GOKURAKU — 極楽 | Traditional Japanese Music for Deep Relaxation, Sleep & Focus

Welcome to Murasaki Sounds. Murasaki is the colour you get between indigo and vermilion — and the hour you get between day and night. Everything on this channel lives in that in-between. GOKURAKU (極楽) is the Japanese word for paradise — but in everyday speech it is what you say when you sink into hot water or sit down after a long day. Somewhere along the way, heaven came to mean being unhurried. 極楽や 蓮のひらくを 待つばかり Paradise — nothing to do but wait for the lotus to open ────────── A lotus pond at first light. Mist over water with no ripple in it, petals on the surface, the far shore barely there. A bell somewhere behind you. It is the kind of pond you walk around at Shinobazu in Tokyo in July, early, before the city is awake. Shakuhachi, koto and shamisen. Very few notes, and long silences between them — because in Japanese music the space between two sounds is called MA, and it is not an absence. It is the other half of the music. Use this sound for: Deep Relaxation, Sleep, Meditation, Reading, Deep Focus, Calming Down. 🎵 Tracklist & Chapters 00:00 — The Lotus Pond 04:26 — Mist Over Still Water 08:55 — Open at Dawn 13:21 — Nothing Hurries Here 17:46 — Petals on the Surface 22:08 — A Bell Somewhere Behind 26:36 — Reflection Without Wind 30:55 — The Far Shore 35:15 — Slow Opening 39:40 — Cool Air Off the Pond 44:00 — Light Through the Leaves 47:12 — Ease 50:28 — Water Without Ripple 54:47 — The Long Shallow Morning 59:07 — Nothing Is Asked of You 1:03:35 — The Pond Holds the Sky 1:08:03 — No Hurry to Leave 1:12:30 — Stay a While Longer (The set repeats from here — twice in all.) ────────── No ads in the middle. Original music, composed for this channel. A new Japanese scene, whenever the light is right. ⛩ Nothing is being asked of you here. Subscribe to Murasaki Sounds for more quiet hours in Japan.