Royalty Free Sad / Nostalgic Music

An alt-rock love ballad featuring heartfelt male vocals, powerful drums and electric guitar layers

An acoustic folk love song featuring soft male vocals, bright acoustic guitars and piano leads

A pop-rock acoustic guitar ballad about love and life, featuring soft female vocals

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

A beautiful, melancholic acoustic folk-rock ballad with reversed steel string chord motifs

A soft, lilting orchestral track. Shades of mystery and discovery are evoked by the dark, mellow ethnic flute backed up by whistful, melancholic cello and oboe leads. A good underlying movement is created by soft percussion, string shorts and rolling arpeggiated piano as well as the phrasing of the music to create a piece of magical serenity, wonder and reassurance.    

Cinematic piece, featuring piano and orchestra. A simple and traditional melancholic piano theme opens, juxtaposed by modern shrill electronic pulses to immediately give a sense of the unusual. It breaks into a lush orchestral theme with legato strings, rich brass and fast moving marimba, building in intensity to a majestic climax with fanfare brass and timpani hits. Not to last, it drops back to the orignial theme and calmer style to finish a piece that has a diverse landscape of emotions, evoking sadness, reflection, wonder and longing.

A nostalgic acoustic ballad featuring bright guitar chords and beautiful female vocals

Lilting country ballad about heartbreak and lost love. Electric guitar, bass, drums and piano provide the authentic backing for the sincere vocals in this longing tearjerker of a song. Midtempo and gentle in its pleading approach, you can feel the regret and desire in the male vocals, subtly interplaying with the weeping guitar and hopeful piano runs. Sadly, we'll never know if he gets his girl.

An emotional piano solo with a deep nostalgic feel

Smooth South American styled track. Laid back Latin flavours come from the clean electric guitar melody, the off beat Spanish guitar and percussive rhythm section to build a tuneful and relaxing vibe of sunshine and mojitos with a hint of nostalgia. Simple and effective, with an elegant, dancing flow.

Rich and calm cinematic track with a dramatic cutting edge. Exploring a single theme by layering different instrumentation and rhythms, it features acoustic fingerpicked guitar to set the mood, adding percussive hits, drones and ethnic vocal chants to ramp up the intensity over an atmospheric bed of airy tension. Full of dreamlike beauty with an uplifting sense of the epic about it.  

This soft piano music introduces a intimate yet dramatic atmosphere.

Atmospheric track with a cinematic shimmer. Starting piano based, with a delicate string drone to support the tension, it builds through faster notes and greater instrumentation to its main string theme of slightly Oriental inspired violin and cello. Mysterious and curious in feeling, with a sense of apprehension, it is nevertheless calm and free flowing, taking you on a journey to an unknown world.

A moving orchestral cinematic piece featuring a piano lead, orchestral strings and overall somber, nostalgic feel

This relaxing song makes you believe to be floating through water or the air.

Soothing but mysterious orchestral track. Arpeggiated piano and strings start classically, but a theremin lead takes things to an unexpected level of mystical contrast. Elegance and majesty is constant due to the warm orchestration throughout, with a deliberate unease and suspense created by the unusual instrumentation and melodies.  

Simple but effective tension builder, with just enough dramatic edge to play a perfect supporting role to picture. Swirling background strings, clean reverbed guitar lines and a prominent cello lead all combine over the haunting, repetitive minimalism of the piano resulting in a cinematic voyage of discovery and wonder. Enigmatic and ethereal with a sense of elegance and control.

Cool groove country track. Slick electric guitar licks, upbeat organ and drawling vocals feature, but wait for the hooks of the choruses - great harmonies make this the catchy highlight. Singing about an ex who wants to be the centre of attention, it's a bittersweet story of glamour and betrayal over a good time feeling musical backing.

Romantic yet heartbreaking country rock track. Soft male vocals and a standard rock group setup form the bulk of the instrumentation, but it's the lush strings and killer backing harmonies that really lift the song to another level. Singing about the need to leave a lover, it's a tragic case of unfortunate break-up and heartache wrapped up in a gentle and tender ballad shaped box.