Dark and groovy, with a low-key drum machine beat and gritty inserts of synth and classical instruments that make for a mysterious and hypnotic ambient setting. Minimal and foreboding but not without a sense of humour, good for introspective and quirky scenes. We’re definitely waiting for something to happen.
Tag Archives: Piano
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Really beautiful, delicate and nostalgic, featuring aching solo strings and an emotionally compelling piano that creates heartache, anticipation and finally peace. Would suit emotional scenes or moments of reflection. “Emily knew, as she walked through the house for the last time, that for now at least, she was free to love again”.
Pathways
Hypnotic with a dissonant edge, featuring an upright piano, acoustic guitar-led arpeggios and a strings section. There is an interesting combination of a delicate and playful mood with disturbing inserts of harmonic madness, mainly given by the piano. Great fit for scenes where your audience needs to know that something in our character is starting to drift.
Gentle Struggles
Melancholic and intimate, featuring a dreamy figure of glockenspiel notes and a light arrangement driven by a piano and a small orchestra. A flute takes over the theme at 1:40 and presents us to a final section slightly more rhythmical with pizzicato strings and playful woodwinds. Great for scenes with a nostalgic and tender yet hopeful feeling.
As Lovers Do
Crisp and smooth, with a marked jazzy brass influence but also Latin remainders and juicy funky guitars. Soft and romantic with an exotic edge, this is pure gold for the lovers of smooth jazz, with top notch solo performances and great taste in the arrangment.
Distant Lands
Contemplative and poignant, featuring an ethereal yet moving piano solo figure complemented in the last section by a mellow strings section. Ideal for emotional advertising, romantic movie scenes, and end title sequences.
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.
Instant 1
Synth pop track. Frantic bleepy synth intro, snare drums shuffle. Keyboards play sparse riff, over alternating marimba-like synth notes. Another layer of piano creates overlapping rhythms, Drums break with single piano notes, drums become more complex. Spanish acoustic guitar plays solo over drums, frenetic, choppy orchestral strings take their turn before the finish. Sombre and mysterious, sophisticated pop for flashy corporate videos, ad campaigns or background music for intriguing documentaries.
Flute and Piano (suite)
Delicate yet unsettling, with a dissonant flute and a jaunty piano that deliver a strangely playful but darkish tone in the same vein as a contemporary classical music piece.
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.