Oriental / Far Eastern royalty free music that evokes the atmosphere of the ancient past. Background music suitable for far eastern projects, business, travel material, documentaries about ancient kingdoms, exotic places, spiritual landscapes, meditation and relaxation. 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.
Oriental / Far East inspired new age music. Beauty / Ambiance. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 116 BPM]
World inspired new age music. Relaxation / Reflection / Meditation / Yoga. Stillness, Mindfulness. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 89 BPM]
A Chinese inspired pop ballad that features male vocals, hand percussion, strings, and an assortment of Chinese instruments. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Peaceful, calm ambient track blending japanese instruments (koto, erhu, shakuhachi, percussion) with electronics. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Calm and positive music featuring traditional Japanese / Oriental instruments. Meditative and cultural. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 58 BPM]
The relaxing sounds of a Japanese zen garden with traditional instruments and some modern electronic elements for a fresh feel. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A haunting, ambient, cinematic piece featuring cello, orchestral string drones and subtle Japenese woodwind. Inspired by John Williams and Yo-Yo Ma's soundtrack to the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. Dark, beautiful and moving, perfect for dramatic soundtracks. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Upon completing a daring mission in a modern city, a spy narrowly escapes capture by outmaneuvering the security forces chasing him. A tense track with a unique combination of traditional instruments and modern Hollywood style orchestral score. [Tempo: Fast / 153 BPM]
A combination of traditional eastern instruments, orchestra and an epic percussion section. A very tense opening leads to an epic all out battle, with pounding drums, choir and orchestra going crazy. Perfect for promos, battle scenes and trailers. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 71 BPM]
Oriental new age music, played on a delicate harp. Meditative, joyful and inspirational tune. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
Fast, heavy tribal beats and Chinese instruments and melodic flourishes characterize this exciting, action filled track. Great for thrillers or action scenes set in Asia. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 86 BPM]
A peaceful, calm ambient track blending Japanese instruments (erhu, percussion) with strings, bass guitar and electronics. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A short, gentle, ambient piece, with mild chordal tension and a Japanese flair. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Cheerfully, this Chinese-inspired ensemble music track blends bamboo flutes, mallets, strings, percussion and deep drums to convey celebration, beauty and unity. It easily evokes the cadence, melodic sentiment and ambiance of an ancient past. Music suitable for period pieces, docu-biographies, and Asia cooking, travel and leisure. Cheerful / Celebration / The Orient music. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Oriental / World Mystery. Dreamy/Reflective, Pensive, Unhurried. Ethnic/World Instruments, World percussion, Sitar. Adventure, Documentary, Travel. [Tempo: Medium / 83 BPM]
Mysterious, restless, drum-driven track with Oriental favour. A sense of tension and danger. Taiko, shamisen, flute, electronic textures. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A drums / percussion-only track with a Japanese, Oriental, Far Eastern feel. Tense, dark, urgent Japanese Taiko & other orchestral- and ethnic percussion. [Tempo: Medium / 135 BPM]
This tranquil, Orient-inspired music has touches of mystery and tenderness. Its arrangement layers a rich synth pad with woodwind and stringed instruments set against deep reverberant drums and percussion. Its soothing ambience evokes the future and ancient past, excellent for exploration, docu-biographies, and travel docs set in East Asia. Oriental / Calming / Flowing music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
Soft sounds from the Far East to connect with the deepest part of our being. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A light, transparent and neutral, cinematic/orchestral piece with a very slight Eastern or Oriental feel. A sense of time passing, a story developing. Good for underscore / drama / film. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, landscape, soundscape, desert, deserted, Carl Sagan, Mystery, Cosmos, Universe, Big Bang, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, Ron Fricke, Dead Can Dance, Contemplative, Slow, Intense, Maya, Mayans, 2012, End of the world, Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, Prediction, Prophecy, Prophecies, Shaman, Ayahuasca, Mind Travel, ESP, Alien, UFO, ET, Extra-Terrestrial, Buddha, Buda, Nepal, Tibet, dark, darkness, scifi, sci fi, sci-fi, science fiction, desolate, space, emptiness, vacuum, aliens, mind control, meditation, meditate, yoga, mystery, mysterious, mystical, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, nuclear winter, underwater, under water, sorcery, sorceror, witch, pensive, scary, horror, tibetan, monk, monks, Ancient soundscape with some oriental influences, especially the Tibetan tuvan monk singing, typical from Nepal. Great for history documentaries and specials. Also for sci-fi and horror. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This piece moves through various sections of chinese inspired ambient and rhythmic music. Some melodic elements (Chinese main theme), but also some sections with just background ambience and Chinese percussion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This unique and appealing Far Eastern / Oriental piece starts off very exotic with chinese / oriental instruments and then gradually increases it's "funkability" as it goes along. Great for commercial use, travel & adventure, exploration and holiday. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
An authentic and varied Chinese/Oriental track featuring Chinese stringed instruments, taiko drums and soft pads. This track has a lot of variation throughout, as well as several different 'submix' versions which contain separate elements from the main composition -- which means you can get a lot of different cues from this track and it gives you a lot of options during editing. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
An ethereal pad over ethnic percussions and mechanical 'guitars' set the stage for a journey in an oriental city of the future. Starts with the pad and adds all the elements to slowly build the full arrangement and adds a bridge and a few variations. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 160 BPM]
This is a collection of live recordings of various Japanese performing artists. Among these recordings you'll find Japanese temple monks chanting, Japanese street musicians, live Taiko drumming, Japanese theatrical song/music performances, and more. Note: These recordings are made live, on the spot, often with an audience present -- so they are not entirely clean, and certainly not audiophile. You may hear some audience chatter and other imperfections. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Light and melodic, delicate, China / Chinese music. Finger bells, strings, Chinese plucked strings. Traditional China, can also be Tibet, Malaysia etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 150 BPM]
Japanese flavoured fantasy and adventure with a Shakuachi flute that would be great to use as 'trek music', with big landscape shots, travelling shots etc. It opens with a sense of wonder and magic, then the tempo increases as the music heads into the more adventurous section. [Tempo: Medium / 131 BPM]
A warm and uplifting ethnic track with transparent production, Chinese finger cymbals and a Tibet inspired chant. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A varied track that goes through various stages of different moods, but with a dark thread running through it. Features taiko, chinese cymbals, finger cymbals and other oriental instrumentation. [Tempo: Slow / 74 BPM]
Sparse and beautiful, with meditation bell and resonant pads. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Far-Eastern feel with Chinese/Tibetan cymbals, monk choirs. Moods go from light to dark, through mysterious, majestic, then back to light. [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
A beautiful and melodic China / Tibetan / Malaysian / Far Eastern Orient instrumental track. Romantic, pretty and evocative, featuring Java gong, Chinese temple flute and various other oriental instruments. Suitable for travel programs, documentaries as well as romance and idyllic imagery etc. [Tempo: Medium / 114 BPM]
Very atmospheric and dreamy Japanese winter garden style with echoey acoustic guitars, koto and shamisen over sparse oriental percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 54 BPM]
Oriental moods and melodies, joined by a contemporary backing. Pan flutes. China, Malaysia, Thailand, Tibet, Far East. Positive, happy and uplifting. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Soft Chinese, oriental mood music. Plucked strings, soft stringpads and hand percussion. China, Tibet, Malaysia and other Oriental destinations. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Short, upbeat track with a fun party feel and a Chinese/oriental sound. [Tempo: Fast / 144 BPM]
Inspired by the Terracotta Warriors of China. The music conveys a sense of majesty, grandeur and power that features traditional Chinese instruments, complimented by a stirring Orchestra. Oriental / Travel / Adventure Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Featuring a live cello coloured with lush reverb to create a very atmospheric opening, followed by a more energetic section with some emotive vocal melodies and rhythmical percussion. Ancient / Oriental / Travel Music. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
A collection of 3 short Oriental / Japanese style stingers/jingles. Koto, strings, ethnic percussion elements. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Majestic and thematic, this gallant music track conveys the magical, elusive spender of the Orient through the richness of authentic East Asian instruments (Erhu, Kim, Tingklik, Bamboo Flutes, Tube Drums, etc.). Its moving arrangement is marched along by thundering hand drums, and attends its melody’s ebbs and flows, shifting from the delicate to the eternal – all within the aesthetic of ancient Asian Kingdoms. This piece will be perfect for a show/movie theme, also for documentaries, travel, or historical programing. Hero’s Journey / East Asia / Ancient Kingdoms music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
An ambient, atmospheric and mystical track featuring yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer), ethnic drums and female chanting. This piece is ideal for Far East projects, documentaries, ancient kingdoms, travel, exotic locations, spiritual landscapes and meditation / relaxation. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Traditional Chinese music with traditional instruments create a folklike and lively picture. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Traditional Chinese music with a moderately serious edge. Good for culture and nature or documentaries. [Tempo: Slow / 57 BPM]
Travel back to ancient Japan with this mesmerizing piece. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Calm and meditative Chinese music featuring Bawu (wind) and Pipa (strins) accompanied by Daikos and gongs. Music suitable for travel and culture. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
Peaceful and meditative Japanese music featuring kok, shamisen and shakuhachi flute. Gongs create a very courtly and ceremonial atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Influenced by the sights and sounds of China with a driving yet curious and mysterious feel, this track features an array of melodic and non melodic percussion, hulusi, strings and guzheng. Great for films, documentaries, travel, martial arts, history, culture and cuisine. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Chinese pop music with a traditional edge. Features traditional Chinese instruments bawu and pipa with Western pop style bass and drums. Mysterious and haunting music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Chinese pop music with a traditional edge. Features traditional Chinese instruments bawu and pipa. Happy and uplifting music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
