A downtempo / Ambient chill track with a sense of mystery and vast open landscapes. We would label this as "Nordic Ambient" with influence from Sigur Ros and from Scandinavian / Nordic dramas and landscapes. The bitty drum sounds give it a little bit of a retro / 1980's feel too. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Soul touching and deeply emotional this track starts with a beautiful piano melody and builds towards the end with dynamic spicatto string arpeggios. Perfect for melancholy films and other powerful imagery. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
An introspective, haunting, film / drama score with a sense of loss, longing and desolation. Cold and dejected. Use for Drama, History, Storytelling. Perhaps true stories, courtroom drama. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
A beautiful and tender solo piano piece with a real sense of emotion. Love and romance as well as perhaps sadness and reflection [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
Thoughtful and dreamy cinematic music track featuring Grand and Upright pianos played together, orchestral strings, glockenspiel and harp. Beautiful and inspiring melodies create an emotional soundtrack. Inspirational / Drama / Love Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A heartfelt acoustic singer songwriter breakup song about loneliness and regret. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Electronic low-tempo track, with a lounge vibe and a dynamic arrangement, it brings to mind the styling of Sade. At the same time relaxing and sexy, this is the perfect backdrop for presentations, commercials, and scenes that require a minimal, yet remarkable soundscape. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
Sad and reflective Middle Eastern track featuring qanun accompanied by electric cello and duduk. Great for drama, tragedy etc. Refugees, tragedy, solemn. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Acoustic guitar solo piece. Wistful and melancholic. Heartfelt and passionate, with some Flamenco influences. Free tempo. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Tender, reflective solo piano. Melancholic, longing, romantic, beautiful. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 58 BPM]
A melancholic, tender, solo piano piece. Warm, comforting, soothing. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 49 BPM]
A Country song with old Country influences about loving and thinking about a girl while in battle. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 69 BPM]
A rich and soaring, tender and wistful orchestral / cinematic track, featuring a rich orchestra sound and an emotional, touching melody. Grand and passionate. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A slow and mellow, melancholic, but warm and heartening piece with acoustic piano, subtle strings and 'oooh' type vocals. Soft, ambient, emotive, sincere. [Note: The recording contains some 'ticks' which may appear to some as sound artifacts or 'noise'. These sounds are actually the physical, mechanical hammers inside the upright piano on which this was played. This is an all natural, all organic, no-computers, no-electronics recording and this in itself brings some sound 'imperfections'.] [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
Emotional and touching cinematic music track featuring piano and full orchestral strings. Beautiful melodies with deep romantic feel great for films, love and romance videos, photo slideshows and documentaries. Tender, gentle, slightly melancholic and sentimental composition with a deep thoughtful harmonic background. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A warm and heartening soft rock / light rock music ballad. Emotional and sincere music track, with a sense of belonging. [Tempo: Slow / 101 BPM]
Irresistably bitter-sweet, warm, inviting and sensual with a dark undertow. French inspired. [Tempo: Slow / 110 BPM]
A very slow moving ambient track, like oozing, sticky, floating, slowly sinking into the deep or softly falling snow. Sorrowful, mournful, almost standing still. A sense of time itself slowed down. Inspired by the ambient works of The Dead Texan and others. Acoustic piano, mellotron, slowly swirling synth pad, electric guitar. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
Dramatic, mystic theme in the "Silent Witness" vein. Building tension. A single, crystal clear soprano voice. Great for adventures, mystery, dark drama, etc. There is also an "acapella" version with only the voice, singing latin text. (The latin words are nonsensical and have no real meaning.) Finally the "Theme" version also includes the latin song as well as the orchestral backing, in a shorter version. [Tempo: Medium / 93 BPM]
A slowly swaying, downtempo track somewhere between pop, chill-out and ambient. Reminescent of the sound of 'Massive Attack', this moody track pulsates, pumps and lulls the listener into a slowly sizzling groove. Superb track for media use. In addition to the original version, there is also an alternative version with subtle sounds like an old vinyl record scratching and popping, for added atmosphere. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
A short, romantic piece with a wistful or nostalgic tone. Highly suitable for radio commercial, TV program intro, web site and more. Soft strings and tender, melodic piano. Love, family, friendships and cherished memories. Two different 30-secs versions are available; on version 2, the piano goes to a higher octave towards the end. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Solnatt is a Norwegian word that means 'Night Sun' (roughly). Inspired by the northern midnight sun, this is a fragile and reflective piano piece, with hope and light mixed with melancholy. Highly suitable for use in film or other media or art, this track is somewhat inspired by the tender film music style of Thomas Newman. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A very intense, dramatic and action filled, orchestral / symphonic film soundtrack piece. Hard stabbing horns, marching drums, tense and dramatic orchestral movements. Great for sci-fi, military, action, chase, battle, war, conflict. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Acoustic guitar mood music. Warm, impressionistic, relaxing with a slightly folky feel and a sense of the natural and true. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Dark and atmospheric ambient chill, filtered and distorted beats with harsh synth slices and spacious pads, low sub bass, weird time signature, futuristic, sci-fi, science and technology, would also work for contemporary erotic scenes [Tempo: Very slow / 35 BPM]
Warm pads, bells and a mysterious Eastern wind instrument, the Sarangi flute. Great background music for travel and mystery, adventure and excotic places. Foreboding, underlying mystery music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
TV or film soundtrack/underscore in two sections. The first part features strings and piano over a slow, pensive rhythm. Introspective and thoughtful. Reflection and personal thought. The second part of the track is more optimistic, bright, hopeful and even joyful. Suitable for drama, adventure, film/TV, storytelling. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
Grand, emotional orchestral movie soundtrack. Orchestra with harp, strings and horns prominent. Discovery, exploration, setting sails for new adventures or emotional reunions, perhaps a return to the homeland or a homecoming. Great for adventure film, games, fairy tales, nature and landscapes, love stories and more. [Tempo: Slow / 66 BPM]
Cinematic, drama tv or film theme. Activity, movements, intrigue. Strings, acoustic guitar, piano. Joined after about 40 secons by a passionate, intense tenor saxophone solo. Perhaps night scenes, urban/city story. Smokey. Good for drama, thriller, intrigue, conspiracies etc. [Tempo: Medium / 76 BPM]
A beautiful and sorrowful piano track with a historical feel. Perhaps wartime Europe, sadness and reflection, yet also beauty and hope. Played live on an old piano. In the later parts of the track, the piano is joined by soft, frail strings. Very touching piece. Mournful, thoughtful and delicate. Serious. Good for history, historical drama, documentary, film/television drama, loss and sorrow. [Tempo: Medium / 60 BPM]
The track starts with solo female vocalizations lamenting over classical acoustic guitars and mandolins, and builds up to a pompous choir and orchestra solemn procession. Good for a huge funeral scene, with lots of people crowding up the streets to give a last goodbye to an idol, politician, etc. [Tempo: Very slow / 55 BPM]
Starts with a gregorian chant punctuated by an occasional bell. great for a church scene, like a confessional dialog. Then it blossoms into a full mixed choir and orchestra, with pizzicato basses and cellos, ideal score for the entrance of a noble, such as a king or a queen. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A smooth and chilled, easy-going jazz track led by clean jazz guitar, electric bass and a breezy, downtempo soul groove. [Tempo: Medium / 83 BPM]
A very tender filmscore style lyllaby track featuring a child's voice singing "la la" in an imperfect, frail, vulnerable voice, with acoustic guitar and lush string section. Emotional, soft and caring, perhaps wondering what the future may bring. Hopeful, tender, warm and caring. [Tempo: Slow / 73 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]
A heartfelt, melodic pop/rock crossover track that starts softly and then grows to a sweeping, emotional chorus part. Intense, romantic, with rock band plus orchestral strings in an arrangement similar to Coldplay etc. Heartbreak, young people, first love, loss, sorrow or just personal stories, soul searching. Would go well with youth drama, scenes of inner turmoil, thoughts and perhaps personal conflict or great love. [Tempo: Slow / 74 BPM]
Beautiful, slow choir track building feel of sorrow with an addition of mystery with gentle pipe organ and string pads in the background. A picture of misery and wreckage or something magic by its mysterious, gloomy side. Yet also with a heavenly, angelic feel. Spiritual, perhaps worship or floating on clouds. Good for commercials, drama, strong visual presentations, exhibitions, and more. [Tempo: Very slow / 71 BPM]
A poignant, understated and sorrowful solo piano track. Reflective, sad. Loss, dejection or hopelessness. [Tempo: Slow / 51 BPM]
Authentic brazilian slow Baiao/Xote, with a 10-string Viola playing over a laid-back live percussion groove. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Warm, lush and evocative atmosphere, uplifting and textural synthpads, subtely syncopated and filtered white noise. Good for scenes of beauty and discovery. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark, dangerous, powerful forces. Rising up, majestic, like a horde of warriors or a fleet of warships. Threatening. Perhaps also pirates, pirate ship, or a religious cult, sect, religious ritual, sacrifice, black magic etc. Orchestra and choir, joined by rock drums from 00:40. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Imagine sitting at the window of a trans-world train watching many different cultures, flavours and atmospheres go past you. A real journey of a piece. You never know quite what will happen next. Contains synth bass and pads, drum machines, ethnic percussion such as tabla and bongos and african voices. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
Very soft and beautiful piece. Cool, lazy and melancholy piano arpeggios are overladen with lush strings and koto melodies to provide a very emotional and evocative jewel. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Slightly sad and wistful tune. A soft and hypnotic beat drives it along as piano and strings colour the track with emotion. The end section brings piano and strings to the fore as a classical guitar joins in with simple melodies. [Tempo: Medium / 120 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]
Spacey, beautiful and peaceful track using synths, strings and ethnic flutes. Soft and fluffy tones help you float off into the atmosphere. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Short, medium tempo orchestral piece full of suspense and unknown destiny. Contains small string section of violas and cellos... Also a haunting piano melody and percussion. [Tempo: Medium / 71 BPM]
Intense, colourful and very cinematic ethnic/rock track. Middle Eastern vocals float over hypnotic synth sequences, pads and a relaxed drum feel. The track slowly builds as it goes until walls of rock guitars join the trance-like vocal refrains. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Sad, peaceful and meloncholy orchestral piece. Moody lamenting chords of strings and solo oboe tell a tale of woe. Very dramatic and filmic indeed. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Contemporary mix of orchestra and electronic instrumentation in this l lament to the passing of time. Pensive & thoughtful but offering hope and comfort with a haunting and memorable melody. Good for contemplative narrative such as poetry or prose and visuals such as time lapse. If you like this you may also like the Elliot Simons tracks "Sky Dreams" and "Three Little Wishes". [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]