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Sadly-Piano (Acoustic)composed by MD-AC (play it Loud ! )

Co-Composed with Nicolas Laget:

https://soundcloud.com/nicolaslaget

All things have hope. With patience and caring hands, even the delicate and vulnerable can survive winter and grow into maturity with strong roots and branches. With time and unconditional love, our tree may one day blossom and bear fruit in the joy of spring. We must remain patient.

ALBUM INFO:

"The Idea Of You" is the first of a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may it help you on your journey, as it has us...

The Idea Of You Cover Art "The Idea Of You" is music inspired by the spirit of Eros and all of its blessings as well as its tribulations. It explores the vicissitudes of romantic love, the delicate seasons and contour of life, and all the lessons learned along the way. Themes of desire, passion, limerence, romantic love, idolatry, jealousy, envy, loss, regret, forgiveness, acknowledgment, appreciation, acceptance, and eventually glimpses of true understanding permeate the work. It attempts to communicate that which so many of us can never quite communicate properly with words. It is an open apology for the clumsy mistakes we all make when coming to maturity in learning how to care selflessly for another human being. It is a gentle reminder as to what is most important in life, as well as an invocation to continuously seek self-improvement regarding our understanding of such matters.

Andrew Souter & Nicolas Laget -- Solstice

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PatrickReza - Take Me Away (Feat. Jilian)



Get your copy on iTunes: bit.ly/MoreIntense_iT

Get the CD: bit.ly/MoreIntenseCD

An album that'll live on in the legacy of one of electronic dance music's biggest icons, Armin van Buuren. The fifth and most diverse artist album, loved for many reasons.

A musical piece that surprises and inspires, and will continue to do so through its official remix and deluxe album: 'The More Intense edition'.

Completing the story of 'Intense' with two brand new tracks, no less than 16 remixes by the likes of Protoculture, Dannic, Toby Hedges, Orjan Nilsen, Aly & Fila and more!

Here it is, intensifying the journey that 'Intense' has started.

01. Intense (feat. Miri Ben-Ari)
02. This Is What It Feels Like (feat. Trevor Guthrie)
03. Beautiful Life (feat. Cindy Alma)
04. Waiting For The Night (feat. Fiora)
05. Pulsar
06. Sound of the Drums (feat. Laura Jansen)
07. Alone (feat. Lauren Evans)
08. Turn This Love Around (vs. Nervo feat. Laura V.)
09. Won't Let You Go (feat. Aruna)
10. In 10 Years From Now
11. Last Stop Before Heaven
12. Forever Is Ours (feat. Emma Hewitt)
13. Love Never Came (feat. Richard Bedford)
14. Who's Afraid of 138?
15. Reprise (feat. Baggabownz)
16. This Is What It Feels Like (feat. Trevor Guthrie) (John Ewbank Classical Remix)

CD 2

01. Save My Night (Extended Version)
02. Don't Want To Fight Love Away (feat. Cindy Alma) (Extended Version)
03. Intense (feat. Miri Ben-Ari) (Andrew Rayel Remix Edit)
04. This Is What It Feels Like (feat. Trevor Guthrie) (W&W Remix Edit)
05. Beautiful Life (feat. Cindy Alma) (Kat Krazy Remix Edit)
06. Pulsar (Ummet Ozcan Remix Edit)
07. Sound Of The Drums (feat. Laura Jansen) (Michael Brun Remix Edit)
08. Alone (feat. Lauren Evans) (Ørjan Nilsen Remix Edit)
09. Turn This Love Around (vs. Nervo feat. Laura V.) (Toby Hedges Remix Edit)
10. Won't Let You Go (feat. Aruna) (Ian Standerwick Remix Edit)
11. Forever Is Ours (feat. Emma Hewitt) (Solarstone Pure Mix Edit)
12. Love Never Came (feat. Richard Bedford) (W&W vs. Armin van Buuren Remix)
13. Intense (feat. Miri Ben-Ari) (Dannic Remix Edit) [BONUS]
14. Pulsar (Cosmic Gate Remix Edit) [BONUS]
15. Won't Let You Go (Tritonal Remix Edit) [BONUS]
16. Turn This Love Around (vs. Nervo feat. Laura V.) (Starkillers Remix Edit) [BONUS]
17. Sound Of The Drums (feat. Laura Jansen) (Aly & Fila Remix Edit) [BONUS]
18. Love Never Came (feat. Richard Bedford) (Jorn van Deynhoven Remix Edit) [BONUS]
19. Last Stop Before Heaven (Maarten De Jong Remix Edit) [BONUS]
20. Love Never Came (feat. Richard Bedford) (The Blizzard Remix Edit) [BONUS]

Videos

21. This Is What It Feels Like (feat. Trevor Guthrie)
22. Beautiful Life (feat. Cindy Alma)
23. Waiting For The Night (feat. Fiora)

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Armin van Buuren - Pulsar (Cosmic Gate Remix)

Broken World

Plastic Revolution

It was seemingly a late Autumn season this year and the leaves held on to their branches a little longer than average this turn of the wheel. I watched as the final remaining members of the deciduous resistance proudly held their ground and clung to their branches, while the wind tried to seduce them to give up their futile attempt at immortality and surrender to the inevitable.  In bold defiance they refused and proudly flew their colorful flags of deep crimson, rust orange, and a shade of yellow so ineffably deep it does not even bare a name. They danced gallantly and gracefully with the wind as they moved in asymmetrical rhythms and flowing tempos - the mathematics of which seemingly beyond human intelligence, boarding on the divine. The eb and flow of the motion together with the beams of sunlight that would burst through the branches and cast a glimmering shimmer onto everything was truly an epically cinematic sight to behold! If I were a cinematographer this is what I would film.  As I am only a composer, I did the best I could with the tools available to my disposal...  I hope you may enjoy it...

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"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

"Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Andrew Souter -- The Wind Whispers To The Trees

In existence there are ideal forms and there are imperfect manifestations of these forms.  It is a matter of philosophy which is more real to us in our experience of the world:  the perfect idealized form of an apple, or the imperfect manifestation of this form that is said to "participate in apple-ness".  In fact we don't ever see the real idealized form of an object or an idea. It is as if, as Plato said, we are prisoners of a cave, where the objective form sits outside the cave and casts shadows on the interior wall of the cave.  We see only these shadows that are subject to the limitations of our perception and influenced by the collection of our emotional beliefs and past experiences.  More abstractly, these shadows may represet a potential relationship, any of our desires or goals, our self image, or a myriad of any possible other more mundane things. We reach towards these shadows trying to understand as best we can, trying to refine them to be one step closer to perfection.  Sometimes magic happens here. Other times it does not.  Sometimes we fail to realize when it has happened.  Other times we fool ourselves into believing it has happened when it has not. The best we can hope for is to remain humble and patient, and continue to believe our perception will eventually converge with reality if we continue growing and reaching for shadows...

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"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

"Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Andrew Souter -- Reaching For Shadows

lull of the rain 
( composer: Soheil Feysali )

Lull Of The Rain


December is a special time of year for most of the world. As children we look forward to it with eager anticipation of all of the shiny new toys and presets we will get this season.  As adults our priorities hopefully shift some and we worry more about the gift of giving than the act of receiving.  We imagine making friends and loved-ones, new ones as well as old, happy in some small way. We envision participating with them in their life for a moment or two and sharing some form of intimacy.  We celebrate the opportunity to give love with the intention of building lasting relationships, and if we are wise enough, we let go of expectations of immediate reciprocation and realize the act of giving is itself its own reward...

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"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

"Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Autumn Rains

Waiting For December

Andrew Souter -- Waiting For December

Created with Ableton Live 9
Composed by MD-AC inspired by The Way from Zack Hemsey

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Memories (Piano Solo)

Merry Christmas to everybody, and happy New Year!!!

This is my own transcription and interpretation of one of the best Christmas song (I cry when I hear it)..

Some passages of the song have been inspired to the Morricone's rearrangement in the film "The legend of the pianist on the ocean"...

I hope you like it!!

Silent Night for piano solo

Returning back to my "jazzy roots" but not quite: here is a blend of jazz and something neoclassical.

Jazz in blue

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Jazz in blue - Milana

Mirrors EP > May 12 2014
stratus-music.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors-ep

Isle of Dogs

About a month ago I listened to and left some comments on this beautiful piece by Fivos Valachis: http://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/nocturnes-22-nov-promenades-en

Fivos asked if I can play it and I gave it a try. This is my interpretation of Fivos's original composition: first half I played it following the note sheet, second half I improvised on the same theme. 

Original composition by Fivos Valachis (http://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis)
Photo by Pascal Durif (www.facebook.com/pascal.durif.9).

Promenades En Campagne - Fivos Valachis (composition), Milana (piano, impro)

I'm away from the piano at the moment, so I thought I'd share this with everybody...

Compositional sketch for a modern Pastoral Appassionata String Quintet.  Primary composition sometime in November 2013.  Work in progress.

Somebody asked if this is a "sad" song.  Here is my answer:

It is not a "human emotion" song.   It is more a divine/nature/universe  song.  It does not have human emotions like happy/sad.  It has only what is.  It has only pure beauty. Like a waterfall.  Or a mountain.  Or a star. A waterfall is not sad.  Or happy.  It only is. It is simply pure beauty.

Pastoral = of or referring to nature or the creator

Appassionata = with passion  (but in this case, it is not passion like between a man and woman.  it is more passion of the creator for his creation or created for his creator.)

It is more of a spiritual music.  This is what I will do more of later in life. Like these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_minimalism

I aspire to follow in their footsteps one day.

Somebody asked about the plug-ins used:

Solo Bass, Cello, Viola, Violin 1, & Violin 2 from NI Kontact (standard set from Komplete) for this sketch.  Sometime later I will ideally record the real thing... (Or at least use more advanced string libraries.) 6 Instances of 2CAudio Breeze (which I am the developer of) are used here to make the Kontact Strings sound reasonably good. 

http://2caudio.com/products/breeze

The strings samples themselves are not that good.  The reverb is!  :)  That's the trick here.



Many new solo piano compositions to share with you all soon!  Happy New Year!

Andrew Souter -- Pastoral Appassionata For String Quintet (Sketch)

We got a couple of warm days, everything is melting... and in a couple of days, when everything is going to freeze back, we will get a "nice" rink on our front yard. The good thing is that weather always inspires for improvising in different moods :)

And some small video of this meltdown :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-XsoZaAVAM

Meltdown

Meltdown - Milana - on iTunes!

Spotify: sptfy.com/93U
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/album/id1064667349
Facebook: fb.me/ZilnikMilana

Many people noticed that I love dissonances in my music. Here is the surreal piece that is even more dissonant than the usual me :)

I am happy to announce the release of my new piano album "Spirit of Journey". The album is available on iTunes, Amazon, BandCamp, CDBaby, Spotify and other major online stores and streaming services. Your support is very much appreciated, all the earnings from album sales go back into the creation of music: new and better recording equipment, new and better composing tools and sound libraries and so on.

Review by Kathy Parsons from MainlyPiano: http://mainlypiano.com/2015_Reviews/Milana-Spirit_of_Journey.html


In The Maze Of Surreal Dreams

In The Maze Of Surreal Dreams - Milana - on iTunes, Spotify

Daydream Machine- Queen Of The Gas Station

This is your song. I wrote the main parts of it in the first month of our relationship as we were falling in love. I've played parts of it for you before many times, but I had never finished it. I have now evolved it into its complete form. This is how I choose to remember you. I focus on the positives; I idealize and romanticize you. My idea of you remains loving and longing even if we are not meant to be. My idea of you persists and looks past challenges despite how difficult they may seem. I believe our ideas and our ideals create our own reality and therefore it is always best to imagine perfection however we may desire it to be. This song is reflection of all the love and gentleness we shared during good times. Ultimately it is a song of optimism even in the face of adversity. Its verses and chapters moves sideways like the astrological crab that you are, but there is deep beauty in it, and in the end it gets to were it wants to go and finds happiness and peace. Thank you for this song. I hope it may comfort you.


ALBUM INFO:

"The Idea Of You" is the first of a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may it help you on your journey, as it has us...

The Idea Of You Cover Art "The Idea Of You" is music inspired by the spirit of Eros and all of its blessings as well as its tribulations. It explores the vicissitudes of romantic love, the delicate seasons and contour of life, and all the lessons learned along the way. Themes of desire, passion, limerence, romantic love, idolatry, jealousy, envy, loss, regret, forgiveness, acknowledgment, appreciation, acceptance, and eventually glimpses of true understanding permeate the work. It attempts to communicate that which so many of us can never quite communicate properly with words. It is an open apology for the clumsy mistakes we all make when coming to maturity in learning how to care selflessly for another human being. It is a gentle reminder as to what is most important in life, as well as an invocation to continuously seek self-improvement regarding our understanding of such matters.

Andrew Souter -- The Idea Of You (Part)

Official Remix for the FLA remix record "Echos". Get it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/echoes-deluxe/id838669157

FrontLineAssembly Leveled (Retrovirus Mix)

Remixing a part of my composition Windschatten for symphony orchestra and Flugelhorn, recorded with 2 microphones during a rehearsal in a very dry rehearsal studio in the Hamburg opera, remixed adding some B2 reverb.

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Windschatten - Orchestral Work - Remixed Rehearsal Excerpt

A track composed for the Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies campaign.  It was so much fun to have the opportunity to put my own spin on Howard Shore's beautiful themes.

Check out a "Behind the Scenes" video here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1gMpxkVY0

Published by ReallySlowMotion

Armies Dragons and Rings - Blakus / The Hobbit 3 Campaign - RSM

Fully isolated Music from the 101 Trailer!

Deus Ex Mankind Divded 101 Trailer Music

09 - Agent Vinod - Raabta (Siyaah Raatein) [DM]

"Unless you love, your life will flash before you."

-Terrence Malick, The Tree Of Life

ALBUM INFO:

"The Idea Of You" is the first of a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may it help you on your journey, as it has us...

The Idea Of You Cover Art "The Idea Of You" is music inspired by the spirit of Eros and all of its blessings as well as its tribulations. It explores the vicissitudes of romantic love, the delicate seasons and contour of life, and all the lessons learned along the way. Themes of desire, passion, limerence, romantic love, idolatry, jealousy, envy, loss, regret, forgiveness, acknowledgment, appreciation, acceptance, and eventually glimpses of true understanding permeate the work. It attempts to communicate that which so many of us can never quite communicate properly with words. It is an open apology for the clumsy mistakes we all make when coming to maturity in learning how to care selflessly for another human being. It is a gentle reminder as to what is most important in life, as well as an invocation to continuously seek self-improvement regarding our understanding of such matters.

Unless You Love

Andrew Souter -- Unless You Love

I create things.  Musical things...  Technological things...

Production of my third solo piano album to complete the trilogy is underway now! Stay tuned...

If you enjoy the music please support via Apple Music, Spotify, or other streaming/download service. My music is also available directly from my company web-store in uncompressed WAV format as well if you prefer:

http://www.designersound.com/

My other job is co-founder and primary algorithm designer of 2CAudio.  We make some pretty cool stuff for the pro audio software community including some of the best reverbs on the planet, which you are hearing in all of my personal work here too of course.

http://www.2caudio.com
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Thanks for all of your kind words and support!