very nice rhythmical pattern in the left hand and beautiful melody!

Playlisted: https://soundcloud.com/andiyi/sets/discoveries-best-of-2016

another live take I did whilst preparing myself for a studio session this summer....

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To The Sky - Saturday Evening Live Take (HQ Version and more @spotify)

The Piano Cloud presented a challenge to use other members piano pieces uploaded to "The Bouquet of Flowers" challenge. This piece uses 2 tracks. The first is from Milana Tchebotaryov-Zilnik & the second is from Ed Haydon. Both of these tunes were so beautiful in their own right, but I put them together, added some orchestration & hope you enjoy it!

Bouquet ft. Milana Zilnik & Ed Haydon

I feel very thankful and fortunate to have had a truly amazing summer in 2014.  I visited no fewer than seven counties between July and August.  I witnessed so many amazing things in Romania, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, and Iceland. I spent quality time, working, playing, and planning for the future with close friends and colleagues. I met and befriended many new and truly wonderful people whom I now consider close friends.

I was asked many times both by friends and family in the US, as well as the local people in the various cities I was in, what I thought about all the various political instability in the world today.  The questions invariably centered around something to the effect of "Aren't you worried/concerned/afraid to be traveling at the moment?"

My standard answer, which I became quite practiced in reciting, was:  I think that if some alien species which did not speak any human language came to Earth and visited New York, Washington DC, Bucharest, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik it would have a very hard time telling us all apart.  Despite our small cultural differences, people everywhere generally want the same things.  We all look quite similar when we smile and laugh as well as when we cry.

It is said,  everybody loves something, is afraid of something, has lost something, and is looking to find something.  Which will you focus on?  Will you give love unconditionally, or will you help create fear in effort to mask your own?  Will you help yourself and others get lost, or will you try your best to find something of true value and meaning?  Will you focus on artificial divisions and all the reasons why you think you can not do something, or will you open the borders of your heart to new experiences and opportunities for growth? The choice is yours.  It is all of ours.



A deep and humble thanks to everyone in Romania, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, and Iceland for sharing part of your lives and wonderful culture with me.  The memories will last a lifetime and have already become a formative experience to my creative process.  Thank you!

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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 -- Without Borders

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And here comes the very first acoustic recording of my new grand piano :) Arty spent an hour playing with different positions of mics and finally got sound that he wasn't shy to share. Certainly, there is a lot of experimenting to be done to get a better recording, this is mostly a very first try to record my new baby.

Both me and Arty are big fans of "The Piano" movie and Michael Nyman's compositions and this piece is one of my all times favorites to play and improvise on. I hope I did it justice. I don't have notes, so it's an improvisation played by ear.

The Heart Asks Pleasure First (Michael Nyman) - Improvisation by Milana - VIDEO!

XXIV

A new "color" for my upcoming album "Color Your Life".
https://fivos-music.bandcamp.com/album/color-your-life

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Color Your Life, Indigo - Piano Solo --> thanks for support me on spotify http://spoti.fi/1Awll3h

Emma Och Jennifers Visa

Norwegian pianist Sten Erland Hermunstad created a beautiful solo track entitled "Hope" and I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to add a few orchestral colors to his wonderful work. We hope you enjoy it. To hear more of Sten's music, visit his SoundCloud page here: https://soundcloud.com/sten-erland-hermundstad


Hope (Sten Erland Hermunstad - Rework)

This is an acoustic piano version of my track Timeless recorded especially for Piano Day, which is taking place on 28 March 2016.

I hope you like this piece. :)

Timeless (acoustic piano version)

Through sound, emotion seeks new dimensions, not as an escape from reality but rather in a search for the image of a new reality. Music that creates emotion, is like a wind that purifies, rendering visible all the obstacles and divisions. It is rather like a piercing arrow that alerts the parts of our mind we do not normally go to, in our daily lives. It opens up unknown and obscure landscapes, like a ray of light that filtering into a dark room, banishes the darkness and leaves nothing to hinder vision. 
”Canone degli Spazi” is about the sound that journeys in all directions, the sound that travels through endless space - through the outer world and the inner space - through the unconscious and the senses. 
When I play with precision and with specific intent, the emotion that rises inside of me is the mirror of the one that arises in the person who is listening - it provokes a sense of union and communion with those sharing the same moment. Music becomes a vehicle of an objective feeling, which is almost the same for most people. Similarly, if I am not One with the sound and my intention is not clear, the same notes played carelessly are empty - they lose their power and their intensity. The level of clarity of my expression depends on what I can make arise inside of me. When that happens, the inner nature of the melodies that are being played spreads out into space, into the air, into the earth and out to the whole atmosphere. A real spell takes place between the performer and his public, creating a magical aura of deep harmony and sharing. This is the wonder of a sound that has come from a long time ago, through myths and mythology, and returns us to the essence of Music, that most supreme of Arts. 
I composed “Canone degli Spazi” around essential elements - the harmony of the triads, the melodic repetition and the cycles that follow the orbits of the planets and the structure of harmonics - the very same fundamental rules that Pythagoras followed to make the laws of the Universe coincide. Sound can help us to realize that our inner space is as vast as our outer space and that in reality there is no difference between them. Sound travels through walls - the walls of the mind too – transcending both time and space. 

Canone degli spazi - Michael

original music: luca longobardi
piano: luca longobardi

Morceaux pour Piano is a solo piano album that collects pieces I wrote between 2016 and 2018. The 11 tracks have been re-edited and re-recorded these days. The album will be released on other major streaming platforms on September 28.

Morceaux pour Piano

Ma Petite

Torino, 01 September 2018
Welcome in my musical diary. Piano Solo.
I hope you enjoy it.
contact: soundcloud@valachis.com
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http://about.me/fivos.valachis
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More than 6.000.000 plays on SoundCloud and many friends from around the world in three years.
At 20 May 2013, when I made my first track sharing (Fivosvalachis – Starting-terminus), was not imaginable.

it is obvious that I'm happy and I want to share my happiness with all of you who have participated and helped me in this journey.

all of you who have encouraged me with listening, commenting, with your likes, the repostings and support in other social media:
facebook: www.facebook.com/FivosValachis/
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all of you who bought my albums allowing me to take time to my work and dedicate it to music:
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fivos-music.bandcamp.com/

all the great musicians who have participated in my projects, adding their sensitivity to my compositions and those that have allowed me to work on their wonderful projects.
They are all listed here:
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/collaborations
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/collabs-in-other-projects-and

all the friends known in this virtual square, musicians and not, that for personal reasons, a composition was born, listed here:
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/dedications

all the PianoCloud friends and specially Pamela Chng that has proposed me:
www.facebook.com/groups/ThePianoCloud/
thepianocloud.com/

Pascal Durif for its beautiful photographs that were often a source of inspiration:
www.facebook.com/pascal.durif.9

Nick Thomas to be chosen many times to transmit my music at Redruth Radio:
www.facebook.com/nick.thomas.58
www.mixcloud.com/tag/nick-thomas/
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/radio-trasmissions

Giovanni Dissegna for the organization of my concerts:
@giovanni-dissegna

and of course my family:
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/my-family-album

Color Your Life, Indigo - Piano Solo --> thanks for support me on spotify http://spoti.fi/1Awll3h

Fivos Valachis

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