Your Wave Persists, by Jienan Yuan

Your Wave Persists

by Jienan Yuan

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	1.	Your Wave Persists (for Ryuichi Sakamoto) 02:08
	2.	VE-A 02:31
	3.	That Day, On the Beach 03:42
	4.	Chant I - Biscuit and Mom 01:54
	5.	Cecilia 03:00
	6.	Chant II - Noh Lullaby 01:00
	7.	Nogent 04:42
	8.	Chant III - A Sleeping Bear Dreams of Maolán Buí 01:52
	9.	I Wonder (for Eric M) 05:32
	10.	If Never, Forever (for Ann Poochareon) 07:09
	11.	Chant IV - Zufumu (after Duruflé) 00:51
	12.	Of This Light 09:44

about

“Your Wave Persists’ began an act of remembrance - to honor the memory of those I’ve lost that eventually emerged into a collection of sounds that I hope can help listeners process loss in their own lives. The older I get, the more I become aware that one of the key catalysts for connectivity between all people is loss - how it binds us but also, how we process it and eventually, hopefully, learn to keep moving on.

I kneejerk dismiss any artwork that professes to be a tool to help cope with life and yet, I hope this album can provide some kind of solace for someone. What can you do, the kind of purposeful art that makes me instantly cringe is exactly what I put out into the world. But it is what it is - working on these tracks helped me so I hope they can help you.

A few more thoughts:

Of the twelve, four tracks were commissioned for dance/performance pieces and as always, it was a thrill to develop them to support an artist’s creative vision and I thank Cheng, Aimee, and Okyoung and Caroline for honoring me with their request.

Two of the four short ‘Chant’ piano pieces were written for Winston, Sanford’s younger brother, and my dear Baby Bear, Biscuit, and Jibbees. Sometimes, when it’s late at night, when I’m coming up the stairs, that old magical thinking kicks in and I feel my heart skip hoping against hope that I’ll see him dreaming on his favorite sofa. I miss his ornery personality, I miss his warmth - most of all, I miss how much he loved Jaime. His world, he just adored her.

The final two songs ‘Zufumu’ and ‘Of This Light’ are dedicated to the memory of my grandparents - this life and all we carry, it was born of the light of my elders and ancestors.

Finally, thank you all for your support and taking the time to listen to ‘Your Wave Persists’. It really does mean the world to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

credits

released January 19, 2024

written and performed by Jienan Yuan

Piano, Electronics - JIenan Yuan

Recorded 2020-2024 in Ann Arbor, MI

"That Day, On the Beach" and "Cecilia" were commissioned by Cheng Yun for the forthcoming 2024 dance performance "Nurturing the Process" at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, England

"Nogent" was commissioned by Terpsichore Collective for the forthcoming untitled 2024 dance performance to premiere September 2024 at Riverside Art Center in Ypsilanti, MI

"VE-A" and "Chant Donné II - Noh Lullaby" were commissioned for the May 2023 interactive theater piece and performance, “aZn luv luv t0ur,” directed and performed by Okyoung Noh and Caroline Yoo, presented in Duderstadt Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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Reflective and bittersweet, Jienan Yuan's music glimmers with the fragments of unrequited love and faded memories; an electro-acoustic current of sound over which his delicate melodies float and tremble. Yuan’s music inhabits the emotionally fragile and ephemeral space between lifelong regret and uncertain acceptance – a searching affection that resonates throughout his quietly devastating songs. ... more

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