Favorite Instrumental Albums

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Not necessarily by classical composers....anything you are loving at the moment , whether it be piano compositions or instrumental arrangements.

Right now I am loving Danny Wright~Soulmates
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000054A4S/ref=m_art_li_5/104-8671678-3148705?v=glance&s=music
So beautiful and relaxing, tugging at my heartstrings ALL the fuckn time. By far one of my favorite piano composers.

Coming in very close is Suzanne Ciani~Pianissimo her first fully acoustic piano recording.
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My favorites are Inverness, Aegean Wave, Tuscany....actually the whole damn album is so freakin gorgeous. I can listen to it for a full day, working or writing ; it is peaceful, deep and moving.
 
Edit: After reading your post I feel I may have posted something different then you would of like, but whatever, these are amazing instrumental albums in their own right.

Squarepusher- Music is One Rotted Note, proving that he is not only an amazing digital arranger but can rock so hard on "real" instruments, funky bass, amazing drumming, rips on the keys, its an amazing fusion of electronic and old school Davis-esque jazz fusion.

Garage A Trois- Emphasizer and Outre Mer, both great new jazz albums, Charlie Hunter+Stanton Moore+Skerik=unreal

Herbie Hancock- Fat Albert Rotunda, Funky/Jazzy/Fun check it out. amazing horn arrangements too.

The Lounge Lizards- Voice of Chunk, Jazz coming from the Rock/Funk direction, original with an amazing band, great musicians, the drummer has some of the best beats I have ever heard.

Mouse on Mars- (any of their cds, but i guess some aren't instrumental) Niun Niggung, is the MoM album I am listening to alot now but every one is worth it, electronic music played by musicians, a bassist a drummer and a guy on laptops/synths/sampling, original and unlike any one elses music ever.

Isotope 217, Utonian Automatic, crazy jazz from some of the guys from Tortoise and other musicians, spacey, mellow and always engaging. check it out.

Medeski Martin and Wood- The Dropper, acid drenched spacey jazz, noisy, disjointedly funky at times, beautiful to listen too.

John Scofield- Uberjam, Funky with a world music edge, amazing musicians all around, check this out

Wow thats alot... and I have alot more, but these are some of my favs... most of the music i listen to is instrumental anyways.
 
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neat thread. i like thos sort of music and know aboslutely nothing about it, so i will have to check out some of the stuff you are all listing :)
 
Kashmir: Led Zeppelin Symphonic album by the London Philharmonic

Some of the songs on this are gems. Especially 'The Battle of Evermore'.
 
All of Buckethead's are great.

I also like many string quartet tributes (Tool, A Perfect Circle, System of a Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, etc)
 
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

Broken Social Scene - Fell Good Lost

Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Artifact

Most of those already mentioned are great. MMW, DJ Shadow, John Scofield, Aphex Twin, Tortise, Mogwai and Steve Roach all put out good albums consistently.
 
Tryptamine*Dreamer said:
Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence

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local legends down here coming from rural England, nice choice, they recorded alot of their stuff in an old mill that they turned into a recording studio.

Ill had The Headhunters - Survival of the fittest, first time I heard that albumn it blew me away.
 
Jim Brickmans The Disney Songbook.
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I have ALL the disney soundtracks on disc...this one made a select few of them sound even better =D I love it!
 
>>autechre - [untitled], sure its not [untilted]?>>

yes. [untitled] came out in like 1998, and really doesn't have a title.
"untilted" just came out...they're being funny.

ebola
 
You are fucking joking about Jim Brickman.

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Any Charles Mingus or Thelonious Monk. I personally think that the Ken Burns Mingus comp is an exceptional selection. Duke Ellington is also sweet. (But, oh, you say, Miles Davis too! I like him and Coltrane but somehow I like the earthiness of Mingus and Monk more.)

Cinematic Orchestra also rocks my socks.

Right now I am listening to the soundtrack of Chat Noir, Chat Blanc, which is awesome.

I am a classical music enthusiast as well, and particularly like Itzhak Perlman and Andres Segovia. Composers are just gonna clutter up this page! =D
 
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