Nuphar Fey - Serenity Island (2020)

Serenity Island (Hypnote Records – 2020) is the new release from Israeli pianist and composer Nuphar Fey and tells a story that spans a period of 8 years. The music contained on the album was written over a period of a number of years and documents the impressions of the pianist during her travels in several countries in Europe and Israel and deep life-changing experiences. While rooted in jazz the album presents a wide array of influences, tastefully combining them to capture a unique musical imprint.

The music created by Fey is multi-layered, combining surprising rhythms with spiritual depth. Free-spirited, abundant and daring in both her performance and writing, she creates her own musical space to experiment within connecting jazz with influences from post-romantic and alternative classical music, French impressionism, cinematic.

Introducing 10 original pieces, the album presents Fey’s trio in the classic format of piano, double bass and drums together with cello, voice and percussion. With extraordinary imagination and an orchestral approach, the recordings were made in several layers of piano, cello, voice and percussion over the trio, leading to surprising textures and spacious sounds. A broad collage, Serenity Island elegantly succeeds in being both personal and universal.