Music

Calibrations measure the music of the artist or band but omit contributions beyond that context such as hired songwriters, guest performers and other collaborators.

Springtime – Luke Faulkner

Priority request: This piece takes me to my happy place. It's like a soothing gentle rain falling on a land that's been ravaged by drought for ages. Or a prayer finally coming true, a flower finally blossoming, a ray of sunshine through the clouds during a hurricane.

contemporary Christian music

"a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and stylistically rooted in Christian music" -- wikipedia

Sinéad O'Connor

Throughout her music career, she spoke about her spiritual journey, activism, socio-political views, as well as her trauma and mental health struggles -- wikipedia

Enya

Noted for her modern Celtic music, she is the best-selling Irish solo artist and the second-best-selling Irish musical act overall after the rock band U2 -- wikipedia

Bee Gees - I Started A Joke

Priority request. Video of a 1997 performance in Las Vegas embedded.

Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town

Anti-woke anthem banned on Country Music Television rose to #1 on iTunes downloads.

Music to be Born By

This soothing, 70-minute soundscape, originally created for the birth of Mickey Hart's son Taro in 1983, was intended to transform the coldness of a hospital birthing room into a warm, rhythmic environment for the process of labor and birthing -- request

Michael Buble – Feeling Good

Birds flying high / You know how I feel / Sun in the sky / You know how I feel / Breeze driftin' on by / You know how I feel / It's a new dawn / It's a new day / It's a new life / For me

I Don't Want To Be – Gavin DeGraw

36 million views on YouTube. Calibrated by request.

Suddenly – Billy Ocean

Love song from the 1980s.

Lord Don't Give Up On Me, by Merle Haggard

Lord, don't tune me out, don't go away / I'm just a wandering pilgrim, all alone / And lord, I'm only halfway home. (video embedded)

cello

Request: The string instrument said to have the same range as the human voice.

Kim Walker Smith (music)

Request: Kim Walker Smith’s voice brings me to a place of complete worship inside me to God. I feel it has the power to heal my mental states of mind when I’m listening to her music.

I Will Follow You Into The Dark, by Death Cab for Cutie

Priority request: The song has 280m plays on Spotify, 31m views on YouTube. I've heard it at weddings, but it also seems like it could be played at a funeral.

heavenly music: Cantique de Jean Racine

The nineteen-year-old composer set the text in 1864–65 for a composition competition at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, and it won him the first prize -- wikipedia