Chiming atmospheric music that's perfect for a snowy day

Trying to find the perfect soundtrack to the winter. Unfortunately, I live somewhere very warm and have to pretend it's cold outside. I wish I liked Terje Isungset more because he's everything I'm looking for...in theory. Any suggestions, folks?

In a silent way.

the water by feist

It's more icily unsettling and mournful, but portions of the soundtrack from Orlando constitute a good, moody listening experience for me in winter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHXLgj5T_wY&list=PLXpXBPhnIg0D3TIKM7mgio_K79y2J56KU&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Io1DiMBKU&list=PLXpXBPhnIg0D3TIKM7mgio_K79y2J56KU

sorry for lack of embedding...

Not really what you're asking for, but a while back I made a snow-themed Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/79BpcMhAdD7vfwOYqZNdli

John Beltran - Ten days of Blue

https://soundcloud.com/lb-goldcat/snow-rmx-b2

friend remixed some guaraldi, we then put some clarinet on it. "it snowed"

Eno - Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now

It's the troll-est title, but Music For Lazy People by Waki (on the Traum label) has a reich on klonopin vibe that's pan-seasonal

Great recommendations so far. Does anyone know if Terje Isungset has any albums that are totally instrumental?

There is a winter thread devoted to Cold House by Hood which makes a strong case, I've tried but can't ever seem to get past the singing.

yeah, the singing is what ruins a couple of these for me. just want to be whisked away to a glacier, y'know.

don't need to hear about the power of dreams or listen to a man yodel

In a silent way.

― xelab, Friday, December 13, 2013 8:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Roy Montgomery's Scenes From the South Island. The rest of you can go home.

The first Pantha du prince record, the instrumental one, is good for long drives through snowy mountains. Also, Laura groves.

Eyvind Kang's Virginal Coordinates, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42yDPbo-rD0

Nice one. I own that on CD. I totally forgot about it.

One of the only Mike Patton vocal performances I can tolerate.

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

^ Snow Palms album from 2012

http://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/quanta-of-light

whoops - specifically meant to post this:

http://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/unleash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2yaPJxTN4o

also, kinda: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/12/christmas_light_tour_soundtrack.php

Xela ‎– For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights

budd/eno - ambient 2

Massive Attack - Black Milk

Orbital - Way Out

Aim - Cold Water Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8UDOmUcxCk

I always listen to this when it snows

morton feldman - string quartet no. 2

i am performing an experiment on this subject right now, in this order

pantha du prince - this bliss
daniel avery - drone logic
jon hopkins - immunity

could really use some hot chocolate, too bad the store is so far away

enya - and winter came

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fLXaX6_Bck

it's not Schubert but it's certainly seasonal

Biosphere & Higher Intelligence Agency - Polar Sequences

It is the season of forced jollity, again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpUUBL68vk8

lawrence's 'the absence of blight' is good for this too, it's like watching snowy fields from a train.

If I'm walking through snow, I wanna hear Grieg's "Klokkeklang" (Bell-Ringing) for piano.

90s Low has the right stillness and space plus gorgeous harmonies. Try the Long Division LP. "Shame" or "Violence"' will give you a taste.

sorry for self-linking but it's pretty fucking glacial and chime-y:
http://duttyartz.bandcamp.com/track/ice-harvesting

Anyone else?

Want that feeling of being trapped on a glacier with the wind whistling past my ears and a glaciaxylophone is quietly playing somewhere far away

man, low is the answer, especially if you're looking for music for a cold winter day. if you're looking for cold weather night-music, the list opens up, e.g., burial; dirty beaches; the sinking of the titanic; the disintegration loops; etc., etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmoqukA0B4Y

Aim - Cold Water Music

Trying to figure out how this sounds anything like the topic title

The artwork and name are nice, though

Music for 18 Musicians

tune is space otm

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Samourai1978/cold__arctic_ambient/

I've been working through this list. It's actually pretty good.

https://soundcloud.com/rushhourrecords/osborne-oyasumi

^^^ Wrapped up warm inside music. Listen with hot chocolate with brandy in it.

Also, Vespertine in its entirety obviously.

Had never heard Pantha Du Prince before, really liking that. Thanks.

This is a pretty good one, especially latter half of the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-Dexcd-eQ

I mean, this album generally works. This is a good one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdjaoY7i7j0

Jan Garbarek, perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nt4GKxd7Ms

It snowed today and I played the John Beltran. Some of the tracks work, some don't.

i always thought oni ayhun - oar003b worked really well for wintery-chimey vibes, and i was gonna mention that pantha du prince / bell labs thing too

Codeine - The White Birch

Hauschka had a Christmas record, or a winter record, or something, that was good.

Arvo Part's Fur Alina - especially on headphones while walking in clean, crystalline snow.

Maybe the Ryuichi Sakamoto/Alva Noto collaborations might suit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKH2VThV_00

Atom TM - Winterreise

This Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory is almost exactly what I've been looking for. All I remember of Pantha du Prince is that he did a track or two with Panda Bear, which made me reluctant to further check him out. I know that's a really shitty way to go about listening to music, but I just find those guys so distasteful.

Anyway, thanks. You've opened my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSyAlo7AUA

Bach Harpsichord stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZLxxR23K4

dropping some Michael Garrison science on y'all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMa1EFEHMhM

can't find any videos, but richard pinhas's "iceland" fits this thread perfectly

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-OP7dlRZd0/TyqK2tofE8I/AAAAAAAAAno/yY-4TcIEWNI/s1600/Richard_Pinhas_Iceland_1979.jpeg

it snowed today and I played the John Beltran. Some of the tracks work, some don't.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, December 20, 2013 6:08 PM (2 days ago)

mb more fitting for "snowy day seen from a moving train"

iceland is perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KesjXvHx5Y

Ruth White does Debussy:

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

Will second the earlier recommendation for John Luther Adams. Check "The Light That Fills The World" for some crystalline beauty.

Any inspiration from the current weather?

Well, it is bright, sunny and warmer here, so I would say Laraaji's "Day of Radiance".

Though we did still have more snow last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeTSm36SpaE

That thread about "extremely twinkly music" reminded me to bump this thread.

http://youtu.be/TgO9SutR2Ww

duane pitre - feel free

Hunting for more of this, if anyone's discovered anything since.

Seefeel - Quique scratches this itch for me

Fancy a sleigh ride?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y_Ckol08nM

obscure ambient IDM record by Mileece called Formations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KURs2dL6Tt4

exorcist theme / toobular bells edit

Slowdive - Eriks song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBJdIvRwz8

Thurston Moore/Tom Surgal "Lydia's Moth" (really beautiful duo)

also, Thurston's guitar bits on the Heavy motion picture soundtrack, especially "Victor and Callie". used to lead off a lot of mix tapes with that track, and/or "Blossom" by The Folk Implosion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yHuDKlcn-k

this is more for like, if it's snowing outside and there isn't heating in your poorly insulated apartment

Eno's "Small Craft on a Milk Sea" specifically excellent while looking out the window of a moving train during a heavy snow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAWl622Q4yk

this is more of a summer nights album, but it's pretty, regardless

This track is always on my Winter chill playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJPIYm8TF7o

And this one (more piano than chimes though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntqGixK6P4w

it's all about latter day ECM this time of year for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkbf1-cVUuY

*steeping chamomile tea*

finally listened to that Richard Pinhas's Iceland earlier

sort of unsettling and abrasive. not quite what i was looking for. :(

I like the cover art, though. I was hopeful.

Lithops - umi unit has some gorgeous, warm and groovy tracks. along the same lines, Microstoria Model 3, Step 2 sets up an ultra-warm, fragmented, and melody-rich atmosphere - there's a strong plasticity and fluid quality of action to the sound structures.

in a similar vein, it's not snowing but it's cold and gray outside -- oval's systemisch is sounding pretty great rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGJwxJQbP3U

that oval is nice. ovalprocess is the only album of his that i've really embraced, though "do while" is sublime.

we got another, heavier (5 inches on the benches) snowstorm last night in the Salt Lake Valley. even though i'm not a native, "we don't get storms like we used to." - i hope that changes.

https://soundcloud.com/leheron_idletones/it-snowed-feet-are-cold-version

usually break this track out, every time we get our first storm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoFKMA6Dcak