V Sleepreading

If the practice of falling asleep to music is allowed in your home, then this compilation is for you! This multi-purpose auditory wallpaper also acts as an ambient accompaniment to fireside reading, felting, scented candle burning, knitting, cooking, sudoku or even the odd bout of hatha yoga. There are purposefully few words to distract you from your interpretation (or sweating your onions). Pianos feature prominently. To paraphrase and re-purpose Con Houlihans' observation that a man who put's an apostrophe in the wrong place is capable of anything... a man (hello Elt'on John, Jool's Holland and Billy Jo'el) who does not appreciate how a piano, played with subtlety and understatement, can move the air in beautiful ways, probably has nipples for ears. This year I've asked Santy for the right to press play when I turn off the light. To Winter walks, sweet dreams and mindfulness. Bah humbug to the boogie-woogie.


1. The Beatles | Flying

2. to rococo rot | cars


3. John Coletrane | Central Park West

4. Tortoise | Along The Banks Of The River


5. Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness


6. Aphex Twin | Kesson Daslef

7. Yann Tiersen | Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi

8. Jose Gonzalez | Heartbeats


9. Icebreaker International & Manual | Into Forever


10. Stars Of The Lid | Humectez La Mouture


11. Amiina | Sexfaldur

12. Matthew Robert Cooper | Miniature 7


13. Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor

14. Stina Nordenstam | Soon After Christmas


15. Black To Comm | Rauschen


16. múm | there is a number of small things

18. Brian Eno | Music For Airports 1/1

19. The Beatles | Goodnight