A wide open musical soundscape featuring ambient guitars and textures. Pensive and thoughtful. Introspective. Intimate, but also with a distant feel. Good as an underscore for drama and film. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 86 BPM]
A piano-driven pop song about still loving someone after they've already left and moved on emotionally. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
The finale of Act 1 of the Swan Lake ballet by Piotr Tchaikovsky. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Orchestral / Symphonic music with choir, for adventure, magic and amazing stories. A soft, slow piece that gently undulates. Could work in scenes of loss or scenes in which beauty or wonder figure prominently. [Tempo: Slow / 91 BPM]
A slow, eerie and mystical Ambient / Cinematic track with a cold feel of wonderment and amazement. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Melancholic, piano based soundtrack with strings. A sense of longing, revisiting old times or making a new start. Travelling, passing time, pictures from a life. Good for drama use, opening scenes etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 126 BPM]
Acoustic Americana / folk with Dobro and acoustic guitars. Reflective, longing and tender with a homely, nostalgic feel. Love, memories, perhaps regret, or a beautiful country day. There is also an 'underscore' version, without the main melody line Dobro. [Tempo: Medium / 119 BPM]
A mellow and melancholic soft-jazz ballad featuring wide open, airy pads, soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone. Emotional, inspirational, uplifting and memorable, with the kind of chord progressions and melodies that give you goosebumps. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
This track starts from a simple bell melody and rises up gradually throughout in a crescendo. A sense of achievement, aspiration, glory, hopes and reaching for the stars. Inspirational/inspiring music. [Tempo: Slow / 121 BPM]
Subtle, delicate and sparse waltz with glassy bells and high piano. Tasteful, graceful and frail. Good for drama, personal reflection, melancholic scenes. This piece has a slight historical feel to it as well -- perhaps memories or times gone by. Pretty and pastoral. [Tempo: Slow / 52 BPM]
Smooth chilled out groove in the style of Boards of Canada with a classical feel, minor organ chords, melancholic piano melody and sparkling synth over deep sub bass. Reflective, contemplative and atmospheric. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 162 BPM]
Mellow and melancholic, loving and tender melody with soft soprano saxophone, piano and harp. Delicate, touching, highly suitable for use in drama, personal reflection, story telling. Nostalgic, beautiful, caring. [Tempo: Slow / 63 BPM]
Edgy, rough and determined electro-funk / techno crossover with a Big Beat sound. Hard edged staccato synth licks. Aggressive, dominant, mechanical and forceful. Good for car chase scene, mech warfare, modern war machines, fights and brawls, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A touching and poignant melodramatic piece featuring violin and solo female voice. Beautiful, melancholic, sorrowful and longing. Richly textured, good for filmscore / drama, perhaps funeral, separation or loss. Regret, sadness. Longing, norstalgia. [Tempo: Slow / 59 BPM]
Cinematic, melodramatic, orchestral film underscore. Slow arpeggios underneath a layer of soft string pads, with oboe lead. Melodic, somewhat melancholic, and with a slight sense of mystery or unfolding secrets. Good for film noir and more. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
Peaceful and spacey dreamscape. Soft strings, simple piano lines and trippy synths wrap you in cotton wool clouds and transport you off into the vast universe beyond. Contains synths, strings, piano. [Tempo: Very slow / 60 BPM]
Melancholic, reflective, open ambient soundscape, After about a minute a solitary acoustic guitar joins and plays a few expressive notes. Contemplative, solemn, tender/sore, but hopeful. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 109 BPM]
A semi-orchestral, semi-futuristic, semi-industrial soundtrack. This work consists of 21 scenes collectively titled Urban Darkness. It was inspired by movies such as Blade, Dark City, as well as TV series such as X-Files, Urban Gothic, and others -- however it would fit any dark and urban style TV or film work set in the present or future. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Epic melody, awe, staccato strings, big horns. Main theme & credits etc. (00:04:09)
Mix of orchestral and synthetic sounds, light percussion, hint of theme. (00:02:06)
Rich percussion, both electronic and orchestral - dissonant & sweeping. (00:02:46)
Inner city, stylish, mournful retro crime thriller music. Atmospheric, a bit mystery, influenced by Film Noir.... Fretless bass, electric piano, pads, effects and sparse conga. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
Slightly ethnic/tribal sounding cinematic piece. Contains several build-ups and climaxes, as well as a nostalgic section at around 4:00. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
A beautiful and emotional R&B, Soul ballad available with or without vocals. Beautiful RnB vocals and bluesy guitar lines with a soft pop production. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Sweeping, emotional, cinematic track. Wistful, longing, grand and epic. Suitable for movies, games, opening scenes, dramatic vistas, scenes of strong emotions, movie trailer, and more. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A softly sweeping orchestral cue with melancholic, emotional, strings, harp and oboe. Personal reflection, memories, storytelling. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Reflective film underscore. Orchestral backing texture piano melody. Thoughtful, nostalgic, melancholic. Good for film/TV drama, poignant messages, love and eternal friendships, real human values. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
A melancholic, nostalgic, drama- or film underscore cue. Thoughtful reflection, melancholy. Good for romantic drama, personal stories, emotional content. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Urban, inner city, hip-hop with a wistful undertone. Perhaps dark days, sorrow or misery. A dark, urban edge, like a rainy day in the city. A slight feeling of something old, mixed with the new. Urban drama scene. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
Tense, indecisive, foreboding, listless and restless. Swell near end delivering to lingering tension that can resolve or be left hanging. Good for drama, intrigue, moral dilemma, daytime drama, troubled romance. This track is recorded with a real live philharmonic orchestra. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A Slow and sombre piano waltz that's ideal for anything with history that has a nostalgic mood. [Tempo: Slow / 133 BPM]
Dark, Haunting and Mysterious, imagine the world has ended but somehow you survived and are surrounded by the wreckage as the dust still rises. Features various processed synths, epic drums, haunting vocals and effects. Good for dramas, sci-fi, horrors and video games. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An introspective, thoughtful and poignant film soundtrack piece. Somewhat nostalgic / melancholic, perhaps sorrow, loss or memories of bygone times. Starts with only piano, and grows to a full orchestral score further in, with crescendi and sweeping climaxes. A single female soprano voice enters at about 03:20. Good for drama / personal stories, epic love stories, history / vintage film and more. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
This track starts off with a melancholic nylon guitar pattern before erupting into a hard edged, post-modern / post-apocalyptic, gritty electro-rock track. The two contrasting elements continue to combine throughout. Dark and doom'ish. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A sad, heartfelt string atmosphere that is ideal for evoking a tender, dramatic ambience. Live and sensitive performance with a sweet expressive melody and a melancholic, passionate arrangement that pulls at the heartstrings. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Floating atmosphere topped by an emotional piano theme, influenced by Thomas Newman. Beauty and drama, loneliness and thought. This track is made to fit together with 'Transformation', also by Felipe Adorno Vassao. The two tracks share the same motif; 'Transformation Prelude' is more quiet, awaiting, pensive; and 'Transformation' is more developed, rhythmic, highly suitable for the 'next stage' in development. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Surreal, mystical music with a hint of darkness and melancholy. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An intensely deep composition featuring the Indian slide guitar. Melancholic and serene [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Erik Satie Gnossienne no. 3. Solo piano. Performed live in studio by renowned concert pianist Vadim Chaimovich. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Tense and cinematic, featuring eerie piano over a menacing synth pads, strings and military snare creates a mood of intense fear and suspense. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
An epic music track with a dark atmosphere and uprising mood. The track opens with a dark analog synth, layered with moody piano notes and effects. Cinematic strings and taiko drums help build tension to the main reveal. The main part of the track explodes with huge distorted drums, a call to action melody and epic string section. Suitable as music for video game and movie trailers, action scenes, scenes of battle or hero struggle. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 155 BPM]
Ethereal textures and sounds open this track along side a reverberant piano motif which evolves into a laidback groovy chorus. This further develops into an uplifting and energetic outro accompanied by a string section. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
Big, Emotional film score / trailer music track. Dramatic atmosphere created by orchestral strings and percussion, piano and an impulsive cinematic beat best suited for fateful dramatic scenes, trailers and movies. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 68 BPM]
A mysterious and dark ambient piece. Heavy electronic sounds and a dark, grooving drum track provide a sense of cold melancholy. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 82 BPM]
A modern sounding trailer style epic dramatic action music track, blending glitchy style digital synths and electronic drum loops with traditional orchestral scoring parts. Great for big blockbuster action films, sci fi, adventure and trailers. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Dreamy, serene music track with subtle guitars, warm piano and light percussion. Hopeful and fragile. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 99 BPM]
A vibey, indie-sounding tune with a sense of melancholy. Drums reflects the running of a clock. Great as music for montages or time elapsing. Includes vocals. [Tempo: Slow / 112 BPM]
A wistful and longing, but also heartening and hopeful tune, with strings and a flute melody. Melancholic, warm, touching music track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
A simple music piece that has an high emotional melody that will carry any sad scene, the small amount of orchestration in this cue adds a great deal of depth giving the track and sense of journey. Coming to a gradual end the piece gives you the feeling of completion. [Tempo: Very slow / 56 BPM]
Robert Schumann, Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26, IV. Intermezzo in E-flat minor. Performed live in studio by renowned concert pianist Vadim Chaimovich, exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A slow and melancholy track with piano, pads and subtle percussion. Introspective, thoughtful, searching. This composition has an Epic feel, but in a subtle, understated way. Very emotive, contemplative and poignant. [Tempo: Slow / 61 BPM]
Emotional and epic music track made with massive orchestra, cinematic guitars, epic drums and epic choir. Trailer structure, three parts. First part build, second triumph and third outro. Amazement / Uplifting / Inspirational Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
An epic, emotional and uplifting music track made with warm piano, full orchestra, epic drums and massive choir. This track is divided into four parts (intro, building, triumph and outro), trailer structure. Inspiring / Motivational / Trailer Music. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]