Low tense piano with eerie string effects creates an air of hushed expectancy, leading to a section hesitant movement, held breath and finally warm deep achievement, with hesitant but strong orchestral strings. Beautiful, majestic and yearning. Slow.
Tag Archives: Melancholy
To The Chapel
Slow sad dark piano arpeggios with a deep melody, accompanied by swelling strings.
Noks Foreboding Peace
Piano over an ambient score or orchestral strings. Unsettling, dark and portentous. Slow.
Ripples in a Water Scene
Meditative, flowing and floating piano with acoustic guitar and ghostly guitar effects. Building, driving and emotional, suitable for determined adverts and pensive TV/Film scenes.
For All The Children (Part 1)
Bleak violin track. Mournful solo violin, second violin joins, building layers of emotion. Melancholy, pensive and yearning. Suitable for a beautiful, reflective TV/Film moment, our character’s wretched heartbroken lament.
For All The Children (Part 3)
Dramatic, hopeful piano and orchestral string track. Warm, expressive orchestral strings soar over undulating piano arpeggios imitating a lifeboat on rough seas. Conflicted, yearning and sombre with a ray of comforting hope, perfect for romantic period dramas.
For All The Children (Part 2)
Dramatic orchestral string track with piano. Expressive strings soar over fast-moving piano arpeggios, creating a melancholy wash of yearning and unfulfilled desires. Powerful, dynamic and passionate, perfect for an uptight British TV drama concerning repressed lovers.
Antiphon No.4 (Parts 1, 2 and 3)
Cinematic piano and orchestral string track. Serene orchestral strings and undulating piano create a dense, dramatic soundscape full of passionate yearning. Hopeful, romantic and expressive, perfect for a tense, sensual and tumultuous onscreen romance, think A Room With A View, set in a lush and dreamlike environment.
Echo Falls
Laid Back And Velvet Underground-esque. Full Track With Synth / Chilled And Echoing / Mid Tempo
It Was Revealed (Parts 1 and 2)
Expressive orchestral string track. Gentle, lyrical orchestral strings soar in counterpoint over an unsettlingly tumultuous piano part. Dramatic, cinematic and slightly cacophonous with a European sensibility, would suit a passionate TV Drama or period film scene.
Part 2 features a fuller orchestral string sound and heavy use of vibrato, with piano taking a back seat.