Royalty Free Sad / Nostalgic Music

Melancholic ambience with an indie chill vibe. Blending reverbed guitar with synth pads for an airy, spacey feel creates a bed of dark warmth for the female vocal to glide on. With a simple drum loop adding motion, or a more epic rock beat adding drama, it gently sways between pensively moody and upliftingly epic, all while keeping a controlled thoughtfulness and haunting atmospheric beauty to the music.

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.

An emotional and heartfelt love song with soft male vocals and rich acoustic guitars

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

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.    

Windswept is the title, but it's not designed to ruffle any feathers, more the hairs on the back of your neck. A serene and soothing cinematic soundscape with a triumphantly heroic and patriotic undertone, it's a builder, taking you from gentle and simple ambient piano to an orchestral flurry of woodwinds and legato strings, all the while generating a deep atmosphere of anticipation, inspiration and optimism capturing an essence of the past to give hope to the future.  

Dreamy lo-fi chillout track. Heavily effected electric guitar takes the lead role as a spacey melody maker, weaving simple, reverbed hooks into a tapestry of rich chordal textures and lo-fi beat. Very open and clean, with a trippy, ambient nature designed to provoke reflection and relaxation.

An acoustic ukulele and piano instrumental with a difference. Normally the reserve of upbeat and commercial happiness, this uke theme takes on a more reflective feel, with a slower pace and more serious overall tone, whilst still managing to maintain the lightness, simplicity and dynamic of more conventional pieces. A subtle shift in feeling with a familiar style.

An indie folk-rock song featuring soft-spoken male vocals, acoustic and electric guitar layers

A beautiful alt-rock love ballad with soft male vocals, bright acoustic guitars and electric guitar riffs in the background

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

Smooth, easy listening pop instrumental. Lots of flowing background keyboard runs, soft pads and gentle acoustic guitar give a meandering momentum to the piece, while pop brass give an unexpected stab, resulting in an upbeat and energetic contrast to the mellow undertone. Nothing heavy, but a relaxed, self assured and expectant vibe with lots of positivity.

An acoustic guitar riff leads into a heartfelt folk ballad featuring soft male vocals

Serene background track. After the delicate intro of plucked harp, light piano and gentle vocal aahs, accentuated with legato violins, glockenspiel and woodwinds, the piece flourishes into a night time serenade of lush strings and sparkle. Dreamy and reflective in mood, it's the strings that take the lead with a little help from a subtle percussive shaker to add movement and flow as it transitions back to the innocent, child-like theme from the intro.

Sad, sombre and emotional music. Melancholy, moving dramatic orchestra with a subtle backing choir building to a resolution.

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.

Soft and nostalgic piano based piece. Classically influenced, with a cinematic touch, it uses repeated broken piano chords for movement, adding strings for depth and hints of acoustic guitar for tonal variety. Heartwarming and touching, it maintains its poise and elegance throughout, creating a sense of romanticism, reflection and optimism.

An atmospheric orchestral hybrid track. From a calm, arpeggiated piano intro, backed by searing synth pads and textures, the piece develops through a pulsing section into a vibrant, majestic theme using string ostinato and choral pads, grounded by light, driving percussion. Followed by an evocative violin lead over the main theme, it continues to take us on a soothing, yearning voyage of discovery and wonder.  

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

A soft, dramatic composition led by a beautiful grand piano and an ambient synthesised pad. Slightly haunting but mostly melancholic and pensive with a hint of optimism, it is, as the title suggests, a rich and enveloping piece with a gentle, ambient tempo and calm sense of grandeur. Its ambiguity of mood lends itself perfectly to many different uses, but remains a dramatic, atmospheric composition of depth.