Recommendations for instrumental Pandora station?

May 30, 2019 3:10 PM

I need a new Pandora station for background/ambient music. I like melancholy instrumental stuff, like Joey Fehrenbach. I have listened to his station and the Boards of Canada station to death. No singing preferred. I like Aphex Twin but some is too jarring for the sad, ambient station I'm looking for. Any ideas?
posted by dianeF to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Best answer: Not Pandora, but perhaps some of the SomaFM stations would meet your needs? Groove Salad, the classic Groove Salad, and Deep Space One could be good places to start, maybe Drone Zone if you're not worried about falling asleep.
posted by zachlipton at 3:29 PM on May 30, 2019 [1 favorite]

Maybe some John Fahey?
posted by saladin at 4:12 PM on May 30, 2019

You might like Susuma Yokota's Symbol
posted by ananci at 5:09 PM on May 30, 2019 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thank you guys for the suggestions! I am really liking the SomaFM stations so far and will check out the other guys. Thanks again.
posted by dianeF at 7:34 PM on May 30, 2019

I like Ulrich Schnauss for this.
posted by easy, lucky, free at 8:42 PM on May 30, 2019 [1 favorite]

Rothko
Dirty Three
Johann Johansson
Max Richter
maybe Ludovico Einaudi?
posted by a halcyon day at 9:43 PM on May 30, 2019