Spotify: sptfy.com/93U
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/album/id1064667349
Facebook: fb.me/ZilnikMilana
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Having grand piano at home is pretty addictive - spending hours and hours playing every day. I would play even more if I had the time :) However, recording improvisations on the grand piano is a tricky and long process. No more fixing wrong notes. Not that I play many of those :) but when a live performance is being recorded in MIDI - it's tempting to fix even a single one. When it's an acoustic recording - alas. Besides, it's not that easy to transcribe acoustic recordings - MIDI is way easier to transcribe. Easier, but not trivial as I don't compose in any notation software but sit in front of an instrument and improvise live, what is sometimes called "an instant composition".  It takes about a week to transcribe a single improvisation into sheet music but it's an absolutely amazing feeling when I get the notes for my own improvisations - they stop being "moments in time that never repeat" and become compositions that can be played over and over again. And not just by myself.

Anyways, here is a new improvisation from me..... based on Arty's motif :) This isn't an acoustic recording but same MIDI recording, produced using one of sampled pianos in Propellerhead Reason - same way as most of my piano pieces... However, now I will make a note sheet for it, so I'll be able to play it again on the acoustic piano.. in the future :)

On another note, 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


It's Impossible

It's Impossible - Milana - on iTunes,Spotify

The opening track from the album, "The Arrow & the Song."  It's a song about awakening. 

Daybreak

I'm Forever with You

I'm Forever With You

Hola! Hace tiempo no grababa nada piano solo. Dicen que en la sencillez está la belleza. Gracias a una alumna, me encontre esta piecita muy tuanis! Ojala les guste!

Come Un Fiore (Ludovico Einaudi)

Little Adventures

Hi all - here's a piano solo recorded live this year.  I hope you like this piece!

Heart Strings (Live at St James's Church)

The cold, icy landscape during winter portrays a feeling of isolation and loneliness, yet it is stunning and captivating in its raw beauty. It leaves us with a feeling of exquisite sadness while we wait in anticipation of the coming spring. 

Composed and performed by Michele McLaughlin
Mastered and engineered by Joe Bongiorno at Piano Haven Studio
Piano: Fazioli F212
Artwork and design by Michele McLaughlin
All Rights Reserved © 2018
www.michelemclaughlin.com

Watch the video here:  https://youtu.be/qYMW5UEzKqA

Winter

"Winter" by Michele McLaughlin ©2018

A most beautiful piano arrangement of my track http://soundcloud.com/myristica/myristica-heart-and-soul by Pasquale Riviezzo. He very kindly agreed to let me share it here on my cloud too.

He has made two other piano arrangements for:
http://soundcloud.com/myristica/when-it-rains-in-mei
http://soundcloud.com/haloproject/beyond-the-glow_piano

For more piano sounds and a listen to our collabs, please check his Cloud http://soundcloud.com/haloproject and FB page https://www.facebook.com/halosphere

Much love to you all for listening, and a big thank you to http://soundcloud.com/haloproject :))

Heart and Soul (Piano version by Halo)

I had a very strange, but cinematic dream and at the end of it, for the finale I could hear Freya Ridings singing this amazingly poignant and beautiful song. As an homage to it and my crazy dream, I've tried creating an orchestral "Dexter Britain" interpretation

This track can't be released, but you can listen to it here for free.

Lost Without You (Freya Ridings Cover)

Composed and performed by Michele McLaughlin 
Mastered and engineered by Joe Bongiorno at Piano Haven Studio 
Piano: 9' Fazioli F278 Concert Grand
Artwork by Shelley Boyd and John Huber at Huber Camera Works
Design by Michele McLaughlin 
All Rights Reserved © 2019 
www.michelemclaughlin.com

Memoirs

Pure Joy

Lonely Waltz [Mysterious / Uncertain / Piano / Orchestral]

Michele McLaughlin is a Contemporary Solo Pianist & Composer. She has released twenty-one albums, many of which have received multiple nominations and awards.  She has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, has over 1.5 Billion Spins on streaming platforms, and is a multi Billboard Charting pianist.  Her original solo piano compositions are often described as "musical storytelling" and are haunting and contagious, relaxing and beautiful, peaceful and touching, energetic and inspiring. Her music is a regular favorite on Pandora Radio and is a bestseller on iTunes and Amazon, often landing her in the Top Ten New Age Charts. You can listen to Michele online via Whisperings Solo Piano Radio, Pandora Radio, iTunes Radio, Spotify, XM/Sirius and Music Choice Soundscapes.
 
"McLaughlin is what I refer to as a "heart on her sleeve" composer, i.e. there is no subterfuge, no subtlety at work in her music - she presents her emotional intent of a song forthwith and front and center. It's a testament to her considerable talent that this baring of her soul always works so well, because in the hands of a lesser talent, the music would be melodramatic, overly self-conscious, and would grow tiresome. However, it's not just her technique and artistry, which is impossible to ignore, but also her artist's soul, which seems woven into every piece of music she writes.  No matter how pyrotechnic she can be (and this woman can really play piano with the best of 'em), there is always the presence of heart, sometimes "in your face" and sometimes between the lines, but never hidden behind artifice."  Bill Binkelman- Wind & Wire and Zone Music Reporter

"Winter" by Michele McLaughlin ©2018

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