Playlist
Music for Nature Documentaries and Wild Places
Audiosocket's music for nature documentaries collection is acoustic-led Americana, folk and ambient new age chosen for landscape, wildlife and travel films. Acoustic guitars lead alongside percussion, electric guitars and keyboards, the moods are happy, calm, inspiring and chill, with reference points from Brian Eno to Colbie Caillat. Roughly forty percent of the collection is instrumental, including Sunrise at the Foot of the Mountain by Steve Booke and Atacama Sunset by room 217.
16 tracks1 hr 3 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
Roughly forty percent of this collection is instrumental, chosen with narration in mind: Beneath the Moving Sky by Steve Collom, Sunrise at the Foot of the Mountain by Steve Booke, Ocean Theme by CTZN, Above The Clouds by Johnny Fiasco, The Wind by Andrea Baroni and Atacama Sunset by room 217. The sung tracks, such as Coast to Coast by Jetty Rae and Mountain Song by Nicole Reynolds, suit title sequences and travel montages where no one is speaking.
The voices in this collection are folk, Americana and pop singers rather than tribal chant or traditional ethnic vocal styles, so it is not the right search for ceremonial or indigenous vocal music. Only a couple of tracks carry ethnic fusion or world fusion tags; the bulk is alt-country Americana, contemporary folk and ambient new age. Tracks like Moonlight and Fireflies by Rachael Sage and Close to the Ocean by King Crab show the actual vocal character.
Acoustic guitar is the defining instrument, recorded as a lead on most tracks, with percussion, electric guitars and keyboards alongside and lighter electronic, world and string textures on a few. That palette produces an open, earthy sound closer to a road-trip soundtrack than to orchestral score, which fits the recorded themes of country life, travel vlog, road trip and peace. The Brian Eno and Cliff Martinez references point to the ambient end of the set.
Tracks here average close to four minutes, which is among the longest in Audiosocket's curated collections and a deliberate fit for wildlife and landscape sequences that unfold slowly. A four-minute ambient cue can underscore a full segment of a nature documentary or a drone flyover without a loop point, while the shorter folk songs work as chapter openers. Sure Do Like The Fire by Reggie Watts is the outlier, a quirky vocal cut for lighter moments.
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