While it is not too easy to properly define lounge music, it is not too difficult either. Lounge music somewhat derives from easy listening and ambient music, and usually presents some distinct elements of these genres, like smooth musical atmospheres, and calm, peaceful melodies. While saxophone is an instrument that can be often associated with the genre, it is not mandatory; as a matter of fact, it is rarely used. Over time, some elements of electronic music were also gradually integrated into lounge music, especially overly discreet and continuous organic beats, prominent in subgenres like chillout and downtempo.
Lounge music is often associated with calm and tranquil luxurious places, like first class restaurants and elegant ceremonial halls. While stylistically the genre can be difficult to define — and it is also important to question if it is, actually, a genre, or just an umbrella term for a wide variety of genres and subgenres —, nevertheless, there is some relevant features that makes easier to classify this type of music. Lounge music is generally instrumental, easy listening in scope and usually displays a characteristically retro style.
Below, I have selected five compilations of lounge music, that I hope you will enjoy. With flavored, colorful ambient melodies — that makes it worthwhile to push the play button and just forget about life —, this is an extraordinary musical experience, that favors our sensitivities by expanding the most relentless human perceptions of sound.
On the first of these compilations, you will find the most smooth, serene and peaceful sounds, that are not displayed only to relax; the overwhelming beauty of the vast majority of the harmonies available in this compilation will certainly make you feel exceedingly impressed. With flexible, discreet and graceful, but at the same time profusely restrained and dispersive melodies, this gracefully exceptional collection of songs is a wonderful introduction to the amazing world of lounge music.
Lounge music is often associated with calm and tranquil luxurious places, like first class restaurants and elegant ceremonial halls. While stylistically the genre can be difficult to define — and it is also important to question if it is, actually, a genre, or just an umbrella term for a wide variety of genres and subgenres —, nevertheless, there is some relevant features that makes easier to classify this type of music. Lounge music is generally instrumental, easy listening in scope and usually displays a characteristically retro style.
Below, I have selected five compilations of lounge music, that I hope you will enjoy. With flavored, colorful ambient melodies — that makes it worthwhile to push the play button and just forget about life —, this is an extraordinary musical experience, that favors our sensitivities by expanding the most relentless human perceptions of sound.
On the first of these compilations, you will find the most smooth, serene and peaceful sounds, that are not displayed only to relax; the overwhelming beauty of the vast majority of the harmonies available in this compilation will certainly make you feel exceedingly impressed. With flexible, discreet and graceful, but at the same time profusely restrained and dispersive melodies, this gracefully exceptional collection of songs is a wonderful introduction to the amazing world of lounge music.
This compilation has a more flavored, catchy and uplifting mood, with harmonies whose retro style is exceedingly protuberant. With a graceful line of melodies that gradually displays a very flexible musical layout, this compilation slowly reveals a moderately expansive quality, that delves into deeply serene, sentimental and philosophical easy listening sonorous compositions, that penetrates the soul with ease. Its wonderful to listen, and allows the mind to travel far away, beyond the discreetly dilated hemispheres of the sound.
With exceedingly peaceful and relaxing harmonies — though displaying a robust, but primarily discreet effervescent layout — this marvelous compilation, four hours long, is the primary example of lounge music. The sound is serene, beautiful, profoundly sensible, predictable to a certain extent, but gracefully pleasant, melodic and remarkably dispersive.
With an almost somnolent, but concomitantly aggrandizing sonorous proficiency — eager to easily express a sentimental tranquility that extends the essence of its sensitive pleasures to the most overwhelming aspects of the human nature —, the general affability present on the harmonies exudes beyond the most tender elements of the music the imperative transcendence of the paradise that grows within ourselves, while exposed to such a marvelous, unimaginable, minimalist sequence of majestic symphonies.
With an almost somnolent, but concomitantly aggrandizing sonorous proficiency — eager to easily express a sentimental tranquility that extends the essence of its sensitive pleasures to the most overwhelming aspects of the human nature —, the general affability present on the harmonies exudes beyond the most tender elements of the music the imperative transcendence of the paradise that grows within ourselves, while exposed to such a marvelous, unimaginable, minimalist sequence of majestic symphonies.
This is another prime example of a wonderful lounge music compilation. With very soft harmonies and glorious beats, the general sonorous layer that predominates in these wonderfully easy listening compositions are exceedingly smooth, but dense colorful tonalities, that pervades the intricate intensity inherent to the structure of the melodies. Displaying a sensible, but decisively cohesive musical fluidity, this gracefully relaxing compilation will certainly leave you in the clouds.
With the usually calmer atmosphere that makes this compilations so remarkably tranquil and serene, this last selection displays elegant harmonies in a very elusive, but persistent homogeneity. Compressing harmonies in a fugacious surface of colorful fragrances — with an eloquent, appellative and reserved charm, whose background sound is reminiscent of refined, classic, romantic movies —, the simple, but friendly melodies of this marvelous sequences captivate the listener immediately. You will definitely have the impression that you have traveled back in time, to a more egregious, palpable, black and white existential parallel reality, where you feel more alive and content than ever. This marvelous compilation will satiate your relentless desire for rapture and despondent quest for peace, I guarantee.
Well, I hope you have appreciated all the compilations featured above. If you weren't familiar with lounge music, I sincerely wish this article has worked as a decent introduction. While it is easy to love and to appreciate this genre of music, like I wrote above, it is far more difficult to establish what can be properly defined as lounge music. Nevertheless, in the end, this really doesn't matter. This is a sensible and quite fantastic genre, beautifully made to provide us with formidable moments of relaxation. I really can't offer an impartial perspective on the question, the more I hear lounge music, the more I love this genre. I hope to be able to convey this passion to others.
For sure, the weekend will be a lot more satisfying, quieter and peaceful with these fantastic compilations. I hope I have made a good contribution to your leisure time. Although it is not a mainstream topic, lounge music has its place of necessity in our daily lives.
Wagner
For sure, the weekend will be a lot more satisfying, quieter and peaceful with these fantastic compilations. I hope I have made a good contribution to your leisure time. Although it is not a mainstream topic, lounge music has its place of necessity in our daily lives.
Wagner
