Reflective and hypnotic, with repetitive piano arpeggios and a piercing theme that gets somewhere in between being sentimental and slightly angry. Emotional with a lot of resentment, will suit lonely characters and their regrets.
Tag Archives: Tension
More than Hard
Dreamy and repetitive, with light synth pads and a gentle yet firm electric guitar that create an ambient episode with a chilled overall feeling. Eighties influences and modern chill out beats mixed together that will fit corporate videos and product showcases, but also title sequences and b-movies.
Hide and Seek
Dark and hypnotic, with a wobbly bass synth and groovy drum beats that make for a deranged industrial setting. Challenging moments ahead. Feels like being underwater. Will suit sci-fi and dystopian worlds.
Dooms and Chills
Mysterious and saturnine, with filling bassy drones and evoking swarms of synths that create a sense of uneasiness and dark anticipation. Steady until 2:50, it then builds up to a more loaded setting at 4:00, and then delivers different thrilling flavours shifting every couple of minutes. Great for thrillers, horrors and psychological settings.
Withicon
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.
Bowed Softness
Dark, highly atmospheric and gently driving and urgent. Brushed strings, soft beats and droning bass synths create a powerful ambient atmosphere. Constantly moving and pushing through in a place of darkness, the tension gradually starts resolving to an uneasy sense of hope.
The Escape
Celebratory and epic orchestral score, with lush and powerful arrangement. Bold brass, balzato strings and engaging harp strums. A marked sense of discovery and grandioseness, with echoes of ancient battles and conquests. Perfect for celebration scenes and big epic sequences.
X2Y
Dark and slow burning, featuring hypnotic synth arpeggios and mystical choirs that develop in a full grand orchestral hybrid arrangement in the second part. Builds up steadily till 1:50 and then steps up with brass instruments. Great fit for big epic film scoring and otherworldly, mystical characterisations. Flash Gordon would love this.
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.
Death Is a She Named Barsheen
Groovy and suspenseful, with alluring mystical vocals and a dark progressive synth-led rhythmical pattern that evoke exotic worlds caged in a first period Massive Attack-like tune. Structured in three parts, it builds up to 1:30 and then delivers a minute of aggressiveness led by a gritty electric guitar. Wonderful as background and title sequences for futuristic, dystopian and ancient/exotic settings.