James MalikeyTo everyone reading this: I wish you strength, peace, and joy in this challenging world we face in 2025. May this music bring a bit of light to your day, or simply offer a moment of comfort and enjoyment. I disabled the ads, so you can listen without interruptions.
This is a collection of pieces that are closest to my heart, a blend of well-known songs that have inspired me throughout my journey, along with my original compositions, through which I could express my emotions. All songs are performed by me, with my heart, and most often, with my eyes closed.
I believe music has the power to heal. It helped me heal and find light during difficult times, especially these particular songs. So I want to share that music and heal the world, you, too.
"There are only black and white keys, but the challenge is to play all colors in between."
"In a World of Glass, you can try not to cut yourself - remaining a prisoner - or free yourself, bleeding."
00:00 - Idea 22 x Icarus 02:33 - Pulse 06:09 - Amélie Adventures 11:01 - Echoes 13:52 - Chopin Nocturne x Passacaglia 16:03 - Solar Eclipse 20:29 - Now We Are Free 23:33 - Autumn Falls 26:04 - Moonlight Sonata GOT Transformed (Moonlight Sonata x Game of Thrones x Transformers) 29:55 - Moody Blue 32:02 - King Arthur 35:14 - Interstellar 38:49 - Unspoken Words 41:18 - Time 45:31 - Cosmic Stories 50:39 - Elise's Love Story (Love Story x Für Elise) 53:14 - Patterns 56:57 - Vibrant Green 59:11 - Moondust
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Music has the power to heal.James Malikey2025-06-27 | To everyone reading this: I wish you strength, peace, and joy in this challenging world we face in 2025. May this music bring a bit of light to your day, or simply offer a moment of comfort and enjoyment. I disabled the ads, so you can listen without interruptions.
This is a collection of pieces that are closest to my heart, a blend of well-known songs that have inspired me throughout my journey, along with my original compositions, through which I could express my emotions. All songs are performed by me, with my heart, and most often, with my eyes closed.
I believe music has the power to heal. It helped me heal and find light during difficult times, especially these particular songs. So I want to share that music and heal the world, you, too.
"There are only black and white keys, but the challenge is to play all colors in between."
"In a World of Glass, you can try not to cut yourself - remaining a prisoner - or free yourself, bleeding."
00:00 - Idea 22 x Icarus 02:33 - Pulse 06:09 - Amélie Adventures 11:01 - Echoes 13:52 - Chopin Nocturne x Passacaglia 16:03 - Solar Eclipse 20:29 - Now We Are Free 23:33 - Autumn Falls 26:04 - Moonlight Sonata GOT Transformed (Moonlight Sonata x Game of Thrones x Transformers) 29:55 - Moody Blue 32:02 - King Arthur 35:14 - Interstellar 38:49 - Unspoken Words 41:18 - Time 45:31 - Cosmic Stories 50:39 - Elise's Love Story (Love Story x Für Elise) 53:14 - Patterns 56:57 - Vibrant Green 59:11 - Moondust
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Somewhere out there in our vast cosmos, distant moons orbit Jupiter. Ganymede, Europa and Callisto are among the most fascinating worlds in our Solar System. Beneath their ancient layers of ice, vast oceans may lie hidden, perhaps holding environments capable of supporting life and raising one of humanity’s oldest questions: Are we truly alone?
At the heart of these distant worlds exists Jupiter. Its immense gravity shapes the paths of comets and asteroids, sometimes capturing or deflecting objects that might otherwise travel to Earth or other planets. In this way, Jupiter acts almost like a giant cosmic vacuum cleaner, sometimes helping to protect Earth from potential impacts.
This piece is a musical journey through these distant worlds, imagining what it might feel like to wander across their frozen landscapes, beneath the immense presence of Jupiter.
A powerful moment, but what stayed with me most was not the winning itself, but the feeling of performing my own music on stage. I fell in love with that.
When difficult times came after winning the show and I had to start again from scratch, it became one of the reasons I never gave up and kept working to be able to perform on stage again one day, with a piano tour of my own.
And I am so grateful to all of you for listening to my music, because it is thanks to you that I am able to do this now, reaching many hearts with my music. It is something the younger version of me could only dream of when I wrote this piece seven years ago. I remember I was sitting on a train with nothing but an old laptop and the free version of MuseScore, writing the scores for every instrument of this piece separately. The train was carrying me physically forward, while the music was carrying me emotionally somewhere far beyond.
'Different Worlds' will forever hold an important place in my heart. It was born during a time of loneliness, but it became a reminder that even in the darkest of transitions, creation can lead us somewhere new, somewhere meaningful.
I am glad that I can finally share this orchestral recording of 'Different Worlds', exactly as I once performed it live on stage.
Over the past two nights, I went outside after midnight to watch the Perseids meteor shower. It was magical. I brought my camera with me and captured some moody photographs of the night sky, including the photograph you see here. The shimmering stars above the silhouettes of the dark trees, and the subtle colors appearing through the darkness, made me dream far beyond again .. to a Different World.
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We would accept it and get used to it. Our perception of reality is often shaped by familiarity. Although the world we know could have been fundamentally different.
While studying physics, I came across the term 'singularity'. It describes a point where our known laws of physics seem to break down. Associated with the center of a black hole, it is a place where space, time, and matter reach conditions so extreme that our current theories can no longer fully describe what happens.
When playing or listening to music, I sometimes feel as if we can enter a singularity of our own, a place beyond the familiar rules of reality. A safe place shaped entirely by imagination, where time seems to disappear and nothing needs to make sense to anyone else. A hidden place that only you can enter, know, and truly understand.
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00:00 - Solar Eclipse 03:50 - Ethereal Silver 06:27 - Different Worlds 09:56 - Moody Blue 12:06 - Lunar Eclipse 16:35 - Autumn Falls 19:24 - Moondust 22:13 - Gloria 24:40 - Improvisation about the Cosmos
All piano pieces in this video have been composed and live performed by myself, on an upright felt piano during my concert at Andante Piano Studio, Amsterdam.
I composed this piece six years ago, during a time when I felt trapped by the structure of modern society and by the difficulties I was facing in my personal life. I was trying to stay strong, keep everything together, and find my own path, to pursue freedom despite the risks and sacrifices.
I remember that during that period, I found peace in nature. Walking through forests and observing the natural world became my refuge, alongside music. Birds fascinated me, especially their ability to fly high above the world, beyond horizons we cannot follow. To me, they are a symbol of freedom, rising beyond the boundaries of the known.
Six years after the creation of this piece, I was able to pair it with my bird photography, expressing that sense of freedom and showing you the beauty and wonders of the natural world, to remind you how peaceful and precious nature is, and why it is something worth protecting for future generations.
Listen my music also on all the streaming platforms: Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2EyDwUM5rybE4PoBmsbKKw My socials: Instagram: instagram.com/jamesmalikey Tiktok: tiktok.com/@jamesmalikey My Website: jamesmalikeyofficial.com Contact: info@jamesmalikeyofficial.comMy cinematic piano piece ‘The Arrival of Dawn’ #piano #thearrivalofdawn #emotionalmusicJames Malikey2026-07-07 | ...Iconic Piano Covers and Mashups - 30 min Relaxing Piano (by James Malikey)James Malikey2026-07-05 | My favorite piano covers and mashups that I created and recorded during my TikTok livestreams in 2025. A decade ago, when I first started composing, these pieces inspired me a lot. Most of them are emotional film soundtracks, some of them are classical piano works.
00:00 - Amélie Adventures (Amélie x Solas x Another Love x Faded x Lovely x Creep x Paint it Black) 04:52 - Gladiator Adventures (Now We Are Free x Experience x Nuvole Bianche x What About Us x In Assenza Di Te x River Flows in You) 09:52 - Time (Inception) 14:05 - Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 no 1 x Passacaglia 16:37 - Conquest of Paradise x A Way of Life (The Last Samurai) 19:48 - Game of Thrones x Transformers 22:57 - Elise's Love Story (Für Elise x Love Story) 25:32 - The Godfather Adventures (Speak Softly Love x Pirates of the Caribbean x Kung Fu Panda x The Sound of Silence x What a Wonderful World x The Last Samurai) 30:37 - Interstellar
"Music has the power to heal. It can change your mood, bring back forgotten memories, speak to your soul, and open the gates to Different Worlds."
Listen my music also on all the streaming platforms: Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2EyDwUM5rybE4PoBmsbKKw My socials: Instagram: instagram.com/jamesmalikey Tiktok: tiktok.com/@jamesmalikey My Website: jamesmalikeyofficial.com Contact: info@jamesmalikeyofficial.comWhen your thoughts become a labyrinth and you forget how to leaveJames Malikey2026-07-03 | #piano #calm #sadsong #emotionalmusicThis is the beginning of my new piece ‘Jupiter’James Malikey2026-06-27 | #piano #calmA part of my new piece ‘Lucid Labyrinth’James Malikey2026-06-24 | #piano #calmThis melody will heal you ..James Malikey2026-06-21 | #piano #pianist #comptinedunautreete #calmingmusic #pianomusicJames Malikey - Different Worlds (Live in Podgorica, Montenegro)James Malikey2026-06-19 | One year ago, I shared a video of my piece 'Different Worlds' performed in the Austrian mountains. I never imagined that performance would reach millions of people around the world.
A year later, it was very special to perform this piece live in Podgorica, Montenegro, surrounded by so many people in a beautiful park.
At the end of this video, you'll see a photograph I captured in Virpazar, an idyllic village on the shores of Lake Skadar in Montenegro. A place that felt like a Different World.
The pieces on this album will take you to a dream world, the 'Aether'. A world shaped by your own imagination, where you can get lost within, and return from stronger.
"I love discovering the wonders and mysteries of our universe. At times, it has left me wondering about our place within it, the smallness of humanity against the vastness of the cosmos, and about our ongoing search for freedom, balance and meaning."
All music, photographs and written reflections are my original works.
00:00 - Saturn 04:47 - Ethereal Silver 07:22 - Lunar Eclipse 11:39 - Solar Eclipse 16:33 - Moody Blue 18:41 - Dark Ocean 22:41 - Lingering Moon 26:14 - Pulse 29:54 - Magical Violet 32:15 - The Arrival of Dawn 35:36 - Ephemeral Waltz 38:08 - Mind of the Universe 42:05 - Improvisation in E Major: Magic does Exist
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I was still carrying the energy of the concert with me. The audience had been incredibly kind and enthusiastic. I ended up playing three extra songs, simply because I did not want the night to end.
Creating a videoclip afterwards was never the plan. But inspiration has its own timing.
While wandering through the city that night, it felt right to record this improvisation at this iconic place. I left it unedited, recorded in one take, because I wanted to preserve the honesty of that moment and share it with you exactly the way I experienced it.
I was especially inspired by the light trails of midnight traffic, the silhouettes of people drifting through the streets, and the dark, cinematic presence of the Brandenburg Gate watching over the night.
That moment in Berlin felt infinite, like a timelapse suspended in time.
Listen my music also on all the streaming platforms: Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2EyDwUM5rybE4PoBmsbKKw My socials: Instagram: instagram.com/jamesmalikey Tiktok: tiktok.com/@jamesmalikey My Website: jamesmalikeyofficial.com Contact: info@jamesmalikeyofficial.comMusic gives voice to the pulse of nature #piano #pianomusic #calmJames Malikey2026-05-21 | ...A melody inspired by Spring #piano #calmJames Malikey2026-05-19 | ...‘River Flows In You’ by Yiruma - Ambient Dream Piano #piano #riverflowsinyou #calmingmusicJames Malikey2026-05-17 | ...Into a violet night, shimmering with stars. - 15 min Relaxing Piano (by James Malikey)James Malikey2026-05-16 | "Last night, I watched the sky slowly fade into night after sunset. I was mesmerized by the patterns of violet and blue, the moonlight weaving through the hazy clouds, the interplay of shadows, the stars.. After a while, I took my piano outside and I just played what I felt in that moment, alone and surrounded by the night. It brought back forgotten memories. It felt deeply inspiring."
'Into a violet night, shimmering with stars' is an improvisation in G flat Major, recorded in one take, by James Malikey.