Music for health

[Dannyhood91]

I've recently come out of one my signature meltdowns and had a particularly nasty one. One thing that helped me keep my mind from completely falling apart was relaxing music. Primarily this rearrangement of Canon D Minor https://youtu.be/DEpW4mwF8sA

It really took me out of my reality and soothed me.

I could also recount how I helped deal with my panic attacks in 2016 by playing and even attending Death Grips. It's odd that such loud music had a remedying outcome but it really made and still makes me feel in control.

Anyone else got any examples of how musics helped you health wise?

[jobotic]

Nope, but just wanted to say that I love that piece you've posted.

[Dannyhood91]

Nope, but just wanted to say that I love that piece you've posted.

It's lovely isn't it. The album it's from is called Discreet Music and has two other arrangements of that piece

[jobotic]

Yeah I know it well - was just complimenting you on your taste.

[Brundle-Fly]

In Giles Smith's excellent autobiography, Lost In Music, in one chapter he talks about getting possibly fatally ill and during his long treatment process he found himself bedridden most of the time. Smith decided to listen to the doleful sounds of The Blue Nile to get him through because he believed if he listened to his favourite upbeat stuff and survived, he could never hear something like Aretha Franklyn again as it would bring back dreadful memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNgSwtRqLmg

[jobotic]

It's lovely isn't it. The album it's from is called Discreet Music and has two other arrangements of that piece

Eno came up with Discreet music when laid up after an accident, didn't he?

[BlodwynPig]

I think this one is spot on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4TzYuhL6jw

[purlieu]

A Winged Victory for the Sullen's self-titled album is my go-to if I need something to soothe an anxious mind and body. In particularly, the second side's centrepiece 'A Symphony Pathetique', which is the most blissfully calming piece of music I've ever heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbY0cMvU6dc

[chveik]

maybe this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-P183jzdfw

[Brundle-Fly]

Eno came up with Discreet music when laid up after an accident, didn't he?

This very thing discussed fifteen minutes ago on 6Music during an interview with The Orb. That's a weird coincidence as I've never heard Discreet Music until earlier today on this thread.

[Twed]

That's because it's so di...

Nah.

[wosl]

In the immediate wake of my old man's death, not only could I not stomach rock, pop or jazz, but even most ambient seemed to become robbed of its power to calm and reassure.  The only music to provide solace was of the much reviled new-age type.  Early Durutti Column drew a blank.  Even the most delicate and stately of Eno's solo and collaborative ambient things seemed too melancholic, or austere, or freighted with some quality preventing them from acting as a salve.  In this instance, only expressly bland flute-y or wind-chime-y stuff was bearable and able to take me out of myself.  (I remember Michael Brook's Hybrid being about the only thing from the Eno/Editions EG stable that was neutral and dilute enough in terms of its 'beatifics' for me to listen to.)

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

https://anotherfineday.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-mri-scanners

This is my fairly literal recommendation.

More going on here than generic CHILL OUT but serving the purpose of its existence.