Your piano is so catching here...marvellous voice and all i can hear! Brilliant Milana!!

So wonderfully enchanting, and obviously such a heartfelt collaboration all round. I celebrate your successes with this and all your projects. You truly are an inspiration. Thank you for bringing your music into the world, as well as involving so mqany other fine musicians in the process. This is what it's really all about! :-D

Excellent work almost magic, great inspiration.

I love all the little details and twists in this. Excellent work, Milana. The last hour was full of great experiences. Enjoyed it very much. 🎶💛🩷

Quite magic! Witches dancing tango with their brooms... Thanks for sharing!

Hello Milana, superb composition full of surprises, simply magnificent and captivating :)

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-wCqGkalz4
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It's been almost three months since "Abracadabra!" was released. I've been busy with some other projects since then, mainly recording and composing for clients. However, given how well "Abracadabra!" was received... we started working on the "sequel" :) 

Meanwhile, here is the title track that gave the name to the album. 

I want to thank again everyone who was a part of this project:
- Phil DiMercurio (aka PdubJamz) for his drums and percussion truly transformed the album.
- Yamaha Artist Yoed Nir for the wondrous cello.
- Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Alexa Ray for the amazing vocals.
- Producer of several Grammy-nominated artists, Matthew Shell, who supervised mixing & mastering of "Abracadabra!", Erik Fredriksen for mixing and Steven Vagovics for mastering.
- Anastasia Frenkel for drawing such amazing artworks for each track! Vibrant, mystical, haunting, surreal - just like we envisioned this album to be.

And, of course, I'd like to thank my husband who was behind the whole production of the album and the upcoming music video.

BandCamp: milana.bandcamp.com/album/abracadabra-2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7piU2Ry3jjqwogqEbwktGH
Apple Music: music.apple.com/album/abracadabra/1530195886
Amazon Music: music.amazon.ca/albums/B08H1WBVQS

Abracadabra!

"Abracadabra" (from "Abracadabra!") by Milana Zilnik

Playing piano since I was four and studied in a musical school for ten years. Though, I always felt that playing by notes and singing in a choir is not enough to become a musician. I needed to be able to play anything I want by ear so, by starting improvising, I've found my own style of playing. When I teach children to play piano or sing, I offer them improvisation right from the beginning. I wish I was taught that way, since until my mid-30s I had hard times to relax and believe in my ability to create my own music. Twelve years ago my husband (@arty-sandler) finally convinced me to record some of my improvisations and we opened this account on SoundCloud - it happened in July, 2012.

You won't find a single particular genre on my cloud: my musical tastes are rather eclectic. Jazz and soft rock are my favorites but I also play blues, classical, folk, middle-eastern, New Age, ambient and others. Piano and vocal are my main instruments but together with my husband we also experiment a lot with different arrangements and orchestrations. 

When we started uploading our music to SoundCloud back in 2012, it was first shy attempts to record my improvisations straight from a keyboard. Many things have evolved since then. Over the years we've grown into a professional recording and composing studio, with a conservatory grand piano in an acoustically treated room and a bunch of microphones and other recording equipment. We scored a few documentaries, short films and animations. This year my orchestral and piano solo works were performed by Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for Bryan Arias’s ballet show based on “The Little Prince” story. We've published three books with my original scores for solo piano and released twenty original full-length albums (solo piano, multi-instrumental and original songs in various genres) and numerous singles that have been streamed over 70 million times across multiple platforms.

I am glad you stepped by into my musical world and appreciate your comments and following me.

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