Royalty Free Sad / Nostalgic Music

Super chilled ambient track, with a chill hop beat, rhythmic warps and warm, old school feels through the use of vibraphone, reverbed guitar and synth textures. Just like floating along on a cloud of unhurried passiveness, it leaves you in a state of carefree calm and deep relaxation.

'Epic' isn't always reserved for heroic battle music. To prove the point, here is an atmospheric piano based track that manages to build it's 'epicness' through inspirational chord progressions and dramatic instrumentation. And plenty of reverb. With an airy background shimmer, bright piano leads us to clean electric guitar to transport us to a bold, dreamlike state of uplifting calm, blooming into a full, rich wave of invigorating sensation with prominent lush strings. No booming percussion, no fast ostinato, just a beautifully cinematic flight into the clouds.

A mysterious, scary ambient orchestral track with a strings section crescendo, celeste fills and haunting female chorals

Beautifully inspiring and moving piano track over a rich string section.

A downbeat suspense theme. Brushed drums and a falling piano sequence create a sense of longing, added strings and pads help to build the intensity. Solo cello subtly creates extra melancholy and nostalgia.

Serene piano and string track. Mid paced, but lively thanks to the main piano theme that repeats within the orchestra, it builds calmly throughout the first half until it breaks into a more string focused piece, where the solo legato violin plays over marcato string shorts and high piano accents. An emotional and tender piece - light and innocent with a touch of curiosity.

A slow and spacey instrumental ballad. Simple pads and piano provide the structure for reverbed electric guitar lead to create a mellow, dreamy atmosphere.

Ambient Western track, in no hurry to get anywhere in particular. Soaking up the desert heat at walking pace, it's a beautifully constructed mix of shimmering strummed electric guitar chords, tremolo and slide leads, whistles and harmonica that oozes Americana. Percussive hand drums add some horse flavours to the theme, a theme that at times is sad and nostalgic, at others more comfortable in its solitude, but portrays a lot more than just cowboys and saddle sores.

A mix of ethnic and western instruments bring forth a beautiful atmosphere for documentary and nature content

The name says it: Carefree. This piano accopanied by a guitar develops an atmosphere of comfort

Beautiful and touching piano piece over subtle and smooth pads.

Smoky jazz bars and urban nightlife with a touch of late summer warmth - it's a relaxing chill hop track evoking several moods all under an umbrella of cosy satisfaction and mellowness. Soft piano, muted trumpet, Spanish guitar and smooth lofi beats marry together to create a world of unhurried intimacy and uncomplicated good times. Delicate and finely tuned for a modern, laid back vibe.

Guitar focused track that captures an atmospheric beauty contrasting with a more dramatic dynamic. Starting gently with clean plucked guitar harmonics and melodic lines, and gradually building with piano, it finally breaks into the full theme with big drums and pounding guitar strums to drive the piece relentlessly forward. One simple theme, layered and contrasted for maximum diversity while keeping the original familiarity and lush vibe.

Beautiful and elegant cinematic track. With a light and uplifting feeling, it uses string harmonics and soft piano 'question/answer' phrasing to develop the foundation as it builds to a livelier theme featuring pizzicato and legato strings, bright piano and an expressive cello lead. Positive and full of optimism with a delicate sensitivity.

Beautiful short piano piece evoking reflection, regret, optimism and tranquility. With rolling arpeggios and a delicate melody, it has a sense of energetic movement whilst keeping a fragility to the mood, further enhanced by a subtle background cello line. A modern, cinematic track infused with soft emotion.

Reflective sounding hip hop instrumental, based on a repeating guitar melody and layered with synth, piano, deep bass and a clean beat in various combinations. Soft and chilled with an animated drum pattern to liven it up, it makes great background music for a modern, sensitive slice of drama.

Gloriously ambient track with a heavy cinematic leaning. Building a bed of tension through soft piano and strings, it breaks into an expressive outpouring of reflective emotion, using a dynamic cello lead and chiming guitar. It's a theme that returns with more complexity and intensity, but manages to keep it's fragile, delicate sensitivity with a calming yet weighty vibe. Slow paced, and all the more powerful for it.

A beautiful, emotional acoustic folk ballad featuring male and female duet vocals

A melancholic piano and strings ambient track. In a perfect example of 'less is more', what you get is a tragically fragile and delicate piece of cinematic, reverbed piano woven with muted strings and harmonics. Isolation, yearning, loss, sorrow ..... it's dark in feeling but light in texture, expressing vulnerability with perhaps the slightest hint of optimism. Moody stuff indeed.

A slow building inspirational epic. With each loop of the chord progression, starting from simple, individual piano notes, the intensity rises as more instruments join in. Acoustic guitar, strings, percussion, electric guitar, synth pads .... until we finally reach the climax like a ray of inspiration bursting out from behind the clouds. Reflective at first becoming anthemic and triumphant by the end, it's a motivational journey of honest purity and possibility that's heart warming, emotional, uplifting and encouraging.