In this royalty free music category here you will find a mix of Indian music, Bollywood rhythms, middle eastern and Arabic sounds. Acoustic instruments performed live - reed flute, ethnic percussion instruments, bouzouki, zither, Turkish oboe, santoor, tabla and more. Stock music fit for commercial, travel, adventure, vacation and discovery, for relaxation, reflection, art and culture, history, film/drama and more. Good background music for travel/holiday, exploration and discovery of exotic and mystical places. Listen to these royalty free tracks, buy a license to any individual track and download the music immediately in MP3 and WAV format, along with an official License document.
A retro video game / electro chip tune with an Eastern / Oriental / Egyptian flavor. Mystical and exotic. Cool for apps and games. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
An exciting and uplifting 60-seconds track, with an exotic world/ethnic feel, using elements of both Latin and Turkish/Middle Eastern music. Great for travel, adventure, discovery. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
India pop / Bollywood. Fun / happy / cute / whimsical. Available with or without vocals. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Mysterious, sexy and provocative, this track features ethnic Middle Eastern percussion with ney (bamboo flute), santoor, Oud and electric bass. The result is traditional with a modern groove. The pace gradually accelerates towards the ending to a fast paced climax for a powerful impact. Great for dramatic use or documentaries. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
Bollywood / India. Young, peppy, lively Hindi dance number conveying playful interaction between a girl and a boy. A groovy music track with hindi vocals which can be used for party / college/ high school / school reunion / young backdrop / clubs / discos. [Tempo: Fast / 134 BPM]
Traditional Eastern music instruments are combined with modern beats and sound effects to create some exotic vibes. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
A solemn female vocal with subtle drones, ethnic percussion and flute. Middle Eastern, North African, Palestinian or other world/ethnic content. Ominous, foreboding. Sorrow, loss, pain or anguish. Builds in intensity after about 01:45. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
This track is highly evocative and is great as an opener or introduction. Free tempo, features Indian slide guitar freely improvising on a bed of lush pads. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Meditative music track featuring classical guitar on a drone of electronic pads and Indian tanpura. Great music for relaxation, documentary and more. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Bollywood / India: A soft romantic Hindi ballad in authentic Indian ghazal form conveying passion between the lovers. Asking each other to overcome all the difficulties in their relation and make a new beginning. Passionate, emotional, melodious, sentimental, full of romance, adoring, touching, expressive. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
Uniquely suspense-filled, filmic track with Eastern plucked strings mixing with flutes, tribal drums and orchestral strings. Very cinematic and intense. The tune grows in power as it goes with string motifs joining the tribal drum grooves. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
A mystical and exotic track that combines acoustic guitar with various Moroccan, North African, Middle Eastern instruments, flutes, micro-tuned Kalimba etc. Somewhat dreamy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
Spacious, ethereal, exotic & groovy track with simple eastern vocal chants that catch the ear and whisk you off to foreign lands. Beautiful, inspiring & cinematic. Great filmic atmosphere & middle eastern vibe. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 78 BPM]
Middle eastern, Indian and Egyptian sounds are fused in this modern remix-style track, which includes fresh beats and organic sounds in fusion. [Tempo: Medium / 116 BPM]
1960's era Indian summer, hippies, peace and love. Historical pop, mellow and hypnotic. [Tempo: Medium / 106 BPM]
Indian style slide guitar, sitar and woodwinds over India percussion. The track builds in intensity as it goes on. Mysterious, mystical. Ethnic, ancient world mysteries. Oriental, with a dark side. Exotic. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
Dark, brooding, menacing, intensely powerful, primitive, fiery and gutsy rock track with great sense of impending doom and epic grandeur. Heavy, loud, mean, bombastic, gritty, scary, wild & very wicked. The chorus has a middle-eastern feel. Would suit action / thriller / military / extreme sports type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 66 BPM]
A beautiful and tasteful Eastern track featuring tambur, dumbek and eastern oud and ney flutes. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Epic high powered, high drama explosive rock track with an Eastern flavoured intro. Arabian plucked strings build the intro tension before a monster riff explodes the track into energised life. Once it gets going, it builds in intensity until the eye of the storm, the mid section. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A dry and breathy rhythm soon gives way to a majestic melody which leads further into dark ambiences and a choir swelling into mystery & mythology. Dark / Mystical / Ethnic Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 64 BPM]
Middle eastern ska. Arabian pipes over a ska beat. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Mysterious and exotic Indian slide guitar over a bed of provocative synths. Gives a sense of space and peace, exalted and spiritual. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A relaxing, ecclectic rhythm groove, warm and laidback guitar melodies with a slight jazzy feel. Also features Indian sitar and tabla percussion for a nice and breezy, ethnic/world feel. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Middle Eastern melody played by an exotic-sounding string instrument and backed by hypnotic bells, sequences, and tribal drums. Bridge breaks down into funky double time for a surprising mood twist, and then returns to the Middle Eastern theme. Includes elements of Bollywood, funk, electronica, and world music. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
A sweet and lovely India Bollywood soft pop song, with female Indian vocals. This song uses a fusion of Western and Indian sounds and moods. The lyrics are in Hindi language and are about an unrequited love. This track is available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Use of Indian folk instruments to express joy, happiness and life. Positive, uplifting, success, victory, enjoyment, enriching. Exotic / world / ethnic. Also good as an Indian / Middle Eastern background / underscore. Features flute, pads, duff, ghatam, santoor, manjeera, dimbdi, sarangi, dhol. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Melancholic female vocals directs the emotion here. Typical instruments of the Arab and Indian worlds merge with a modern string orchestra. Multifaceted, imaginative and well suited to accompany dramatic Bollywood movie scenes. Also available as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A forward and upward driving track with fast piano arpeggios, ethnic percussion and voice pads. Great for world news, current affairs, exciting travels and more. Available in two different mixes, and 60/30-secs versions of both mixes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A fun and groovy dancy track. Ethnic string, woodwind and keyed instruments combine with electric piano, drums and double bass to make a uniquely energetic, uplifting tune with a distinctly exotic flavour. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 123 BPM]
World fusion combining Indian slide guitar with Western rock and jazz and ethnic percussion. Rocking with a spiritual and peaceful edge [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
A beautiful, traditional Indian love song arranged with a mixture of Indian ethnic instruments and more modern/western elements. Sung by the highly renowned Indian thumri singer Vidya Rao who has been kind enough to work with us on this track. Thumri is a form of Indian singing which originated in the temples where the courtesans of the temples used to sing about lost love. The lyrics in this song can be summarized as a woman singing to a dear friend or lover in a far-away land, singing for him to return to where he belongs. Arranged with tabla, Indian strings and soft pads. There is also an alternative version without the vocals, and yet another version with only the vocals and soft pads, in a more "ambient" setting. Haunting and beautiful. [Tempo: Medium / 87 BPM]
An exotic and mystical, slowly grooving track with a strong India / Middle East / Oriental flavor. Lazy, trance like. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
A soft, eastern melody played on ethnic woodwind. Slowly increasing orchestral backdrop. Mysterious and strangely inviting. Feels like '1001 Nights' or other Arabian adventures. Crescendo towards the end. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
Epic fantasy / marching track with an Arabian or Eastern/Orient feel. Battle drums, staccato brass stabs, Persian or Arabic sounding melodies. Impending action, dramatic, war or conflict. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
Unmistakably Indian in mood and style but enveloped in contemporary production. There's a undercurrent of magic and mystery throughout the whole track which features a variety of lead instruments. World / Travel / Ethnic Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A world electronica track inspired by music from The Last Temptation of Christ. It features synthesizer and electronic bass, indigenous udu percussion, set to a spiritual percussive groove. There are moments of eerie ethnic string drones that creates a nice musical tension that make for a great underscore or bed. It has a spiritual, emotionally intense mood that is captivating, powerful and gripping. Excellent for cinematic work, spiritual and religious video and biographical or documentary footage requiring something that will emotionally stir the viewer. [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
Mediterranean medium dance beat, accordion and bouzouki playing. Beach, romance, joyful. Can be Eastern / Mid East / Persian music or India, or Greek / Cyprus etc. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Exotic Hip-Hop track with influences from ethnic music, mostly middle eastern. Dynamic and energetic. A great sense of danger, foreboding, conflict. Great for adventure, scifi, trailers, sports, urban scenes with a exotic feel. Also great for action scenes, travel, desert. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 116 BPM]
Cool combination of huge lumbering grungey guitar riffs and ethnic vocals samples. Has a powerful, rich and sometimes menacing vibe to it... a statement of intent. The mid brings a long breakdown where drums and strings bubble under and twist their way back to an almighty riff attack. A real journey of a tune. [Tempo: Medium / 76 BPM]
Suspenseful, dramatic, ethereal, epic, spacious, moody, atmospheric cinematic rock track that gradually builds in intensity. Starts with dhol drums & various synths join in as it goes. Exciting, tense, thrilling, rhythmically hypnotic & climactic. Would suit action / thriller / sports / combat / crime type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 119 BPM]
Haunting and mysterious Middle Eastern instrumental for exotic movie scenes, documentaries, trailers or any project in need of a dark, ambient eastern soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Middle Eastern music with a touch of mystery. Features traditional instruments and rhythms. Suitable for travel, nature and culture. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 57 BPM]
Intense, rhythmic & incredibly dramatic heavy rocker with an eastern / indian flavour.Hypnotic sitar / plucked string synth arpeggios build gradually to an onslaught of monster, face-melting distorted guitar riffs. Great combination of tension, groove & and brutality! [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Hopeful and positive world fusion music. This track features Indian slide guitar along with groovy drums and a modern feel. Great for culture and world peace. [Tempo: Medium / 114 BPM]
India pop / Bollywood. Fun / light / cute / world fusion. Available with or without vocals. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A hip hop track with arabic / middle eastern influences. Ethnic percussion, exotic melodies and a deep urban beat build the piece. Low-rider, gangsta, gang culture. Mysterious, sexy, exciting and uplifting. Perfect for scenes of night clubs, inner city, action and crime, but with an exotic twist. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A fresh and feelgood instrumental music track with a taste of the excotic, Eastern. Could be India, Middle East, Arabia, Egypt, Dubai etc. A very positive and inviting feel. Great music for commercials, travel, adventure, holiday and discovery. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 108 BPM]
This North Africa inspired track takes the sounds of Morocco with it's african and arab elements, and mixes that with modern breakbeat and retro rock'n roll influences. We know it sounds crazy, but it works. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 106 BPM]
Suspenseful, ethnic percussion with mysterious pads. A little creepy, foreboding. Can be Africa, Northern Africa, Middle East, Arabia/Arabic or even South American, tribal. [Tempo: Medium / 101 BPM]
Dark, Deep and gloomy cinematic track with mysterious and mystical feel. Suitable for films, TV, videos and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
