A beautiful piece! So full of emotions ...

I was really moved by this beautiful piece of music: super vocals, fabolous piano, complex and enchanting melodies

Vocal and vocal composition: Oddrun Eikli
Piano and instrumental composition: Torbjørn Vagle
Orchestral composition and performance: Ad Van Nederpelt
Production for all instruments and vocals, the final mix and mastering: Ad Van Nederpelt
Poem: Emely Dickingson

Oddrun also writes this introduction for the poem included the lyrics:

Poem:
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.

In this poem, Dickinson discusses her love for a man. She is jealous of everything around him, the water "He rides", the Chariots, the hills that watch him going by, the sparrows, the fly, even the leaves.
"I envy Seas, whereon He rides --" can be seen as a love poem for a man, but it can also be seen as a religious poem. The mention of Heaven and Gabriel can easily make this connection. The love of God and the love of everything he created.

I envy seas whereon he rides

I envy seas whereon he rides,
I envy spokes of wheels
Of chariots that him convey,
I envy speechless hills

That gaze upon his journey;
How easy all can see
What is forbidden utterly
As heaven, unto me!

I envy nests of sparrows
That dot his distant eaves,
The wealthy fly upon his pane,
The happy, happy leaves

That just abroad his window
Have summer’s leave to be,
The earrings of Pizarro
Could not obtain for me.

I envy light that wakes him,
And bells that boldly ring
To tell him it is noon abroad,—
Myself his noon could bring,

Yet interdict my blossom
And abrogate my bee,
Lest noon in everlasting night
Drop Gabriel and me.

I envy seas whereon he rides. Torbjørn Vagle, Ad Van Nederpelt, Oddrun Eikli.

Merry Christmas! Peace, Love, Health, Joy in 2024!

New Year Piano Concert Live: Mon 1 Jan 2024  @8 PM PST (new time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuwrQ8sWtU

As the calendar turns
a page anew
A canvas of dreams
washed in hues..

Gratitude arises
with the dawn
A symphony of hope
a melody drawn..

With prayers
as our guiding light
We step into the future
a wondrous sight.

Sorry I have many medical appointments and issues these days... not here much..

Liberal interpretation recorded improvisationally..in the style of Chopin, melancholy waltz in minor but also influenced by Beethoven and his love for c minor. Sonata form. Score free on my website/shop.

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6DYUYstewdSxaKPkoEOQXo?si=AksLcBTKTrK8no5q4PzXWg

Part of my new Christmas time piano album. on YouTube too:

Last Christmas Piano Performance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te3hgnqqi-A

Silent Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGFgZuVsBg

Christmas Time is Here (jazz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAB-IcRZArU

Christmas Piano Livestream: subscribe for more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqBT2zt2gT8&t=1657s

Silent Night (in the style of Chopin)

Helsinki is a totally unique combination of quirky urbanity and peaceful nature that gives silence and space to feel more, hear more and experience more. It offers you the freedom to have it all.
 Helsinki is part of the solidarity album "Twelve cities" for the Homeless Entrepreneur foundation. Is the seventh song linked to a humanitarian project aimed at helping "homeless people". 

Helskinki will be part of the soundtrack of the report to be presented in the European Parliament through the organization Homeless Entrepreneur.
https://www.homelessentrepreneur.org/en/solidary-projects/twelve-cities

Helsinki

The discovery of a hidden world, somewhere deeply hided in the forest between mountains. This gives me the intention to make a cinematic track with a somewhat dark character in the beginning that changes during the track towards a more light and tranquil ending 😊

Hidden World

Collaboration with Monikajee (voc) https://on.soundcloud.com/V9iQ4 and Michael (luke74 - git) https://on.soundcloud.com/8YjA8

Jai Ram - collab with Monikajee & Michael

Sounds Of Goodbye

https://www.milanazilnik.com/albums/thelittleprince

THE ALBUM IS COMING AUGUST 2nd!
As a child, I had a truly magical time with stories, and my mom reading them to me. The way she intonated and impersonated each character was just so fascinating to me. Her voice was the music I always heard before falling asleep, and as soon as I would actually fall asleep, the music kept going. Which was and still is sometimes a torture as much as a pleasure.

As an artist, I always come back to that child and those stories. They still resonate with me but on a much deeper level. The notes now combined with colors and smells, patterns become a dance or a soundscape rather than just a melody. So, I splash with my watercolors palette and watch the music as it merges with the world, and I invite the listener to this never-ending journey.

“The Little Prince” was one of my favorite stories, one filled with quiet moments and hidden meanings, mystery, and gentleness, and humor - the kind of story that haunts you all your life. This story holds a philosophy that I resonate with: I feel myself just like the main character - wishing to create my own worlds, organize my thoughts according to my personality, and not to be put into the frame of adulthood. I feel the rebellious urge to wake myself up from a grey existence and use all the colors, humor, sounds, and smells that exist in the story of the Little Prince.

It became even more special since my son was born. We painted the Little Prince on the window in a daycare room, the home daycare I used to run in our own house before embarking on the journey of a composer. At that time, we were surrounded by music and art all day long as my children grew up, and I was experiencing their enchantment with music and the Little Prince once more. In 2021 another miracle happened that was also related to the story: I received an email from Leipzig Ballet, asking for permission to use two of my compositions for their ballet show based on "The Little Prince". All that inspired me to write an entire album dedicated to the story.

I am extremely grateful to my family: parents, children, and a wonderful husband who allows my inner child to grow into an artist. I believe we all need the magic of a storytelling experience, and I tried my best to awaken all the senses into it.

Piano Stories of The Little Prince

More Info

"The Little Prince" by Milana Zilnik

The wacky adventures of Inspector Looso - New Fetchflix TV Show

https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-wacky-adventures-of

Inspector Looso is in Morocco having a very bad day while trying to resolve a murder case. 
He was desperate while he thought the following:

“I need a drink
I really need a drink
A full glass of liquid courage would be just what I need. 
A shot of fluid inspiration that would help me resolve my case. 
I know, I promised. 
I promised my wife I would stop drinking.
I promised my daughter I would stop drinking.
I promised my son I would stop drinking.
I even promised my dog, for what it's worth, to stop drinking, but I need to drink.
I’m so thirsty like never before.
I need a drink whatever it is.
I am stuck with my father’s Citroën 2CV in the middle of the desert.
Out of water asking myself if I should drink my own pee, drink the cooling fluid from the car radiator or lick my own sweat. 
Damn, this stupid car is air cooled so there's no radiator or water in it.
I really need to drink.
There's this bottle of cheap whisky that was left in the trunk of the car.
If I drink that I will be drunk in the trunk by the end of the day.
Moreover, I promised to stop drinking.
How about flaming the whisky?
That would taste better than my pee or licking my sweat and remove most of the alcohol. ”

So did Inspector Luc Looso. He survived long enough to reach the next village and continue working on his murder case.

“This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Generated with DAL-E

Musical note:  Was I influenced by George Gershwin in a Philip Glass minimalist way? Maybe the 1960-70 British composers? You may know better than I do.

The wacky adventures of Inspector Looso

I Need A Drink

Infinite Horizon (Piano) - by Eric Heitmann and @artifex_composer [Relaxing Cinematic Piano Music]

"Across the boundless stretch of the infinite horizon,
The final heart mourns a connection long gone.
But though galaxies vanish and time moves beyond,
Our echo persists, humanity’s enduring song."

"Infinite Horizon" is a sweeping composition about humanity's enduring hope amidst the unsettling vastness of the universe. 

Listen to my music here:
https://linktr.ee/ericheitmann

Infinite Horizon (Piano) (Eric Heitmann and Artifex)

New Release! 18 April: https://gyro.to/WhatWasIMadeFor
4 May, 10 AM PST Piano (Classical to Jazz) Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDfeangKHc
13 April Newsletter: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/1fOtNcy8q?languageTag=en
Piano accompaniment: @Adam4le
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It has been some time... I have had a jaw procedure and if I do not exercise it, the surgery is in vain. This creates more pain in the jaw and neck and I did not practice my violin for months.

What Was I Made For? was done some time ago. However, events recently changed my ideas on the movie Barbie. While I never considered myself a feminist per se, I encountered recently the difficulty women, especially minority women, face in many fields.. Though I do not consider myself very high, a few men began to abuse, bully, sabotage me in Spotify. This will happen in all fields, but I feel especially vulnerable because it is an art form. Bullying stifles creativity..The point is we should not be treated as property. Double standards because if we stand up for ourselves, we are deemed 'aggressive'. More here: https://www.sharonelainechen.com/news

What Was I Made For?

Fantaisie en La Mineur

Actually I am a piano-musician by profession, but I discovered the huge possibilities of music designing with a computer.  I like to compose in very different styles like classical, pop, filmmusic, hardrock, synth rock, jazz, tango, etc. I hope you'll enjoy it and I do appreciate practical, and especially serious criticism as well.
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
-Albert Einstein

I envy seas whereon he rides. Torbjørn Vagle, Ad Van Nederpelt, Oddrun Eikli.

Ad van Nederpelt

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