In this category you will find atmospheric production music with beautiful piano parts, ambient backgrounds, organic sounds of orchestral strings. Royalty free music that will inspire, sadden, arouse melancholic, introspective and reflective mood in you. Film background music that will be used in dramas, TV and other media.
Wistful layered chords that float across a wild panoramic vista. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An introspective, mystical and eerie music piece, suitable for mystery, drama and intrigue. A somewhat unsettling feel, like suppressed memories or an underlying, unresolved issue. Pondering / Searching music. [Tempo: Slow / 126 BPM]
From lightly curious to deeply interested, this ambient-inspired track creates a sonic swathe where viewer awareness can be easily focused. The mantra-like repetitive synth motif plays over pads and subtle fx/percussion creating a receptive atmosphere with plenty of room for effective voiceovers/narration. Highly suitable for docs, corporate talkover, B-roll footage and travel shows. Effervescent / Eliciting Curiosity / Sparse. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
Hypnotic arpeggiated piano over a dramatic orchestral bed gives a haunting yet hopeful music feeling. Works with winter scenes, thrillers, nature, lost love, memoirs, nostalgia. Emotive, Touching, Dreamy music. [Tempo: Slow / 119 BPM]
Solemn and reflective background music for drama, storytelling, visuals. Ambient and contemplative. Perhaps memories, or contemplating the future. Also highly suitable for slow-motion footage, scenes of amazing nature. Emotional, deep, thoughtful and introspective. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 101 BPM]
A touching and poignant solo piano piece for reflection and contemplation. Delicate, impressionistic music track. Performed on a 'dusty old' piano, with natural mechanical noises of the piano. (The 'Clean piano sound' version uses a different piano sound without the mechanical noises). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An impressionistic piano solo that resembles Debussy's piano music. tranquil and beautiful. [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
An emotional and contemplative piano & strings composition, full of intrigue, passion and mystery. Serious music / New classical. Artful, Empassioned, Deep insight, Turmoil, Mixed feelings. [Tempo: Medium / 150 BPM]
A graceful and flowing piano piece with depth, introspection and contemplation. Sentimental / personal / touching. Great for drama, storytelling, the human condition etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Reflective and contemplative Solo Piano. Melancholy, with a slightly mysterious darkness, but also touching and caressing - and with a sense of lightness and graceful elegance. Like a delicate ballerina in a nostalgic setting. We have this track in a regular warm piano version, and in another, 'old and nostalgic piano' recording version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A minimalistic and sparse ambient music track with a repeating bass figure over kalimba and subtle percussion. Light tension, time passing, observation. Useful as illustrative background music for TV, film and other media. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Calm and gentle with an introspective nature but changes moods in the middle and turns slightly darker. An understated piece with depth and reflection. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
An orchestral cinematic mystery background track. Classic movie soundtrack / film score sound, with piano and orchestral elements create an eerie, suspicious, investigative feel. This rather dark and foreboding background music will go well with drama, mystery, crime, detective investigation, solving riddles, finding clues, or just following a developing story of intrigue and enigma. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A warm, reflective track featuring hypnotic arpeggios and lulling, dreamy piano. Sparse, gentle, minimalistic, Lo-Fi. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A touching, delicate and elegant 'noir' solo piano piece. Delicately flowing, with a sense of warmth and melancholy, tenderness and reflection. We have this as a normal clean piano version, and as a 'dusty old nostalgic piano sound' version. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
A delicate and deliciously noir piano piece with subtle orchestral strings. Melancholic and introspective, with a slight sense of mystery and sensuality, this is an elegantly flowing neo-classical composition. Great for drama, film, storytelling, and setting a contemplative mood. We have this track in a "clean piano version" as well as an "old nostalgic piano version". [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A contemplative, delicate and deliciously noir piano composition. Melancholic and introspective, with a slight sense of melancholy and mystery, this is an elegantly flowing neo-classical composition. Great for drama, film, storytelling, and setting an introspective mood. We have this track in a 'clean piano version' as well as an 'old nostalgic piano version'. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Neo-classical / orchestral music with piano, for film, cinema, theater and storytelling. Introspective, contemplative and searching. Background music for film, scenes of a progressing story or developing storylines. Also good for documentary, culture, history and more. [Tempo: Medium / 139 BPM]
Cinematic atmospheric washes of light & shade blossom into free form piano lines evoking wide vistas or a homely, folksy environment. Thought provoking, captivating & pure with a sense of the innate complexities of life. The track ends on a positive note and this uplifting passage is available separately as Sting 2. ‘Dawn Of A New Life’ is similar in style to Dream Valley Music’s ‘Secrets & Memories’, ‘True Life Stories’ and ‘How It Ends’. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
Light tension, neutral to lightly suspenseful introduction with minimal tension undertones. Suitable for documentaries, podcasts, and contemplative, active, thinking time, film scenes. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 60 BPM]
Delicate and deliciously dark, contemplative solo piano piece. Graceful, elegant, and tender. Film noir / Reflection / Melancholy / Slow time. Available as a normal clean piano version, and as an 'old nostalgic piano sound' version. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A very delicate, lush and richly flowly piano & orchestra piece. Wistful and magical, full of wonderment and emotion, this piece begins with a graceful piano theme and from there soars into a richly orchestrated and sweeping piece of emotion, melancholy and deliciously dark and sensual melodies. Great content for film, film noir, fantasy, drama, historical drama, real cinema, or sensual, alluring advertising. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
This chamber orchestra track has a balance of story-telling and cinematic drama capabilities and can be used in a wide range of media. A beautiful piano arpeggio melody to accompany this track and the soft and sudden piercing stabs and leads with the violin to really bring the most emotion and enjoyment of this beautiful melody and emotional track. Edgy, raw, close, live strings production. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 65 BPM]
Romantic, sad and dramatic with a touch of hope. All the key ingredients needed to push for the best of story-telling and media which really impacts your audience. This tracks has a balance of these key elements and keeps in mind to not go beyond what is truly needed for effective and necessary melodic beauty. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Piano, Soundtrack, Pensive, Indie Drama Music. Delicate yet disturbed solo piano piece, with some dreamy textural elements. Dramatic and self-contained, personal and intimate suffering. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Hopeful and with a touch of melancholy, this marimba-based piece flows into a light rhythm with a whistled melody. The accompaniment includes acoustic guitar, electric bass, piano, small percussion and light pads. Great for sensitive and hopeful family, relationship, and friendship dramas, even commercials and travel documentaries. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 71 BPM]
Music for adventure, fantasy, exploration and amazing stories. A somewhat melancholic piece that suggests contemplation or gazing into the stars. The piece has a slightly sad feel that could also allow it to compliment scenes of contemplation or introspection. Celestial / Angelic. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
Piano and String Ensemble over modern Percussion elements and big Orchestral Drums. Longing for something with a hopeful drive, emotional and determined. Growing in stature and energy, before returning to a reflective conclusion.
[Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]Acoustic guitar, piano and ethereal pads. Reflective, dreamy, melancholic and hazey. Available with or without 'oooh' type vocal. Good for film / drama, personal and touching stories, and poignant footage, perhaps something to do with humanity and the human condition. Imperfect, human, solemn. The piano part is performed on an old upright piano for a nice and nostalgic sound, and the vocal is deliberately unpolished. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A melancholic and emotive film / drama underscore track with piano and strings. Hopeful / fragile / reflective / true. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Gnosienne No. 1 by Erik Satie. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Melancholic, touching, fragile and beautiful piano composition, with subtle strings and bass. Reflective / Emotive / Tender. Available also as a solo piano track, and with/without FX on the piano (prepared piano / straight piano). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 56 BPM]
A soft and fragile piano piece. Tender / Melancholy / Reflective Music. Suitable as music for drama and storytelling, for relaxation or reflection. Available with or without FX on the piano (prepared piano or straight piano versions). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Delicate, touching, fragile and beautiful piano composition, with subtle strings. Reflective / Emotive / Tender. Available also as a solo piano track, and with/without FX on the piano (prepared piano / straight piano). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 57 BPM]
Introspective, reflective, touching, fragile and beautiful piano composition, with subtle strings and bass. Emotive / Tender / Sincere. Available also as a solo piano track, and with/without FX on the piano (prepared piano / straight piano). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Deep and mysterious, mystical, dreamy and other-worldly, this downbeat ambient piano and ‘skippy’ breaks track glides and floats creating a very relaxed and chilled out groove. Works great for spiritual and nature scenes or as a bed for voiceovers - the ‘no drums’ version ideal for relaxation, meditation, advertising. [Note: This track has a slighty "dusty" / "scratchy" sound. This is done on purpose, for effect. It is not an error with the file or weakness in the recording process]. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 112 BPM]
A soft, caring and soothing ambient guitar soundscape. Wide open aural landscapes leaves room to breathe. Reflective, melancholic, soft touch. Dreamy and mellow. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
An open, transparent underscore music with a somewhat mysterious, pensive tone. Echoey guitars over a slightly dark drone. Thoughtful and reflective, perhaps regret or waiting for something. The end part takes on a more assertive, gloomy, doom laden feel. Also available as an Underscore version, and as a version without the drums. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
Balancing between drama and comedy, this track conveys anticipation as well as reflection and surprise. Pizzicato strings move the arrangement with the help of acoustic guitar, tremolo strings, piano, marimba, triangle, congas and other light percussion. Great for dramedy and romantic events with a melancholy twist. Excellent for tv/cable production, documentary, travel, personal development types of narratives. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 118 BPM]
A Neo-classical, semi-orchestral piece for film, television and more. Rhythmic, methodical, almost slightly hypnotizing, this track keeps developing, growing and building throughout, but maintains a steadily ticking rhythmic feel, as if it's all connected, all intervowen, systematic and methodical. Good for presentations and commercials, or as an underscore for a developing story. A bit quirky. The tempo of this track matches exactly to seconds ticking. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A rhythmic, soaring, orchestral / neo classical piece. After a pensive, rhythmic start, the piece grows, builds, increases into a soaring piece of amazement and wonder. It has a slight sense of mystery, and an emotive feel, as if something of grave importance is unfolding. This will work well for nature / natural world, dramas / personal stories, storytelling / film and television. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 72 BPM]
A beautiful, touching and graceful, cinematic music track based on a memorable piano theme, strings and subtle orchestral brass. Poignant / Fragile / Haunting / Introspective Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 65 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Mellow, Dreamy. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Emotive, Dreamy, Nostalgic. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Slow / Graceful / Soothing / Introspective. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Poignant / Introspective / Touching / Graceful Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Slow / Dreamy / Affectionate / Delicate. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Melancholy / Introspective / Searching Music. More hopeful second half. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Slow / Sad / Melancholic. Poignant and Emotive. Touching and Personal. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Delicate / Touching / Mellow. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
