Hey, I love instrumental soundtracks and I love ambient music.
Instrumental Scores/Soundtracks
Check out the entire In Other Waters game soundtrack by Amos Roddy, I think that might fit the vibe of what youâre going for. âPillar Gardensâ and âThe Last Artificerâ are two good examples of how the soundtrack sounds.
The Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands score by Kalandra has ancient Nordic-inspired ambient music.
The soundtrack of the TV show Surface by Ălafur Arnalds is somber ambient music that never shifts too much within a song.
The Death Stranding gamesâ instrumental scores by Ludvig Forssell (two volumes for the first game, one for the second) may also be good for this purpose (be careful not to mix them up with the various Death Stranding lyrical soundtracks). Their songs have a collection of different vibes, but thereâs a good number of more dreamcore-style or at least ambient songs. âVaneâ is a good example of the moodier, atmospheric songs in the scores. âStrandsâ has a more hopeful tilt to it, but isnât as ambient, in that it does change a bit across the song, which purely ambient music doesnât tend to do. But it stays the course enough throughout the song that it is still good for background inspiration purposes.
The Last Sunset of the Year by Marcus FjellstrĂśm is essentially horror ambient, if youâre interested in that. It can get pretty creepy. Itâs the soundtrack to the TV show, The Terror.
Some of the songs on the documentary soundtrack Before the Flood by various artists are ambient and similar in vibe to dreamcore. Examples are âOne Perfect Momentâ and â8 Billion.â
The soundtracks of both the indie animated short film Away and full film Flow (the first indie animated movie to win an Oscar) have some ambient tracks on their scores. âFlow Away,â âFlood,â and âMirror Lakeâ are some of my favorites, but they tend to move with the emotion of their scenes unlike true ambient music FYI. Still might be worth checking out.
The Silent Hill 2 soundtracks by Akira Yamaoka are great, as Iâm sure people have recommended. But both the original and remake versions are very good, though each sounds a little different, so Iâd check out both.
Ambient Instrumental Albums
Static Glow Sounds has very dreamcore ambient instrumental music. Some favorites are âConstellations,â âNight Sky Travel,â and âVoids.â
Hanna Lindgrenâs instrumental music probably fits your vibe. Examples are âImaginary Music,â âNostalgic Drawings,â âMuted,â and âEpic Mirage.â
Ben Elson also does instrumental ambient music. Iâm newer to him, but his songs seem to be sci-fi or space ambient if I had to describe them. An example is âCallisto 8â (more atmospheric) or âChrome Dreamsâ (more chillwave).
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