Pink Moon

http://www.amazon.com/Pink-Moon/dp/B000W1W9EW/

This is perhaps the most beautiful album I have ever heard. In October 1971 Nick Drake spent two nights making this 28 minute album with himself, the sound engineer and a couple guitars. He left the tapes on the front desk in the lobby of Island Records and then retired from the music business. Three years later he was dead.

With literally just a guitar, I think Nick Drake is just as moving and elegant as a full fledged orchestra.