Profile
Nunu (Nunu Kiefer) is (must be) an enigmatic female composer-pianist lives in Berlin. She released only two piano solo albums only from Schole, the label run by Japanese composer and music producer Akira Kosemura. Her songs are very simple and minimal, melancholic but pure and very precious. I think her compositions and performances are perpetual treasures in the world. But her information doesn’t exist in the internet or books at all…
Solo Album
Nunu (Schole, 2011)
Nunu’s debut album released in 2011. It consist of 7 short piano solo pieces were played by an acoustic piano or an electronic piano (or Casiotone??).
The first track “Wa1c Oo” is . The second, “Hokku” and “Kimidoll” are arpeggio based improvisational and swinging minimal pieces. “Cheburashka” is a simple, melancholic but elegant piano piece. “Chocolat” is simple piano piece has neutral and ordinary mood. “Serce Polska” and “Alb” are plain and easy but wonderfully emotional but pathetic piano pieces. And, all tracks might be recorded by herself, the sound is rough but I feel a handmade touch and a real familiar feeling.
Her compositions and playing are tiny and pity, however strangely beautiful and elegant, own an unbelongingness and a multicultural mood. This album is today’s musical treasure or precious stone. I wish as many people as possible to listen to this.
1 Wa1c Oo
2 Hokku
3 Kimidoll
4 Cheburashka
5 Chocolat
6 Serce Polska
7 Alb
Things I wasn’t able to tell you (2021)
“Things I wasn’t able to tell you” is the second album of Nunu. It released for the first time in ten years she had released her debut album “Nunu”.
This album 10 tracks, the first track and eighth track are piano based ambient or electronica collaborate with Kopfkino. Following 9 tracks are all piano solo pieces were played by an acoustic piano or an electric piano.
This album keeps minimalism, and melancholic and pitiful feeling of the first album. Also the compositions, the piano play and the atmosphere of this album became more sophisticated, elegant and delicate. So this album suggests and reminds her mind in the ordinary days. I think this pure and precious album matches the music for your peaceful ordinary everyday life.
1 Yesterdays (with Kopfkino)
2 The 27th of February
3 After Seven Years
4 Love You So
5 Nineteen Eighty Four
6 Daydream
7 Only You Can Make Me Cry So Bad
8 In Between (with Kopfkino)
9 Daysinady
10 The Fairy
