Royalty Free Sad / Nostalgic Music

Slightly melancholic song reflecting on the boundless aspirations we have when we're young, and how reality kicks in. Not that it dwells on it so much, leaving us with a mellow acoustic pop folk track featuring male vocals that musically lightens to an upbeat song with a hip feel. Tuneful, charismatic and well crafted.  

A modern hip hop / urban instrumental, existing to create a vibe and nothing more. Simple, chilled and with a rich depth, there are 3 variations within the track, each with subtle differences but keeping the dark, background mood throughout. Sombre, reflective, edgy and steady.

A short solo piece consisting of dramatic descending piano arpeggios, starting with a delicate, fragile ambience and building to a more urgent, tense finale through fuller bass and more animated expression. Relying on it's momentum, chord progressions and constant flow to generate the emotion, it's not a complicated, stand alone track, but intended to fill a need to enhance a mood - one of slight urgency, anxiety, mystery and tension.

A tender solo guitar piece with a serene ambiance. Intimate and transparent, helped by being fingerpicked, it maintains a simplicity despite its melodic movement and creates a soft, nostalgic vibe without getting over sentimental. Calming and optimistic with a hint of reflection.

Awe-inspiring and uplifting orchestral track with a powerful and dynamic build-up

Listening to this song, you can hear the struggle and the breakthrough to never give up no matter what.

A emotional love ballad with soft male vocals, acoustic guitars and a soulful harmonica solo

The calm atmosphere of this beautiful song brings relaxation and a smile on everyones face.

Enchanting orchestral epic. Magical and mysterious in its gently flowing piano lines and shimmering high strings, it builds on the theme with faster string ostinato and legato melodies, gradually turning into a deeper, more epic interpretation with added brass, woodwind and percussion. Without limiting yourself to the fantasy genre as it works for many other situations, think more 'fairies and elves showing their powers' than 'horsemen of the apocalypse'.

This relaxing song makes you believe to be floating through water or the air.

Experimental free flowing piano piece, melodically playing to rhythmically mimic the random falling of water droplets. Soulful, gentle and relaxing, the mood is enhanced by subtle pads, rain and droplet sounds, gradually building to a short, sweeping climax. A very intimate, and atmospheric soundscape.

Dramatic and beautiful ambient cinematic music with a deep and inspiring melody. Creating a hybrid texture with rich strings, chiming piano and shimmering high drones, it flips seamlessly between rhythmic and non percussive sections, maintaining its atmospheric continuity throughout and adding elements such as simple reverbed guitar lines and sonic treats for effect. Gentle, surging mood music for multiple uses.

A soft, dramatic composition led by a beautiful grand piano and an ambient synthesised pad. Slightly haunting but mostly melancholic and pensive with a hint of optimism, it is, as the title suggests, a rich and enveloping piece with a gentle, ambient tempo and calm sense of grandeur. Its ambiguity of mood lends itself perfectly to many different uses, but remains a dramatic, atmospheric composition of depth.

Emotionally sombre piano track based on a simple chord progression. Hauntingly sorrowful, deeply pensive and openly honest, it's a slow moving composition that builds beautifully with elegant strings to reveal a deeper and more involved sound. Calming, but undeniably sad.

An island influenced song about the longing for the innocence of youth. With its sense of bubbly enthusiasm, it has an offbeat reggae feel but with slightly more downbeat sections at times, as if to contrast the good times vs bad. Lots of hammond organ, solid rhythm section, bright guitar and of course, a horn section. Everything's alright if there's a horn section, right? Stay positive everyone.

Wistful orchestral piece for chamber strings. Deliberately slightly ambiguous in rhythm as well as mood, it is at times playful, at times unsettled. With hints of romance and longing through the use of sweeping legato, to carefree pizzicato and eager staccatissimo, it's a diverse piece of 20th century style music showcasing many articulations and emotions, the one constant being it's tenderness throughout.

An indie folk-rock song featuring soft-spoken male vocals, acoustic and electric guitar layers

A touching and contemplative soundscape with an ambient and blissful atmosphere. Dreamy piano and sound design textures float on a cloud of soft pads, while calming strings enhance the reflective nature of the music.

A moving cinematic track featuring a piano lead, spacious background chorals, and soft glockenspiel fills

Cinematic piece, featuring piano and orchestra. A simple and traditional melancholic piano theme opens, juxtaposed by modern shrill electronic pulses to immediately give a sense of the unusual. It breaks into a lush orchestral theme with legato strings, rich brass and fast moving marimba, building in intensity to a majestic climax with fanfare brass and timpani hits. Not to last, it drops back to the orignial theme and calmer style to finish a piece that has a diverse landscape of emotions, evoking sadness, reflection, wonder and longing.