Bonobo - 'Black Sands' (Official Audio) 

just shazamed it from my balcony, thanks to whoever was playing it :D

You suddenly feel nostalgic of the life you never had

This is the most beautiful, inspiring song I have ever heard. I discovered Bonobo by chance, and he has helped me through many a time of loneliness, anxiety, and sadness. There is nothing more therapeutic than feeling unhappy, to come home from a hard day and put on one of Bonobo's albums. Thank you for helping me to not die.

I sat and listened to this, and saw parts of my life and memories playing inside my head like a movie.

This melody understands you.

Feels like a song that could be played at my funeral. And I mean that in the most beautiful and uplifting of ways.

this is the song I was listening to when I was at my lowest point, in bed, crying over my empty shell of a mind. the song brought me a sort of melancholic comfort, subconsciously telling me things would get better, but first you must grieve.

As a clarinetist, I appreciate the use of the instrument in the music here. It is so uncommon that music that isn’t specifically for band/orchestra will include a clarinet, and I’m just amazed at the way it is used so seamlessly here. Bravo!

A guy showed me this on the train and I'm trying to find him, his names James and we met in 2015. I think he's from redditch or somewhere in the Midlands and he was coming back from a Liverpool game, I hope he sees this :)

This is a Sicilian based tune. My grandparents danced to the original at their wedding in Sicily. Check out Carmelo Zappula - Suspiranu for this original beautiful song. The words are deep and it’s in the old Sicilian dialect. Greetings from Brooklyn NYC.

This song takes me back to my room in a house i used to live in a few years ago. It was a very dark place of my life and i would never go back there but hearing this song takes me back to visit and i can remember every detail of my room of my life of my failures. Just visiting....never going back. This song reminds me i survived.

This song is really effective on me. I listen almost everyday. Take it me a trip which I lived good/bad memories. Very confusing... Friendships, university days, family... Very good job by BONOBO.

I'm a writer, and when I am writing mystery or a short about life or death I always write to this song.

One of xqc better recommendations

Always coming back to this song to reflect on my life. It gives me goosebumps and tears of happiness every single time. That is what I call a special piece of music.

I'll never forget the first day I heard this song. I was in a Tarantella dance class (Tarantella is a type of dance native to Southern Italy), and my teachers asked the class to simply walk forward, slowly- thinking of what it is we want to see. Who are we? Who do we want to be? Where is it that our feet will take us in this life? We got into about 30 seconds of the song before the first girl walking began to start crying... and not sobbing or a bawling-like cry. Just uncontrollable tears, streaming down her face. By the end of the song, all of us except for maybe one or two people were crying. You could feel the life in the room that day. It was unreal. We were all vulnerable and beautiful, just like this music. You could look into the souls of each person as they walked across the room, even if you weren't directly looking them in their eyes.

Always and forever my favorite Bonobo song. The clarinet and trumpet make my life!

Who's here from the Ghosts of the Past finale? Amazing song to finish everything with

Good lord, when the clarinet comes in at 1:14. It's so damn melancholy. I Love it!

From a slight melancholy, to a cliff drop that starts up a glimmer of hope which explodes at 3:15 as the protagonist gets their life back and starts seeing the beauty and purpose of life afresh. It's a great crescendoing beauty, that fades slowly, as our protagonist achieves their goal and looks back at the life. When all is said and done, they're glad they picked up their baton and kept running. "It's only one life, and it's your life, use it wisely." That's how I see this song. Absolute art.

Heard it on the radio, shazammed it. Best use of 3G ever...

just discovered this song on the way home from work and I literally sat in my driveway and listened to it on repeat for about 30 min. Felt like all my worries just went away. love it..

I simply love monotone long music that builds up through... This have so many emotions. I've been listening this for years and it never gets old, thanks to Johnny Marr for recommending it

listening to this on a rainy day is magic

This song is life itself.

If you have an acoustic guitar just start noodling in C minor over this, feels so nice

Xqcl I enjoyed the music

Can't stop listening this, i'm listening this for over year now and it's still like the first time

After more than 10 years the story has finally come to an end

Reminds me somewhat of Yann Tiersen. Very nice.

I always play this after someone close to me died, be it a pet or a family member. This song somehow manages to always pull out the tears and initiate my mourning process. Thanks Bonobo for creating such a beautiful piece of music :)

How about everything you have felt. In every corner of everyone's life past or present laced with interpretation of minds passed present and looking to the future ate placed at your feet. Fuck cliché, give words. Love you all BTW. Sometimes more is just lush❤

struggling to find words to express feelings when I hear that song. Suddenly I want to do right things in life

I cry everytiem

This makes me visualize life from birth to death. Anyone else?

"Feel the fear and the pain, let it all in, and then let it all go."

Still one of THE most beautifull songs i have ever heard. Simply amazing.

The word "beautiful" could have been invented for this song.

XQC?

This is more than music, its art, it takes your creativity and thoughts into a new place and makes them work in ways they usually aren't used to. I feel a sense of realization and maybe a slight bit of sadness , and some sort of hope .

This song, can't explain why but it has this very sad tone to it, almost as if it's the end of all things. That's just what it makes me see visually, typhoons, storms, all that sort of stuff.

About two weeks ago my mom got admitted into a hospital. She had been fighting terminal cancer for a year or two so this made me worried but my entire life she’s made it through things like this. Last week we found out that she just wanted it to stop. She was tired of the cancer leaving and coming back and all the surgeries and everything. Exactly a week ago, my dad took me to visit her. At the time she wanted to just give up right there and then. After hearing that I was devastated, and while my dad drove us home I played this song in my headset; my dad liked his old Mexican songs so I let him enjoy them. I found this song years ago but it’s just so powerful, that I knew I needed to associate it with a very tragic event, and one came up. The song is so hauntingly beautiful, it’s a serene shower of music and it’s feels alive. It made me realize that despite the tragedy of the event, it hurts because it was all so beautiful to begin with. After I visited her last week, she decided she wanted to do a few last things, a procedure here and a CAT scan there. Yesterday her doctor told me, my mom, and our family (present in the room) that she had two options: check her lungs for airway blockages or take off the life support and see what happens. The previous night I overheard nurses saying that if she doesn’t break 20 mins it’ll be over. When they took her off the ventilator (and gave her a mask that helps with breathing) she made it for hours. I was so proud and happy I had to stop myself from jumping with joy quite literally. The entire week I had been visiting her and it’s been building up to this, and I’ve been hopeful because I couldn’t sleep otherwise and I didn’t want her last possible moments of people being sad around her. Me and my dad went home and I was so relaxed. This morning at 2:30, I got a call from the hospital. She wasn’t able to breathe while asleep anymore, or reliably. The nurses let me talk to her as she died in her sleep. Obviously I’m heart broken and devastated and so on, but this song reminds me of how beautiful my mom truly was. Thank you Bonobo

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I have listened to the entire album probably 50 times or more. When I was stressed at work, I’d put my earbuds in and block the world out. Love, love Bonobo!

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it's really beautiful, reading all these comments from different people and most of them travel somewhere in their own special place with the same song... this song for me feels like im somewhere in italy on an aprils morning....

I dream of adventure. Purple skies and apocalyptic landscapes stretching father than my mind can fathom, as my friends by my side take a hopeless but beautiful journey with me. We see sights no man has ever seen before, feel things no person has, we start as our broken human shells and enrich. Our hopeless and bleak journey becomes less hopeless, less bleak, as the ruined and gothic temples and towns we travel to are repaired. We figure out that our life has meaning again, that there's something about it worth fighting for. I listen to this song, and it's true. God, is it true.

This song sounds like the energy one feels as the season has shifted into Autumn

this takes me somewhere else. some ancient temple in the clouds , with Asian architecture.

Who else got put on by xQc?

this remind anyone of the film ' Oldboy'??

If you like this song, have a listen to this new track from New Zealand-based artist LearningToDive! There's definitely similar vibes :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ARzVlhtQmcE.html&feature=emb_title

I can picture a man with a troubled past and a tough future , on the streets playing music for anyone who will listen and this is his life story as a song. I love this song because of how amazing this is without someone telling you what is happening to him or her

It makes me feel hope and sadness at the same time

Thanks xqc :)

This reminds me of Amelie movie.

I'm not forgetting you. Never ever.

PeepoGlad CRUUB

Strife...

this song is seriously the best , it gives you an infinite vibe Like it's never gonna end

how is that I have lived so many years without listening this masterpiece ...

It brings me to old french streets many decades ago...But I've never been in France and I am from 1991. As Andrei said in a comment, I feel nostalgic of a life I never had

When i first listen this track almost 3 yrs back , i entirely gave up listening all other my music collection (All genre, except new age and lounge music). Im an atheist but this track brings me down on my knees every time i listen this one. Perhaps my life was in a bumpy road then (Still in). I don't know for sure.

I want everyone to listen to this song. But at the same time want it to be hidden as it is quite close to me, like a moment of solace.

Does the melody and instruments have a sort of Italian feel to anyone else? Or some sort of European culture, I can't tell... it's distinct though.

I have never listened to such a peaceful song that just makes me wanna stand up and dance. For some minutes all my problems are gone from just listening to this song. It is so therapeutic. I am grateful that my dad introduced me to Bonobo because he always listens to it on car rides

Xqc introduced this to me ....

This beautifully explains "The Sad Truth about Life"

That clarinet made me feel goosebumps.

The main part of the song has a kinda Yann Tiersen sound. It's beautiful.

Makes me want to watch a miyazaki film, what a transcendent track.

JUICER

Listening

This is a fantastic song to enjoy on a boat with someone you trust

C'est magnifique, vraiment j'adore ! Un morceau avec une rythmique de valse, moi contrairement à beaucoup de gens, je ne peux pas trouver ça triste, c'est juste beau, très beau. Et puis la clarinette, c'est big love assuré ☺👌

This song makes me feel cloudy and rainy Istanbul's streets. So beautiful ..

i'm so glad rainy mood introduced me to this

is it ok if I cry a little? the most beautiful song I've ever heard

I imagine this playing when the people finally rise up against the powers that be, I one voice we all say NO MORE!!!

I love the old Victorian feel to this song

Play this and you'll just know things are going to work out just fine

Voy a llorar con esta canción es una belleza para cerrar este año con su aniversario 10 años

i bet they find the secret to space travel in this song.. Fuck its out of this world.. did i do that 2million views myself?

Just discovered this gem of a song.. Reading through everyone's comment on this masterpiece and soaking in all the emotions everyone is sharing. 🖤

Feels like i've been waiting for this song my whole life

it isnt exclusively for after a loss of a person (broke up, travel, death, whatever) this just goes into your freaking inner tissues and press those supressed feelings of anything and everything that once was sad. i have a stable relationship, a home, food, people that care for me. still this makes my eyes glassy and the feel to walk under the already cold rain. the power of music.

masterpiece

Strife? Anyone?

This song makes me think of a small funeral on a rocky beach while a coffin is floating out to sea.

With all that is going on in this world, I suddenly remembered this song. Listening to this song in the current scenario of unrest made me so sad that I cannot even comprehend. As of today, more than 9950 people in the world have succumbed to the Coronavirus in the entire world. I saw a picture of Italy where there was a line of cars carrying the dead bodies of people in Italy. That genuinely broke my heart. I do not know why this tune was constantly ringing in my head. Whoever is reading this, I hope we overcome the disease together. Stay safe, stay indoors.

what a song i did forget about this for years and find it again if i live enough i'm certain this will happen again

All I can say is that I am so glad I found this song. Pure beauty.

This song brings out the human inside this kardashian world.

voice of happiness , but saddness at the same time. Meaning , pure art.

this song, it's voice truly feels like my friend's who just died, I played this on the way home from her wake (a 6 1/2 drive home) and it just flooded me with peace and pain. Today I went to work on a painting, put Bonobo on shuffle and this was the first song...I just about lost it. She died from breast cancer, during the same time my wife was being treated as well, I feel horrible that I didn't know and couldn't support her and her husband.

Does anyone else restart the song to 3:10 after listening to it?

Waves of nostalgia crash through me

Found my funeral song.

This makes me think of a guy in the mob. Just walking around rainy streets looking in windows thinking about if he made the right choices. as he watches people live happier lives then he could ever imagine and ponders.

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