the stars go waltzing out in blue and red

There's a particular sort of music that I like a lot and can't seem ever to find enough of: music with fantasy landscapes. I get very visual with my music, and I love scenic music, something that through a combination of lyrics, melody, and instrumentation paints a whole world in my head, particularly a world that extends outside of my mostly-average sphere of living. It helps with the writiing, too -- I may or may not have mentioned that music is one of my weightiest catalysts when it comes to writing. I like a song that spins some sort of tale, whether in what is happening, or what it evokes. 

So, I've got a lot of city music, and a lot of music that evokes certain -- oh, well, there's Solas and Iron & Wine and Sufjan Stevens and some of Richard Shindell and some others that have this thick, rich feeling of storytelling and being in a certain part of time and landspace, and that earthy, bardic folk tradition. But, as I said, the one thing I can't ever seem to find enough to satiate my hunger is fantasy music. Something that paints a whole new and trembling world of wonder and discovery -- or fear. 

So here's a sampling of what I can pin down. (edit: fixed the link to 'Bloodstone'.)

( seven songs to daydream to )

There's also Solas' The Edge of Silence album, and some assorted tracks on my mix for 'The Mariner's Wife', which I refuse to post because then you will have them and the mix will be sort of ruined, and a few other bits here and there, and probably something immensely important which I am forgetting altogether. But now it is your turn: what music paints worlds for you?