Music for the Soul

Music for your meditations is more than just going to Wal-Mart and picking up a CD of environmental sounds or the latest Yanni tunes. Finding the right music for your meditations is essential to the meditation process. It is about self realization and self expression. It is what guides you into new realms. It is what brings about the images that will carry you to the sacred place. That is the goal of meditation.

I have been asked on numerous occasions about recommended meditation music. I have spent the last 6 hours combing through music to give you my top picks. I have separated the music into 2 categories for easier choosing: Light Ambient and Dark Ambient. The Light Ambient music houses a list of various styles: Native American, Piano, Neo-Classical, Indian, Environmental, Celtic and so on. The Dark Ambient section is a list of darker sounds; a lot of Goths, Pagans, Vampires, Horror Fans and others prefer the dark or heavier sounds to meditate to.

For sampling the music I have recommended, 2 good places: Last.FM and Amazon.com. Most of the music can be bought at Amazon.com or through the artists own websites and scrobbled/sampled at Last.FM.

Most of the artists below have has several CDs to pick from. I have chosen my favorites from each artist to recommend to you for your meditations. This is just a very small list of wonderful meditation music to pick from. I can also tell you that if you are just in the mood for some good chill-out music, relaxing music to sleep by or need good music for your 'tantric connections' then this is a fairly good list of for your listening pleasure.

I have them listed in no particular order:


Light Ambient:

Artist - Album

Anugama - Shamanic Dream II
Dean Evenson - Healing Sanctuary
The World Of Osho - In Wonder: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Osho Musicians - Ten Thousand Budhas
Pete Namlook - Air
Medwyn Goodall - The Grail Quest
Ben Tavera King & Eric Casillas - Hunting Magic
Dean Evenson & Soundings Ensemble - Soundings Tapestry
Kitaro - An Ancient Journey
David & Steve Gordon - Sacred Spirit Drums
Paul Schwartz - State Of Grace III
Kamal - Mystery Road
Anthony Miles - Even Wolves Dream
Bioshpere - Substrata
Tangerine Dream - Dream Sequence
Acoustic Alchemy - Early Alchemy
Genius Loci - Hortus Sanitatis
Harold Budd - Glyph
Jeffrey Koepper - Etherea
The Sushi Club - Sushidelic
R. Carlos Nakai - Earth Spirit
Chinmaya Dunster - Yoga On Sacred Ground
Tom Barabas - Piano Impressions
Aeoliah - Divinaura
Upanishad - Spiritual Chillout
Green Sun - Non-Complex
Ellis Hadlock - Pyramid Dreams
Rodrigo Rodriguez - Across the East
Sangit Om - The Feng Shui Effect
Palash - On a Gentle Shore
Bahramji & Maneesh de Moor - Call of the Mystic
2002 - River of Stars
Meditation - Food of Love
Thom Brennan - Silver
Sounds that Sooth - Silver Streams
Ravi Shankar - Enchanted Dawn
Al Gromer Khan - Turya
Deva Premal - Embrace
Parijat - Buddha Garden
Vangelis - Antarctica
Enigma - Love Sensuality Devotion



Dark Ambient:

Artist - Album

Paan - Phosphor
Vestigial - Aeon
Abandoned Toys - The Witch's Garden
Rapoon - Cidar
Lull - Continue
Necrophorus - Gathering Composed Thoughts
Atum - Where are you Europe?
Midnight Syndicate - Born of the Night
Bruno Sanfilippo - Visualia
Hans Christian - Phantoms
Nox Arcana - Carnival Of Lost Souls
Arcana - Dark Age of Reason
Robert Rich - Trances / Drones
Lustmord - Heresy
Kevin Braheny - Desert Solitaire
Mathias Grassow - Prophecy
Instincts - The Mystery Visions
Dargaard - Eternity Rites
Funeral Catering Service - Graveyards & Hilltops
Post Scriptvm - Sea Green Series
Coph Nia - Shape Shifter
Dead Voices on Air - Shap
Crassus - These Darkening Days
Steve Roach - Artifacts
Kilvo - Take Me To The Castle In The Sky
Felixdroid - Odd Dots and Squiggles
The Future Sound of London - Cascade
Henri Seroka - Celtic The Music Of The Kells
Project Divinity - Divinity
Dark Sanctuary - De Lumière et d'Obscurité
Mystical Sun - Deeperworlds
Bardoseneticcube - Strange Various
Algol - Searching for Inner and Outer Void
Kammarheit - The Starwheel
Gustaf Hildebrand - Primordial Resonance
Entheogenic - Spontaneous Illumination
Ophelia's Dream - All Beauty Is Sad
Zoviet France - Decriminalisation Of Country Music
Ultra Milkmaids - Music For Dreamachine