Manhattan Composer Michael Keck has a passion for theatre and film, working in numerous genres, including World Music. His compositions abound in theatrical productions around the world, including The Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Barbican Center, and Bristol Old Vic. Michael appears in Film and TV: 43 Days, Seeing Art, Peoples Of America, African Americans of Achievement, and Holidays For Children. Excelling in African, Middle-Eastern and Jewish music, Michael's tracks are always lyrical and memorable.
Michael Keck's song "Aaminah Lady of Peace" is the winner of our Editor's Choice Award for April 2012. This song is gifted with one of the most exotic and masterful female vocal performances we have ever heard, utilizing an unusual warbling vibrato vocal technique.
Michael's love for the theatre, combined with his originality in composing contemporary music with flair, has made him a most popular guy around the world. In addition to the stage productions above, Michael has composed music for the Cincinnati Playhouse, The Alliance, Milwaukee Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Portland Center Stage, and many other American theaters, plus The National Theater of Croatia.
Whether you are producing a documentary, feature-length film, TV commercial, fashion runway, industrial promo, theatre production or art installation, Michael's music will nail it for you. He can conjure up music that is perfect for action thrillers, espionage, romance, a shamanic dance, a bar mitzvah, or a bone-chilling CSI murder episode. Did we forget to mention that "Versatility" is his middle name?
Lyrical cello melodies over a rhythmic soundscape sets a moody, gently energetic tone. A haunting, emotional sonic journey underscoring Travel, TV/Film/New Media Special features, late-night news, mysterious, slightly ominous with a steady beat as background. Plotting a crime, watching, foreboding. Instrumental, Action, Impending Electro-Orch
A smoky back room filled with a soulful mix of blues sax seasoned with tasty piano, bass and drums is a great track for night club backdrop, jazz lounge, underscoring narration and credits of your Blues or Jazz themed commercial, film, TV or documentary or corporate project. Instrumental, Blues, Delta Blues
Smooth, sexy, soulful and sweet downtempo track featuring sax, guitar, piano, bass and percussion. Add this laid back soulful track to lifestyle, fashion, fragrance productions, coffee shops and youth oriented retail, Instrumental, RnB, Electro-Soul
This funk and blues inspired track adds a positive and motivating underscore for your corporate or advertising projects. Smooth rhythmic bass, low down Guitar. A great feel good track to add a bluesy funky soulful edge for your projects. Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate RnB Music
Haunting melodies and sizzling rhythms evoke images of Mumbai Harbor, Himalayan peaks, Taj Mahal or Indian Ocean. A vibrant title and underscore score for documentary, TV film, food and travel productions. Instrumental, World Music, Indian World Fusion
Exciting contemporary atmospheric track featuring Gongs, bowls, bells & gentle flute melodies. Atmospheric Great for Retail, romance, ethnic, exotic travel documentary, relaxation, TV Film commercials travel, Asian & China tourism. Instrumental, Chinese, Chinese New Age
Featuring a smooth Indian bamboo flute and tasty ambient guitar motifs in a serene, dreamy and magical arrangement. Mysterious and suspenseful, for a chill, downtempo vibe but also works for romantic drama. Escalating & emotional. TV film, Indie, Documentary and corporate productions. Instrumental, New Age, Ethnic Fusion
This vibrant, Southern Blues party track with acoustic guitars, harmonica hand claps and foot stomps suitable for documentary, TV features travel and adventure. Instrumental, Blues, Delta Blues
Meditative sensitive beautiful and haunting track, for nomadic journey, sad scenes or natural landscapes, global destruction, natural disasters, lost, & lonely. TV Film Documentary vast world sorrow loneliness, travelogue, national geographic, History Discovery channels, Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate World Beat
This funk and blues inspired track adds a positive and motivating underscore for your corporate or advertising projects. Quiet piano intro builds with drums and 70's rhythmic Funky Guitar with wailing blues harmonica solo. A great feel good track for fashion, party scenes and southern soul projects. Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate RnB Music
Beautiful, uplifting motivational piece to encourage positivity and success. Featuring piano, strings voices and percussion, this gentle beautiful Instrumental underscore for Corporate, documentary, travel and adventure. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
A sweet mysterious delta influenced blues featuring fiddle, guitar, dobro, and female vocals evoke a swampy, hot Southern landscape, sultry romance, gathering storm, sunrise on the horizon, moonlit swamp tumbleweeds, whiskey, cotton fields, scorching sun, beer or Levi Jeans or travel and adventure, Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate Country
This smooth, Bluegrass track with acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, suitable for Southern documentary, line dance, Big Rig trucks and Pick-up trucks, Bar B Q, Civil War drama, PBS features and travel and adventure. Instrumental, Americana, Americana
This smooth, Bluegrass track with acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, hand claps and stomps suitable for Southern documentary, line dance, Big Rig trucks and Pick-up trucks, Bar B Q, Civil War drama, PBS features and travel and adventure. Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate Country
This vibrant, Bluegrass track with acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, hand claps and stomps suitable for Southern documentary, Civil War drama, PBS features and travel and adventure. Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate Country
A sweet mysterious delta blues with serious down-home flavor featuring guitar, dobro, and female vocals evoke a swampy, hot Southern landscape, sultry romance, chain gang, gathering storm or moonlit swamp tumbleweeds, whiskey, cotton fields, scorching sun, beer or Levi Jeans. Instrumental, Blues, Delta Blues
This is HOT soulful awesomeness, the celebratory funky vibe with a taste of classic R&B funk, a powerful horn section, driving bass, fat guitar, tasty Hammond organ and strong beat, This great feel good track is for corporate presentations motivational speaker, commercials TV Film, Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate RnB Music
Slow sad emotional blues score with slide guitar, harmonica, mandolin, dulcimer, cello, bass and soft female vocal. Great for Movies, TV Shows, websites, corporate, documentaries, Travel productions requiring slow, sad, thoughtful, bittersweet underscore. Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate Folk
"The Liberty Song" is a pre-American Revolutionary War song is today celebrated as America’s first patriotic song set to the tunes composed by Dr. William Boyce, 1760 called "Heart of Oak", the anthem of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and "Here's a Health", an Irish song of emigration. Instrumental, Military, Fife and Drum
Beautiful and haunting, this stirring track features gentle female vocals, light synth pads cello melodies suitable for an emotional infomercial, documentary, film soundtrack, depicting social injustices, romantic tension, film scores, medical drama, loneliness, abandonment. Lost refugees fleeing, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Edgy
Exciting fun powerful club dance track featuring classic synths & four to the floor drums. Driving rhythmic Sexy vocals with smooth hypnotic pads, pulsating synths, SFX sounds, a fat bassline and a powerful beat. Fashion runway, TV/ Film / Productions VIP Celebrity party and lifestyles. Instrumental, Dance, House
Filled with fun and nostalgia this whimsical arrangement of the classic ode to America's favorite past time by Albert Von Tilzer features an old-tyme street orchestra barrel organ drums, tuba, banjo and bass. great for film or TV scene at the ball park or baseball-related video game. Instrumental, Sports, Baseball Music
This soothing acoustic piano melody sets a quiet, reflective tone, supported by a string quartet quartet rhythm providing an elegant background for for voice overs, branding projects, documentaries and projects projecting an elegant sophisticated lifestyle. travel channel food NPR discovery news, Instrumental, Corporate, Corp. New Age Acoustic
Sweet and smooth, playful and uplifting, this track sets an optimistic tone with rhythmic pizzicato strings light percussion and subtle children's chorus. sweet & happy Great for advertising presentation, underscoring, trendy fashions and romantic travel adventure, Instrumental, Corporate, Corp. New Age Electronic
This funk and blues inspired track adds a positive and motivating underscore for your corporate or advertising projects. Quiet piano intro builds with drums and 70's rhythmic Funky Guitar with wailing blues harmonica solo. A great feel good track for fashion, party scenes and southern soul projects. Instrumental, RnB, 1970's Vintage RnB
A quiet soulful reflective piece featuring elegant piano, soothing violin, alto flute and cello with a xylophone pulse. Supports peaceful, reflective or sadness and haunting & beautiful scenes for film, corporate, voiceover Projects with Romantic, inspiring and magical themes. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
This music box arrangement of the classic, traditional children's tune is is here to score your child themed projects. Sweet, clear, and bright for kid's programming, product launch, clothing fashion or website,, Instrumental, Childrens, Music Boxes
This spare, elegant Harmonium arrangement of The "Navy Hymn", often published as "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" and also known as "For Those in Peril on the Sea." is a traditional hymn, useful for underscoring period or contemporary maritime themed projects setting the tone for danger at sea. Instrumental, Folk, Christian Folk
A soft piano supported by rhythmic strings suggesting a a beautiful begining or happy ending, sweet love, and celebration. This track provides an enchanting, animated, bright foundation for your carefree, elegant positive energy driven project. Instrumental, Dramatic, Heartwarming Music
Smooth erotic jazzy sax and bluesy vocal moans for sexy steamy bedroom scenes, candlelight dinner, late night lounge action, intimate erotic moments, making love, chance encounters, massage and chill-out scenes, valentines day promotions for flowers, chocolates, diamonds and intimate garments? Yes! Instrumental, RnB, Smooth Soul
Great corporate branding rock track with flavors of U2 Coldplay. positive uplifting instrumental, great mix of rock guitars like The Edge and powerhouse drums building to a bold and confident chorus Works well for energizing films TV apps & ad campaign perfect for corporate video and documentary, Instrumental, Corporate, Corporate Rock Guitar
Exciting Authentic and Uplifting African Drumming. Pounding War Drums, great for safari, action adventure, African jungle scenes, travel channel, documentaries. Trailers, Discovery, National Geographic TV Films, web flash animation African product placement and ethnic based visuals. Instrumental, African, African Drums
Meditative sensitive beautiful and haunting track, for nomadic journey, sad scenes in a marriage or natural landscapes, global destruction, natural disasters, lost, & lonely. TV Film Documentary vast world sorrow loneliness, travelogue, national geographic, History Discovery channels and commercials, Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
Smoking HOT high energy dance music! Powerful synth riffs, hypnotic bassline & throbbing beat that screams "Dance All Night Long.” Gritty passion on the dance floor, hot & sweaty workout, crime scene, mob boss, wild chase. Authentic pop groove, upbeat fashion catwalk, club scenes, corporate branding, Instrumental, Dance, Classic Disco
Dark and dangerous, quiet suspense, or somber support to your mystery, crime or adventure project. Adventure at Night, cloudy, storm approaching, Horror Evil in the Mist, haunting, Ghost Story. Slow moving, tense, and scary as hell! Midnight murder mystery, forensics Law and Crime TV Film Games. Instrumental, Dangerous, Dark Music
Scary Intense Horror frightening EVIL music great for your scary night, Freddy Kruger, Elm Street, Survivor, CSI, dangerous trekking or running for your life scary as Hell, mysterious exciting thrilling chilling startling doom dark chaotic creepy horrifying TV Film haunted house. Psycho murderer! Instrumental, Horror, Horror Edgy
This Creepy Intense Horror frightening music is great for horror movies, Freddy Kruger, Elm Street, Survivor, CSI, dangerous trekking running for your life scary as Hell, mysterious exciting thrilling chilling startling doom dark chaotic spooky horrifying TV Film or haunted house paranormal dangerou, Instrumental, Horror, Horror Ambience
This Scary Intense Horror frightening music is great for your scary night, Freddy Kruger, Elm Street, Survivor, CSI, dangerous scary as Hell, Discovery Channel Ghost Stories mysterious and exciting thrilling chilling startling doom dark chaotic creepy horrifying TV Film or haunted house production, Instrumental, Dangerous, Dark Music
Dark, brooding strings and shimmering drones for an ominous vibe. Trouble is right around the corner. Drums accent and pulse for action adventure, war or crime drama. Great game, macabre or mystery trailer score or Halloween commercial TV Film Documentary production. Evil sinister murder scene crime, Vocal Samples, Dangerous, Mysterious Music
Here's a powerful hard rocking Intense heavy metal guitar driven track with killer drums and a ton of energy. Great for sports action or fight scenes Extreme Sports Athletics Action Chase Scene Nascar Basketball Football NFL Hockey NBA Soccer travel, documentary Corporate motivational TV Film, Instrumental, Sports, Extreme Sports Music
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Smoking HOT Exciting Authentic and Uplifting African Drumming. Great for safari, adventure, African jungle scenes, travel channel, documentaries, African dance, National Geographic TV Films, web flash animation African product placement and ethnic based visuals. Instrumental, African, African Drums
Exciting Authentic and Uplifting African Drumming. Great for safari, adventure, African jungle scenes, travel channel, documentaries. National Geographic TV Films, web flash animation African product placement and ethnic based visuals. Instrumental, African, Ghana
Scary Intense Horror frightening music great for your scary night, Freddy Kruger, Elm Street, Survivor, CSI, dangerous trekking or running for your life scary as Hell, mysterious and exciting thrilling chilling startling doom dark chaotic creepy horrifying TV Film or haunted house graveyard. Evil! Instrumental, Horror, Horror Ambience
Smoking HOT Exciting Authentic and Uplifting African Drumming. Great stinger, intro, segue or transition for safari, adventure, African jungle scenes, travel channel, documentaries. National Geographic TV Films, web flash animation African product placement and ethnic based visuals. Instrumental, African, African Drums
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