If you're like me music can make a huuuuuuuge difference in your workday. So I thought it would be fun to start a daily music recommendation thread.

One record a day.

Mostly ambient, drone, minimal-classical or anything calm and soothing for work.

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Today I'm listening to: Bark Psychosis – Hex

Haunting and breathtakingly beautiful atmospheric post-rock album from 1994.

Favorite track: Eyes & Smiles

Listening link:

Bandcamp link: https://barkpsychosis.bandcamp.com/album/hex 

Good morniiiiiiiiiing my good people.

Today I'm listening to: The Necks - Three

Three extraordinary tracks. Three extraordinary musicians. 64:64 minutes of pure trance jazz from 1 of the most extraordinary groups on the Planet.

Favorite track: Bloom

https://thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/three 

Today I'm listening to: Clarice Jensen - The experience of repetition as death

Immersive, hypnotic, drone meets modern classical LP from Brooklyn-based cellist Clarice Jensen. Composed when her mother was dying of leukemia.

Favorite track: Day tonight.

https://claricejensen.bandcamp.com/album/the-experience-of-repetition-as-death

Today I'm listening to: Windy & Carl - Allegiance & Conviction @krankyltd

Space rock / ambient duo Windy & Carl's first album in 8 years. Get lost in endless loops of glorious, spacey, atmospheric instrumental guitar drone pieces.

Favorite track: Alone

https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/allegiance-and-conviction

Today I'm listening to: Lubomyr Melnyk - Fallen Trees @ErasedTapes

Glorious, mind-melting, continuous piano music from the World's most gifted and fastest pianist.

Favorite track: Part I: Preamble

Listening link:

Bandcamp link: https://lubomyrmelnyk.bandcamp.com/album/fallen-trees

Today I'm listening to: Blinkar från Norr - Metaphors For Things @asip

Pure musical heaven for fans of slow, thoughtful, melancholic ambient music.

Favorite track: Awakening

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/metaphors-for-things

Today I'm listening to: Matt Christensen - I Laid It On The Mountain, And Then The Mountain Died

Wonderful, slow, dreamy ambient / space rock guitar soundscapes. For fans of Windy & Carl.

Favorite track: Shutter down

https://mattchristensensolo.bandcamp.com/album/i-laid-it-on-the-mountain-and-then-the-mountain-died

Today I'm listening to: Toshifumi Hinata - Broken Belief @MusicFromMemory

Sublime Japanese ambient, slightly Jazzy & new agey album. Sounds like an imaginary soundtrack of a Takeshi Kitano or a Hayao Miyazaki movie.

Favorite track: Broken Belief

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/broken-belief

Today I'm listening to: Endless Melancholy - A Perception Of Everything via @soundinsilence_

Wonderful, cinematic ambient album. For fans of Loscil, Logic Moon and Warmth.

Favorite track: The Edge

https://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-perception-of-everything

Something a lil different today: Emerson - If You Need Me, Call Me

Wonderful blend of electrofunk, boogie and 80s soul.

Favorite track: Sending all my love (Demo Version)

https://kalitarecords.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-need-me-call-me

Today I'm listening to: Sourakata Koité - en Hollande

Superb Senegalese solo Kora album. WTF is a kora? A string instrument that sounds like a harp. In Western Africa kora players are known as "Jali", which means "Storyteller”.

Favorite track: Ha-Madi
https://sourakatakoite.bandcamp.com/album/en-hollande

Good morniiiiiiiiiing

Today's work soundtrack: Steve Good - Nothing Is Ever Created Or Destroyed

Beautiful, serene, ambient album from a Welsh ambient producer based in Japan.

Favorite track: Portal

https://stevegood.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-is-ever-created-or-destroyed

Today's work soundtrack: Hotel Neon - Vanishing Forms

Hauntingly beautiful ambient excursions. For fans of: Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

Favorite track: Falling Away

https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/vanishing-forms

Today's work soundtrack: Mirroring - Foreign Body

Drone/dream pop/ambient goodness. A wonderful colab between Liz Harris (Grouper) and Jesy Fortino (Tiny Vipers).

Favorite track: Cliffs
https://mirrorring.bandcamp.com/album/foreign-body

Today's work soundtrack: Move D & Benjamin Brunn: Let's Call It A Day

Wonderful dreamy ambient house excursions.

Favorite track: Ω

https://smallville-records.bandcamp.com/album/smallville-lp-13-move-d-benjamin-brunn-lets-call-it-a-day

Today I'm listening to: Albrecht La’Brooy - Healesville

For fans of serene ambient soundscapes a la Gigi Masin and Jonny Nash.

Favorite track: Sean's Lullaby
https://albrechtlabrooy.bandcamp.com/album/healesville

Today I'm listening to: HTRK - Over The Rainbow

The soundtrack to Jeremy Piexoto’s 2019 Scientology documentary. Not exactly what you'd expect from HTRK. But that's wonderful! For fans of melancholic Drone / Ambient

Listening link:

Today's work soundtrack: Innesti + Jacob Newman - Spoke of Several

Beautiful, calm, dreamy, meditative ambient soundscapes. For fans of Steve Hauschildt and bvdub.

Favorite track: Video dreams.

https://jacobnewman.bandcamp.com/album/spoke-of-several

Today's work soundtrack: Tim Hecker - The Ravedeath 1972

Distorted, dark, intense, haunting, soul crushingly beautiful ambient drone sounds.

Favorite track: In the Air II

https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/ravedeath-1972

Today's work soundtrack: CV & JAB - Landscape Architecture

6 gorgeous piano tracks + 6 experimental trips.

Favorite track: Phantom Tunnel https://johnalsobennett.bandcamp.com/album/landscape-architecture

Today's work soundtrack: Offthesky & The Humble Bee - We Were The Hum Of Dreams

Rin Howell's voice is pure valium. https://offthesky.bandcamp.com/album/we-were-the-hum-of-dreams

Today's work soundtrack: Ishmael Cormack - Ammil

Music to chill with someone special.

Favorite track: Slow ungive

(Thanks @_Mr_Frankie_ for the tip ) https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/ammil 

Today’s soundtrack: Andrea - Ritorno

Sounds like a techno version of Goldie.

Favorite track: Attimo https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp06-andrea-ritorno

Today’s soundtrack: Yumiko Morioka - Resonance

Japanese ambient piano album from 1987. Musical keyboard

Favorite track: Komorebi https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/resonance 

Today's work soundtrack: Move D - Building Bridges

Mind-expanding deep house / ambient house excursions.

Favorite track: Init https://ausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/building-bridges

Today's work soundtrack: Graintable - Universal Ash

Sounds like a modern Jean Michel-Jarre.

Favorite track: Vision Quest https://graintable.bandcamp.com/album/universal-ash

Today's work soundtrack: Soho Rezanejad - Six Archetypes

Sounds like a mix between Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil and The Cure.

Favorite track: Greed Wears a Disarming Face https://digital.siliconerecords.net/album/six-archetypes

Today's work soundtrack: The Necks - Aquatic

52:70 minutes of trance jazz glory.

Favorite track: Aquatic 1 https://thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/aquatic 

Today’s soundtrack: Auscultation - III

Favorite track: Glowing Hearts In The Rainbow Room

Divine, smooth melodic synths, head music. https://auscultation.bandcamp.com/album/iii 

Today’s soundtrack: Navy Blue - Àdá Irin

This is how hip-hop should sound like.

Favorite track: Crash! https://navybluethetruest.bandcamp.com/album/d-irin 

Today’s work soundtrack: Suso Saiz - Nothing Is Objective

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

Favorite track: Abrazo Mirando https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-is-objective

Today’s work soundtrack: Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - A Heart So White

Beautiful piano works and ambient soundscapes.

Favorite track: Knife https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/a-heart-so-white

Today's work soundtrack: How To Disappear Completely - Seraphim

Turn the volume up, float away.

Favorite track: Seraph III https://htdc.bandcamp.com/album/seraphim 

Today's work soundtrack: Cofaxx - It Became Clearer

Sublime hazy, laidback, floating ambient soundscapes.

Favorite track: Circus Eve https://jass.bandcamp.com/album/it-became-clearer

Today's work soundtrack: A Winged Victory for the Sullen - The Undivided Five

Music for all the introverts out there.

Favorite track: Aqualung, Motherfucker https://awvfts.bandcamp.com/album/the-undivided-five