I recently stumbled upon this fascinating project. Jacob Gurevitsch and Poul Reimann are two Danish musicians which usually make different music, apparently more in the vein of soul, jazz or acoustic guitar. But, as Gurevitsch explains in the only post in his blog, in the middle of the last decade he began suffering of anxiety issues.
Not content with the carefree approach of most chill out music, he started with Reimann a research with a scientific approach focused on making music which is so relaxing that can be effectively healing. Leaving aside any hippy, exotic, exoteric, pseudo-spiritual, new age stuff, the two rigorously studied how music influences body and mind and even elaborated dogma rules for their project (named Quite Please) you can read in full on their site (click "Quite Please" and then "Dogma Rules" on the left menu): music had to be undynamic, flowing, multi-layered, lengthy, the beats per minute should follow the natural resting heartbeat pulse rate, and the most ambitious rule was to make music neither major nor minor.
The project developed into four compilations of absolute beauty (featuring also other musicians like Anders Trentemoller and Henrik Lindstrand from Kashmir). I'm going to embed them below this video, where you can see how the project has even been implemented into ambulances to give immediately the most possible comfort to the patients.
Jacob Gurevitsch - Quiet Please Vol. 1, Music For Modern Relaxation, also known as Quiet Conversations, featuring Poul Reimann
Fridolin Nordsoe - Quiet Please Vol. 2, Music For Modern Relaxation, also known as Break Of Day, featuring Sara Indrio
Various Artists - Quiet Please Vol. 3, Music For Modern Relaxation, also known as Shh, featuring Henrik Linstrand, Anders Remmer, Anders Trentemoller, Casper Hamilton, Poul Reimann and Klovn
Poul Reimann - 15 Minutes Of Peace (actually the same album of the same title credited to Jacob Gurevitsch with Danish track titles)
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