Welcome
Welcome to my musicsite! Here you’ll find mainly instrumental music specialmade for use in visual media like film, broadcast, presentations, games and commercials. All tracks are pre-cleared for immediate pro use. Contact me regarding special requests. I’m offering both exclusive and non-exclusive solutions to match any project/budget. Travel by Ear!
/Niklas Ahman
Meet Bill
Music intro in “Meet Bill”.
May 25, 2008
Crucial Music have placed my ambient track Drifting in an indie film called “Meet Bill” starring Jessica Alba and Aaron Eckhart. It’s currently playing across theaters in the US and you’ll get more details at IMDb and at Green Street Films. The song starts out the first 1½ min of the film. Drifting is the name Crucial music use, but the song also goes under the name Wings on other sites.
Inconceivable
Music placements in the film “Inconceivable”!
February 23, 2008
My song Drifting (aka Wings) has been placed a couple of times (publisher Crucial Music) in the indie film “Inconceivable” starring Meg Tilly and Andie McDowell. The film will be released later this year. Here’s extended info about the film.
Top 5
Top 5
December 15, 2008
1. Wings (aka Drifting)
2. Russian Fields
3. The Headlines
4. Super Goal
5. Turbulence
Selected Tracks (newest first)
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Coffee Break
An instrumental blues-rock-pop tune with a subtle intro (A-part) and more evolving, developing, cinetic B- and C-parts. A song about the importance of taking a break sometimes, to get new angles, perspectives and great creative ideas. Played by a rock trio, guitars, bass and drums. Length 4:09, key F#, tempo 108 bpm. Full Demo / Buy.
Closer
An ambient minimalist indie-pop ballad. The tune is 3-layered, the electric piano chords on top, the acoustic guitar texture and the soft background rock trio. Available at Crucial Music (aka On My Mind) or Productiontrax.
Little Italy
An orchestral drama hybrid with a subtle piano/guitar A-part and an epic orchestral B-part. This piece was originally sketched for a scene where an old mafia-boss remember the good old days… Italian flavoured with influences from The Godfather. Buy a license at Freeplay Music (US, aka Mercato Di La Sicilia), Productiontrax (US) or Media Music Now (UK).
Pop Motion
Enjoyable minimalist nu-pop with electric bass, vocals and synths. Perfect for that indie perspective on crossroads in life. Suitable for films, commercials and documentaries. Free download for non-commercial use or buy a pro license at Productiontrax (US) or Media Music Now (UK).
Strat Cat (compact version)
An instrumental street mix of funk, r&b, french clubmusic and hip hop. Played with tweaked electric guitars, bass and analog drums. This is the shorter compact version, there is also a long version available, named just “Strat Cat”. Full Demo / Buy.
Hands Up
An enjoyable, fun, messy and sweet instrumental pop tune. Energetic and a bit crazy, good for comedy, activity, work out, children, sports and funny videos. Made with electric bass, piano and a drum synth. Key D, tempo 154 bpm. Productiontrax (US) or Media Music Now (UK).
Rain
An ambient minimalist drama score or underscore, with a slow piano movement surrounded by polyrythmic guitar lines. The track is 2-layered with a universal eternal feel and should do a good job in films, documentaries, drama scenes or as narrative backgound in audio books. Licenses are available at Freeplay Music (US, aka Rain Window), Productiontrax (US) or Media Music Now (UK).
Sweet Dreams
A calm sweet piece, played by electric guitars and synths through diverse delays. Evocative, dreamy, feel free, drifting around in space. Buy a license at Freeplay Music (US, aka Dreamworld), Media Music Now (UK) or Productiontrax (US).
Wings
A nice and beautiful new age score or underscore. This piece has a universal feel wich makes it very versatile in numerous productions. Nice, warm, pleasant, melodic, good mood, romantic, drama, ethernal, ambient and colourful. Perfect as soundtrack. The idea came from picturing a giant flock of birds moving on to warmer areas. A piano the over harp arpeggios, cluster guitars and vocals. Length 3:14.
Get full demo and licences at the following publishers: Crucial Music (aka Drifting), Productiontrax, Pump Audio, Freeplay Music, Iamusic, Music Licensing Of Hollywood, Media Music Now or Boxed Score.
Also available for consumer use on iTunes.
Sunshine Naive
Crisp nylon arpeggios and a playful electric meats a light piano theme. Sunny, happy, naive, easy, positive, glad, fresh, ambient, sparkling new age. Length 2:19. Buy a license at Freeplay Music (aka Innocent Sunlight) or Productiontrax.
Turbulence
A minimalist polyrythmic piece written for full orchestra. It starts out quite busy, then dissolves into a more ambient, polyrythmic and somewhat spheric structure. The piece is universal to it’s character and therefore suitable for many types of productions, like science, space travel, space adventures, futuristic, evolution, medical, biologi, environmental, green house effect, global warming, documentaries and drama. Prominent instruments are piano, clarinet, flutes, horn, strings, bass. Full Demo / Buy
Russian Fields
A slow emotional and strong mandolin tremolo style soundtrack (played on acoustic guitars). A bit sad, melancholic and romantic feel. A soundtrack influenced by traditional Russian folk music. The piece resembles Mafia style themes, like the feel you get from The Godfather. Length 1:47. Buy a license at Freeplay Music (US, aka Ode To The Tundra), Productiontrax (US) or Media Music Now (UK).
New Music
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Changes
An alternative rock or pop tune, with nice Aaah-vocals without lyrics. There’s a playful A-part and a nice B-release, and later on a bass solo bridge, and then the arrangement goes in reverse.
Full Demo / Buy.
Slapmatic
A strong urban power-funk groove played with bass, drums and guitars. Great as background music, with variations and parts that is quite easy to loop/edit.
Full Demo / Buy.
Penguins
A fun quirky track with lots of cute flavours aimed at children, comedy corporate and commercials. Arranged for bari sax, flute, trumpet, violin, piano, guitar and bass.
Full Demo / Buy.
Kindly
A friendly guitar indie pop instrumental with a triplet feel. This is a dedication to all of you sympathetic, helpful, kind and heartwarming souls out there. Full Demo / Buy.
Rebel 8
After a relatively quiet intro, a massive power eigthnote frenzy breaks loose. The lead theme is rather cute, like global peace, love and understanding. This powerpop/rock hybrid is perfect for high energy bursts, like sports, winners, stars and freedom fighters. 136 bpm, key Cm. Full Demo / Buy.
Over The Hill 2
An instrumental british style rock track. The guitar, bass and drums builds tension towards the B-part release. While this version is pretty “straight”, there’s also a more experimental urban groove mix “Over The Hill”. Key Ab, tempo 114 bpm. Full Demo / Buy.
Over The Hill
An instrumental rock track. British style guitars combined with urban spy bass and drums. The guitar and bass builds tension towards the B-part release. Made with electric guitar, bass, drums and piano. There’s also a version 2 with a more “straight” rock feel. Length 1:52, key Ab, tempo 114 bpm. Full Demo / Buy (aka “Over The Hill Again” at Productiontrax.
Coffee Break
An instrumental blues-rock-pop tune with a subtle intro (A-part) and more evolving, developing, cinetic B- and C-parts. A song about the importance of taking a break sometimes, to get new angles, perspectives and great creative ideas. Played by a rock trio, guitars, bass and drums. Length 4:09, key F#, tempo 108 bpm. Full Demo / Buy.
Lost In Neon 2
Sad spacious guitarchords, a colourful synth and percussion builds an emotional dramatexture with a strong ending. Compared to v1 this version is shorter, more to the point “active” and the acoustic guitar and percussion parts are prominent in the mix. 90 bpm, key Cm. Full Demo / Buy.
Lost In Neon
Sad spacious guitarchords and percussion builds an emotional dramatexture. A strong, moving, ending. There’s also a shorter and more “active” version 2 with prominent acoustic guitar and percussion. Listen to them both! Tempo 90 bpm, key Cm. Full Demo / Buy.
Preparations
Ambient guitar arpeggio drama, with a polyrythmic world-jazz ending. The piece starts out in a moody, concerned, drama mode but ends in a more light and uplifting feel. You will also get a more happy “major” feel when listening on tiny speakers, compared to a full range “minor” drama experience. 160 bpm, key C#m or E if you prefer.
Full Demo / Buy.
Every Moment
Beautiful acoustic guitar lines and arpeggios, topped with vocal/guitar phrases. Would fit nicely in indiefilm, drama, realtv and documentaries. Acoustic friendly, subtle drama, evocative and eternal feel. 160 bpm, key Bm.
Full Demo / Buy.
Beauty Sleep
A nice and ambient track, great for chill, relax, thoughtful scenes, credit rolls and film ednings. Four layers, a synth mallet, a marimba, an organ melody and some polyrythmic piano spices (or stars i you like). Tempo 72 bpm, key F#.
“Wings” on iTunes
I’m very happy to announce that “Wings” (aka drifting) is finally available on iTunes. Enjoy!
A nice and beautiful new age score or underscore. This piece has a universal feel wich makes it very versatile in numerous productions. Nice, warm, pleasant, melodic, good mood, romantic, drama, ethernal, ambient and colourful. Perfect as soundtrack. The idea came from picturing a giant flock of birds moving on to warmer areas. A piano the over harp arpeggios, cluster guitars and vocals. Length 3:14.
Pro users, get full demo and licences at the following publishers; Freeplay Music (aka Fly Away) Productiontrax, Pump Audio,
Iamusic.com, Music Licensing Of Hollywood, Crucial Music (aka Drifting) or Boxed Score.
Flight 1
A very slow ambient mixolydian soft jam. Synth-mallets and pads. Made on a flight over France and Germany. Great as new age background and soft caleidoscope texture.
Free tempo, key C.
Full Demo / Buy.
Blown Away
Tada! A horn surprice. A celebrative fanfare made with horns, percussion, mallets and synths. Basically a long chord with slow scale up and down runs. The intro excitement transcends into a more joyful corporate marimba pattern after a while. This music is a part of a larger piece called Elements Of Joy.
Full Demo / Buy.
Angels
A loose linebell feature improvisation with harp, synthpad and mallets. Evocative, light, airy and nice. This music is a part of a larger piece called Elements Of Joy.
Full Demo / Buy.
Kalimba Magic
An evocative polyrythmic kalimba improvisation. Great for that exotic flavour in travel, corporate documentary, news or children. This music is a part of a larger piece called Elements Of Joy.
Full Demo / Buy.
Drumatix
Basic drum drama, played with a handdrum through delys and reverb. Lot’s of polyrythmic variations. Would be great as moody light suspense cut-outs in documentaries. Also check out the track “Drum Drama”.
Full Demo / Buy.
Final Joy
A hymn or ballad, celebrating life itself. The piece starts out with prominent acoustic guitars, later on a 5/8 counterfigure takes over and then the choral transcendense. Music for very happy, joyful or sacred moments. This music is a part of a larger piece called Elements Of Joy.
Full Demo / Buy.