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.
Moody, vibrant, ethereal, exotic & lively eastern dramatic track with great tension & underlying sadness & hope.spacey ethnic strings combine with frantic percussion & vocal chants to produce a powerful brew with awesome middle-eastern flavour & rhythmic grace. Would suit documentary/news/cinematic project. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
Indian percussion, acoustic bass and sitar. Relaxed, happy vibe. Perfect for travel documentaries or advertising promoting good health and relaxation. Could also work for yoga videos. [Tempo: Slow / 145 BPM]
An exotic and atmospheric Indian track featuring authentic Sarod (similar to Sitar) and Indian flute over the soft, floating chords. Dreamy and slowly swaying rhythms with table, acoustic bass. Indian wood flute joins in the later parts of the track. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
The meeting of traditional Indian folk instruments with electronic drums, bass and ambient synths. A dark, hypnotic Trance track great for modern Bollywood type soundtracks ala Slumdog Millionaire, culture, documentaries, cuisine or any project looking for some Indian electronica. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Mysterious / Mystical sound of India or the Orient / Middle East. Sitar and flute over Tablas / Eastern percussion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 850 BPM]
Chilled Indian vibes with a modern expressive beat. Good for creating a sultry, relaxing mood. Great for yoga, meditation and cinematic sountracks when something exotic is in the air. Features sarangi, sitar, strings, piano, percussion and sweeping synthesisers. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 100 BPM]
Beautiful and evocative melody played on bansuri and dilruba accompanied by Indian percussion. This track has a very rural and folklike feel to it. Travel and culture. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 86 BPM]
Blending elements of urban, r&b, Hip-Hop and Indian music, this is a seriously down and funky Asian Fusion track. Fresh, exotic and fun. The track really comes into its right in the 'Vocal version', where Indian singing is mixed with the raw hip-hop beats. (To hear the singing, listen for about a minute and a half into the Vocal version). [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Mysterious and provocative, this track features ethnic Middle Eastern percussion with bansuri (bamboo flute) with drums and funk bass. The result is world beat with a funky groove. Great for giving a modern edge to world music. [Tempo: Medium / 99 BPM]
Busy ethnic sound with tablas, clay drums and sitars. Disturbing drone. Vocal chant. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A spicy fusion of indian, funk, jazz and electronica make this a nice contemporary track for projects relating to travel, cooking or cultural documentaries. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Uptempo Indian track with Indian slide guitars and strings. Very exotic sounding. The track features a free-tempo start, then percussion and bass enter at 0:20. Full-on drums enter the third time through, to give the track an additional lift. There's also an alternative 'no free-tempo start' version which skips the free-tempo opening part and goes directly to the main rhythmic part. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 94 BPM]
A waltz featuring authentic style of Arabic / international feel, played in a minor key and accompanied with oriental percussion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 106 BPM]
This exotic and pulsating music track combines ethnic / traditional Middle Eastern / Persian / Arabic music instruments with a modern, urban beat. A cool fusion of styles, perhaps conveying the vibrancy of an Eastern city, or Eastern youth movement. Sensual, hot, full-on Persian / Mid East flavors. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 80 BPM]
This is a piece of middle eastern music using super sized and deep middle eastern flutes and pipes. This is combined with percussion and hand drums to create the perfect mysterious and mystical environment for an underscored scene in a middle eastern country - or in India. [Tempo: Slow / 84 BPM]
Contemporary sitar and Indian percussion grooves. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Mysterious and exotic, sitar and tablas. A flavor of India, Arabia, North Africa, Persia or the Middle East. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 93 BPM]
Egyptian / Arabic epic moods featuring dramatic strings and horns, ethnic percussion. After about a minute and a half, a slick, modern drum groove is added. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A melancholic and nostalgic track with a middle-eastern / oriental feel and an Arabian / Arabic reed / flute as the lead melodic instrument. A slow, contemporary drum groove and acoustic guitar joins in from around 1 minute onwards. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Brooding dance rhythms & electronica fused with a provocative Eastern flavour & a growing feeling of intrigue, excitement & menace. Builds to a blistering climatic shift at 1:45. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Classical Arabic / Persian music with authentic instruments. Serious, honorable, stately music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 94 BPM]
Laidback Eastern folk starting with traditional instruments and building to a modern, chilled beat making it perfect for projects with an eastern and current theme such as documentaries, movies, tv and video games. Features flute, dombra, percussion, 12 string guitar and strings. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
A musical journey to the current tensions of the Middle East. Arabesque melodies, espionage and suspense music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Atmospheric, exotic, ethnic track featuring female vocal choir and the middle-eastern, north african plucked string, instrument, Oud. Great for travel, discovery, adventure as well as fantasy and dream worlds. The choir gives it an angelic feel, juxtapositioned against the serious, somewhat ominous tone of the Oud. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Arabian, Middle-Eastern or Persian background track with exotic percussion, drones and flutes, with occasional choirs and solo voice. Haunting, mysterious / mystical. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Slightly dark and foreboding Arabian/Egyptian track with a sense of history and mysticism. This track goes through various different sections throughout - some more and some less rhythmic - and can be used for several cues. [Tempo: Medium / 93 BPM]
Egyptian / Middle Eastern folk music with a modern melody. Exciting and exotic, normally used in festive events and modern songs. Accordion is a leading instrument, and a women belly dancer is often involved in such occasions. [Tempo: Fast / 132 BPM]
Beautiful, mournful vocals lament over sad strings a hypnotic drum groove and plucked ethnic instruments. The track is emotional, sad and yet hopeful all at once. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
A dark ambient piece with a mysterious Indian flair. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Funky asian voice and electric guitars. Upbeat, almost frantic, mix of electronica and Indian or Arabian. World fusion. [Tempo: Very fast / 133 BPM]
Mysterious, exotic, mellow and alluring track featuring Dholak and Khartal percussion, Tambura drones, Ethnic Flute and Upright Bass. Sets the tone for nature, travel, documentaries and movie scenes in need of a moody eastern theme. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
Mystical and atmospheric Eastern music (India or Mid-East) track featuring tabla/perc, Sitar and Oriental flutes. A sense of urgency; something disturbing or not quite right. The music has a certain darkness and nerve. Pensive music / uncertain. Wailing/Regretful/Turmoil. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
An ambient, reflective and nostalgic piece played with the ethnic oriental oud, combined with piano, pads and eastern percussion. A sense of longing and perhaps turmoil. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Upbeat groovy, dancy, Middle Eastern flavoured track with vocal loops, irrestistible drums, floaty flute and plucked santoor lines. Would suit ethnic dance/film projects. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
World fusion Middle Eastern music with a very positive almost anthem like quality. Great for positive messages of peace and harmony. [Tempo: Medium / 84 BPM]
Indian sitars and Indian orchestral strings over tablas and other exotic percussion. Drone line background strumming. Exotic, mystical. This track builds in intensity as it goes on. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
Indian sitar accompanies low drums and tabla in this authentic sounding piece of Indian music. This is a nice piece for a documentary, travel show, news broadcast or any scene that needs the sound of India. [Tempo: Slow / 124 BPM]
Modern upbeat, groovey dancey track with an indian / arabian flavour. Contains sitar, flutes, ethnic percussion, bass and drums. [Tempo: Fast / 127 BPM]
A Khaligy style track that brings a fusion mode between world music, and khaligy (emirates, saudi, kuwait, Bahrain) it has a dynamic chorus, then it goes back to to a reflective ambient dream. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern / Arabia feeling pop track. Tabla, percussion, oud and other Eastern / Oriental instruments mixed with a western style beat. Upbeat, joyful Bollywood style. Holidays, travel, exploration and fun adventures. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Intense an up-beat trance-like track, with a middle-eastern flavor, this track is the perfect mix between modern and timeless. Suitable for productions that require a vibrant, fresh, and at the same time recognizable feel, such as movies, TV shows, and commercials. [Tempo: Fast / 126 BPM]
A dark and ominous Arabian music, Middle Eastern world track with wailing female vocalizing and singing, booming drums and and a dramatic orchestral underscore. Sorrowful, foreboding and exotic music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Mysterious, mystical and foreboding Arabian or Persian textures. Nervous underscore with a Middle Eastern flavor. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Ominous, foreboding, middle-eastern textures. Occasional chanting voice, eastern string instruments, dark drones and slow rhythms. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Emotional, slightly dreamy, track featuring a small, all female vocal choir with the North African / Middle Eastern plucked instrument Oud and ethnic percussion. Builds in intensity towards the 2-minute mark and features an ethnic flute in the closing section. Can be jewish/Israeli, as well as Middle Eastern, North African, Arabic, Egypt, etc. Mournful, serious, epic with a religious or spiritual feel, also depicting beauty, frailty and vulnerability. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Indian flute, woodwinds, with floating pads. Ethereal, spiritual, foreign and exotic music. Mountains and deserts, Eastern/Oriental landscapes and scenery. Good for travel/exploration, culture/history, film/drama, documentary/adventure and much more. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A mysterious, mystical, Eastern background music. Resonant pads, live Sarod (Middle East / India plucked string instrument) and ethnic percussion. Thoughtful and reflective music, atmospheric and moody. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
An out and out Indian dance and fun music. Bollywood fun, dance, light, celebration, happiness, victory, success, grand, good beats, energetic. Features dhol, dholak, tabla, dimbdi, shehnai, tumbi, mandolin, drums, chorus. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Indian music with flute over tablas and sitar. Loose, jam session style. Exotic / moderately excited. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
Mysterious and exotic, sparse Egyptian, Middle Eastern or North African melody with flute, harp and windchimes. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
