Yiruma

[cadenza14224]

I heard about this guy in a recent thread and I took a listen. I won't lie, I do enjoy some of his music, but I'm just curious if he only composes highly similarly sounding melancholic drab?

I like his sense of melody, and it would be nice to hear something with more complexity and breadth from him since most of his material sounds like stuff I could easily improvise on C-Major.

[hfmadopter]

I classify his music ( in my mind at least) as a kind of semi new age style of music. That almost always involves a very open kind of phrasing with a lot of repetition. Basically you are supposed to get into the mood of it all as a listener, kind of meld with the musician sort of thing, feel the sole of it all. Generally not real technically challenging stuff, though some of it can be with certain rhythmic difficulty.

I have found that some new age sort of patterns can give a nice ring to traditional pieces, Yiruma is just the latest buzz name and feel to a now aging approach to music. These guys all have a way of bringing out the best of simplicity. As to Yiruma himself, it seems he has a very large Asian following, a lot of people dieing to get at his work and inquiring because they love the sound so, seem to be Asians ( not all of course but large enough following). I've listened to him a fair amount, even found some sheet music to some of his pieces I thought I might do but in the end it's not moving me enough.

[49410enrique]

i'm not really all that 'jazzed' by his stuff, sounds pretty in small snippets but there aren't enough 'rough spots' to make it easy for me to grab on to, that is my ear loses interest quickly, too much  of the same flavor so to speak for the most post.

on this side of style of music though, i do like giovanni allevi's work, at times it falls prey to the same issues i have with yurima but he surprises me sometimes, especially some of his pieces with more complex rhythms

i actually like this little piece very much