Backing track for youtube channel

I’m launching a YouTube video essay channel called The Hedge Scholar, focused on film, games, literature, art, and ideas.

I’m looking for a simple, subtle background piece I can reuse across episodes. I want something warm, thoughtful, a little atmospheric or uncanny, and professional without feeling overly cinematic or dramatic.

Ideally it would stay fairly sparse and consistent, using just a few instruments or textures—so ... ft piano, acoustic/plucked sounds, ambient textures, light synth, etc. The main goal is for it to sit comfortably under narration without drawing too much attention to itself.

I’d need to be able to reuse the track across monetized videos on the channel, and I’m specifically looking for something human-composed rather than AI-generated.

Specific tasks:
-Main bed
2–3 min
Default narration underneath intellectual/expository material
-Curiosity / discovery variation ~1 min Connections, revelations, playful intellectual wandering
-Uncanny variation ~1 min Horror, enchantment, strange objects, memory, ambiguity
-Melancholy / reflective variation ~30 seconds Personal reflection, loss, nostalgia, history
-Momentum variation ~1 min When the essay starts assembling its argument
-Opening sting 5–10 sec Reusable sonic signature
-Closing Variation ~30 sec closing thoughts and credits.

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