Music that sticks when reading

Given the right circumstances, I love listening to music while I read. Not any kind of music, though. Mostly I prefer music without vocals, so called instrumental music.

There are exceptions, of course. I can listen to music with Norwegian lyrics if I read and English lyrics when reading Norwegian books. Perhaps I should start listening to French music?

Most of the music I listen to when reading, however, goes under the wide term of ambient music. Ambient music is moody musical pieces with no particular tones or notes. Just sound and atmospherical waves of music. Very nice and very passive listening.

My favourites are: Biosphere, Steve Roach, Boards of Canada and Dzihan & Kamien. Classical music is also ok, but it's not everything that fits. I just got hold of.. uhh..ok, I just copied "Classical Chillout Box" which is 5 cd's with very nice reading music. Check it out!

If you like to explore strange music, I highly recommend Kolar Goi's debut album, fittingly called "Kolar Goi".