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Music to Fly By...

Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 10:35 pm
by Cloud Mariner
I missed out (again) on a Nephi fly out! So, I headed to youtube in pursuit of an earlier idea to look into music that might enhance the atmosphere of a desert - the Nephi landscape is really incredible and inspiring it seems to invoke all kinds of thoughts and feelings - I suppose it's a primitive primordial place that forces all kinds of thoughts and images to bubble up. (or am I just weird?)

Anyway, enough of my windbaggery! Here are a couple of pieces you can find on Youtube:

Arvo Part - Spiegel im Spiegel - seems to be his most well-known. Love how it always returns to the same place
The Dasht e Kavir Desert Persian Trance - a lot of Persian music seems to mimic wind and the natural harmonics found in those environments

What inspires where you fly - I'd love to know! (maybe it's good ol silence)

Re: Music to Fly By...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 3:34 am
by kharmon
I have a Pandora channel dedicated to dance music so I can pretend I'm flying in one of Balleka's videos.

https://www.pandora.com/station/play/35 ... 5621462469

Re: Music to Fly By...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 5:00 am
by Cloud Mariner
Just so long as you don't start dancing in the cockpit :P

Re: Music to Fly By...

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 11:57 pm
by sisu1a
I discovered Spotted Peccary Music some years back watching a popular DVD, Redline Sky I believe. They have a bunch of free stuff you can download as well as podcasts of mellow, downtempo, backbeat classical-ish ambient music that imo goes great with soaring. Lots of David Helping, Steve Roach, or Brian Enoch, Craig Padilla... artists like that.

https://spottedpeccary.com/shop/product ... -download/
https://spottedpeccary.com/podcasts/

Here's some Spotted Peccary vid samples to get a feel for their offerings







There are a lot of good ambient feeds on itunes too that are less structured and more sound-scapey, some of my favorites are Bluemars, Cryosleep, Dronezone, Ambient Sleeping Pill... and many others. I prefer this type of less structured 'music' and soundscapes but Spotted Peccary fills this niche for soaring quite well imo.