FREE AMBIENT MUSIC MP3s
FOR DOWNLOAD
The Secret Garden Project is a spontaneous ambient
music collective, creating music overlapping a variety of genres
- organic ambient music, dark ambient music, instrumental and experimental
sounds.
The Secret Garden Project is a collaboration of
Australasian musicians exploring the boundaries of ambient music,
with an emphasis on organic ambient music. Most of these ambient
tracks are spontaneous compositions, allowing a wide degree of improvisation
within a basic framework. Simply double click on the links below
to play these free original ambient tracks. All are mp3s at 190
kps.
FREE ORIGINAL Ambient music mp3S (instrumental)
Illumin8
- 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 5.9mb file
Kaleidovision
- 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 6mb file
Losing
it all - 3min 33 seconds, ambient mp3, 5mb file
A
chance event
- 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 5.8mb file
Trip
the light fantastic - 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 6mb file
ORIGINAL Ambient music mp3S (with voice)
Chemical
nova - 4min 08 seconds, ambient mp3, 5.8mb file
vox
miasma - 2min 13 seconds, ambient mp3, 3.2mb file
Rainbows
and colours - 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 6mb file
Persian
nights - 3min 27 seconds, ambient mp3, 4.8mb file
Irish
- 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 5.9mb file
A
longer sigh - 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 6mb file
Vocal
maze - 1min 30 seconds, ambient mp3, 2.1mb file
Freak
- 4min 10 seconds, ambient mp3, 5.8mb file
On
the way now - 2min 26 seconds, ambient mp3, 3.5mb file
Shame
of Erin - 4min 10 seconds, ambient mp3, 6mb file
Treasures
- 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 5.8mb file
Last
moments - 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 5.8mb file
On
velvet black - 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 5.9mb file
Shades
of doubt - 4min 09 seconds, ambient mp3, 6mb file
Slow
motion torso - 3min 21 seconds, ambient mp3, 4.7mb file
Most of these ambient tracks involve a combination
of instruments: classical and electric guitar feature strongly,
along with piano, sitar, cello, double bass and occasionally vocals
and digital keyboard. Manipulation has mainly involved reverb, delay,
reversing tracks, chorus and flanger to create a vast sonic range
of dark organic ambient sounds. Enjoy.
These ambient mp3s are similar to the ones above
but with less keyboard and more emphasis on an organic sound.
Again these free original mp3s are similar to
the ambient music above but feature a darker sound, with both organic
and electronic sources.
These ambient vocal tracks still feature an ambient
sound, with some dark ambient tracks as well.
Music that might push the boundary for some ambient
listeners. Is it possible to feature highly distorted lead guitar
over ambient music? You be the judge.
so what is ambient music?
Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre
that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including
jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical
music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. Typical instruments
include electronic musical instruments, but some ambient artists
use traditional instrumentation of almost any variety.
A famous ambient music artist, Brian Eno, said ‘Ambient Music must
be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without
enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.’
The mainstream popularity of ambient music is low, but it has derivative
forms such as Ambient house, Ambient techno, drum and bass, and
New Age.
Brian Eno first used the term ambient music in
the late 1970s as music that would envelop the listener without
drawing attention to itself. Often listeners will forget they are
listening to ambient music, which is one of the biggest attractions
of the genre. It can be any musical style, including jazz, electronic
music and modern classical music. As it developed, sub genres also
developed, such as organic ambient and dark ambient music.
By the 1980s, New Age music had become so much
better known than ambient music, that ambient was taken as a synonym
for “New Age”, and many ambient musicians deliberately took on new
age themes to market themselves to this audience.
Early Warp records artists, (as well as later
ones such as Aphex Twin), FSOL Future Sound of London (Lifeforms,
ISDN) Autechre, (Incunabula, Amber), Boards of Canada, Massive Attack,
Portishead, and The KLF all took a part in popularising and diversifying
ambient music. There are now a dizzying array of different sub-genres,
festivals, websites, discussion lists, clubs, labels and artists
making new, interesting, original music.
Organic, dark and other types of ambient music
Organic ambient tracks
Organic ambient music is characterised by many
of the songs on this website. It features the integration of electronic,
electric, and acoustic musical instruments. Aside from the usual
electronic music influences, organic ambient tends to incorporate
influences from world music, especially drone instruments and hand
percussion. Organic ambient is intended to be more harmonious with
nature than with the disco.
Some works by ambient pioneers such as Brian Eno,
which use a combination of traditional (such as piano) and electronic
instruments, would be considered organic ambient music in this sense.
In the 70’s and 80’s Klaus Schulze often recorded string ensembles
and performances by solo cellists to go along with his extended
Moog synthesizer workouts.
Dark ambient tracks
Dark ambient is a general term for any kind of
ambient music with a “dark” or dissonant feel, but often involves
extensive use of digital reverb to create vast sonic spaces for
frightening, bottom-heavy sounds such as deep drones, gloomy male
chorus, echoing thunder, and distant artillery. Again, many of the
tracks on this website would fit this category. Robert Rich’s collaboration
with Lustmord on Stalker epitomizes this sub-genre. Related styles
include ambient industrial and isolationist ambient.
Nature inspired ambient tracks
The music is composed from samples and recordings
of naturally occurring sounds. Sometimes these samples can be treated
to make them more instrument-like. It features in a few of the organic
ambient tracks on this site with wind, rain and other natural sounds
appearing.
Ambient industrial tracks
A “typical” ambient industrial work (if there
is a such thing) might consist of evolving dissonant harmonies of
metallic drones and resonances, extreme low frequency rumbles and
machine noises, perhaps supplemented by gongs, percussive rhythms,
bullroarers, distorted voices and/or anything else the artist might
care to sample (often processed to the point where the original
sample is no longer recognizable). While songs on this site do not
for the most part fit this category, there are influences from this
style.
Isolationalist ambient tracks
The term was popularized in the mid-1990s by the
British magazine The Wire and the Ambient 4: Isolationism
compilation from Virgin, this began as more or less a synonym for
ambient industrial, but also inclusive of certain post-techno streams
of ambient, such as Autechre and Aphex Twin.
Political ambient tracks
This particular style stands in direct contrast
to the apolitical, or acontextual, “disconnected” sound which is
argued that other forms of ambient music represent, in that these
other forms either reinforce or stand commentless on existing social,
sexual and political structures and the dynamics of interpersonal
relationships.
To read more about dark ambient or organic ambient
music, visit the Guitar
solos page.
This information is derived
from the Ambient Music article at wikipedia under the GNU Free License
Agreement. Please note the free original ambient mp3s on this site
are available for non-commercial listening and use only. All songs
remain under the copyright of the Secret Garden Project at www.secretgardenproject.com |
