late night jazz for people who fall down rabbit holes

QUIET ROOMS FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK ALONE A narrow archive at the back of an old storehouse, late at night. You came in to check one thing. Then a footnote pointed to another shelf, that shelf led up the stairs, and the stairs led to a box nobody has opened in years. The lamp is still on. Keep looking. This is late night jazz for people who fall down rabbit holes - 2 hours 16 minutes of slow piano, brushed drums and warm double bass, made as background music for studying, reading and long focused work on your own. 0:00 The Archive Room 3:23 Between the Shelves 6:51 One More Book 10:25 The Wooden Ladder 13:33 Index Cards 16:59 A Footnote Leads On 20:33 The Upper Stacks 24:02 Lamp on the Stairs 27:52 Old Bindings 31:16 Cross-References 34:24 The Narrow Aisle 37:40 Past Midnight 41:20 Dust in the Lamplight 44:18 Following the Thread 47:44 The Catalogue Drawer 51:08 Another Staircase 54:49 Loose Pages 57:57 Where Was I 1:01:06 The Reading Step 1:04:35 A Box of Letters 1:08:00 Deeper In 1:11:22 Faded Ink 1:14:43 The Ledger Shelf 1:17:56 Marginal Notes 1:21:23 Just One More 1:24:20 The Quiet Stacks 1:27:43 A Name You Half Remember 1:31:18 Searching by Lamp 1:34:46 The Back Room 1:37:54 Unlabelled Boxes 1:41:17 Still Reading 1:44:37 The Long Aisle 1:48:11 A Map in the Pages 1:51:54 Closed Books 1:55:18 The Hour Nobody Counts 1:58:42 Finding It 2:02:08 The Way Back Up 2:05:35 Blue Window 2:09:04 Shelving the Last Book 2:12:26 Lamp Left On Over two hours of slow ambient jazz - soft upright piano, brushed drums kept low, warm double bass. No sudden swells. No climax. Built to sit behind long work and stay there. For long nights of reading, and questions that keep opening into other questions. A new room every day - subscribe so the next one finds you. Best with headphones at low volume. Engawa is a collection of quiet Japanese interiors for people who work alone. An engawa is the narrow wooden veranda between the inside of a house and the garden beyond - neither one room nor the other. A place to sit while you think. #ambientjazz #focusmusic #deepwork #studymusic #japan