Happy Ambient Music

Enjoying some time off of work with the birth of my second child. I've been listening to a lot of ambient music. Most of it is really beautiful but really depressing. What's some good beautiful ambient albums that won't make my wife want to kill herself? Thanks in advance!

i don't have any to suggest but want to second this request.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbHPWYSguZs

not reallly ambient but this piece is amazing too

I've always found the City In Flames tunes by Tim Hecker pretty upbeat, although the title might suggest otherwise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZZMgpXZ00

this one too is pretty happy sounding actually

Congrats. I don't know about "happy" ambient music, but these are definitely the least melancholy ambient albums I have. Pretty sunny/blissed out.

Asuna + Opitope - Sunroom

Opitope - Hau

Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Conversations With Myself

Iasos - Inter-Dimensional Music

this track is true masterpiece

edit: it's "Minit - Now Right Here"

full of energy, it's refreshing, it lasts 20minutes with a one note rising with a surprise at middle track i can't tell

also i made one that is positive and gives me some happiness

https://soundcloud.com/kloremusic/klore-e

hope this works

last track off polygon window

probably at least one or two things off rifts given the sheer volume of material, but off the top of my head it's all sounding like spooky gameboy music & the panpipes of melancholy

i love Stars Of The Lid, but it's off topic,

to me it's a bit dark and melancholic, not "happy"

but it's amazing of course

phillip wilkerson [for the warm zen vibe] http://phillipwilkerson.bandcamp.com/album/sojourner

http://freefloatingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/highlands

lucette bourdin - golden sun http://lucettebourdin.bandcamp.com/album/golden-sun

mirada - mesa http://mirada.bandcamp.com/album/mesa

creation vi - akroamatikos [thought melting cosmic drone] http://creation6.bandcamp.com/album/akroamatikos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81G9W8pEno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og1qs2OAuPE

  On 8/12/2014 at 10:24 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

wow really? i think of them as incredibly pleasant with perhaps a few dark moments. it's on topic for me at least.

haha didn't mean to be in contradiction, you're partially right,

but to me positive ambient is something i know well

check this label

https://soundcloud.com/studentsofdecay

everything here shall be "in" topic

I like Ishq

and Human Mesh Dance

and Tu M'

  On 8/12/2014 at 8:53 AM, Deion Sanders said:

Congrats. I don't know about "happy" ambient music, but these are definitely the least melancholy ambient albums I have. Pretty sunny/blissed out.

 

Asuna + Opitope - Sunroom

Opitope - Hau

Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Conversations With Myself

Iasos - Inter-Dimensional Music

  On 8/12/2014 at 10:24 AM, Mindphaser said:

phillip wilkerson [for the warm zen vibe] http://phillipwilkerson.bandcamp.com/album/sojourner

 

http://freefloatingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/highlands

 

lucette bourdin - golden sun http://lucettebourdin.bandcamp.com/album/golden-sun

 

mirada - mesa http://mirada.bandcamp.com/album/mesa

 

creation vi - akroamatikos [thought melting cosmic drone] http://creation6.bandcamp.com/album/akroamatikos

Thanks guys! Some of this is exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for. And yes, Ishq and Stars of the Lid have been great. Harold Bud is also in my favs. Keep it up!

Congrats! Not ambient in the normal sense, but put on Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby quietly in the background as a try.

http://youtu.be/MRuJ82CnEGI

Jack Anderton - Vale

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - S/T

Eno - Thursday Afternoon

36 - Dream Tempest

Simon Bainton - Visiting Tides

Brain Eno - LUX

I would link it but no one has uploaded it to youtube. Very pleasant droney album

Check out the Pop Ambient series from Kompakt:

Pop Ambient 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgnDC6MPRPI

Pop Ambient 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDTbKtFS-70

Pop Ambient 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFNTdmzk4s

  On 8/12/2014 at 7:53 PM, purlieu said:

Simon Bainton - Visiting Tides

Ah yeah, this one for sure. One of my favorites from last year. Related:

Olan Mill - Home

Pausal - Sky Margins

Others:

Fabio Orsi - Audio For Lovers

Melodia - Saudades

  On 8/12/2014 at 6:41 PM, MadnessR said:

 

  On 8/12/2014 at 8:53 AM, Deion Sanders said:

Congrats. I don't know about "happy" ambient music, but these are definitely the least melancholy ambient albums I have. Pretty sunny/blissed out.

 

Asuna + Opitope - Sunroom

Opitope - Hau

Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Conversations With Myself

Iasos - Inter-Dimensional Music

Thanks guys! Some of this is exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for. And yes, Ishq and Stars of the Lid have been great. Harold Bud is also in my favs. Keep it up!

No worries.

  On 8/12/2014 at 8:24 PM, mokz said:

Pop Ambient 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgnDC6MPRPI

2003 is one of my favorites in the series. Quite a few solid tracks relevant to the topic for sure.

Some that illicit pleasant contentedness and exhilaration, perhaps using the term "ambient" loosely: ...

Despite the name, this track is v. blissful.

Perhaps this could still be melancholic to some, but it's uplifting for me

http://bedroomnyc.bandcamp.com/album/shade-system

Shade & System by Bedroom. The interludes are more experimental, but the two long tracks are life-affirmingly beautiful.

I consider Eno's Apollo soundtrack to be kinda happy ambient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOcPjJhpMS8

it's for hard for me to think of happy ambient music. normally levitate toward more 'feel'/emo oriented ambient tunes.

robert rich - rainforest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPc9m-w7S2Y

steve roach - immersion: one

vir unis - aeonian glow

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

  On 8/12/2014 at 11:57 PM, YELLOW said:

I consider Eno's Apollo soundtrack to be kinda happy ambient

me too.

Tons of ambient mixes of trance tunes.

Just search for Airwave, Bonzai, Jan Johnston, Solarstone, oliver lieb, Lost Language, Art of Trance etc.... It should unearth plenty of great material.