Greetings!  I'm hoping someone may be able to turn me onto some
additional composers/musicians, who create music similar in style to
the work found on Craig Armstrong's "Piano Works".  Piano is my
favorite instrument, but I"m also open to other instrumentation, so
long as the mood is deep, emotional, and somewhat melancholy or
haunting.  Another title I very much enjoy is the latest collaborative
effort by Lisa Gerrard, entitled, "Immortal Memory".  I'm already
familar with the work of Dead Can Dance, and Vas, as well as Harold
Budd and Eric Satie, so please skip these recommendations.  Also, I'm
not interested in New Age music. I"m seeking deeply moving works.  Any
ideas?

I enjoy this one very much.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002C0Y/qid=1110396687/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_1/103-9507103-5409465?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

I am a big fan of Craig Armstrong too. Here are some suggestions you might like:

Deine Lakainen's tune "The Game" (fantastic haunting piano and vocal
piece - great lyrics)
Portishead "Theme for to kill a dead man" (beatiful instrumental noir
/ haunting piano piece)
Li Li "Heavenly Girl" (used to be available free from mp3.com)
Rob D "clubbed to death" (very craig armstrongish song - beautiful piano ending)

You can try looking up the earlier Delerium/Synaesthesia works
(samples available at http://www.delerium.com. The later ones are
vastly different, but the Karma or Poem albums might do it for you as
well.

For really haunting/scary music nothing beats John Carpenter's Prince
of Darkness soundtrack (a bit off from what you are looking for
though).

For a more celtic style try Lorena McKennit (A bit like Enya, but
deeper and tons better).

Anything by Eric Serra (soundtracks for Big Blue and Leon/The
Professional in particular).

Sarah McLachlan if you enjoy that kind of vocals. Or Sissel
(especially "Weightless")

Some free artists to check:
Gil Amran, Bassic, Adeimus


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You might want to check out a band called Surrealistic Penguin
(http://www.surrealisticpenguin.com). Their music is pretty eclectic
but the words "deep", "emotional" and "haunting" certainly apply. As
one reviewer said:

"I swear I have heard these songs in some other life. Very emotionally
powerful; endearing lyrics, haunting vocals, rhythms, and piano tones.
Beautiful stuff!"
Teirrah Andurzen

Cheers

Keefy

thanks for the tips everyone.  much appreciated!

You should check out Yoko Kanno's work. She composes for japanese
animation. I don't know exactly what you are looking for but alot of
her songs ("space lions" from cowboy bebop and "myung's theme" from
macross plus spring to mind) literally bring me to tears when noone is
looking.

http://jameswong.com/ykproject/

that site has samples of most of her music and links to purchase the CD's

thanks jetlagg, i'll check her out!