Label: Challenge Records
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917329926
Catalog number: CR 73299
Releasedate: 01-10-10
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917329926
Releasedate: 01-10-10
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book 'The Little Prince'. This was an important book for composer/pianist Soo Cho. The book's honest and poignant message she understood. Now this book is her inspiration to go back for a little while to our childhood: where things were not complicated and everything was possible! An album with pure and uncomplex music!
- Soo Cho's compositions are very authentic and appealing
- Her playing is melodically creative and she has a beautiful touch
- A musician with imagination and passion for her craft
- With a great band behind and beside her all musicians can flourish
- With leading Dutch trumpetplayer Angelo Verploegen with his velvety tone on both trumpet and flugelhorn
- Pure and imaginative music
"I love to make my music as pure as possible and I also love to give an honest impression to the listener. These days a lot of musicians are making very complex and difficult music, which (although much of it is great music that I genuinely admire) I sometimes feel has something of the circus about it. Maybe this comes from my inability to play like that, but musical acrobatics have never spoken to me and I have always felt I should take a different approach - one which doesn’t emphasise technical prowess, but rather, focuses on serving the compositions and my ideas behind them.
We were all children once though, and we shouldn’t forget what that was like. Sometimes we should again think the way we did when we were children and see all the wonderful things in life that were once the only things we saw.
During the creation this album, I often took myself back to my childhood - where everything and anything seemed possible. I hope this comes across in my music and that it can make some people happy. I hope it will make people think about the things that inspired me when writing each composition." - Soo Cho in the linernotes of the CD 'Little Prince'
We were all children once though, and we shouldn’t forget what that was like. Sometimes we should again think the way we did when we were children and see all the wonderful things in life that were once the only things we saw.
During the creation this album, I often took myself back to my childhood - where everything and anything seemed possible. I hope this comes across in my music and that it can make some people happy. I hope it will make people think about the things that inspired me when writing each composition." - Soo Cho in the linernotes of the CD 'Little Prince'