Royalty Free Sad / Nostalgic Music

A touching and contemplative soundscape with an ambient and blissful atmosphere. Dreamy piano and sound design textures float on a cloud of soft pads, while calming strings enhance the reflective nature of the music.

Classic Orchestral music describing a positive and family-friendly atmosphere

A slow-tempo, emotional acoustic folk song with rich orchestral string section background and an overall sad, melancholic feel

Slow building, cinematic orchestral piece. Immediately dramatic and intense, through single repeated piano notes and suspenseful violin harmonics, there's an ethnic edge in the instrumentation merging with strings and oboe as the piece turns darker with rich bass and dissonant textures. Ambient and brooding throughout with a tragic, heroic feel to the second half due to a sweeping string and brass melody accompanied by added timpani and rhythm, it remains a calm yet slightly unsettling piece with outstanding tension.

A intimate piano telling a short emotional but uplifting story

This soft piano music introduces a intimate yet dramatic atmosphere.

A soft, mid paced orchestral track with a sombre side. A gentle, pulsating string and harp intro featuring solo viola, cello and oboe flourishes into life with string shorts, harp glissandi and orchestral runs before dying down again for the ending. Good use of the vibraphone creates a dreamlike quality to help set an intense, melancholic and nostalgic mood, tinged with a sense of reflection and regret.    

Relive the era that saw the birth of synth pop with this light and carefree slice of nostalgia. Steady paced with a classic retro feel, it has all the hallmarks of a gentle 80s pop tune, particularly in the bass and rhythm parts, and is perfect for a fresh, innocent and upbeat soundtrack to accompany your projects.

A gentle, melancholic acoustic guitar tune to clap along to in front of the campfire

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

A trippy, ethereal ambient background track with white noise and synth textures evoking a mysterious, uncertain mood

Hybrid orchestral track with a dark and melancholic feeling. The texture evolves, becoming more dense at the end.

Fresh and tight beats with hip hop elements triggers curiosity and a cool atmosphere

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

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

An upbeat electronic track with a banging house beat and huge diversity - ranging from Daft Punk inspired melodies and progressions to jazzy Charleston licks, 80s synth tones to hard house aggression, it manages to merge everything into an exquisitely produced track that never lets up on the creativity. Worth listening to the entire track before making your mind up, and then decide you have to find a project for it because there's something in there that's too good to miss out on.

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

Awe-inspiring and uplifting orchestral track with a powerful and dynamic build-up

An intimate cinematic piano track, backed by bass guitar, drums, strings and guitars. Steady paced, very soulful and pensive, it has a sense of 'journey' about it, with more than a hint of solitude and self analysis thrown in. Like someone on a road trip of discovery, it has ups and downs and no particular hurry to get to its destination, contemplating the positives and reflecting on the negatives, with the overriding positive goal of making things better.

Dreamy, ethereal soundscape with a lo-fi vintage tonal vibe mixed with filtered synth and spacey, reverbed guitar lines. Anchored by a soft beat, the rest floats above as the shimmers, echoes and delays meld together in a timeless, carefree web of delicate, enchanted daydreaming.