I will start off today with a little advice for you.
For free.If you ever find yourself getting up in the night due to insomnia or whatever other reason you might have that means you cannot sleep and are forced to get up and stay awake(!)...then your priority
by daybreak has to be getting yourself relaxed.
Here is my recipe.
Fill yourself a bath. When the water is running -slowly- with equal hot and cold water filling the bath(can't have it too hot or the oils will burn), you need to put some oils in. Essential oils of course. Only the best will do.
Put 4 drops of Lavendar oil
Put 3 drops of Peppermint oil and finish off with
2 drops of Sweet Fennel oil.
I have been doing this for years and I have to say it's great. Relaxes you but the peppermint seems to give you a wakefulness that makes you feel alive! The fennel gives your lungs and breathing a lift.
Try it.
Now: Put some laid-back music on.
I know there are a million albums I could list but I will just give you a couple of ideas of albums I like to put on:
Obscured By Clouds - Pink FloydOn The Road 1981 - Camel Any album By Armik...Flamenco guitar usually does the trick.
Amélie By Yann Tiersen [OST] is a good one too.
I'm sure you have more ideas.
You get the general feeling.
Then go sit in the bath for at least 1hour.
Great.
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Now you might just want to download this album.
It is by the second-greatest band from the 1970's that sprung up out of the area of Kent...the areas in and around Canterbury were known for the sheer amount of musicians that were around there, collaborating, forming bands, switching bands, weaving and ducking and diving in a mass genetic pool of great and progressive musicians. I will be bringing you most of those in due course.
Arguably one of the best bands to come from this was the band I give you today:
CamelArguably one of the best albums they released is also the one I give you today though I am not so arrogant to imagine that this is an entirely subjective point and I could be wrong, in your eyes.
Tracklist1. Never Let Go ( 7:03)
2. Song Within A Song ( 7:20)
3. Lunar Sea (10:50)
4. City Life ( 4:43)
5. Nude ( 0:27)
6. Drafted ( 3:55)
7. Docks ( 4:06)
8. Beached ( 3:34)
9. Landscapes ( 3:22)
10. Changing Places ( 3:31)
11. Reflections ( 2:24)
12. Captured ( 3:19)
13. The Last Farewell ( 4:04)
If you know
Camel and their pretty large discography then you will no doubt like this album and probably own it already. I owned it on vinyl which is no good to me now having gotten rid of my player a while ago. So 'finding' this in MP3 was great for me.
If you don't know
Camel then I really want you to try it. Think relaxing music with a bit of cleverness, an edge, brilliant meandering guitar solos, keyboards that don't go all 'rick wakeman' on you yet have some beautiful expressions to show you, not least the timing of the beats can really get into your head.
Camel have a few tracks where they do unusual time signatures. If you know little about the technicalities then I won't bore you. Just think of how most songs will have a beat that you can tap '1-2-3-4 and,' to yes?
Well
Camel will use the odd beat tha you might describe as '1-2-3-4-5-6-7 and (1)..etc' or even just the three '1-2-3-1-2-3' (Think ocean color scene riverboat song?).
Anyway I'm rambling so have a listen and let me know what you think.
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