Traditional Christmas classic, performed and recorded on 100 year old English hand bells. [Tempo: Slow / 53 BPM]
Chinese / Oriental moods and melodies. Uplifting with a classic Far East sound. China, Tibet, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 62 BPM]
Ethnic track made with traditional Chinese instruments. Light in character. Meditative and contemplative. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ethnic, lamenting music track performed live by Rafael Krux. The main form and vibe is in the style of ballade. Can be Slavic / Eastern European, or Middle Eastern / Persian, Celtic or even Viking etc. Sorrowful / Haunting / Ethnic Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Calm, mellow, soft, relaxing, tranquil and spacious track with an unusual sounding, clean guitar playing a simple haunting, slightly melancholic melody. Like a cross between a harmonica & a soft accordion. Atmospheric, peaceful, dreamy, moody & hypnotic. Would suit dramatic / cinematic / romantic / nostalgic projects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
All live performed, genuine African drum ensemble. Recorded live in one take by the Shabani Jabiri Bakari ensemble from Bagamoyo, Tanzania. "Ikibwenga" means strong men. The tribes men have dance competitions, for example to get a wife, or as other competitions between men in that tribe. Music inspired by the Nyakyusa tribe from Songea, in the Southern part of Tanzania. [Tempo: Medium / 103 BPM]
West Indian Calypso style with Spanish guitars, Hawaiian pedal steel guitar, bass and drums. Happy, swaying and playful, suitable for travel programs, holiday, vacation in Hawaii, caribbean or Pacific Islands etc. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
A lush and rich Ethnic/World crossover track with a slight African feel, but really, this track can be used to illustrate any foreign, exotic place, rainforest, jungle or World Mystery - perhaps even a lush fantasy planet. The track fuses modern and traditional elements to create a rich and deep groove, perhaps some place where the traditional and ethnic fuses with the modern world? Available with or without chanting vocals on the chorus part. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 103 BPM]
A soft, light and delicate piece of music. With its subtle and modern sounds Clarity is bright appealing and inviting. Bringing together themes of purity, calm, spirituality, fantasy, creation and invention, this piece creates a positive, and illuminating atmosphere. Composed with a celesta, strings, and subtle electronics this is a pleasant and visual piece of music. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Slow, peaceful, spacious, ethereal, textured track with dreamy, exotic, chanty vocal samples. Jump on your magic carpet & be whisked away on the calm breeze to foreign lands. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 71 BPM]
Hypnotic, spacious & groovey track with a strong african flavour. Trance inducing vocals & percussion loops meld with kalimba & epic strings to make a very atmospheric and powerful dramatic score. [Tempo: Fast / 98 BPM]
A chilled-out and smooth track with the flavor of India. Deep and soulful groove, with exotic flute and indian Tabla. A fusion of Western and Oriental styles. Dreamy / Silky / Flowing. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 69 BPM]
A peaceful, light, world music track that subtly draws elements from various cultures. Features percussion, acoustic guitar, synth pads, flute and sitar. Good for documentaries, travel shows, cooking shows, corporate videos etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A rich, lush soundtrack that combines various ethnic / ancient / earthy type sounds with warm pads and a hopeful, inspirational feel. Discovery, amazing journeys, exploration, vast oceans or forests etc. Amazement / Wonderment. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Joyful, light, acoustica with a slightly ethnic or world feel. Also inspired by Americana and acoustic world music. Guitars, banjo, mandolin. Like all music by Gayle Ellett & Todd Montgomery, this track is played entirely by hand, on hand crafted instruments made of wood. [Tempo: Medium / 111 BPM]
A stirring and uneasy, urgent feeling, underscore for film/drama. Tension / Unease / Urgency / Foreboding. Great for things like a courtroom drama or perhaps police, detective work, crime in progress, etc. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
A fun blend of the East and the West, this track starts with banjo-sitar and soon turns into an Indian banghra dance party mixed with modern electronic rhythms and a funky guitar riff. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 108 BPM]
Fairly light as electronic music goes, this feelgood track features suspended pads, a deep bass grove and a breakbeat type rhythm that sets in at about 40 seconds into the full length version. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
A pan flute soloist dances over a steady percussion groove in this Japanese styled piece. [Tempo: Medium / 101 BPM]
Staccato and nervous, semi-orchestral tension underscore. Undercover, dangerous mission. Few guitar notes mixed with symphonic elements and a pulsating rhytmic backdrop. Movement, getting into position, primed and ready for action. Great for spy, mystery, thriller, crime, secret mission, military or swat team etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
A subtle bell and percussion rhythm, with emotional and sorrowful violin lead. European, Eastern European, Balkan or Gypsy feel. Melodic and cinematic, moderately dramatic, genuine cultural / historical European or Balkan music. Can also be Jewish / Israeli / Hebrew. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 53 BPM]
An underscore track for use in film, games, and media. Varying intensities of fantasy / adventure background music, good for in-game, in-film, drama, cultural, historical and discovery. Has a sense of dark mystery, exotic mysticism, perhaps ancient dark secrets or undiscovered lands. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Happy, jolly, celtic folk song style. A fun tune about dancing, drinking and singing in the local inn, where the merry folk go to kick back and have a blast. Very Irish, Celtic in style (can also be English or Scottish). Fiddle, guitar, flutes. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
A dark and edgy piece with a sense of foreboding and ominous forces. A pulsating deep rhythm with strings, brass and occasional gothic choir chants, like from an occult séance or a dark ritual. Mystical / Tense / Occult / Horror / Creepy / Gritty / Shocking. [Tempo: Slow / 90 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]
Blending Eastern/Oriental music moods and instruments with more modern, western rhythms, this exotic chillout track features tabla, flute and Sarangi. [Tempo: Medium / 85 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]
A tenor male vocal soloist soars over an electronic drum and bass groove and a darkly harmonized choral track. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 92 BPM]
A gentle and slowly swaying Hawaiian ballad. Very relaxed and mellow tropical feel with Hawaiian slide guitars and caribbean style percussion. Also available as an Underscore version (without the main/lead guitar lines). [Tempo: Slow / 91 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]
A dark and ominous fantasy / adventure soundtrack, dominated by dark and moody pad textures and a muted trumpet. This track starts out sneaky and foreboding, and grows over time, gradually building up the intensity towards a climax at the end. A combination of orchestral and modern sounds, the track is gloomy, eerie and majestic. [Tempo: Slow / 97 BPM]
Pensive, percussive track with World / Ethnic undertones. Good for adventure, peril, expeditions and mystery. Travel show, documentary / history / geography / mythology etc. World heritage, with an element of danger and nerve. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Australian Didgeridoo combined with powerful percission elements. Tense / Ominous / Action feel. Great for travel or history, documentaries and specials. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Drone, wind chimes and wood flute in an earthy / earth / tribal track. Ethnic, genuine, organic. Can be Native American, middle east / desert, south american / central america or other indigenous, aboriginal, tribe, primal. Also available in two sub-mixes: One with only the flute by itself, and one without the flute, leaving only the drone and windchimes; great for media underscore use. Mysticism / mystical / ancient / cultural / historical / world heritage. [Tempo: Slow / 50 BPM]
Minimalist piano and glockenspiel, atmospheric percussion, melodic and mysterious. Slight medieval fantasy, foreign, adventure feel. Also a little mischievous, playful. Good for fantasy games, RPG/Role Playing games, fantasy worlds etc. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
Dark and ominous, like a majestic landscape or building. Orchestral instruments with a deep, thumping, semi-ethnic feel and deep bells. Awe and amazement, with a foreboding edge. Rises to a crescendo around 45 secs in. Great for epic fantasy, grand adventures and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Surreal, mystical music with a hint of darkness and melancholy. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Simple hand drums rhythm, drone guitar, and piccolo flute in a celtic or world inspired groove. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
Unmistakably Indian in mood and style but enveloped in contemporary production. There's a undercurrent of magic and mystery throughout the whole track which features a variety of lead instruments. World / Travel / Ethnic Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Music to depict the showdown between two warring clans, gearing for war, meeting your adversary face to face. Powerful, bombastic, challenge, opponents, duel, confrontation, conflict. Horns, duduk, choir, world percussion, strings. [Tempo: Medium / 113 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]
Dark atmospheric film soundtrack style. Sparse, foreboding, sneaky. Slight ethnic element. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 119 BPM]
Authentic brazilian berimbau played over a crossover samba/trip-hop beat. Lots of percussion, some delay-based effects and cool loops. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Mysterious Middle Eastern / Arabic track led by darbuka percussion, strings and steady drum loop that joins in at 1:18. Distant duduk flute in the background. [Tempo: Medium / 100 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]
An intensely deep composition featuring the Indian slide guitar. Melancholic and serene [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Epic high powered, high drama explosive rock track with an Eastern flavoured intro. Arabian plucked strings build the intro tension before a monster riff explodes the track into energised life. Once it gets going, it builds in intensity until the eye of the storm, the mid section. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Traditional wedding music from The Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh in India. The instruments used are the Pipdi - a reed blowing instrument somewhat similar to the Shenai used in other regions of India (Played by Mangal Ram from Bir Village), and the Nagara Drums - similar to the nagras in the plains (these are very old pieces) they are made of metal with skin stretched on the playing surface. The skin is tightened with straps that weave into the edge of the skin and meet at the centre bottom of the drums. Two drums are placed opposite each other and the drummer plays them with a cross stick action. The drummer here is Jondu Ram (father of Mangal Ram.) Please note: This is a genuinely live, on-the-spot recording, and as such, there may be slight flaws in the performance and recording. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 113 BPM]
Fun and energetic dance track with very strong ethnic flavours: Indian vocal samples and percussion give this track real spirit, groove and life. Slightly hypnotic , spacey and with great drive. 'If music be the spice of life, then i'll have a large one': Ravi Shakespeare. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A lonely wash drifts across a desert landscape. Sweltering, torrid & extra dry. Mysterious, haunting, uneasy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]