Pianist Yiruma releases new EP 'non è la fine'

Pianist Yiruma released his new EP “non è la fine” on Friday. “Music On the album might feel incomplete, but I’ve included tracks that are only completed when they are filled with the emotions and stories of the listeners,” the ...

Pianist Yiruma [UNIVERSAL MUSIC KOREA]

Pianist Yiruma released his new EP “non è la fine” on Friday.

“Music on the album might feel incomplete, but I’ve included tracks that are only completed when they are filled with the emotions and stories of the listeners,” the pianist said in a press release on Friday.

The title of the album, “non è la fine,” is Italian for ‘there is no end,’ and refers to Yiruma’s intention of wanting to contain an "end that is not an end" in the album, according to label Universal Music Korea.

“The main objective of the album was to ‘empty;’ I wanted to write incomplete music that makes arpeggio feels like the main melody. I wanted to convey the moment where ‘having no end’ felt more hopeful than to ‘be forever,” Yiruma explained.

The album has five tracks, “when it snows in May,” “la fine” “la primavera,” “non è la fine” and lead track “la bianca primavera,” a cello-piano duo piece.

Album cover for ″non e la fine,″ Yiruma's newest album [UNIVERSAL MUSIC KOREA]

Pianist Yiruma debuted in 2001 with his first album “Love Scene (Yiruma Piano Solo).” With more than 200 composed pieces, he is best known for tracks “River Flows in You” (2001), “Kiss the Rain” (2003) and the soundtracks on the clay animation “Doggy Poo” (2003).

Pianist Yiruma [UNIVERSAL MUSIC KOREA]

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]