Soothing Relaxation: Relaxing Piano Music & Water Sounds for Sleep, Meditation, Spa & Yoga

Anyone new to the BryonySeries blog might wonder why I post piano music on Sundays and how that fits into the BryonySeries world.

That's because one character - John Simons - was a nineteenth century world-renowned pianist and composer before he died and became a vampire.

Today I'm sharing a a piece with several BryonySeries elements by a Norweigian composer - Peder B. Helland - whom I accidentally discovered while writing "Call of the Siren."

He posts his pieces on YouTube under his name and also Soothing Relxation.

Here's how I discovered him.

I had random piano music playing in the background in my room on a January 7, 2022. I remember the date because it was a sunny morning, and I was getting ready to celebrate Old Calendar Christmas with family.

Faith, my calico cat, was pacing on the bed, clamoring for attention. So I sat to pet her while this piece started playing in the background, and I marveled that the day was so sunny outside, the birds were actually chirping.

Well, real birds weren't actually, I later discovered. These were bird recordings in the background.

But that piece, ironically called "Sunny Mornings," broke through my nine-month writer's block with "Call of the Siren," a block that was less about words but finding the "music" in the words, the sound and tempo, and pacing that I felt was especially important to telling this story.

I can never hear that song without this entire memory coming to mind.

I started listening to more of Helland's music (you can find more on this blog by searching his nametag), and shared the ones that "felt" like "Call of the Siren." Those pieces, for me, became the book's unofficial soundtrack.

And I often listened to the "right" piece as I wrote "Call of the Siren," the only time I've ever listened to music while I wrote, preferring silence over distriction.

Sundays on the BryonySeries Facebook page are dedicated to the BryonySeries Limbo trilogy, which explores what happens when time and progress seemingly stop in a Northern Michigan fishing village. "Call of the Siren" is the second book in that trilogy.

So for reasons of piano music, Helland, the sounds of water in the background, and the fact "Call of the Siren" is today's featured book, I'm sharing this piece with you today.

Enjoy!