Peaceful piano music

Godfather

Okay, so I was browsing this odd website called flyscape:

http://www.whereisthemoon.com/fly/

Nifty little site, but something that caught my attention was the piano music in the background. So peaceful!

Suddenly I am in the mood for some piano music that sounds similar to this piece. I'm not really looking for classical works, just something simple and clean, like the one setting up the ambiance throughout that island setup.

Can anyone help?

Casually Hardcore

I heard this before, sounds like a Final Fantasy tune. Not sure though but it defiantly belongs to some RPG.

Funny thing is, RPGs are a great source of such piano pieces.

theclam

It sounds a lot like some minimalist composers I've heard. I'd maybe start with Philip Glass or Erik Satie, although the music on that website is a little bit more upbeat.

Go here and skip through until you find stuff that you like:
http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Philip%2BGlass/similarartists

Godfather

Yeah, I guess upbeat would be appropriate.

If there's some good rpg piano music out there, that'd be nice too, but i'm real hesitant on that because for most RPG games it starts sounding too MIDI and not like the real thing.

Mike Danger

Philip Glass' Solo Piano album is very relaxing. I frequently put it on repeat while studying.

Reznik

Some songs from NIN's Ghosts are very relaxing.

My recommendations are: 1 Ghosts I, 12 Ghosts II, 13 Ghosts II (this especially holy crap it is like laying in the tall grass on a warm summer day), 22 Ghosts III (sort of, some other instrumentation comes in about a minute in)

Some non-Ghosts relaxing piano NIN: Adrift and at Peace, Gone Still

Really my top recommendations would be 13 Ghosts II and Adrift And At Peace.

Cokebotle

Godfather wrote: »

Yeah, I guess upbeat would be appropriate.

If there's some good rpg piano music out there, that'd be nice too, but i'm real hesitant on that because for most RPG games it starts sounding too MIDI and not like the real thing.

You can actually find CDs that are instrumental versions of RPG music. I few years ago I picked up the Final Fantasy S and N generation CDs, which take popular FF music and have orchestras/symphonies perform them. I also have a piano only collection of Final Fantasy 5 and Final Fantasy 9 music.

JaysonFour

...I know that the Final Fantasy soundtrack I have (the Playstation one) has a really nice version of "Eyes on Me" from FFVIII and "Ami" (the Balamb Garden theme) in piano. I like them both.

Bendery It Like Beckham

Debussy's Claire de Lune

I love it, but it's not like the music in the background of this game

And the fact that I just found out it was used in twilight makes me so angry

so angry

Mmmm... Cocks...

I'm not a classical junkie, but since I was a kid I always loved Fur Elise.

Flay

I was actually thinking of making a topic along the same lines as this, so I'll be eager to hear everyone's suggestions.

By the way, the music on the website you mentioned is from the Beyond Good and Evil soundtrack. It's free to download, in MP3 format, here. I have to say this is honestly one of the best game soundtracks out there.

Here's a couple of others I can think of:

• Beyond Good and Evil - Thoughtful Reflections (also available from the link above)
• Trash 80 - Out of Breath (available here)
• Trash 80 - Impact of Silence (also available from the link above)
• Xerxes - Slide (available here)
• Joe Hisaishi - Train Ride (Spirited Away soundtrack)
• Thomas Newman - Any Other Name
• Gary Jules - Mad World

That's all I can think of now.

EDIT: Oh, none of these are really upbeat. But I find them relaxing and peaceful at least, and I'd definately recommend them all.

Godfather

Well whatever that song is classified as. It's relaxing and peaceful, but upbeat/uplifting at the same time.

Also Flay is the best people.

Sol Invictus

I like the Democritus theme in Anachronox. I heard something similar to it on some travel documentary. The piano's like, they do some kind of 'steps' thing. I really don't know how to describe it.

Godfather

Looks like you need a password in order to listen to those Beyond Good and Evil tracks.

I downloaded the .rar file fine, it's just that anytime I click on an mp3 it asks for a password.

Crud.

Sol Invictus

Godfather wrote: »

Looks like you need a password in order to listen to those Beyond Good and Evil tracks.

I downloaded the .rar file fine, it's just that anytime I click on an mp3 it asks for a password.

Crud.

The password is MySpace.com/HyllianMusic

Godfather

Sol Invictus is the best kind of people.

Flay

I found this with a bit of searching. It's nice and simple - and peaceful of course.

EDIT: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is a nice piece to chill out to too.

Sol Invictus

If you like peaceful piano music, you may also like peaceful guitar music from the likes of Andy McKee and Antoine Dufour. Here are some of my favorites:

Antoine Dufour - Trilogie

Andy McKee - Rylynn

The_Glad_Hatter

Video Game Pianist has free downloads. calming and or cheerful piano music...

Ioga

Whisperings Solo Piano Radio is perfect for this kind of thing. It's free, and you can find it easily if you have iTunes under it's classical radio section. It has a great selection with very occasional breaks for a commercial asking you to subscribe and support the station. Other than that, it's just cool, soothing, beautiful solo piano music.

It's my personal favorite for when I'm writing or working - it fills the silence beautifully without drawing much of my attention.

Some songs will no matter what though

Buddies

I've recently discovered, and starting learning to play Love by John Lennon . That is the full song, the beginning is kind of quiet, and is probrably why you find a lot of versions that start kind of in the middle right before he starts singing.

SideAffects

check out Yiruma or Ludovico Einaudi (my personal favorite)

Dunadan019

i have almost every single final fantasy piano song ever made and i can safely say that the music there is not from final fantasy (or incidently chrono trigger)

mere_immortal

One of my favourites by far, from FF9

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-FiH5NxeObQ

Silvoculous

You can find plenty of good pieces at OC Remix, a favorite of mine being this Dalaam remix from Earthbound.

Scrublet

I thought the FF-X piano-only CD was amazing.

Tofystedeth

All the FF Piano collections are pretty good. Joe Hisashi also has a lot of great stuff.
Chopin's Nocturnes and Ballades are good and mostly relaxing.

Casually Hardcore

Okay so I was way off, but here's the music from that website

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=68mnIYUOry8

Post Blue

I feel I should mention both Karen Marie Garrett and Frank Kimbrough. Not necessarily uplifting material, but quietly thoughtful, and peaceful as such.

Godfather

Some good recommendations fellas.

Sol - I'm actually well aware of Candyrat records, and am actually working on learning Antoine Dufour's Song for Stephen. And of course Andy McKee is fantastic.

If anyone would like to continue contributing, please feel free.

Malfael

Chopin's Raindrop Prelude. Peaceful, melancholy monotony (of the best sort).

Here is a link to Vladimir Horowitz playing the piece:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=825Ekk1u3mQ

If you're looking for generally peaceful music, maybe try Kansas' Dust in the Wind, or Moby's Porcelain. Radiohead's There There. It's all very decent, and very mellow.