Royalty free ambient music with focus on the light, blissful, airy, relaxing and soothing stock music tracks that you can use as background music for relaxation videos, music for guided meditations, or for poignant, beautiful scenes such as nature photography, nature footage etc. Often with a sense of ease, beauty and reflection, these ambient background music tracks were composed by professional composers and producers, then hand picked and curated for the Shockwave-Sound stock music catalogue.
A calm, serene, peaceful composition. Invites you into a feeling of calmness and serenity. Will work well with peaceful material, relaxation, meditation, spirituality, breathing exercise, life. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
Relaxing and meditative solo piano music inspired by Erik Satie and John Cage. Yoga / Therapeutic / Sleep Music. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Ethereal, contemplative and emoting music. Suggests an introspective exploration of the spiritual, divine beauty, a fragile process, or deep emotional weight. Emotional / Fragile / Wonderment Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Simple arpeggio patterns over bass guitar and warm pads. Minimalistic, hopeful and positive. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Sweet and nostalgic Christmas Music with sleigh bells, strings and piano. Gentle and wholesome, relaxing and warm. Soft Christmas music. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Evocative, reflective and thoughtful piece featuring sparse ethnic percussion, soft pads and slide guitar. Backround track suitable for travel, documentary, cultural, reflection. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
This tranquil ambient music track is sparse but vast – easily blended with themes of technology music, science, medicine and the future. With its reverb-drenched synth pads, looming drone and arpeggiator, this track ebbs and flows, keeping a steady pulse and evoking confidence and positive outcomes. Its ambiance is excellent music for medical, tech, corporate videos, scientific-based podcasts, drone shots, exploration, docu-biographies, and travel. [Tempo: Slow / 119 BPM]
A beautifully wistful female voice blends with soaring cellos and distant washes in this ethereal and atmospheric aria based on traditional folk music, yet with a dark, contemporary nursery rhyme quality. A companion to the popular Celtic Requiem track and with a similar spiritual feel. Cello & voice adapted and performed by Shena Power. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Deep and soothing, fantasy like chill-out grooves. Led by a piano motif and a downtempo, funky bassline - with swirley pads creating a floating, cosmic like fantasy soundscape. Warm and soothing, relaxing, ethereal chill-out grooves. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
Royalty free Ambient New Age music. Cosmic, peaceful, softly flowing. Good for yoga, meditation. Also for images of space, future and sci-fi, stars and cosmos. Possibly nature or underwater / deep sea diving. Can also be for science, DNA etc. Reflective / shimmering. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 116 BPM]
A cinematic and moody piano piece, in a similar style to Thomas Newman. Open and poignant, this track is packed with emotion and will add an extra dimension to projects looking for a thoughtful and reflective feel. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
An atmospheric and soft track but with a sense of movement and direction. Swirling pads, synths, guitar and a strong groove create a positive feel, great for background music with technology, travel, health and beauty and more... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 87 BPM]
Ambient Drum & Bass. Atmospheric, deep, rich and with a nicely flowing DnB groove. Good for technology, innovation, future, discovery and much more. Also available in a version without the drums & bass (No Drums Bass version), making it a really nice ambient music track in its own right. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 100 BPM]
Confident and heroic tune that builds up from an acoustic guitar to a full orchestra accompanied by a slow motion drum loop. Emotional and optimistic. Good for accomplishments and thinking outside the box subjects. [Tempo: Slow / 105 BPM]
Take a deep breath and relax with this soothing acoustic pop track inspired by nature and the outdoors. A gentle piano motif starts the piece, and then a rhythmic pattern comes in, followed by harps and calm guitars. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
Atmospheric and peaceful chill out track featuring floating synth sounds and warm guitars. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Slow, beautiful, peaceful filmic piece led by soft, hypnotic piano chords, sparse guitar melodies and drenched in atmospheric, smoke-like pads. Steady electronic beat comes in at 01:32. Very moody, dreamy, with an air of thoughtful melancholy to it. Makes you sit back and think about your childhood days and how things used to be, about life, the universe. [Tempo: Slow / 125 BPM]
Calm, spacious, tranquil, peacefully cinematic piano & strings piece with a sense of wonder & tension. Sedate, serene, contemplative, hypnotic, thoughtful & dreamy. Would suit dramatic / romantic / historic / documentary type projects where space is needed for evaluation. [Tempo: Slow / 89 BPM]
A soft, caring and soothing ambient guitar soundscape. Wide open aural landscapes leaves room to breathe. Reflective, melancholic, soft touch. Dreamy and mellow. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Delicate / Hopeful / Graceful / Insightful. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dreamy and hazy Americana / Acoustic / Folk track with a cinematic, mellow feel. Nostalgic, a little bit 'down' and very reflective. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 82 BPM]
Relaxed, ambient piano track with occasional acoustic guitar notes and soft pads. Melancholic, tender, impressionistic, inviting. A time for quiet reflection. Quiet nature, sunrise, a new dawn. Semi-classical; reminescent of the works of Erik Satie and Brian Eno. Available is also an alternative version which cuts out the pads, leaving only the piano and guitar. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 43 BPM]
A beautiful and melancholic ambient piano track. A simple, nostalgic piano melody played with grace, finely balanced on top of a strange ambient background texture. The piano track and ambience tracks are also available separately (as 'Piano Only version' and 'Ambience Only version' below), to give you more options in editing. Excellent for drama, film soundtrack work, or any sincere, thought provoking web site or film footage. [Tempo: Very slow / 62 BPM]
A mellow and evocative ambient/soundtrack style track, reminescent of Vangelis' work in Blade Runner. Analogue synthesizers with a simple, understated drum beat. Vast, open, great for imagery, science, future, art, or a movie scene. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
A subtle rhythm with an earthly mechanical sound. Slow string pads. Relaxed. A sense of time passing slowly, things falling into place, bit by bit. Background, underscore use. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Melodic and minimalist synth theme, atmospheric and suggestive, great for fantasy, mystery, sci-fi , animation, videogames and multimedia. Jean-Michel Jarre influence. NOTE: A "lo-fi", grainy, synth sound has been used in this track, for a purposefully moody, lo-fi, 8-bit, type sound. This is not an error with the file -- it's made like that, and is supposed to be like that. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 114 BPM]
Progressive and uplifting ambient, ethereal and heavenly, good for scenes of beauty and discovery. [Tempo: Very slow / 114 BPM]
A moody and atmospheric ambient piece with ethereal pads and ambient slide guitar. Soft, yet deep and evocative music, like an unfolding story or a magnificent sunrise. The track has a slight sense of ethnic mystery or the ancient world music, maybe India. Very dreamy, reflective and rich on atmosphere, perhaps something spiritual. [Tempo: Very slow / 125 BPM]
A subtle background track with bright, understated melodies, a gentle pulsating rythm and light textures. Highly useable with media such as data presentation, menu screens, multimedia presentations with subtle, tasteful movements, floating graphic elements, weather report, news update and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Electro-Ambient / Downtempo / Electro chill. Dreamy / floating / slow pulsating rhythm. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 50 BPM]
Ambient Pop / Atmospheric / Soundscape. An atmospheric feeling is given off from this track. Featuring delayed guitars and synthesizers, the piece conveys a sense of time passing, or a story unfolding. Great for film / drama, documentary and visual imagery. The track makes you feel like something is coming, something on the horizon... Expectant / Hopeful / Inviting. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]
Reflective Piano & Pads. Ambient, thoughtful, graceful. Pretty and sincere. Wonderment. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A melancholic ambience suited to drama or thoughtful, reflective content. The track reflects seriousness, potential loss, and some grittiness. A bit dreamy, hazey. Comforting and cocooning. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 54 BPM]
A soft and simple piano tune which builds into a vibey ambient section. Featuring lush guitar and strings to take it home. Hopeful / Family / Love Music. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A warm, emotive and touching music track, with a sense of enlightenment and coming to terms. This track starts off very gently and then increases and grows towards ever higher ground, before settling down with a melancholy afterthought towards the end. A very poignant, dignified and touching track that will give you goosebumps. Contemplative / Love / Inspirational Music. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Open space, panoramic and unfolding soundtrack piece, for epic scenes, aerial shots, panoramas, drone views and nature. Builds to a feeling of awe. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
A pulsing bassline combined with acoustic and electronic instruments and some inspiring elements. Suited as music for thinking and developing subjects, achieving goals with a subtle vibe. Longing for something with a hopeful vibe, emotional and determined. [Tempo: Medium / 117 BPM]
A very soothing music track with a warm sonic texture. Ethereal pads with a snug and soft feel give a feeling of being safe, warm and content. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A quietly reflective piece featuring piano and strings that slowly builds to a subtle climax of hope and optimism. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
Steady, rhytmic, organic and pulsing atmosphere. Exploring / Travel / Movement / Science music / Nature. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 123 BPM]
Ambient and atmospheric cinematic music composition with an inspiring but slightly melancholic vibe, perfect for Sci-Fi, drama, movies and videos, motivational clips and more. Understated / Ethereal music / Subtle / Wonderment. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
An atmospheric, searching piece of music. Ethnic / World influence, combined with a magical, swirly, ethereal feel. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
Subtle and calming music, this ambient track is a splendid musical supplement for sustained, positive emotion. The fluid arrangement features sustained guitar, mellow pads, sine wave bass and a sparse synth melody. It conveys kind-hearted sentiments suitable as music for dramas, documentaries, new age themes and emotional retrospectives. Subtle / Soothing / Ambient. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 74 BPM]
An intimate, ambient track featuring a blend of atmospheric pads, chamber strings and an evolving piano and cello melody. Spiritual, inspirational and touching. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 125 BPM]
Cool, watery, reflective. Close the door to the outside world, relax your mind and lose yourself in an ultra-violet cocoon of beauty, safety and goodness. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 81 BPM]
Soothing, relaxed, ambient chords. Deeply relaxing / Meditative / Tranquil / Spiritual. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 58 BPM]
A very ethereal and floating ambient music track. Dreamy and soothing. Blissful and full of beauty and wonder, with a feel of vast empty spaces. This entirely ambient track will work great for scenes of great natural beauty or amazement, wide open spaces, ice or glaciers. Maybe wonders of the world, deep oceans, mystical places. Space travel, cosmos, the infinite universe. Also great for relaxation and meditation, body, soul and mind, or any spiritual content. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dreamy, neo-classical, simple piano, slow waltz. Nostalgic / Longing / Reflective / Delicate / Fragile / Innocent. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Melodic, spacious arpeggios, minimalistic and contemplative. A dreamy, atmospheric piece with a simple, reflective melody. Ideal for enhancing a positive, thoughtful mood in various projects. Ambient / Warm / Reflective / Contemplative. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A gentle yet moving composition that invites senses of love, peace, calm, the higher realms, light and support. Great for healing and inspiration. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 66 BPM]