In this category you will discover production music with eastern sounding instruments such as Duduk as well as Irish bagpipes. The background music exploring the mysteries of the world will take you on a journey through different historical eras. Discover royalty free music from desert Africa, colorful Middle East or green Irish meadows. You will find here both dynamic drum tracks, mystical sounds or dreamy landscapes.
Percussion only track / Battle drums. Tracks with Drums only are useful for action sequences, fight scenes, war and battles, macho sports and exertion, powerful imagery, dramatic trailers and more. Also available as seamlessly looping Drum loops / Percussion loops. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
Percussion only track / Battle drums. Music with Drums only can be useful for action sequences, fight scenes, war and battles, macho sports and exertion, powerful imagery, dramatic trailers and more. Also available as seamlessly looping Drum loops / Percussion loops. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
A red sun rises on a desolate, war torn city in the middle east. A soldier looks out over the smoke clouds and wonders if the end justifies the means. Epic in scope, yet full of space, would be perfect for travel documentaries requiring a moody atmosphere. Also great for understated, brooding trailers and promos. Orchestra, ethnic instruments (duduk), large percussion and atmospheric pads. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
You enter a mysterious and slightly odd shop fill of curiosities and ancient art. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 99 BPM]
Mysterious and exotic Indian slide guitar over a bed of provocative synths. Gives a sense of space and peace, exalted and spiritual. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 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]
Middle Eastern music with a touch of mystery. Features traditional instruments and rhythms. Suitable for travel, nature and culture. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 57 BPM]
A mysterious tune for acoustic guitar, minimalistic and suspenseful. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 63 BPM]
This track was made in electronic style with a slightly oriental atmosphere. Pulsating synth and arpeggiators, Arabian percussion, strings. Will work well as a main theme for the movie in action style about Middle East and Oriental countries. Tense, slightly pensive, dynamic. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Mysterious, sexy and provocative, this track features ethnic Middle Eastern percussion with ney (bamboo flute), santoor, Oud and electric bass. The result is traditional with a modern groove. The pace gradually accelerates towards the ending to a fast paced climax for a powerful impact. Great for dramatic use or documentaries. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
An inspirational and a bit mysterious track. Excellent for news/media type of production as well as adventure, exploration, travelling projects. Creates an exciting atmosphere and may work well with pictures of places or events in different parts of the world. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
Evocative Middle Eastern music with a strong and dramatic flavor. Intense and exotic with melancholic undertones. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Featuring traditional African instruments, such as Cora and Kalimba this track is in a world fusion style and is very evocative and charged with an African spirit. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
An instrumental track in Medieval / Historical sound. Atmospheric and wistful. Good for history / historical projects, fantasy, adventure and folk tales. [Tempo: Slow / 110 BPM]
Exotic, dark, atmospheric and adventure track made with various eastern percussion, native middle eastern instruments, strings and more. Exotic, mystical, foreboding, haunting. [Tempo: Slow / 110 BPM]
A calm, meditative ambience with entrance of subtle rhythm. World music feel with a warm sense of resolution. Mystical, glowing. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Relaxing ethnic flutes, rain falling and other sounds of nature perfect for films, documentaries, yoga and meditation dvds or any project looking for a calm and repetitive soundscape. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
Strange, otherworldly, atmospheric and ambient World/Ethno track with a mystical feel. Can be African plains, Middle Eastern deserts, perhaps Amazon / South American deep jungle, or other exotic, alien or foreign place. Maybe even an exotic, strange planet. Moody and a bit cranky. Available with or without ethnic vocals. Good for fantasy, sci-fi, adventure, world / history / documentary. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]
A fluttering, somewhat strange and alien sounding, ethnic / world soundtrack. Available with or without a soprano vocal track, this piece has a sense of movement, perhaps grand open vistas, awe inspiring sights and locations. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A deeply atmospheric, grand, ambient / world track with mysterious chord movements and otherworldly sounds. Available with or without the monks vocals / choir parts, this track is suitable for ancient history / documentaries as well as fantasy, sci-fi, adventure and discovery. It is a grand track of amazement and awe, with an almost spiritual quality. The last part picks up the pace with grand, epic, tribal drums. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
This track could easily be tagged as a typical New Age Instrumental. But it carries a deep feel of grandness, evoking the beginning of times, the beauty of the universe, the vast extent of the cosmos, and things like that. Works beautifuly with mystery, prophecies, historical events, mystical matters and pre-historical subjects. Nontemporal. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Middle Eastern percussion lays the foundation for slow sensual strings to establish the mood. The entire orchestra crescendos to a grand finale with choir. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 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]
This track has a cinematic, mystical and desolate tone that is remiscent of music from the Last Temptation of Christ. Its' somber mood would work nicely in cultural, historical, epic or spiritual film and video, as well historical documentaries or even a battlefield with fallen troops. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Useful for animation and short animated story of two parts. Anxiety and mystery, thrill and unanswered riddle in first part. Then it quickly switches to second part which has more tension and is more dynamic, pefect for telling sad story about kind of bad thing which happened somewhere. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
Dreamy, ethereal, exotic, atmospheric, cinematic, spacious, intriguing, mysterious music with a distinct Middle Eastern flavour. A blend of ethnic strings, woodwinds and percussion combine to make exciting, tension-soaked music that would suit thriller / dramatic / travel / mystery type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 113 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]
The music begins with percussion and subtle strings and brasses. Then it moves into a percussion driven theme played by strings. Later also piano enters playing lead. The music builds dynamically throughout the track, and in the end the piano is supported by bouzouki. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 106 BPM]
An ambient and dramatic soundscape with sweeping synths and melodic pulsating strings. For scenes of travel, exploration, science, space, the unknown, the universe, Planet Earth, National Geographic and Discovery Channel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
A cinematic score, dark and wondrous that mixes orchestral instruments with native american and celtic undertones creating a soundtrack to a beautiful landscape. Great for adventure, period and cultural films and documentaries ala Hunger Games, Snow White, Braveheart, The Village etc. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Dark, Deep and gloomy cinematic track with mysterious and mystical feel. Suitable for films, TV, videos and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A mystical cinematic cue with an ancient egyptian and far eastern tone. It features cinematic percussion, the beautiful and haunting Duduk and lush strings. The It has a spiritual, emotionally intense mood that is captivating, powerful and gripping. Excellent for cinematic work, spiritual and religious video and biographical or documentary footage requiring something that will emotionally stir the viewer. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 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]
A mystical cinematic cue inspired by world music from The Last Temptation of Christ. It features the beautiful and haunting Duduk and lush strings layered with synthesizer and ethnic drones. It has a spiritual, emotionally intense mood that is captivating, powerful and gripping. Excellent for cinematic work, spiritual and religious video and biographical or documentary footage requiring something that will emotionally stir the viewer. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A world electronica track inspired by music from The Last Temptation of Christ. It features synthesizer and electronic bass, indigenous udu percussion, set to a spiritual percussive groove. There are moments of eerie ethnic string drones that creates a nice musical tension that make for a great underscore or bed. It has a spiritual, emotionally intense mood that is captivating, powerful and gripping. Excellent for cinematic work, spiritual and religious video and biographical or documentary footage requiring something that will emotionally stir the viewer. [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
Traditional Indonesian Gamelan music. Surreal, Rhythmic, Underscore, Jungle. Minimalism, New Age, Classical, Gamelan. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
Atmospheric, moody, cinematic, ethereal, magical, enchanted music with an exotic world flavour to it. Rhythmic, sublime, sedate, hypnotic, wondrous, dreamy, spacious & beautiful. Would suit nature / documentary / discovery / travel / filmic type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Ethereal, beautiful, dreamy, magical, hypnotic, meditative & thoughtful. Spacious synths mix with plucked strings & vocal effects to make reflective, enchanted & sublime music suitable for cinematic / dramatic / science / travel / discovery / documentary type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 87 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]
Dark, scary and mysterious Cinematic music track with deep and gloomy vibe. Great for trailers, films and documentaries in Drama and Sci-Fi genres. [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
Suspenseful, dramatic, ethereal, epic, spacious, moody, atmospheric cinematic rock track that gradually builds in intensity. Starts with dhol drums & various synths join in as it goes. Exciting, tense, thrilling, rhythmically hypnotic & climactic. Would suit action / thriller / sports / combat / crime type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 119 BPM]
A dark, intense percussion groove with mysterious background vocals. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A dark atmospheric piece, with lofty electronic synth and string tracks that dance over a steady drum and bass groove. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 113 BPM]
Light bell tones, piano and other warm sounds combine for a contemplative and gentle instrumental mood with light rain. [Tempo: Slow / 103 BPM]
A throwback to classic role playing games, this dark orchestral piece is perfectly suitable for a mysterious desert cavern full of danger. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
A rich orchestral piece, with thickly harmonized choral and orchestral tracks that provide a sense of exciting heroism and glory. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 146 BPM]
A driving percussion groove. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Traditional percussion instruments combine with an electronic flair and mysterious background vocal tracks to create this grooving piece. [Tempo: Medium / 106 BPM]
Ice cold fantasy ambience with occasional subtle melodies. Exploration, travel, adventure and discovery with a sense of mysticism and grandeur. (This track shares a common theme/thread with 'Atlantis' also listed on this page.) [Tempo: Slow / 130 BPM]
