You are a master. You go right to my soul with each work. All that is left is to be paid so you can live and create music and share it. Love it all.

Such a nice melody! Brilliant arrangement too!

I like how you follow a lot of smaller artists. Thats very cool!

Manos Milonakis's 'Festen' album out now !

Listen/Buy : modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/festen

Original Score for a theatrical adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s “Festen”, the first dogma ’95 film. Directed for the National Theatre of Northern Greece by Yiannis Paraskevopoulos - Premiered 18 November 2016. 

All music composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Manos Milonakis at -1 Studio. 
Additional recordings and mixing by Tasos Karadedos at Stereotype Studio. 

All instruments performed by Manos Milonakis except: 
Violin: Christina Georgeli, Viktor Orri Árnason 
Viola: Viktor Orri Árnason 
Cello: Thodoris Papadimitriou, Sebastian Selke 
Guitar: George Papadopoulos 

big thank you to: 
Yiannis Paraskevopoulos, N.T.N.G., all actors and contributors, Évolène, Nick, Sophie, Kostas, Elisso, George, Thodoris, Christina, Viktor, Sebastian, Tasos, Dimitris, my family. 

www.manosmilonakismusic.com 
www.modernarecords.com

Artwork by Tilman (geometrydaily.tumblr.com) 
Layout by Nicolas Hyatt

Festen (album excerpt)

Written by Blake Ewing
Performed by Blake Ewing with cello performances by Craig Hultgren
Album art by Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6pyl44xfQw…e4aca961eded4a88
Apple: music.apple.com/us/album/we-dont-…dtrack/1566426258

Film, CD, vinyl: www.wedontdeservedogs.com

We Don't Deserve Dogs (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Trust Again

All The Things We Could Know

Ben Crosland - All The Things We Could Know

Yes, I have already premiered two tracks this week (see Plïnkï Plønkï and Resina), and yes, this is another premiere of a track, and yet it is immensely needed, wanted, and necessary during these somewhat anxious times. “Rjóður” comes from the Icelandic composer Snorri Hallgrímsson, whom I’ve profiled on many occasions before (see also his In the Studio with… feature), as well as celebrated for his film music, which has been backed by the wonderful Moderna Records (home to many fantastic modern classical and solo piano composers, such as Jacob David, Ed Carlsen, Tim Linghaus, Tambour, and even yours truly). This particular piece appears on Hallgrímsson’s second EP titled Landbrot II – the first having been released last November with five pieces, and now, a year later, with five more. “The collection takes its name from the location of Hallgrímsson’s family cabin in rural Iceland, which he describes as his ‘happy place’. Landbrot translates to erosion or ‘land fractures’, and from this, we can imagine the search for inner calm and acceptance amongst the many obstacles of daily life.”

Read more about this release here: https://hcdi.gs/Landbrot

Landbrot II

Rjóður

TRACK PREMIERE : Snorri Hallgrímsson - Rjóður

Written in November 2024. Chamber orchestra.
The Horizon, April Gornik.

The Horizon

Fantasia for a Morning Walk TW Kittel copyright 2024 BMI

Arranged and Produced by Madeleine Cocolas
Artwork by Lucille Clerc
Mastered by Ben Wiffen

Bandcamp: https://bigoandtwigetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-exquisite-corpse
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6BGukvyyYZakaNCSlCprsS
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/stalactite/id1171077226?i=1171077248

We’re pleased to announce the first track from our new album  ‘The Exquisite Corpse’, created in collaboration with artists from one of our favourite record labels ‘Moderna Records’ and based on the surrealist game.

Taking Leah Kardos ‘Little Phase’ from our Summer Compilation as its starting point, the piece will be reworked by a series of composers and producers to create an album of tracks which continually evolve as each new version is passed from one artist to another, adding to and transforming material from the original piece. We’ll be releasing a new track from the album every 2-3 weeks so keep an eye on our social media for updates!

The Exquisite Corpse

Stalactite

Madeleine Cocolas - Stalactite

Third track of Manos Milonakis's remix release "Sólfar Reworked" by:

Luke Howard (www.lukehoward.com , @lukehoward) : 

Australian Music Prize-nominated composer Luke Howard has been described as “absolutely heavenly” (Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 6) and his music as “an ambient masterclass” (Musos’ Guide), but no words can fully capture the potency of Howard’s enthralling compositions. A pianist since childhood, Howard has scored films and performed with artists as diverse as Lior and Jeff Mills, capturing audiences with contemporary classical arrangements that curl and twist around the boundaries of a particular emotion. Though wordless, Howard’s songs perform a function unique to music as a medium – that of evoking without describing, bringing listeners to a feeling which defies articulating. 

Now signed to UK label Mercury KX (Lambert, Olafur Arnalds, Solomon Grey) and joined live by drummer and collaborator Daniel Farrugia, 2017 has Howard working across several projects: arranging the keyboard works of photographer William Eggleston, a pioneer of colour photography; a European tour beginning in the UK and ending with a performance at Germany’s legendary Elbphilharmonie; and a new record. 

Howard is one of Australia’s foremost practitioners of contemporary classical music. Having already accomplished so much and with more on the horizon, he is set to captivate audiences worldwide.

---
Celebrating Record Store Day and given the occasion of Sólfar EP’s 1st anniversary, Manos Milonakis invites friends, composers and producers to rethink-reimagine its’ 5 tracks. Sólfar EP was Manos’s second solo release, after Your Hand in Mine, which he recorded in Iceland with contribution of local musicians.

The 5 pieces of Sólfar EP have been reworked by:
Steve Gibbs, Fragile Balloon, Luke Howard, Hior Chronik, Ed Carlsen.

Sólfar Reworked is out worldwide on 22/04/2017, Record Store Day 2017, in limited handmade CD edition and digital.

You can find it at:
Thessaloniki: Lotus, Noise, Stereodisc
Athens: Underflow
Worldwide: www.manosmilonakismusic.com
Digital release: https://manosmilonakismusic.bandcamp.com

Sólfar Reworked

Ten (Luke Howard Rework)

from 'Manos Milonakis - Festen' released May 26th 2017

CD/Digital: https://tinyurl.com/y8o8x7gw
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y8jkvgyw
iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yben3owk

Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Manos Milonakis (@manosmilonakismusic) at -1 Studio.

Piano, synth : Manos Milonakis
Violin: Christina Georgeli, Viktor Orri Árnason
Cello: Thodoris Papadimitriou

Artwork by Tilman (http://geometrydaily.tumblr.com)
www.manosmilonakismusic.com

Festen

Buy CD/DIGITAL

Manos Milonakis - Dressing

from 'Manos Milonakis - Festen' released May 26th 2017

CD/Digital: https://tinyurl.com/y8o8x7gw
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y8jkvgyw
iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yben3owk

Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Manos Milonakis (@manosmilonakismusic) at -1 Studio.

Synth, wurlitzer piano : Manos Milonakis
Violin : Christina Georgeli
Cello : Thodoris Papadimitriou

Artwork by Tilman http://geometrydaily.tumblr.com
www.manosmilonakismusic.com

Manos Milonakis - Festen Theme

from 'Manos Milonakis - Festen' released May 26th 2017

CD/Digital: https://tinyurl.com/y8o8x7gw
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y8jkvgyw
iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yben3owk

Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Manos Milonakis (@manosmilonakismusic) at -1 Studio.

Wurlitzer piano, synths, processing : Manos Milonakis
Violin, Viola : Viktor Orri Árnason
Cello : Sebastian Selke

Artwork by Tilman http://geometrydaily.tumblr.com
www.manosmilonakismusic.com

Manos Milonakis - Scrubber

from 'Manos Milonakis - Festen' released May 26th 2017

CD/Digital: https://tinyurl.com/y8o8x7gw
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y8jkvgyw
iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yben3owk

Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Manos Milonakis (@manosmilonakismusic) at -1 Studio.

Piano, synth : Manos Milonakis
Violin : Viktor Orri Árnason
Viola : Viktor Orri Árnason
Cello : Sebastian Selke, Thodoris Papadimitriou

Artwork by Tilman  http://geometrydaily.tumblr.com
www.manosmilonakismusic.com

Manos Milonakis - Father's Theme

from 'Manos Milonakis - Festen' released May 26th 2017

CD/Digital: https://tinyurl.com/y8o8x7gw
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y8jkvgyw
iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yben3owk

Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Manos Milonakis (@manosmilonakismusic) at -1 Studio.

piano: Manos Milonakis
Violin : Christina Georgeli 
Violin & Viola : Viktor Orri Árnason

Artwork by Tilman http://geometrydaily.tumblr.com
www.manosmilonakismusic.com

Buy CD/Digital

Manos Milonakis - Lobster Soup

Untitled 28 was a sculpture, video and sound installation created in 28 days by artist Marie-Louise Jones and composer Lucy Claire. It was exhibited in July 2017 at Here East in London as part of Gavin Turk and Anna Maloney’s show, Inside Out. 

The music reflects each sculpture in the installation and explores themes of duality and pairs through atmospheric binaural recordings, beautiful violin melodies and vocal textures. The materials used in the physical installation; wood, stone and metal play a prominent role in the soundtrack and the sounds created when collided together were used to create unusual textures which were weaved into the piece.

Written and recorded over a period of more than two years, “Paraphrases” is a collection of chamber music compositions performed, recorded and layered through numerous recording sessions in a small room in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea.

Christoph Berg scores the history of eight narrow worlds, carved only from wood – violin, piano and double bass. The initial composition “Quiet times at the library” defines the tone, but the album also sees many shades; the solo piece “Poems written by an old (prepared) piano”, the crow haunted field recordings of “Interlude” and reverent remixes provided by Yasuhiko Fukuzono (aus) and P Jørgensen specially for the CD edition.

The direct intimacy of the material is a stark counterpoint to the sweeping cinematic grandeur and electronic sound manipulation of previous releases as Field Rotation, and is also the logical progression from 2011 releases ‘Acoustic Tales’ and ‘And Tomorrow I Will Sleep”; the former a tribute to literature, and the latter a paean to hibernation after exhaustion. Completed in the brief escapes allowed by gaps in graduate study, “Paraphrases” is a recontextualisation of the experience of exhaustion, written in other words.

Mastered with precise weight by Ian Hawgood, the 250 run limited edition 180gm vinyl is packaged inside heavy gatefold four panel sleeves, wrapped within an A1 double-sided poster. The package also includes a double sided 12 x 12 hand numbered print along with a hand numbered embossed letter-pressed CD with fold-out booklet featuring striking photography by Aela Labbe. Extras as always will include scent, card and download code containing audio and PDFs. The album is a treasure of both talent and soul, and the extraordinary packaging from the label and considered art design by Ian Hazeldine reflects the classic nature of the material.

Release date: 30.11.12

Pre-orders this weekend through the Facture mailing list.

www.fac-ture.co.uk

Christoph Berg - Buildings At Night

Nat Bartsch Trio's arrangement of Radiohead's tune, Motion Picture Soundtrack. From the Trio's new release, 'To Sail, To Sing'

Nat Bartsch - piano
Tom Lee - double bass
Daniel Farrugia - drums

Motion Picture Soundtrack - Nat Bartsch Trio

say hello / licensing / demos 
modernarecords@gmail.com

We're here to trace a line from electronic sound designers to classical composers, connecting them through the realms of ambient & cinematic music.

Soundcloud music library of Manos Milonakis // composer, performer, architect, former member of the band "Your Hand in Mine".

Manos Milonakis - Dressing

Moderna Records

Recent comments

#adancerintheforestsoul

Mario Savioni

Mel Melody

position the positron

Related tracks