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Ghost Mother

Ghost Mother

STYE625 · Dark Emotive Underscore · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
A dark, gloomy, tension based score album rich with heavy mood, strings, pulsing basslines, drones, choir and big drums. These cues can work equally as well with investigative crime drama shows, National Geographic documentaries and trailer intros. Music that's vast and constantly morphing and shifting.
Cues12
ReleasedJan 2019

Tracks

12 main mixes
Completely Still
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:10·85 bpm·D#m·8 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

The stillest cue on the album: a slow 85 BPM D# minor bed of sustained strings, distant brass, choir and scraped textures over a heartbeat-like pulse, with piano fragments and risers pushing toward an unresolved edge. It stays quiet and watchful rather than building to a hit, leaving plenty of room over dialogue or narration. Suits aerial landscape footage, a frozen crime scene, or the calm before a reveal.

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2:10
Once It's Over
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
1:58·130 bpm·Am·9 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

At 130 BPM this is the fastest and most driven cue here, an A minor chase built on a pulsing bassline, urgent strings, brass stabs and big drums with choir shading the top. The energy is sustained and forward-moving rather than reflective, ending on tension instead of release. Works for a pursuit, a countdown, or a trailer intro that needs momentum immediately.

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1:58
Born Invisible
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:12·97 bpm·Dm·8 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

A mid-tempo 97 BPM D minor underscore where a steady pulsing low end carries dark strings, brass swells, choir and metallic scrapes across just over two minutes. The title's sense of being unseen matches its restrained, watchful build that never fully lifts. Good for surveillance footage, a missing-person timeline, or a character moving unnoticed through a city.

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2:12
Caretaker
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
1:49·65 bpm·Dm·9 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

The slowest cue at 65 BPM in D minor, and the shortest at 1:48 — a heavy, gloomy bed of low strings, distant choir, brass and scraped textures over a slow pulse. Its unhurried pace and short runtime make it a compact mood-setter rather than a full arc. Fits an institutional interior, an unsettling caregiver figure, or a somber archive-footage passage.

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1:49
Ghost Mother
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:11·75 bpm·C#m·12 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

The album's title cue, at 75 BPM in C# minor: gloomy sustained strings, choir, brass and scrapes over a pulsing bassline, dark and haunted with a slow, morphing sense of dread. It holds mood over movement and stays unresolved throughout. Suits a supernatural reveal, a grief-heavy documentary passage, or the central mystery of a crime series.

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2:11
All Gathered
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:03·70 bpm·A flat·10 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

Notably the one cue in a major key (A flat, 70 BPM), which gives its strings, piano and brass a sweeping, elegiac lift even inside the album's dark palette, over a slow pulse and scraped textures. Somber but wider and more open than its neighbours. Works for a memorial gathering, a sweeping landscape reveal, or a documentary chapter that turns toward reflection.

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2:03
Giving In
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:08·75 bpm·Gm·9 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

A 75 BPM G minor underscore stripped of choir, leaning on dark strings, brass and a pulsing bassline with scraped percussion textures. The absence of voices makes it the plainer, more neutral tension bed of the slow group — resigned rather than dramatic, in keeping with the title. Useful under interview audio, a confession scene, or a slow descent into bad news.

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2:08
Guardian
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:13·85 bpm·Bm·12 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

The only cue here to feature chant rather than choir: 85 BPM in B minor, with ritualistic voices over dark strings, brass, drums and a pulsing low end. That vocal colour gives it a ceremonial, watchful weight distinct from the rest of the album. Fits ancient-history documentary, a protective or vigil scene, or a trailer build with a tribal edge.

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2:13
Headscape
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:07·90 bpm·Bm·10 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

At 90 BPM in B minor this is a churning interior bed — pulsing bassline, dark strings, brass and scrapes with no vocal layer — matching the title's sense of thoughts closing in. It moves steadily without resolving, sitting between suspense and unease. Good for a character's spiralling POV, an interrogation, or a forensic examination sequence.

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2:07
Something Hidden
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:07·90 bpm·A flat·10 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

A 90 BPM A flat cue tagged as emotional as well as dark, with choir over pulsing bass, strings, brass and scraped textures — slightly warmer and more plaintive than the other 90 BPM tracks. The title's implication of concealment suits a slow reveal rather than a shock. Works for a documentary uncovering evidence, a secret coming to light, or a quiet but loaded conversation.

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2:07
The Tunnel
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:03·90 bpm·D#m·11 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

90 BPM in E flat minor, no choir: a claustrophobic, forward-pressing bed of pulsing bass, dark strings, brass and drums with scraped metallic detail. The title's tunnel imagery fits its narrow, tightening feel and its emotional undertow, and it ends on tension rather than release. Suits underground or confined footage, a descent, or a thriller approach sequence.

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2:03
When I Had Wings
STYE625 · Ghost Mother · Gabriel Johan David Oberg
2:07·70 bpm·D·9 versions
UnderscoreAnticipation, Calm, Dark

The most pared-back cue: 70 BPM in D major with strings, brass, drums and scrapes but no pulsing bassline or voices, giving it a wistful, elegiac openness inside the album's gloom. The title's backward-looking regret matches its emotional, unhurried tone. Fits a memory sequence, an ending voiceover, or a documentary epilogue.

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2:07

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