serenity

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

You can also follow me on Spotify at https://spoti.fi/2MRR1lV and stream the albums I have released there.

Piano Improvisation no. 108

https://soundcloud.com/faerytale - vocals
https://soundcloud.com/scienceteheran - keyboards
https://soundcloud.com/themonkbythesea - guitar

Elegy No.2

Balakirev's transcription for solo piano of the slow movement of Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto. Chopin wrote it when he was still a teenager. Precocious bastard.

Chopin (arr. Balakirev) Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 11  Romanza

 I had the pleasure and the luck to listen the wonderful piano melodies of Dirk Maassen and I was immediatly inspired, and thanks to him I finally bought my new mics :P
Thank you Dirk  for this wonderful collaboration.
More wonderful Music from Dirk: https://soundcloud.com/ascoltadi

photo by: www.flickr.com/photos/frametaker/

Dirk Maassen with Luliby - Afterglow

From: The Amber (Soundtrack)
Year:  2013

Marek Iwaszkiewicz - The Amber (Main Theme)

I had a couple of collabs with Ivan Ujevic (https://soundcloud.com/iohannes) before, adding ambient piano to his magnificent ambient guitar. The very recent one was just a couple of days ago: https://soundcloud.com/iohannes/elegy-no-3-ft-milana-zilnik
Same time Ivan asked me if I can play the solo piano version of the piece. He didn't have the note sheet so I asked if it's ok to just interpret the piece with an improvisation rather than trying to follow the original composition precisely. Ivan gave his approval and we recorded this interpretation by "cutting" the original into 5-10 seconds parts and improvising on each of them separately, then merging everything into one piece.

"Image by Pavel P. under a Creative Commons license."
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Elegy No3 by Ivan Ujevic - piano interpretation by Milana

Dreams

Live Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvr7fhTi4Mk
New album: https://milana.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-of-journey
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Please enjoy my improvisational tribute for one of the maestros - for Bach. I appreciate subscriptions to my YouTube channel ;-)

I'd also like to announce the upcoming release (18th of December!) of my 4th original piano album "Spirit of Journey". The album will be available as a digital album on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc. 

The album is available on BandCamp already, both as a digital album and on CD! I will gladly sign the first ordered copies :) https://milana.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-of-journey

Whenever I start improvising, I am taken on a journey. Melodies and harmonies constantly move and while they do, they let me create scenes from places I've never been to. Yet, the music has the spirit that unites and translates all of that to the listener. 

I invite you to share the spirit of this journey with me. This piano album is about a constant movement, dynamic rhythms and rich harmonies on the edge of jazz and rock. Cinematic soundtracks will take you to mysterious gardens, detective stories, a maze of surreal dreams and a moonlight stroll. 

With huge thanks to my husband and family. They are my own spirit, my journey, my music. 

Yours, 
M.

For Bach

YouTube

"For Bach" by Milana (Acoustic, Live Video)

Bildet er tatt av Ich bin dann mal raus hier. fra Pixabay

The Pianist

Projet  - "Ballad for cello" partie piano

usually I run from feelings of pain and sadness. Sometimes I have the courage to be present with this fearful emotion and feel the pain. Strangely enough, that is precisely when a form of healing takes place.

Buy this track

Triste

Humility

Troposphere

Alone

Dirk Maassen - Avalanche Album Out Now !

Hi - here is an ambient piece I wrote recently. I hope you like this piece. :)

Arrivee Du Jour

Serenade-Franz Schubert

I enjoyed playing this lovely piece of piano music by R. A. Moulds so much!

Under the Leaves of Neldoreth by R. A. Moulds

Across the dark river

Timeless devotional classics to rejuvenate and heal the mind, body and soul.

Catch my other Kirtan playlist on Spotify:

https://spotify.link/3gzeJMx5bIb



serenity

Dharmendra Nathoo