Member Since: 12/25/2006
Band Website: sonicbids.com/Mila2
Band Members: The band, Milochka, includes Mila Levine (vocals, piano/keyboard, acoustic guitar), Susan Mitchell (violin, cello), Wendy Scher (drums, percussion), Sergei Deych (bass). The band also works with several guitarists, who play acoustic and electric guitars. Other instruments, such as clarinet, may be added, depending on the repertoire and number of performers allowed/requested.
Influences: Not in any particular order:
Three Us: Unfulfilled, Unspoken, Unrealized;
Three Hs: Heartbreak, Hurt, Hope;
Three Ps: People, Paintings, Pain;
Three Es: Experience, Excitement, Echos from the Past;
Three Ms: Music, Mistakes, Memories;
Three Rs: Regrets, Resistance, Reading;
Three Ls: Love, Lust, and Letting Go…. I have been detained
In endless lines of poetic confessions --
with you -- walking away from me forever.
(From my poem, "First Love").
Sounds Like: A Kiev-born singer-songwriter and poet from New York, whose Russian and English songs are filled with passion, longing, dreams, hope, and inspiration, and whose repertoire includes Russian, Gypsy, and Yiddish hits. Mila’s songwriting style blends influences from the legendary Vladimir Visotsky, the world renown Charles Aznavour, as well as from the Russian and American pop music. Her singing style has often been compared to Edith Piaf’s and Marlene Dietrich’s.
Record Label: Mila Music; [email protected]
Type of Label: Indie