For inner soul searching, and attempting to find answers to many personal and life's questions, I myself prefer a Salvia divinorum experience in absolute darkness and silence.  However, there are times when I want to experience and learn whatever Sally happens to have on her agenda for the evening.   And on some of those occasions, I have found sound and music greatly enhance and enrich this learning experience.  I have also found that music can significantly extend the length of time one can remain in Sally's domain before falling back out.

Sometimes, a simple white noise (like the static noise of a television tuned to a channel where there is no broadcast, or the sound of a small oscillating fan clipped to the headboard) will suffice.  At other times, the late night sound of crickets or the early morning sounds of birds chirping and geese honking just outside the window can greatly enrich the experience.  And then there are the occasions when nothing less than a pair of good quality studio monitor headphones plugged into a half decent sound system playing some very unusually sculpted sounds and music is desired.

The sounds and music I prefer must not become the experience, overwhelming and dominating it.  It must not be too intrusive or invasive (i.e. no fast thumping and throbbing bass and drums).  It must not distract from the experience (no intelligible human voices).  And it certainly must not contain any unexpected startling surprises that send me leaping 6 feet into the air.  It must have a smooth flowing mystical background composition that carries and sustains the experience through the entire selection, like the flowing water within a river.  And it should have a unique special characteristic to it that enriches the experience, like the occasional fish that leaps from the river from time to time, or the loon on the lake that speaks when it has something to say.

Some of the music I prefer will simply carry the experience along, sustaining the current level of the experience I desire, while at other times I find I desire music with the uncanny ability to draw me deeper and ever deeper into the experience.  Much of the salvia trip music I listen to will have one of two emotional flavors to them, and it will either create a deep sense of isolation and loneliness (which really enhances a sought after ego-be-gone journey), or it will have a wonderfully joyful brightness and emotionally warming texture to it.

Below you will find links to some tried, tested, and personally preferred and recommended musical and sound titles.  Many are available for free download, while some can only be briefly sampled (and purchased).   THESE are the sounds and music I like to take with me on my journeys into salvia space.  And Sally seems to enjoy them too.  BTW, Sally told me she despises hip hop, rap, and country music.   Really, she told me that.  You believe me don't you?  ;-)

Please support these wonderfully insightful and creative sound sculptors, artists, and musicians (remember, the spacial ambience of a REAL uncompressed CD is far superiour to anything a downloaded 128Kbps MP3 file can hope to achieve).  Please use their hypnotic and hallucinogenic music responsibly, or we may one day find the DEA trying to outlaw headphones and music too.  Guard your glow sticks!

My Recommendations:
Not listed in any order of preference, other than some of my favorite selections have managed to bubble to the top.

Tranquility: Silence Follows Rain

I found this CD to be absolutely great for a pleasurable level 4+ experience - my favorite so far.  As the name suggests, it's tranquil, yet it has a wonderful brightness to it.  For me, it gave the experience a nice smooth slow flowing claymation-like appearance, with pastel-ish overtones.  Sally and I highly recommend this CD.  Each track can be sampled at the provided link, however I've not found it available for free downloading anywhere.  Well worth the price.   Available at almost all music and department stores.  When searching for this CD, note this spelling of "Tranquility". Nautical Nights was particularly great (set the volumn at a comfortable leve, but not to low or high). BTW, the track list found at the link at the left is messed up.

SPACECRAFT

As the name may suggest, this is some spacey music - good level 4 & 5 ambient stuff.  Some selections have a mild brightness quality to them, others will leave you lonely and stranded in the void.  A few favorite selections are Homage To Gaia, The Pink Side of Echoes, Destination: Infinity (excerpt), Fresh Formations.   If files aren't available at MP3.com for downloading/sampling, check their site at AMPCAST: SPACECRAFT.

Robert Rich

Some trippy stuff here.  I wonder if this artist has met any entities and tried to communicate with them.  Check out Winged Ants - it sure sounds like a recording brought back from the void to me.  Deliquescing Procession is also definitely recommended for a deep level 5 journey (please don't get lost in there).   After listening to those two piece, you'll probably find Somnium Intro (excerpt) a welcomed relief to guild you back to earth.  Electric Fish (excerpt) is a more tamed "out-there" selection, and Lapis is an invigorating piece after you find yourself almost back on earth (turn up the bass and volume a little).  This is one artist I hope creates more!

Dave Stafford

Intending to only venture as far as the border of the void, Dave's Willing Participation In The Dream unexpectedly grabbed me and dragged me deep into the void.  The isolated and lonely feeling this piece projects is highly complimentary for one sweet ego-be-gone experience.  Really worth a level 5 dose experience.  And you thought you knew what loneliness felt like?

Dean Raskin-Relaxation/Meditation

Nice smooth "lite" non-threatening lower level salvia space music.  You can almost touch and taste the colors.   Recommendations: Star Dust, Lullaby, Reflections, Across Time, and others.

A nice bright, smooth, slow flowing, transquil selection for a beautiful salvia journey: Ocean Of Dreams can take you to the beach for 4 minutes, but don't get too wet.

Lots of musical selections from this artist.  My downloadable recommendations, Native Spirit and The Hunt.  Both are overall great for lower level salvia journeys.  On your next level 4 or 5 journey, try to find your way out of Magdalenian Cave.

I only had time to sample this artists freely downloadable selections.  A couple noteworth selections are Radiance, Lotus Blossoms.  Spacey, smooth, fresh, and bright.

Much to explore from this artist.   A couple of downloadable selections, Drift and Methane Sea, are slow, tranquil, and smooth.  Good relaxing choices for exploring and meditating in a lower level salvia journey.

Some really good stuff to take you to level 5.  The Sound To The Picture Of The Sound: a reverberating soundscape, which left me lost and stumbling around in a dark eerie universe.  Swamping Those Who Will One Day Understand: will comatose and revive you. Ahriman, Weeping... may be a little too spooky except for the brave - so try it, if you dare!  Check out their other dark ambient soundscapes. Visit the Eye of Phetkanha web site for more information about their unique mind twisting music.

Some dark ambient sounds, recommended for exploring deep space level 5. Recommended: Sunspot Interference, and White Winter Moon.

Lumiere Du Matin, is a smooth mild background ambient soundscape with some soft unintelligible conversations going on (somewhere out in the void) that's nice for exploring salvia space.

BrainWave Generator (BWGEN.EXE) generates binaural beats that change your brain frequency towards the desired state, be it relaxation or enhanced attention.  A particularly useful tool, for those longer enriching quid or tincture administered salvia journeys, to take you to the state of mind you seek.  HEADPHONES REQUIRED.

Hypnotic ambient atmospheric selections, for close encounters of the salvia kind.  Journey To Samadhi, uses brain entraining binaural beats layered in harmonic music to lead your brain waves into the THETA frequency.  This selection is 18 minutes, 36 seconds long, and I highly recommend it for the quid/tincture administered salvia traveler, as far as level 5 - if you dare (or play it just to relax).  Start playing this piece as you begin to feel the familiar salvia pull (or arrange a shorter selection just before this one in your play list).  NOTE: disable all surround sound and other sound expansion capabilities of your audio hardware for effective results. HEADPHONES REQUIRED.  Another selection I had fun traveling with, Nebulous Mist, has a nice primordial quality to it.

Composition comprised of sounds of nature, with musical arrangements. Not available for download however.

Some unusual minimal/ambient stuff to listen to here.  I, and III, were worth downloading and listening too, but the remaining selections that I listened to did not seem to have any channel separation (they sounded flat and mono).

A very long list of really cool mystical, spacey, and trippy sonic landscape selections from this artist, perfect for traveling into strange new lands.   Some recommendations are: Structures From Silence, In the Presence of Something, Hidden Earth and the Shadows Dance, Below Always, Early Dawn, Vine ~ Bark & Spore, Resolution Point, The Lair, Early Man, Fall of the Moai, Shadowfall, Live in Tucson, May 2000, Beyond the Blood, Slow Heat, Revealing the Secret, Somewhere Else, Circles & Artifacts, and many many more.  Just too many to download, so visit www.steveroach.com to purchase.  Also see: Steve Roach/Vidna Obmana, Steve Roach/Vir Unis (recommended: Mind Link and Pure Expansion), and Vir Unis (recommended: At The Edge of Decaying Light, Radiant Heart, Like Wind In The Trees, Deepest Dream, Indigo Light) pages on MP3.com for more selections.

A lot of stuff here (similar to Steve Roach's music), such as Feldspar and Mica, Smokehouse, Paths of Sorrow part1, Clouds From the North, Talking Wind, Melange, plus a whole lot more to listen to while lost and floating in the void.  Also check out the Broad Vista Music web site.

A couple of minimal ambient droning spacey soundscapes selections: Gnosio, and Bones of the Dead.

A lot of ambient mood music to download and try here - stuff to help calm you and to set the stage prior to a salvia journey, such as Avalon, Enchantment, Ethereal, and many more.

A few selections to confuse your mind while in salvia space, Rasayah's Early Journey, and Appreciation of the Elements.

Another bizzare, ethereal, loony, selection: Atmosis (just under 2 minutes, but worth trying).

While the majority of this artists creations aren't along the lines of these two example, here's a soundscapes that's will add texture to your journey: Halls Of Poseidon.   While this next selection isn't what I would normally listen to in salvia space, try it and see if it invokes a vision of a marching band or carnival scene: Fourth Of July.

Just a few short selections here, probably too short for a SD journey, but I liked them anyhow.  In The Mines Of Moria (mystical), Horror House (eerie), Rain On The Leaves (nice thunder clap in there), and Storm Approach.   Other good selections from this artist.

Although I normally find music with a regular beat to it, and music with intelligible vocals in it, somewhat distracting during a salvia experience, I though I would add Enigma to this list, because they do have a number of musical selections which are conducive to a good salvia experience.   The one CD that I tested with salvia is their MCMXC a.D CD.  Sorry, I couldn't find any free downloads or samples for this one.

The selection The Dance Of The Little Green Men is something you'll have to figure out for yourself.  Worm Hole, The Stars Dance While The Rain Sleeps, and The Mothership Passes Overhead are three short beautiful ambient selections, too bad they all weren't much longer.

Query Returns No Data [t.c.o.b.], a spacey/mellow ambient selection, worth downloading.

Dark, mystical, ominous, and evil sounding, Vies2, Vies 3, Psalm 23, Chapter 666: I Shall Fear Evil, and Alcohol Made Us Create Those Sick Sounds, Help Me Counting Towards My Suicide, and 1-2-3 Help Me, may cause you to run and hide under your bed.  Crying For Silence - Soft Trippin Ambien is a bit less evil sounding.  In Love With The Perfect Girl is a brighter ambient selection to also explore with salvia.

I found a few cool selections from this artist to be appropriate for salvia space: Complex Waves in Synergy (spacey/lonely ambient noise), and Mysterious Signals (appropriate for a confusing trippy experience), Atmospheres (like some ambient voices playing in your head).

An assortment of interesting thing to be found here to listen to.  Z 9, and The Arrival are two nice spacey ambient selections.  Jitter, Space 4 (V2), and Realm are some cool ambient sounds and effects.  Also, Project B (Meditation Mix), Project B(Radio Edit), and Project B (Radio Mix) is smooth ambient selection.

And now for something completely different...  I just had to toss this unusual one in here: Carousel Caramel may turn your next salvia experience into an unusual eery carousel ride.

Some rather interesting ambient improvisational stuff to experiment with.  Check out Species, Retreat, The Storm Within, Unresolved, The Fall of Lhasa, and Dark River.

Well, if you are into goa, psytrance, and some cool ambient stuff, then you should check these guys out.  They have more to offer than space to list here. Try: Ambient Galaxy (disco valley mix), Virtual Booster (live at arvika), Power Gen (live somewhere in nowhere), Anything Is Possible!!!, Electro Static!, Still On Mars.

A lot of interesting selections well worth listening to from this artist.  Far too many to list here, and I haven't checked most of his pieces yet, but I found Awareness of Humility, Void, Sunshine on Venus, and Softspace. (sample and download Acidage selections on Ampcast.com)

For some additionally interesting musically enhanced salvia experiences, I have tried various selections from spacey soundtrack titles such as (sorry, not free downloads for these CDs):
    John Williams / The Empire Stikes Back - Special Edition - Disc 1 and Disc 2
    The City Of Prague Philharmonic / Space and Beyond - Disc 1 and Disc 2 

For an absolutely confusing experiment, try some of these sound effects from various artists:
    Sample Bank Primary (bizarre collection of sounds), by Boom chr Paige
    ...more to come... 

Salvia Land Citizen Submissions:
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Various Artists

Spaceships of the Imagination, a remix of various artists tracks by Raja Ram, a Tip World Records release.   Recommended by RTA.  I wasn't able to this available for free (legal) download on the Internet, but I did find a few links to listen to sample cuts: .   These tracks have a techno sound/beat to them.

Various Artists

Twelve (a twelve part ambient journey into inner space, started by Raja Ram), a compilation of various artists ambient tracks, in twelve different keys, another Tip World Records release.   Recommended by RTA.  I did find a link to preview the first track, Logic Bomb - River of Time .   I liked the preview track, so I may have to buy this compilation CD.

MP3 files at IAmShaman.com

A selection of downloadable MP3 files recommended by John.

Vas

In the Garden of Souls: , a unique soundscape of voice, percussion, and sonic textures that defies genres, recommended by RTA.  Also recommended: Offerings: , and Sunyata: .

Loreena McKennitt

The Book of Secrets CD , another recommendation by RTA.  You can sample her songs at her official web site: Quinlan Road Online.   I have this CD myself and can recommend it for peaceful and mystical low level (1-3?) low intensity salvia space journeys.

d. Taylor Singletary

Submitted for your approval.  I listened to a few selections.  I found Dyxj Rgiaw Qg Xlyaw Nw uniquely interesting.  When time permits, I will listen to them all in their entirety.

Pneumanon

A couple of interesting selections on this page that I will be 'salvia testing' myself.

Shamanic Journey Didjeridu

Another user recommendation: Love, Devotion, Surrender by Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin (especially the third and fourth and fifth tracks!), and A Rainbow Path by Kay Gardner (available through ladyslipper records at http://www.ladyslipper.org).

Al Stewart

A submission by spacecitygirl, the track Nosterdamus, has been recommended.  Listening to the brief sample, I found that it contains intelligible vocals.  While many people have reported success listening to music with vocals in them while on a salvia journey, I am one of those people who becomes totally distracted when music contains intelligible (English) vocals, except for low level/intensity journeys.  Unintelligible "background" vocals, sung in other languages, or chanting, seems to be okay for some reason.

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Other Music Links:
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Sage Wisdom

A collection of Salvia divinorum inspired musical compositions by various artists. Compiled by Daniel Siebert.

FutureTrance

Large selection of trance-inspired music, for sale.

Purple Oz Distribution

Large selection of Psy Trance music, for sale.

MP3.com

You all know this place, right?

AMPCAST.com

And this place too, right?

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