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: Tension
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.
Game Tension
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.
Careless (Suite)
Electronic track. Beat intro with mellow synth. Added beats, rhythmic bassy synth, harsh, glassy synth effects and straight up drums. Upbeat but slightly melancholy with a hint of tension. Suitable for moody TV drama sequences or for a cool, clean, modern advert.
Careless 2 is longer, more like a electronic dance track, with added finger snaps and effects and punchier beats.
The Carousel of Memories
Hypnotic and delicate, featuring a sinister melody played by an accordion and spooky sounds melted with a glockenspiel toward the last section. Ideal for teen thrillers, scary and disturbing scenes, psychological and mysterious sequences.
Unknown Danger
Mechanical and hypnotic, with a dark bass synth and atmospheric swarms of orchestral strings. Dramatic by definition, it delivers pace and rhythm, all coupled with a highly charged emotional content.