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.
Bollywood / India: A flirtatious Hindi song between girl and boy. The boy confesses his adoration for the girl and she shrugs him with cheer. Fun, Lively, flirty, young, playful, mischievous, teasing. Describes a new love. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 102 BPM]
Sad and reflective Middle Eastern track featuring qanun accompanied by electric cello and duduk. Great for drama, tragedy etc. Refugees, tragedy, solemn. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Laidback track that blends traditional Indian instruments with a modern chill-out groove. Great for contemporary Indian based projects, tv dramas, movies, documentaries etc looking for a soothing, pensive mood. Features Santoor, Tabla, Piano, Violin, Vocals, Bass and Drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 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]
This Hip Hop track with middle eastern influences is a good match for depicting the recent demonstrations and protests of the "Arab Spring". A strong hip hop, urban pulse with eastern melodies and percussion. A great sense of danger, foreboding, conflict. Also great for action scenes, travel, desert. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Beautiful, spacey & mysterious female vocal chants float on a gentle desert breeze & transport you off to foreign lands. Soft percussion, alluring, charming and peaceful music perfect for films, documentaries, travel and tourism, hotels, spas, boutiques and fashion commercials, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A short, Eastern / Oriental / Greek folk music inspired track. Authentic Arabic music melody in a calm, chilled-out and happy mood. Eastern easy listening featuring Oud and Kanun. Good music for holiday / travel, discovery, happy times. [Tempo: Medium / 110 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]
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]
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]
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]
Evocative Middle Eastern music with a strong and dramatic flavor. Intense and exotic with melancholic undertones. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
An electronic Dubstep track featuring a fat but clean bass, classical drum beat spiced up by an Indian touch to it brought by a sitar, some tablas and a bansuri. It's urban and dark sound would provide a great combination to any city footage, something like a documentary on Bombay's mafia. [Tempo: Slow / 130 BPM]
Slow, spacious, ethereal, textured track with dreamy, exotic, chanted vocal samples. Be whisked away on the calm breeze to foreign lands. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
An exotic and mystical, slowly grooving track with a strong India / Middle East / Oriental flavor. Lazy, trance like. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
A rather snakey and slinky track. Makes you envisage far off lands, camels, deserts, magic carpet rides, belly dancers etc. A heady brew of zither, bass, drum kit, zither, string section, turkish oboe, drum loops, electric guitars and piano. The mid section has big change in the mysterious mood but then the undeniable groove returns. [Tempo: Fast / 123 BPM]
An original composition stylized as a medieval battle song. Performed live in a studio by the Fleurdelis ensemble featuring authentic, live performed instruments modeled on the instruments of medieval music times: Bouzouki, Rabab Kashgar (A long-necked Lute instrument) and percussion. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Very cool & crisp hip-hop track with a slight Eastern flavor. [Tempo: Medium / 105 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]
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]
Powerful, dark and mysterious cinematic piece with Middle Eastern/Arabic feel. Big drums, guitars, driving arpeggiated bass, distant shamanic chants. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Middle East, Ethnic, Choral, Intimate, Emotive, Melancholy Music. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Traditional instruments fused with colourful Bhangra rhythms. Alluring female vocal lines add a sense of erotic mystique. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 97 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]
An eerie voice calls from a distance, drum hits keep us on our toes. A shadowy figure moves through the desert like a ghost; forsaken, alone. Would work great leading up to a military conflict in a middle east setting. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 72 BPM]
Traditional Eastern music instruments are combined with modern beats and sound effects to create some exotic vibes. [Tempo: Medium / 102 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]
Dark, Deep and gloomy cinematic track with mysterious and mystical feel. Suitable for films, TV, videos and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Mid-tempo hip-hop, urban, with some slightly Turkish, Indian or Eastern sounding orchestra riffs. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Upbeat, high energy adrenaline rocker with slight ethnic flavour. Lots of guitar melodies, distorted guitar riffs, strings and bombastic dramatic statements. Contains guitars, Persian santoor, bass, drum and strings. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Electronic dance track with an eastern flavour. Synth sequences and syncopated beats combine with shenai oboe and strings to make a piece that has constant impetus and also fresh new colours and textures entering as it progresses. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
Bollywood / India: A haunting sufi Hindi male song. The rhythm is upbeat. The lover is pining for his lady love. He is saying that love has destroyed him, has given him the pain of waiting for his love, not able to forget the love of his life. He is madly in love and cant think of anything but love. Love has rendered him good for nothing. He has given up everything for his love and love is still eluding him. Tender, emotional, very passionate, deeply moving. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Hip Hop track with Arab / Middle Easterm / Oriental influences and elements. Ethnic instruments, exotic melodies, traditional middle east percussion, over a typical hip hop beat. Very good for depicting urban conflicts in Arabic world. Also good for tension & suspense scenes, dangerous situations. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Slowish melodic with Indian style slide guitars and tabla. Appealing, gentle melody and a very vibrant sound. Positive and emotional. [Tempo: Medium / 106 BPM]
A middle eastern / Arabian sounding, epic, highly dramatic piece, featuring eastern chant vocals, large drums and percussion section, strings, choir and other ethnic instruments. After a foreboding, tense opening section, the main percussion and chant part comes in at about 52 seconds into the track. Drama, conflict. [Tempo: Slow / 60 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]
Floaty and dreamy musical soundscape with world & ethnic flavors from Northern Africa and the Middle East. Various ethnic instruments used in combination with textured pads and acoustic guitar. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 63 BPM]
Cool and witty melody, where emotion meets fun and dance. Expressive music, with oriental flute and oud. Can be Oriental / Middle East, persian, arabian, also India or Eastern european, Greek etc. Music for travel, fun, vacation / holiday, discovery. [Tempo: Medium / 103 BPM]
A nice mixture of U.S. hip-hop and Indian Banghra, with a slight Turkish flavor to it as well. Very groovy stuff! [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A thrilling cinematic trailer cue that is epic and intense. It starts with a haunting vocal a la Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score and erupts into a gripping and chilling cinematic trailer that ends with massive, bold loud dramatic impacts and explosions. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
India pop / Bollywood Party. Fresh, funky, lively and sexy. Available with or without vocals. [Tempo: Medium / 110 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]
Silky middle eastern female vocals and ethnic percussion build to an aggressive grunge rock ending. Works well for trailers. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
World fusion / India / Bollywood pop. Indian / Middle Eastern / Oriental music styles combined with Western / contemporary influences. Exotic and fun. Available with or without vocals. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
India pop / Bollywood. Fun / light / cute / world fusion. Available with or without vocals. [Tempo: Slow / 78 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]
Ambient and exciting, this piece takes you on a modern day tour of Africa. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 126 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]
Exotically traditional oriental composition with percussions and a turkish saz (lute). suitable for ceremonial scenes from the middle east and orient. Hectic, ardent and feisty. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
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]
