Korean pianist Eunhye Jeong is a game-changer. She’s jazz from a different perspective. She’s a pianist who doesn’t sound like anyone else on the scene.
In her liner notes for the release, Jeong writes, “I made my first solo piano recording under the name Chi-Da. Chi-Da and Nolda can both be translated as “play.” While Chi-Da refers to physical motions that produce sounds by crashing together two objects, Nolda is more associated with playful activities. One may interpret this word as a fun, free-flowing action on the piano. That is partly true, but I dare ask: who can have fun and experience true freedom without “knowing thyself”? Nolda means transcending the physical reality without abandoning it at all, which is made of body, mind, and the world. We music creators are artists who work with invisible and intangible energy forms as ingredients to create. Nolda, in this sense, is the magic of music-making.”
1. Perspective Shifts
2. Strange Rocks
3. Blue Sun
4. Columnar Jointing
5. Rooted
6. Ultraviolet-lightly Coated
7. Emerging Islands
8. Threading Stories
9. If I Were
Eunhye Jeong, piano
Recorded at Futura Productions, Roslindale, MA on January 8, 2021
Mixed and mastered by Travis Karpak
