Hypnotic and dark, with a dissonant edge given by atmospheric strings pads and a drony bass synth with percussion. There’s a simple harmony and a sense of anticipation built with a delicate yet firm manner. It will serve very well as background music for video games, and TV shows with a futuristic flavour.
Tag Archives: Fantasy
Into the Cage
Unsettling and dissonant, with an interesting low-fi accent and a set of disquieting piano chords that establish a loaded texture full of pollution and grittiness. Will suit quirky characters slowly drifting into madness, post-apocalyptic settings, dark underwater animations.
The Water Rush
A chirpy synth catchy bass line is joined by balmy evolving synth and chiming bells in a build towards a rush of euphoria in the chorus. A feeling of being a robot in the ocean and suddenly a huge school of tropical fish rush through you. Happy, lush, futuristic and expansive.
Sad Infinity
Dreamy and delicate, featuring soothing woodwinds and a melancholic celeste that create a rarefied and nocturne sense of uneasy fascination. Ideal for alluring and seductive scenes with a dark and possibly supernatural edge.
Blue Star
Intensely sad but not lost in its entirety, with soothing background strings and a yearning dark violin solo theme that unravel otherworldly laments upon the inevitable realisation of an unbearable truth. Will suit emotional and melancholic scenes.
Macedonian Phalanx
Featuring a marked epic accent and a schizophrenic middle-age influence, with orchestral percussive elements, choirs and a synthetic brass section that create a quirky and fantasy-like setting. Great for over the top ancient battles and medieval sieges.
Hell Flames
Disturbed and suspenseful, with piano solo as lead instrument and a symphonic orchestra that deliver unsettling flashes of dark energy. It follows an A-B-A structure, with a huge spike – both in sound and emotional impact – in the middle section. Great for horrors, thrillers and supernatural themes.
Haunted Night
Mystical and epic, 100% orchestral, with an ostinato rhythm made of powerful strings and screaming brass. It gets angelic as a choir takes the lead in the middle section, before resuming its angry, percussive, and aggressive attitude. Scenes where dramatic action with a magical flavour is needed will benefit greatly from this.
Sunrise
Melancholic and sweet, with a sense of yearning and heavy use of exotic interpolation of chords and melodies. Powerful as a big orchestra can be, it gains momentum at 1:20, always keeping the stakes high as a complicated love story would be. Will suit exotic and big Hollywood love stories, with ultimate love as overarching theme. The English Patient, Out of Africa, and even Indiana Jones are welcome here.
Bond on the Moon
Epic bondy stuff, with a slice of implicit darkness. A spy-themed track that takes the listener from a mysterious electronic intro to a fully orchestral instalment. It rests at 1:30 and then resumes to deliver a grand finale. Be warned, James Bond’s got a dark side.