as said, Colma and Electric Tears are of the mellow stuff you may dig.
Also his Thanatopsis "Axiology" album has some mellowish tracks, but a bit more rock-jam vibe.
With about 100000000 albums in his discog, i'll give you the must haves in order to get the idea, and not get bored.
Praxis
* 1992: Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
* 1994: Metatron
* 1997: Transmutation Live
Giant Robot
* 1996: Giant Robot
Buckethead
* 1999: Monsters and Robots
* 2004: The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
* 2005: Kaleidoscalp
With Viggo Mortensen - these are all poems & experimental type things. Alot of mellow things going on
* 1997: One Less Thing to Worry About
* 1998: Recent Forgeries
* 1999: The Other Parade
* 1999: One Man's Meat
* 2003: Pandemoniumfromamerica
* 2004: Please Tomorrow
* 2004: This, That, and The Other (compilation)
* 2005: Intelligence Failure
* 2008: At All
Arcana
* 1997: Arc of the Testimony
great album, Tony William's (jazz drum legend) last ever recording
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
* 2004: The Big Eyeball in the Sky
how can you go wrong with this line-up!!?
Icehouse
* (1993) - "Big Wheel" (Single)
* (1993) - Spin One (EP)
* (1994) - Full Circle
* (1994) - "Great Southern Land" (German single)
* (1997) - Masterfile (Japanese Release)
The remixes of Australian band Icehouse are great and Bucket sounds perfect on it. So many Bucketfans/Icehouse fans and Aussies would not know about these remixes
Mike Patton with Buckethead and DJ Flare forming Moonraker
* (2000) - Live @ The Knitting Factory (bootleg only)
This bootleg is pretty cool. noise-hiphop
He also gets mellow on a lot of the dub and world music stuffs, but there's too many ("1 song only") to list, but many of the lists at the bottom of the wiki page are these people (but heaps are also hiphop/experimental)
go here for more info on the ones i suggested
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead_discography
I don't bother buying anything new of his anymore, as it's all the same. Unless something totally new or more Praxis (like old) comes about, I won't bother.
hope this helps.
But if you sard all the above, just get
Praxis "Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)" & "Transmutation Live" - these were the first albums I got which had him - i got them actually for the bassists (Laswell & Bootsy) and DJ's originally, then fell in love with his git acrobatics!
