How to classify this?

[Dorsetmike]

http://www.youtube.com/user/okanokumo?v=2E_WUZ5FvtE

I find it pleasantly restful, but does it fall into any particular genre? Mood music?

 

[Dorsetmike]

Some more different stuff, again I like it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBNhRR7_VbE

Artie Shaw's Gramercy 5 note harpsichord in place of piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1PIbRMvD9A

Still with harpsichords, now with a flute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU3XMiIlp4A

Definitely different

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVaJL5U6oEM&feature=relmfu

 

[wljmrbill]

http://www.youtube.com/user/okanokumo?v=2E_WUZ5FvtE

I find it pleasantly restful, but does it fall into any particular genre? Mood music?

I agree.very beautiful soothing work. Almost reminds me of some of Yanni's style of piano ( playing/composition ). I am leaning to "crossover style".

 

[White Knight]

http://www.youtube.com/user/okanokumo?v=2E_WUZ5FvtE

I find it pleasantly restful, but does it fall into any particular genre? Mood music?

For me, it's very pleasant--but a little too "kitschy" and "artsy-fartsy"--meditation muzak. Pics are nice, though.

 

[musicteach]

I'd just call it relaxation music.

 

[John Watt]

C'mon, c'mon, type it, type it, "new age music". There. I did it.
Not ambient, soothing, relaxing, mellow, muted, over-eq'd, mood or culturally ancient,
and that's not the brujedo Don Juan getting Yaqui with his desert flute.

To be real about it, I see it as one person doing it all with a synthesizer.
The difference here for me, as a genre, is whether it's a drum machine or real drummer.

Eric Satie's "Les Gymnopiedes" is a very meditative piece, Cmaj7 to Fmaj7,
right up there with the solo piano of Beethoven's C#m piece, known as "Moonlight Sonata".
If you want a deep and varied musical voyage, please, listen on studio headphones with
"Moon, turn the tides, gently, gently away, a merman I would be",
on "Electric Ladyland" by Jimi Hendrix, music that moves so much it still moves me.

 

[teddy]

First piece was very relaxing, I can listen to that sort of thing without any trouble. The rest was interesting, but not really my choice of music.

teddy

 

[yagerlin]

Nice youtube vidoe

 

[John Watt]

Sometimes I need John Coltrane or Nicolo Paganini beating down on my musical brain,
to relax me.