In this royalty free music category here you will find a mix of Indian music, Bollywood rhythms, middle eastern and Arabic sounds. Acoustic instruments performed live - reed flute, ethnic percussion instruments, bouzouki, zither, Turkish oboe, santoor, tabla and more. Stock music fit for commercial, travel, adventure, vacation and discovery, for relaxation, reflection, art and culture, history, film/drama and more. Good background music for travel/holiday, exploration and discovery of exotic and mystical places. Listen to these royalty free tracks, buy a license to any individual track and download the music immediately in MP3 and WAV format, along with an official License document.
An alternative fusion of modern Indian/Middle Eastern music with dance and electronica. This blend of genres combine to create a fast paced, highly energetic, thrilling mix of music. Exciting, vibrant, avant-garde. Imagine a bustling Indian festival, street scene or action chase scene. Will work well with anything energetic, exciting, stylish, busy or action orientated. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Mysterious and provocative, this track features ethnic Middle Eastern percussion with bansuri (bamboo flute) with drums and funk bass. The result is world beat with a funky groove. Great for giving a modern edge to world music. [Tempo: Medium / 99 BPM]
Middle East traditional, haunting with flute, conga & percussion. Hypnotic, scary, eerie. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Indian flute, woodwinds, with floating pads. Ethereal, spiritual, foreign and exotic music. Mountains and deserts, Eastern/Oriental landscapes and scenery. Good for travel/exploration, culture/history, film/drama, documentary/adventure and much more. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
India / Bollywood / Indian and Eastern / Oriental pop culture. Tabla, Sitars, Eastern flutes and India style string sections combined with Western / modern drums and synths. Confident / Funky / Exotic. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A melancholic and nostalgic track with a middle-eastern / oriental feel and an Arabian / Arabic reed / flute as the lead melodic instrument. A slow, contemporary drum groove and acoustic guitar joins in from around 1 minute onwards. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Funky sitar grooves and atmospheres. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
The meeting of traditional Indian folk instruments with electronic drums, bass and ambient synths. A dark, hypnotic Trance track great for modern Bollywood type soundtracks ala Slumdog Millionaire, culture, documentaries, cuisine or any project looking for some Indian electronica. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Bollywood, Indian influenced, high energy dance music. Driving rhythm section with big beats and dynamic hits. Features melodic sitar, string themes and vocal overlays. Mysterious and passionate with a Slumdog Millionaire feel, think Pussy Cat Dolls - Jai Ho. Great for parties, weddings, nightclubs, world beat, travel, fashion. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Emotional, slightly dreamy, track featuring a small, all female vocal choir with the North African / Middle Eastern plucked instrument Oud and ethnic percussion. Builds in intensity towards the 2-minute mark and features an ethnic flute in the closing section. Can be jewish/Israeli, as well as Middle Eastern, North African, Arabic, Egypt, etc. Mournful, serious, epic with a religious or spiritual feel, also depicting beauty, frailty and vulnerability. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Busy ethnic sound with tablas, clay drums and sitars. Disturbing drone. Vocal chant. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Intense an up-beat trance-like track, with a middle-eastern flavor, this track is the perfect mix between modern and timeless. Suitable for productions that require a vibrant, fresh, and at the same time recognizable feel, such as movies, TV shows, and commercials. [Tempo: Fast / 126 BPM]
Contemporary sitar and Indian percussion grooves. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
A mixture of traditional Hindu instruments and psychedelic musical atmosphere of the 60's. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Slightly dark and foreboding Arabian/Egyptian track with a sense of history and mysticism. This track goes through various different sections throughout - some more and some less rhythmic - and can be used for several cues. [Tempo: Medium / 93 BPM]
Traditional wedding music from The Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh in India. The instruments used are the Pipdi - a reed blowing instrument some what similar to the Shenai used in other regions of India (Played by Mangal Ram from Bir Village), and the Nagara Drums - similar to the nagras in the plains (these are very old pieces) they are made of metal with skin stretched on the playing surface. The skin is tightened with straps that weave into the edge of the skin and meet at the centre bottom of the drums. Two drums are placed opposite each other and the drummer plays them with a cross stick action. The drummer here is Jondu Ram (father of Mangal Ram.) Please note: This is a genuinely live, on-the-spot recording, and as such, there may be slight flaws in the performance and recording. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 114 BPM]
Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern / Arabia feeling pop track. Tabla, percussion, oud and other Eastern / Oriental instruments mixed with a western style beat. Upbeat, joyful Bollywood style. Holidays, travel, exploration and fun adventures. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
This track starts with a dreamy flute and saz instrument. The scales & harmonies, which are used widely in all of the middle eastern region from Iran to Lebanon, are called "hijaz tune" and is very familiar to all that region. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A typical Bedouin celebration style, with authentic percussions, played as the old tribes used to play. With strings, oud and kanun, this track featuress a middle dreamy section before going back to the groovy Eastern dance parts. Features live performed acoustic instruments. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
Ethnic, exotic underscore track featuring Oud, pads, Middle Eastern or North African percussion and soprano sax. Foreboding and ominous, with a nerve. Deep, emotional and serious. Good as underscore for adventure, discovery, exploration, history and mythology. [Tempo: Slow / 83 BPM]
Beautiful and evocative melody played on bansuri and dilruba accompanied by Indian percussion. This track has a very rural and folklike feel to it. Travel and culture. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 86 BPM]
Ethnic soul - stirring Indian music. Depicts spirit, character, attitude, outlook, approach, essence of a situation. Tabla, dholak, duff, sitars, santoor, morchang, udo pots, flute. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Smooth and meditative soundtrack was made with ethnic instruments in contemporary vision. Medium tempo. Relaxing and peaceful, calm and beautiful river that slowly flowing down through the valleys. Good suitable for the travel and documentary programs. Ethnic, Indian, Oriental. Sitar, tabla, Indian flute. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A mixture of the East (India) and the West (USA) from Indian composer-guitarist Arjun Sen. Smooth and jazzy drums combine with acoustic bass to provide a traditional U.S. jazz backing but this is mixed withsitars and exotic Indian flavours to create a wonderfully inspiring and groovy feelgood smooth jazz track with an Indian feel. Melodic, refreshing, soothing and invigorating all at the same time. [Tempo: Medium / 74 BPM]
This track is highly evocative and is great as an opener or introduction. Free tempo, features Indian slide guitar freely improvising on a bed of lush pads. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Cool and witty melody, where emotion meets fun and dance. Expressive music, with oriental flute and oud. Can be Oriental / Middle East, persian, arabian, also India or Eastern european, Greek etc. Music for travel, fun, vacation / holiday, discovery. [Tempo: Medium / 103 BPM]
Exotic, dark, atmospheric and adventure track made with various eastern percussion, native middle eastern instruments, strings and more. Exotic, mystical, foreboding, haunting. [Tempo: Slow / 110 BPM]
A solemn female vocal with subtle drones, ethnic percussion and flute. Middle Eastern, North African, Palestinian or other world/ethnic content. Ominous, foreboding. Sorrow, loss, pain or anguish. Builds in intensity after about 01:45. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Middle eastern ska. Arabian pipes over a ska beat. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Dreamy, ethereal, exotic, atmospheric, cinematic, spacious, intriguing, mysterious music with a distinct Middle Eastern flavour. A blend of ethnic strings, woodwinds and percussion combine to make exciting, tension-soaked music that would suit thriller / dramatic / travel / mystery type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 113 BPM]
An adventurous Persian, Egyptian, Middle Eastern theme track. Like setting off on a new quest, confident and battle ready. A feel of the Middle East, Arabia, Persia and perhaps historical, legends, fantasy etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Uniquely suspense-filled, filmic track with Eastern plucked strings mixing with flutes, tribal drums and orchestral strings. Very cinematic and intense. The tune grows in power as it goes with string motifs joining the tribal drum grooves. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
A mystical cinematic cue inspired by world music from The Last Temptation of Christ. It features the beautiful and haunting Duduk and lush strings layered with synthesizer and ethnic drones. It has a spiritual, emotionally intense mood that is captivating, powerful and gripping. Excellent for cinematic work, spiritual and religious video and biographical or documentary footage requiring something that will emotionally stir the viewer. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Bollywood / India: A haunting sufi Hindi male song. The rhythm is upbeat. The lover is pining for his lady love. He is saying that love has destroyed him, has given him the pain of waiting for his love, not able to forget the love of his life. He is madly in love and cant think of anything but love. Love has rendered him good for nothing. He has given up everything for his love and love is still eluding him. Tender, emotional, very passionate, deeply moving. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A very warm and soothing music track, chilled out background music with a slight Indian, Oriental feel. A lazy, hot summer day in an exotic place. Indian summer chill music... [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Melancholic female vocals directs the emotion here. Typical instruments of the Arab and Indian worlds merge with a modern string orchestra. Multifaceted, imaginative and well suited to accompany dramatic Bollywood movie scenes. Also available as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A Marrakesh / Moroccan / North African or Arabic inspired ethnic underscore featuring Ud. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A thrilling cinematic trailer cue that is epic and intense. It starts with a haunting vocal a la Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score and erupts into a gripping and chilling cinematic trailer that ends with massive, bold loud dramatic impacts and explosions. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Ethereal, spacey chant-like track. Ethnic vocals samples mix with brooding synth bass notes, sitars and percussion. Very uniquely moving track full of passion and the trials of life. [Tempo: Slow / 57 BPM]
Bollywood / India: A fast, groovy, upbeat, hindi dance number. Energetic, full of life, vigorous, lively, strong, forceful, spirited, feisty, determined, aggressive, go-getting, unwavering. Describes how one should be in life. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
India pop / Bollywood. Fun / light / cute / world fusion. Available with or without vocals. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Simple powerful hard rocker with an Eastern flavour to the guitars parts and leads, giving it a great range of sonic colours. Very uptempo and energising.Would suit action/sports/thriller type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 100 BPM]
Big, powerful orchestral piece depicting power and. Majestic, epic, heroic, grand, regal, authoritative, and with a slight Indian / Middle Eastern / Oriental / Exotic feel. Strings, sitar, tabla, santoor, mridangam, rhythm. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Hip-Hop / Urban music with a flavor of India / Bollywood. Cranky, dark groove, with occasional Indian vocal chants. Also available without the vocals (Underscore version). [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Middle Eastern melody played by an exotic-sounding string instrument and backed by hypnotic bells, sequences, and tribal drums. Bridge breaks down into funky double time for a surprising mood twist, and then returns to the Middle Eastern theme. Includes elements of Bollywood, funk, electronica, and world music. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
A nice mixture of U.S. hip-hop and Indian Banghra, with a slight Turkish flavor to it as well. Very groovy stuff! [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Traditional sounding Eastern rhythms & instruments with a playful festive feel. A useful accompaniment to a hot, exciting atmosphere. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 96 BPM]
Upbeat, high energy adrenaline rocker with slight ethnic flavour. Lots of guitar melodies, distorted guitar riffs, strings and bombastic dramatic statements. Contains guitars, Persian santoor, bass, drum and strings. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A relaxing, ecclectic rhythm groove, warm and laidback guitar melodies with a slight jazzy feel. Also features Indian sitar and tabla percussion for a nice and breezy, ethnic/world feel. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A chilled-out and smooth track with the flavor of India. Deep and soulful groove, with exotic flute and indian Tabla. A fusion of Western and Oriental styles. Dreamy / Silky / Flowing. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 69 BPM]
