This is where you'll find music that would be suitable on the Travel Channel and, to some extent, on Discovery Channel and National Geographic. This music will have a sense of discovery and exploration and often with World / Ethnic influences. That's not to say that all the music here will be tribal or have a strong ethnic feel. There's also some music here that just has a slight Latin or Mediterranean feel, making it suitable for enjoying while chilling out on the beach or just enjoying a relaxing holiday at a fine hotel. Mostly, though, this music will convey the moods of Africa, Eastern / Middle East, Far East, South American or other exotic destinations.
Happy, bouncy and energetic Latin dance, with piano, acoustic guitars and bass enters a little later. [Tempo: Fast / 137 BPM]
Laidback Reggae instrumental with guitar melody, marimba, horn stabs and tight rhythm. Downtempo summer vibe with echo and reverb effects creating the perfect chilled, dreamy island sountrack. [Tempo: Slow / 73 BPM]
An exotic and passionate World fusion / Eastern / Greek / Mediterranean / Gulf / Oriental music track. Features a live performed Greek Bouzouki instrument. Great music for culture and travel, holiday and vacations, exploring and enjoying new countries and cultures. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
This track is created in documentary style. It features Acoustic Guitars, flute, indian percussion, mandolin, gamelan bells, strings, organ and drums. Suspense and mystery lead to a feeling of hopefulness and positive Himalayan Spirituality. Section three feels upbeat, positive and a feeling of finality. Plenty of underscore to work with. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
An Eastern / Oriental / Middle Eastern or Indian / Bollywood track. Main theme comes in after about 35 secs. Arabia / Arabian feel. Exotic and mystical, but also upbeat, dancing. Good for India / Bollywood style productions. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
Very French sounding solo piano piece. Thoughtful melody. Hints of travel; trains or walking. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
A short, relaxed and calm track with a certain Zen mood. Features bamboo flute. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Picture a sleepy town in Mexico, it’s hot, the sun is high in the sky, and the Spanish girl walking by is beautiful, romance is in the air. Nylon Guitars strum, piano melody plays, percussion elements glide in the background. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
This track is a nice blend of world music elements from Ireland to South America. It features exciting and energetic tribal percussion. It's remeniscent of popular american survival shows such as Survivor and The Amazing Race. It has an exciting an uplifting melody that is memorbale and would perhaps make a nice main title. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
India pop / Bollywood Party. Fresh, funky, lively and sexy. Available with or without vocals. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Uplifting, exciting future bass music with Hip Hop influences and a subtle Oriental / Asian flavour. Strong punchy beats, layered tremolo synths, occasional guitar licks. Catchy hooks, builds, risers and ear candy effects such as sudden pauses, beat skipping or stutters. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 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]
Funky, downtempo grooves combine with lush pads and a clean electric guitar lead. Slightly jazzy / jazz-funk feel on the drums. Stylish, Luxurious sound. Good for a funky chilled-out afternoon, enjoying a Caffe Latte and looking out over the sunset. Also available in an Underscore version (without the lead melody). [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
With a Latin beat and feel and a strong wind-section theme, this up-tempo jazzy track is suitable for creating a light, uplifting, and sexy mood to your production. This is a lively backdrop, suitable for dancing sequences, Latin related projects, and other productions that require energy and vivacity. [Tempo: Fast / 252 BPM]
Funky sitar grooves and atmospheres. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Warm, soft, exotic African night time groove with multiple marimbas, piano, soft pads and african flutes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 65 BPM]
A somewhat eclectic track featuring a mid-tempo electronic beat combined with chopped and processed Indian instruments such as Sitar. Unique and progressive blend of Eastern and Western music styles. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
Smooth and sexy summer groove good for Fashion programs, Style Videos, beach modelling scenes and catwalk videos. Stylish music suitable as a background. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A hip hop track with arabic / middle eastern influences. Ethnic percussion, exotic melodies and a deep urban beat build the piece. Low-rider, gangsta, gang culture. Mysterious, sexy, exciting and uplifting. Perfect for scenes of night clubs, inner city, action and crime, but with an exotic twist. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A singer-songwriter country folk song about the "fullness" one gets from a new loving relationship. Lyrics are sung in the Tagalog language. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 126 BPM]
Feelgood, medium to slow Reggae track. Happy and relaxed, with traditional reggae band instrumentation of drums, bass, hammond organ and electric guitar. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 89 BPM]
A gong hit and a cliché shakuhachi phrase. That's it! If you don't know what a shakuhachi is, just listen to the track and you will remember the classic Japanese flute extensively used in stereotyped Kung Fu films. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
An uplifting and spirited world / travel track with a somewhat folky feel. Could be Americas or other part of the world. Good for travel show, amazing journeys and discoveries, nature and wildlife, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
A bright and pleasant track that's hard to pin down to a specific music genre. Uplifting and melodic, with elements of electronica. Good for presentations and projects about people and their lives; new technology, green values and family values, innovation and ecology, development, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 100 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]
Happy, joyful and uplifting acoustic guitar track with hand percussion. Very slight latin feel, but certainly not limited to that use. This is just a nice and fresh easy listening track with a close to earth, true and honest feel, made to bring out smiles and lift spirits. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
Caribbean/African marimba starts joined by classic samba/Caribbean bassline, percussion and drums. Great positive chorus section. Dancing, upbeat positive and happy feel, good for Travel and Regional use. Foreign holidays, travel, sunshine and brightness would all describe this track perfectly. Island holiday, ocean waves, blue skies. Happy, joyful, bouncy and great fun. Children playing, Caribbean cruise, airlines commercial, beachwear [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Eastern drone with reed flute, ethnic percussion and vocal chants. [Tempo: Medium / 109 BPM]
Middle East traditional, haunting with flute, conga & percussion. Hypnotic, scary, eerie. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Chinese pop music with a traditional edge. Features traditional Chinese instruments bawu and pipa. Happy and uplifting music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Vibrant Latin / Cuban pop groove featuring lively percussion and acoustic piano, with a sultry and passionate feel to it. Perfect for travel footage, Latin vacation, holiday, dancing, advertising, nightlife, bar, party scene etc. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
This track features traditional African instruments along with bass guitar. It has a positive and uplifting vibe and can work in both traditional African and modern African settings. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Laidback track that blends traditional Indian instruments with a modern chill-out groove. Great for contemporary Indian based projects, tv dramas, movies, documentaries etc looking for a soothing, pensive mood. Features Santoor, Tabla, Piano, Violin, Vocals, Bass and Drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
A light and feelgood French accordeon waltz. Swaying, care free and deliciously melodic. Goes well with anything quintessentially France, Paris etc. Joyful and elegant - genuinely captures the spirit of France. [Tempo: Medium / 213 BPM]
Slow, soft, peaceful, yearning and meloncholy. Cascading synth pads keep the pulse going as chinese violins and conventional string sections play restless melodies over the top. Would suit romantic film project. Contains synths, Chinese ehru violin, double bass, drums and percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
Feel the sunshine with this contemporary, uplifting Reggae track. A feel good blend of Caribbean music styles with steel drums, saxophone, organ, guitar, piano, bass and drums. Perfect for any project in need of a happy island sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 102 BPM]
Ethnic soundtrack in an electronic ambient style and mix genres featuring synth, SFX, bayan, balalayka, authentic Russian woman vocal in a middle part. Will work well as video background for travel, expeditions to a desert places, documentary film. Spatial, flowing, pensive, ethnic. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
A bright, sun-filled instrumental track with a travel feel. Without referring to any particular region or country, this piece of feelgood music would be well suited to any travel program, holiday site, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 112 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]
Traditional Chinese music with traditional instruments create a folklike and lively picture. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Calm and positive music featuring traditional Japanese / Oriental instruments. Meditative and cultural. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 58 BPM]
Contemporary Mexican / Latin American track. Happy and bouncy, in traditional South American / Latin American feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 180 BPM]
Mid-tempo Latin / Spanish style with acoustic guitars and piano. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A peaceful, calm ambient track blending Japanese instruments (erhu, percussion) with strings, bass guitar and electronics. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A sun-drenched Pop / Dance / Disco track with a sense of summer, fun, dancing and holiday. Great for vacation, travel, general fun / beach / party moods. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
Peaceful traditional Chinese / Far Eastern / Oriental music with a lilting walt like quality. Bawu and Dizi carry the lead along with guzheng, gongs and Daiko to accompany. [Tempo: Slow / 54 BPM]
Relaxed, exotic and mysterious African track with traditional instrumentation and cinematic strings. Suitable for movies and documentaries. [Tempo: Medium / 89 BPM]
Mid tempo country ballad, featuring steel guitar and "country pickin'" Telecaster. [Tempo: Slow / 107 BPM]
Passionate and emotional Latin composition in a Bossa Nova style with authentic acoustic guitars, light percussion, a warm bass and a gentle drumbeat. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 108 BPM]
Traditional wedding music from The Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh in India. The instruments used are the Pipdi - a reed blowing instrument somewhat 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: Medium, Fast / 113 BPM]
