Unsettling electronic track. Random beats and electronic sound effects build a rhythmic base, unusual sound sources used to create percussive, sensory music. Bird sounds and male vocal samples introduced, like a call to prayer over glitchy beats. Strange, unexpected and off-kilter, experimental electronics to suit a curious, Vice-style documentary or quirky advert.
Tag Archives: Exotic
Moody
Romantic Spanish guitar track. Emotional piano and steamy Spanish guitar serve up a generous helping of schmaltzy romance. Joined by synth orchestration, bringing Twin Peaks-levels of strange, dreamy, acid-hued nostalgia. Idyllic and sun-soaked with danger lurking in the shadows, like an episode of Sunset Beach. Perfect for retro romance TV scenes, nightmarish dream sequences.
Midday
Whimsical piano and clarinet track. Amélie-like waltz, interweaving piano and clarinet. Seductive, mysterious and slightly melancholy, suitable for a dreamy TV/Film sequence in a strange underground speakeasy for outcasts and oddballs.
Expedition Whisky
Orchestral track with electronics. Woodwind intro with foreboding string section. Tinkling bells followed by dynamic, suspenseful woodwind, building timpani, plodding and threatening. Electronic section, synth and faraway beats, accompanied by incongruous woodwind and tense orchestral strings. Strange, intriguing and scattered, a mystery journey through a dark and confusing forest straight out of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Fun and freaky, for unusual advert or quirky onscreen moments.
Travel Pakistan
Orchestral string track. Dramatic sustained string build with scattered, erratic piano notes. Triumphant string and percussion build with slight dischord. Epic, hopeful and pastoral, suitable for TV/Film/Doc scenes of hope and determination.
To Quetta
Frenetic, rhythmic percussion over tense, sparse piano chords and Middle Eastern-style melancholy strings and scatterings of oud. Strange, unsettling and sad, suitable for a tense, searching documentary, or disorientating TV/Film scene.
The Day Before Quetta
Sparse, sombre piano track with scratchy violin and atmospheric oud. Solemn, tense and desolate, an empty landscape, deserted streets, suitable for sad, suspenseful TV/Film dramas, possibly set in the Middle East.
Jalsa
Sitar-like drones introduce expectant beats and excited tambourine. Middle Eastern-style earthy strings play snatches of melody with acoustic guitar. Tense, suspenseful and mysterious, would suit a TV drama/Film set in a hot Middle Eastern country or a playful advert for foods from this region.
Spanish Journey
Delicate, measured acoustic guitar with Spanish flamenco ornamentation. Steady beat kept by percussive sample. Bright, thoughtful and sensual, evoking a hot and sticky exotic place, a new start, potential for change…and maybe summer romance…Suitable for a sultry advert for a product that promises to make you a new person.
Singing Motorbikes
Spanish guitar intro with samples of motorbike sounds, along with uplifting Beirut-like horns and string samples and finger snap percussion. Anticipatory, atmospheric and exotic, would suit an advert set in a city packed with people, this soundscape the refreshing respite from the sweltering city heat and overcrowding.