Dark, moody or melancholy classical music

This is my first composition in 2014. Flower motif's piano piece.
Title's word, Ran means orchid in Japanese.I imaged fantastic flower that is blooming in mind, and trying to express scene of oriental on classical piano.
Enjoy this piece, like a journey to oriental world.

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9LN8gSwDbfkj2e-weFkomg

Spotify: sptfy.com/93U
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/album/id1064667349
Facebook: fb.me/ZilnikMilana

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




Haunted

Haunted - Milana - on iTunes, Spotify

It was sort of a gloomy day weather-wise yesterday, so I took an excursion into pure minimalism.  :)

Thoughts?

Andrew Souter -- Missing You

Find me on Spotify: http://sptfy.com/93U
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This is the 5th track from my 2nd original piano album called "Accidental Etudes". I hope you enjoy this emotional track (and the album :) ). Btw, one of the motifs in this improvisation turned into this song eventually:
https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/feel-the-pain-milana

Thank you for your continuous appreciation of my music!

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iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/accidental-etudes/id848461749
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Etudes-Milana/dp/B00J8ZCOF2
BandCamp: http://milana.bandcamp.com/album/accidental-etudes

Feel My Pain

Feel My Pain - Milana - on iTunes & Spotify

cold rain here.. mindless cool phenomenon..

#366: it was cold today.. and rainy.. beautiful tone i heard..

December Rain Talk  - #366

This track is from the album Carpe Lumen and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bossenbroek3

I Give Up

The Road......we all have to go ......................

youtube teaser... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHnJO61m1BI

this one is composed to be recorded at "The Giant" soon in the frame of my 8 Pianos project. Inspired by a classical piece of Schubert/Liszt which I enjoyed very much recently when I visted the concert of Klavierklasse Ulm

Dirk Maassen - Onda (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHnJO61m1BI)

Sometimes, in the midst of difficult times, it helps to just close your eyes, and imagine a peaceful place where you would like to be ….. I hope this helps you find a place too xxxx <3

I will be back soon from surgery, missing you all so much xxx
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Remastered/Produced by: Dr Gray, Mr Electrosketch https://soundcloud.com/dr-gray-2

A Peaceful Place I'd Like To Be - Megs McCarthy (Improv)(Mastered by Mr Electrosketch)

Our thoughts and inner talk are with us constantly, driving our emotions, as our emotions drive our thoughts. Sometimes this can be a peaceful place, at other times, more reflective, or sad yet filled with hope. Our thoughts can be wonderful things, yet if we begin to 'drown'  in them they can be a danger as we can become overwhelmed, dwell on things or worries that may not come to be, or become stuck within grief and loss which can both comfort us and hold us back. I often find myself thinking too much, and need to remember the 'moment', to stop over-analysing fear, sadness, and to focus on the peaceful and hopeful times, and one of the best ways for me to express this, is through music, as so many of you do <3 xx

Graphic Source: kellyexeter.com.au

Drowning In Our Thoughts - Megs McCarthy

Wishing you all a Wonderful, Magical and Merry Christmas and a New Year. I hope that this time is a festive and loving one :-) At times like these, however, it can be good to remember those who are alone on such a magical day as Christmas and New Years; to try and understand what it may be like;…. and for those who are feeling alone, to remember - that you don't have to feel alone. 

We are, in the main, relatively social creatures. We need each other. Unfortunately, this season has been a particularly difficult time, with 3 admissions to hospital and losing so much. My heart broke and all I could and can do, just for now, is to move from 'moment' to 'moment', hoping that one of these moments will be relatively 'ok' and that such moments will become more frequent and longer-lasting. Hope is all I have and hope is what it is all about in trying to give life meaning. I have also thought of, and missed so many of you and the music. Now it is time for a brief rest …..

SERIES BACKGROUND:
Over the last 3 years on SoundCloud, I have been creating a series of 'Lonely Seasons' improvisations/compositions - As noted on the Lonely Seasons No.I track:

I have memories of wonderful Christmases as a child, with real Xmas trees. There was a beautiful smell of fresh pine leaves, and the rooms were brightened with gorgeous decorations, pink marzipan sugar mice spread around the house, and the air filled with the magical anticipation of Xmas Eve, waiting to jump up onto one's parent's bed, …. its XMAS TIME!! :-)

 Its different now, and I see the decorations, in other places, the beautiful and bright colours, sounds and smells, all that it represents, I hear of people's Xmas plans and family and friends, I hear of stress, I hear of joy and anticipation, especially families with children - such wonders. Yet often we can forget that there are many people that do not have this joy, where the Xmas spirit seems to be for 'others'. So many lonely and/or unwell people, wishing to be a part of things, but unable to, for various reasons. 

Xmas can also bring back painful memories one just doesn't want to remember, and while the 'anticipation' of Xmas is still there, the actual day can be very lonely and sad. Thus, this song [and now series] was created - 'Lonely Seasons' - in dedication to, and to remember and think of those who are alone on Xmas and New Year. 

Yes, it is sad. at a time when there should be joy, but it is not mean't to be ……….. … for there is always hope that things will change and the magic of Christmas and better lives will return, and it will always stay in our memories. 

There are so many out there who are alone on these festive days. If you are one, try to remember, in simply knowing this, that you are not alone and you can try to make these days the best that you can. Enjoy the smallest of things, buy some 'xmasy' food, some cold ham, turkey and cranberry sauce, maybe even some cherries. Dress for the day or just lounge around in your PJ's :-) Play some music; walk the cat! Walk along the beach's edge at sunset (if in aussie land and its summer!), or build a snow person. Play in the dirt and garden and feel the spirit in the air

 Make these days YOUR days and be kind to yourself and become your own best friend/
 Merry Christmas everyone and a wonderful New Year in 2016 <3


You can listen to No.II of 'Lonely Seasons' at https://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/lonely-seasons-no-ii-megs-mccarthy and you No.I here - https://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/lonely-seasons-megs-mccarthy


Lonely Seasons No. III - Megs McCarthy

Composed, performed and recorded by Marc LABICHE (Méandres).

This track is a piano solo piece, intended to be the sequel of ourprevious soundtrack "Systole".

Méandres - Extrasystole (piano solo)

Words cannot yet describe what this sombre piano improvisation means at this moment. where the music hopefully 'speaks' for itself, produced with a beautiful ambience and depth added to the piano by John Styles.  

A full Orchestral version of this piece is also in the planning ….

This music was initially inspired by watching images of terrorism and the fallout, the chaos and people running in fear  .. it was these horrifying images I saw as I played this music watching a silent TV … a reflection of so many lost opportunities for beautiful, carefree people, of those who were lost, and for the survivors, and their families and friends and the heroes who risked their lives.  These feelings were also expressed with John Styles, but I still cannot find words which are adequate enough to convey the depths of such sorrow……   Perhaps only music can achieve this

Declining health stopped me from uploading this track until now but I, and others, continue to keep going, in the belief and hope that life will change for the better  ….

It is this unknown in what may await us that inspired this piece …. but It is also this hope that we must hold onto if ever we undergo change, loss or grief in our lives…. Hope and peace within …. to continue on despite our external circumstances, for life can be filled with such joy, which we must try never to lose sight of…. even the simplest of things,… the flowers that bloom, the leaves blowing in the breeze, the singing of birds and the sun on our faces ……  to find a safe place within ourselves where we cannot be touched and where inner peace and silence holds strong …and solidarity of all helps us to carry on
xx

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Music Composition: Megan McCarthy
Piano Performance: Megan McCarthy
Producer: John Styles https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds
Released: 21 July 2017 (Australia)

What Awaits Us

What Awaits - Megan McCarthy (Producer John Styles)

Oberonorebo -  Watching You Suffocate In A Sea Of Lies
"Sweetness"
Buy "Watching You Suffocate In A Sea Of Lies" - https://oberonorebo.bandcamp.com/track/watching-you-suffocate-in-a-sea-of-lies

Watching You Suffocate In A Sea Of Lies

My second album "Different Ways" is now on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/intl-tr/album/1KKm4xk6RZ4Ty4O5dGjxY5?si=EIb-PsrLSxOwN-pBk-FTKQ

A Labor Of Love

Brief 3: Reflections no.3

Tear Away

Everything Matters is composed by Jane Johnson.

14. Everything Matters

Composed and played on electric violin by Fransoafran

Awakening

Absence

Download

I hope you enjoy this re-made and extended version of a track I produced last year.  

This track is part of the album "Beyond the Horizon" by Ed Haydon & Alexander Hallberg and is available to buy from iTunes... https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/beyond-the-horizon/id669200648

You can also check out the video here...http://vimeo.com/69757892

Many thanks to Alf Pilz for creating such wonderful effects; the magic world of freezing water, growing and disappearing raw frost, amazing crystal diversity and enchanting twilight situations.


Faded Memories

If you like relaxing music or contemporary classical music, you're definitely in the right place, especially if you want to discover exciting new artists along with the more established ones! So, if you've liked one of my playlists, check out the rest or you might be missing out on some real gems! (I get no benefit from doing these, other than the joy of connecting people to good music!) As well as contemporary classical, I also have a few other relaxing playlists (ambient, jazz, chillout...), all with no words. 
After getting severe myalgic encepalopathy I found I have to rest a lot and at first it was very boring and frustrating but then I got into Soundcloud! I've come across so many wonderful composers and musicians on here and have developed a love of contemporary classical music. I make relaxing playlists... I started out just for myself but it's always great if someone else enjoys them too! I always try to support artists by choosing their tracks instead of versions posted by fans/others, and I enjoy making my playlists diverse, including all the brilliant female and international composers out there etc (which seem to be lacking in a lot of playlists and auto-play, and which is a great shame as there's so much talent out there!)
Most days I repost my favorite track that I've heard that day from one of my playlists.
The artwork used for playlists all belongs to me and was done by myself or my dad.

Dark, moody or melancholy classical music

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