The South Korean star pianist Yiruma will release a new CD with Sony on 21.03.14.
With "Blind Film", Yiruma has created another masterpiece of meticulously beautiful piano music that is likely to further solidify his international reputation. The musician, born in Seoul and later raised in England where he studied music in London, has now released well over a dozen albums. While he enjoys the status of a superstar in his South Korean homeland, filling the largest venues, his triumph through Europe and America is primarily due to the popularity of his composition "River Flows In You", which was originally intended for the vampire saga "Twilight" but was overlooked by the producers. However, the fans of Twilight found the piece outstanding and, thanks to YouTube, it became a sensation: "River Flows In You" turned into an international hit, even making it into the Top 20 in Germany. For an instrumental piano piece, this is an exceptionally remarkable result.
Thanks to superb pieces like "Waltz in C minor", he could achieve another boost in popularity with "Blind Film". The pianist and composer is truly a romantic in every sense. His pieces swing between classical and pop, occasionally reminiscent of works by Erik Satie and Frédéric Chopin, yet they are always uniquely his own and of sublime elegance. This also applies to the new album. It is the much-quoted soundtrack to an imaginary film – and in the spirit of Yiruma's art, undoubtedly a thoroughly romantic one.
When we dream, reality mixes with fantasy into dream images, with which our subconscious seeks to process what we experience in everyday life. Sometimes we dream true films, sometimes romantic, sometimes euphoric, but also sad or even frightening. Yet even when we are awake and close our eyes, we are capable of imagining moving images whose origins are not always traceable. Music acts both as an enhancer and a guide. This is precisely what Yiruma aims for with his new studio album "Blind Film". And the album begins – as it should for an imaginary soundtrack – with a "Prologue", "Opening: Playing The Scene", an almost meditative start like birdsong on a spring morning, followed by the title track "Blind Film", a love potion cast in sound form. A heart-touching beginning to this cinematic fantasy.
As on his other albums, Yiruma also collaborated with other musicians on the new album. Cellist Kim Young-Min accompanies Yiruma on both "Waltz in E minor" (where the piano is even just the accompaniment to the cello) and on "Prelude in G minor" and "Blind Improvisation". Two other pieces are quartet recordings ("Piano Quartet No. 1 in A" and "Piano Quartet No. 3 in C"), featuring not only Kim Young-Min but also Lin Wayne (violin), Huang Hung Wie (viola), and Ji Suk Young (piano). It is particularly the dark tones of the cello that lend the pieces a grave melancholy, making Yiruma's intention to dedicate this album to all those with a heavy heart all the more understandable.
With "Blind Film", Yiruma has created another masterpiece of meticulously beautiful piano music that is likely to further solidify his international reputation. The musician, born in Seoul and later raised in England where he studied music in London, has now released well over a dozen albums. While he enjoys the status of a superstar in his South Korean homeland, filling the largest venues, his triumph through Europe and America is primarily due to the popularity of his composition "River Flows In You", which was originally intended for the vampire saga "Twilight" but was overlooked by the producers. However, the fans of Twilight found the piece outstanding and, thanks to YouTube, it became a sensation: "River Flows In You" turned into an international hit, even making it into the Top 20 in Germany. For an instrumental piano piece, this is an exceptionally remarkable result.
Thanks to superb pieces like "Waltz in C minor", he could achieve another boost in popularity with "Blind Film". The pianist and composer is truly a romantic in every sense. His pieces swing between classical and pop, occasionally reminiscent of works by Erik Satie and Frédéric Chopin, yet they are always uniquely his own and of sublime elegance. This also applies to the new album. It is the much-quoted soundtrack to an imaginary film – and in the spirit of Yiruma's art, undoubtedly a thoroughly romantic one.
When we dream, reality mixes with fantasy into dream images, with which our subconscious seeks to process what we experience in everyday life. Sometimes we dream true films, sometimes romantic, sometimes euphoric, but also sad or even frightening. Yet even when we are awake and close our eyes, we are capable of imagining moving images whose origins are not always traceable. Music acts both as an enhancer and a guide. This is precisely what Yiruma aims for with his new studio album "Blind Film". And the album begins – as it should for an imaginary soundtrack – with a "Prologue", "Opening: Playing The Scene", an almost meditative start like birdsong on a spring morning, followed by the title track "Blind Film", a love potion cast in sound form. A heart-touching beginning to this cinematic fantasy.
As on his other albums, Yiruma also collaborated with other musicians on the new album. Cellist Kim Young-Min accompanies Yiruma on both "Waltz in E minor" (where the piano is even just the accompaniment to the cello) and on "Prelude in G minor" and "Blind Improvisation". Two other pieces are quartet recordings ("Piano Quartet No. 1 in A" and "Piano Quartet No. 3 in C"), featuring not only Kim Young-Min but also Lin Wayne (violin), Huang Hung Wie (viola), and Ji Suk Young (piano). It is particularly the dark tones of the cello that lend the pieces a grave melancholy, making Yiruma's intention to dedicate this album to all those with a heavy heart all the more understandable.
