Mayfair wrote:João Gilberto "S/T" on Verve

Ay, Brazil is part of the problem!

Joke... João is great.

Time for a walk. Walking is good.

Philip Glass "KUNDUN"

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:
For beautiful music, I recommend Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Master and Everyoneand anything by the Everly Brothers, who posses the most gorgeous voices of all time.

Master and Everyone is definitely beautiful and I’m another Everly Brothers fan. The early stuff and the late sixties early ‘70s stuff is good like Roots or Stories We Could Tell. Some cheese but still beautiful.

Miles Davis In a Silent Way

Albert Ayler in Greewich Village is very beautiful (also noisy and frenetic tho’)

Warm and Cool by Tom Verlaine recently reissued by Thrill Jockey

Beach Boys’ Sunflower/Surf’s Up has some beautiful stuff mixed in with the cheese

Dan Plonsey-Ivory Bill . Solo and densely multi-tracked sax dedicated to the (no longer extinct) ivory billed wood pecker.

Superwolf - Oldham/Sweeney (summery, gentle)

Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan's Trouble In Mind is slow and sparse and broken and sad and great

John Cale doing Hallelujah manages to be both really moving and incredibly dignified.

All That You Dream by Little Feat - a bit too soft for a lot of people, but so great for sad times

Mose Varty-Seppanen wrote:Albert Ayler in Greewich Village is very beautiful (also noisy and frenetic tho’)

The box set has like two discs of his 'march' music.
Some very beautiful and not noisy stuff.

Mark Lansing wrote:Hve you tried ...



Judee Sill or Heart Food by Judee Sill

I was gonna type this as well...

Heart Food especially. If that ain't beautiful than I don't know didly.

Gillian Welch
Neko Case

Gramsci

I've compiled a list of half a dozen and boiled it down to only one a little on the traditional side of Slint, but of comparable heart-wrenching majesty:

Alejandro Escovedo's "More Miles than Money." (Bloodshot).

This record was recorded at shows from 94 to 96 in smoky crowded dive bars that were so quiet you could here a pin drop. No one dared make a sound and disturb the twisted fucked up beauty of it all. (I'm assuming the shows captured on the disc were like the ones I saw. You had to remind yourself to breath).

B.

A lot of beautiful music has been mentionned already, but I'd also add
Grails - The Burden of Hope
Guy Klucevsek - Stolen Memories

john cale - amsterdam