukat Hussain (on darbuka). I love the gentle introduction of the oud in this one and Brahem's playing as always is masterful. A long piece (16 minutes +) and you appreciate it more and more as time goes by...

http://rapidshare.com/files/7786768/01_Sull_Lull_1.m4a

The final sample is from the "Conte de L'incroyable Amour" album entitled "Le chien sur les genoux de la devineresse" which I translate as 'The dog on the knees of the soothsayer (lady)"...

http://rapidshare.com/files/7787375/02_Le_...devineresse.m4a

Sorry about the size of these files but I've tried to make them as high quality as possible worthy of downloading short of the enormous files needed for lossless.

BTW Jan Garbarek has an album called Ragas & Sagas he performs with Ustad Fateh Ali Khan and other Pakistani musicians which is also very worthwhile.

I can upload some others if you have enjoyed these.

[coin]

beautiful music sobriquet ... love it all

check out a track called "Visur Vatnsenda Rosu" by Bjork ... it was a B-side done with Hector Zazou and is also on his album Chansons des mers froides (the latter I havent heard) .. a traditional icelandic song ... I think you may like it (I know some ppl hate Bjork's music )

Mmm such gorgeous tunes

I don't know how many Victorians here used to listen to a show by Andrew Hollo called "Hybrid" on PBS fm, but he used to play these artists quite frequently...as well as a lot of other artists & genres .. was a pretty diverse program really. was the perfect way to chill out on a Sunday night. He did it for over 10 years I think, and unfortunately it came to an end...

Edited December 17, 2006 by coin

[Μορφέας]

found a nice 700mg torrent with Ustad Fateh Ali Khan music, I like it its diffrent! Cheers sob

On my journey of downloading music this week I found a great link on Shrromery to good music

http://www.shroomery.org/9081/What-is-some...-tripping-music

So far I really like the Fifth element sound track, its got some great classical sounds

Wow... There is a lot of good tripping music. No, GREAT tripping music!!

The best way to listen while you trip is through good headphones with a quality source. The music generates the psychedelic images in your mind. Listen in pitch darkness. You\'ll be simply astounded!

This is a VERY subjective question, but here are a few suggestions:

* Addison Groove Project

* Aes Dana - Ambient morning trance. Very relaxing and calming while engendering expansive states. Aes Dana\'s music is to be enjoyed between the veils.

* Air - \"Moon Safari\", \"Talkie Walkie\", \"The Virgin Suicides\" etc. Amazing French electronica duo.

* Allman Brothers - Live at Filmore East. You haven\'t experienced guitars until you\'ve heard this baby when tripping.

* Aphex Twin

* The Apples in Stereo

* Bach, Johanne Sebastian - Do I need to explain why this music is great? Especially the six Brandenburg concertos.

* Banco de Gaia

* Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

* Beastie Boys - The in Sound From Way Out

* The Beatles - \"Abbey Road\", \"Yellow Submarine\", \"Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band\", \"Magical Mystery Tour\" etc. What needs to be said? They\'re the f*****g Beatles!! Once they started writing psychedelic music, they did it as well, if not better than anyone else has ever done. Turn off Your mind relax and float downstream...

* Beck - \"Mutations\", \"Odelay\", \"Midnight Vultures\" etc. Beck is THE link between the folk and beatnik past and the hip-hop present. With the fun, funky, sometimes mellow tunes, disdain for genre conventions, with free-flowing, sometimes absurd and ironic lyrics, and the melding of samples with played instruments fun times are guaranteed. Beck is the man!

* Beethoven

* Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - Ten From Little Worlds

* The Beta Band - The 3 eps

* Biosphere

* Björk - \"Debut\", \"Post\", \"Homogenic\", \"Vespertine\" etc. It is impossible to ignore any emotional response to Björk\'s music. Her voice, lyrics and philosophy fused with the very best of production and orchestration create a life enhancing music.

* Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly

* Bluetech

* Boards of Canada - \"Geogaddi\", \"Music Has the Right to Children\" etc. Scottish IDM (intelligent dance music) full of enigmas and conspiracies - subliminal messages, symbology, and religion, scattered and reversed vocal samples, mathematical timing of beat structures, song titles, colours, cover art, and track lengths... Their sound has frequently been described as curiously nostalgic and it recalls the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970s television.

* Bob Marley: African Herbsman

* Bongos - make your own music, this is always fun while tripping, even if the music sucks!

* Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem

* Brian Eno - \"Another Green World\", \"Music for Airports\", \"The Drop\" etc. Brian Eno is one of those artists that you can have playing in the background for hours while you\'re working on something else, and not be distracted. But he\'s also one of those artists that if you sit down and listen to very closely, you\'ll almost certainly fall into a state of hypnosis.

* B-Tribe - \"Spiritual Spiritual\", \"Fiesta Fatal\" etc. Dramatic Flamenco guitar, ambient synthesizer tonalities, and moody, wordless vocals. Very chilled. It\'s music as mood and mood as music.

* Canned heat:

* Celtic Cross - \"Hicksville\". A very nice chilled psychedelic ambience collaboration between Youth, Simon Posford and Soul James.

* Chemical Brothers

* Cinematic Orchestra

* Classical Music. Pick a favorite symphony or take a wild guess if You don\'t have one. You won\'t be disappointed.

* cLOUDDEAD - \"cLOUDDEAD\", \"Ten\" etc. Three artists, ignoring the rules and doing what comes naturally without care to style or sales. An avant hiphop coalition whose schizophrenic compositions, uninhibited vocal stylings, ambient soundscapes, and polished live show have both impressed and baffled. The mushroom cloud of hip hop psychedelia.

* Coldcut

* Crystal Method - I can\'t believe this isn\'t on this list yet! Is a MUST HAVE if you like techno. Very

full sounding tracks, EXCELLENT for dancing and especially raving! Great variety among beats as opposed

to most techno with is very repetitive.

* Dave Matthew\'s Band: Like most jam bands, Dave\'s Band is disliked by some and enjoyed by many. Their live shows are quite nice. I like Live at Red Rocks a lot. Live in Central Park\'s cool too. Crash is my favorite studio album.

* The Doors:

* De-Phazz - Sort of like Zero7, less structured

* Digitally Imported: Streaming techno and similar genres; Listen to the Chillout channel, absolutely amazing on trips.

* Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes From a Memory

* Dust Brothers, The - \"Fight Club Soundtrack\" dark, ambient trip hop/acid jazz. Very cool, very

dynamic songs with lots of melody changes. They also collaborated with Beck on Odelay.

* Einstürzende Neubauten - \"Silence is Sexy\" etc. Crazy Germans...

* Entheogenic - \"Entheogenic\" and \"Spontaneus Illumination\". A blend of ambient atmospheres, chill out tunes, intelligent electronic dub, surprising ethnic trance, deep organic drums n\' bass, and mixtures of delightful aural environments. Very entheogenic indeed. Their soundlab is currently situated in a 17th century building surrounded by deep forests in southern France.

* Fifth Element Soundtrack - Composed by Eric Serra and others. Lost of orchestra and classical styles

mixed with trippy synthesizers and ambient-ness. Very moving and emotional. The whole cd merges together

into one big song, like a journey.

* Flaming Lips: Less known than Phish but the Lips have been around forever. I especially like Zaireeka! It is a 4 cd album... meant to be played on 4 cd players simultaneously! It makes a great trip activity! What if you don\'t have 4 cd players? Any combination will make for a unique Zaireeka experience. Don\'t worry if the disks aren\'t perfectly synced. It\'ll still do its thing.

* Forest for the Trees - \"Forest for the Trees\" (!), \"The Sound of Wet Paint\". A tripped out Carl Stephenson\'s (Beck\'s musical comrade) home studio masterpiece extraordinaire. The making of the first Forest for the Trees album mentally exhausted Carl so much, that he was finally committed to an asylum by family and friends. Luckily he\'s O.k. now

* Future Sound of London

* Grateful Dead

* Hallucinogen - \"Twisted\", \"The Lone Deranger\", \"In Dub\". The very best psychedelic (Goa) trance brought to You by the genre defining \'hallucinogenius\' Simon Posford. All the trance fans - hold Your hats!!! The album \"In Dub\" contains Hallucinogen tunes remixed to dub by Ott.

* Hotel Costes

* Hexstatic

* Infected Mushroom

* Janis Joplin:

* Jazz Mandolin Project

* Jefferson Airplane

* Jimi Hendrix: OMFG... this guy tripped a lot.

* Joe Satriani - Live in San Francisco

* John Coltraine

* Kaki King - amazing acoustic guitar player.. her music is beautiful and great for tripping

* Karl Denson\'s Tiny Universe

* King Crimson

* Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions

* Led Zeppelin: The best jam band ever. Listen to \'em live once you\'re tired of the studio stuff.

* Lewis Taylor - Lewis Taylor (1996)/The Lost Album (2004) The most criminally underrated musician alive. His self-titled album is a modern psychedelic soul masterpiece, while Lost is an amazing journey through 70\'s rock with shades of Todd Rundgren, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac with throwbacks to 60s bands like CSNY, Love and The Beach Boys.

* Leo Kottke

* Mahavishnu Orchestra

* The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium

* Medeski Martin and Wood (MM&W)

* Miles Davis

* Ministry of Sound - Chillout Sessions anything or Hard NRG and Hard Dance Anthewms for insane, masochistic trips.

* Modest Mouse

* Mr Bungle - California

* Mr. Scruff

* Múm - \"Yesterday Was Dramatic %u2013 Today Is OK\", \"Finally We Are No One\", \"Summer Make Good\" etc. Another Icelandic band making music as pretty and epic as Sigur Rós. Very pretty. For example album \"Summer Make Good\" was written in an isolated Icelandic lighthouse and recorded in a weather-station.

* My Computer - Vulnerabilia

* The Mystery of the Yeti - Parts 1 & 2. A collaboration between The Infinity Project, Hallucinogen, Total Eclipse, Process and Doof. Soundtrack of a ritual journey to a sacred meeting place high in Himalayas to meet the mysterious Yeti. Nice and trippy extraterrestrial ambience.

* Nature Sounds: Best music on earth.

* Neil Young - if u can find anything live from Young s exhaustive touring in the 70s (get on the net) you ll love it

* Nightmares on Wax

* Nine Inch Nails

* Nurse With Wound - \"Sugar Fish Drink\" etc.

* The Orb: Electric gurus of triptronica.

* Ott - \"Blumenkraft\". Another jewel from Twisted Records.

* Ozric Tentacles

* Particle

* Paul Oakenfold\'s \"A Voyage Into Trance\". Not a true Oakenfold album but very nice on mushrooms.

* Paul Oakenfold\'s Tranceport Album

* Pendulum - incredible drum\'n\'bass. Pretty dirty at times.

* Peter Gabriel: He does it... I don\'t know if he meant to... but he does it. Great progressive trip albums... especially his later stuff.

* Philip Glass

* Phish: Some people love \'em, some hate \'em... but there is no denying Phish\'s effectiveness while tripping. Very rhythmic band.

* Pink Floyd: Anything Floyd is good in my book. Get \'em all. Pick a favorite. Floyd knows how to guide a good trip. Piper at the Gates, Ummagumma, Meddle (Echoes from this album is prob my fave tripping song), Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here, The Wall.. their Live at Pompeii dvd is bad ass too

* Portishead: Cool atmospheric stuff... like Sigur Ros or Radiohead\'s later stuff... but different. Portishead has a female singer. Beth\'s awesome. Half Day Closing particularly good tripping track.

* Primeaux and Mike - Native American peyote healing songs. The real deal. Catalog (with samples) at www.canyonrecords.com includes their work and an entire section on Native American tribal peyote music.

* Prodigy: \"Out of Space\" is a must listen track.

* Punjabi Lounge - Indian beats with some nice goa/psy trance entwined.

* Radiohead: I especially like their albums from OK Computer to present. \"Karma Police\" so good high.

* Ravi Shankar: Morning love

* Religious music, or chants: For spiritual trips, helps focus your mind.

* RJD2 - Dead Ringer, Since We Last Spoke

* RUSH - Moving Pictures - (Tripmeister says) RUSH is the most awesome 3 man band ever! A lot of people dislike Getty Lee\'s voice, but you\'ll find that it sounds quite soothing when tripping balls. Alex Lifeson\'s emotional style on lead guitar cannot be matched and Neal Pert\'s expert talent on his massive drum kit is incomparable. If you haven\'t experienced RUSH when shrooming, you haven\'t lived.

* Satie, Erik - French pianist. Great classical music for those who don\'t like classical music.

* Squarepusher - Ultravisitor

* Shpongle - \"Are You Shpongled?\", \"Tales of the Inexpressible\" and \"Nothing Lasts... ...But Nothing is Lost\". A magic carpet ride around the world in a tea daze! Shpongle is one of the most fascinating psychedelic sound performances and is highly recommended for mind bending experiences. They have taken unique and timeless music influences and blended them with the digital mastery of sonic manipulation to bring about a perfect blending of the organic with technology. A good sound system is strongly recommended to fully experience the incredible multi-layered sound effects.

* Shulman - \"Soundscapes and Modern Tales\" and \"In Search of a Meaningful Moment\". Shpongle wannabes or not, this is some very good stuff!

* Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft - \"Nightsong\", \"Duplex Ride\" (!), \"Out Here. In There.\" Astonishing musical empathy between one of the worlds best contemporary jazz singers (Sidsel) and a keyboard and percussions wizard (Bugge). Their intimate intensity will blow Your breath away. Pure magic! Their solo projects (Bugge Wesseltoft\'s New Conception of Jazz etc.) are worth checking out as well.

* Sigur Rós - \"Von\", \"Ágætis Byrjun\", \"()\". The music of Sigur Rós sounds like it\'s constructed from the stuff of dreams. A fairy-tale explosion of unhinged elemental majesty.

* Simian - \"Watch it Glow\", \"Chemistry Is What We Are\" (!), \"We Are Your Friends\". Psychedelic pop experimentalists with a heavy emphasis on \'mental\'.

* Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness particularly. \"In The Arms of Sleep\" is shrooming for me!

* Spacetime Continuum (get Alien Dreamtime with Terence McKenna)

* Spacetribe - 2000 O.D, You Create Your Own Reality, Thru the Looking Glass etc etc - nice, minimal psytrance. They also have a SICK web shop (http://www.spacetribe.com) that sells wicked psychedelic gear - heaps and heaps of psychedelic wall banners, clothes, cd-cases, music, pants etc etc to turn your home/style into a psychedelic dream. Check out the site... you will want everything there.

* Sound Tribe Sector 9

* Stereolab - \"Peng!\", \"Dots and Loops\", \"Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements\", \"Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night\", \"Emperor Tomato Ketchup\", \"Margerine Eclipse\" etc. Stereolab are combining an inclination for melodic 60\'s pop with an art rock aesthetic borrowed from Krautrock bands like Faust and Neu! Essential bright and trippy \"feel-good\" stuff with a Martini party inspired attitude.

* Steve Vai - Anything with steve Vai in it is good for tripping, except for the eighties sh!t. Very magic carpet ride sort of guitar work. Mad sounds you never thought possible from guitar.

* String Cheese Incident

* Takagi Masakatsu - \"Pia\" etc. Very enjoyable Japanese sound experimantalist.

* Talvin Singh

* Terry Riley

* Thievery Corp

* Dr. Timothy Leary - \"The Psychedelic Experience\", \"Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out\", \"Beyond Life\" etc. The PR person of the brain speaks to You directly. Leary is probably the best trip guide there is. Tremendous, monumental, awesome!!!

* Tool - Lateralus, Ænima

* Twin Peaks Soundtrack

* UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

* The Who

* Trans-Siberian Orchestra (kick-ass electronic holiday music)

* Warped Vision - Wouldn\'t call it music so much as orchestrated noise and sound effects specifically designed to send you into a spooky underworld trance.

* Ween - godweensatan: the oneness, The Pod, Pure Guava, and Paintin\' the Town Brown (live) are great. So is the rest of their stuff. Check \'em out for sure.

* Wevie Stonder - \"Stoat\", \"Drawing On Other People\'s Heads\", \"The Age Old Age of Old Age\", \"Kenyan Harry EP\" etc. First - it\'s not a guy, it\'s a band (Itchy Genius, Henry Music and M.C. Hat) that plays a compendium of styles including cack, advanced music and dog interviews. Wevie Stonder combine electronic music, live instruments and unpredictable narrative.

* Widespread Panic

* Wiliam Orbit

* Wu Tang - Liquid Swords

* YES!!!... Yes is Amazing! Simply GREAT music, tripping or not.

* Zero7

* The Garden State Soundtrack - VERY soothing/relaxing. Always helps a stray trip. Good album tripping or not.