“ILLUSIONS OF AMETHYST” by Jacqueline Cordes

Jacqueline Cordes opens the gates to her Chromaverse with Illusions of Amethyst, a striking and elegant neoclassical composition that ushers in her upcoming album Frozen Star. At just 22 years old, Jacqueline’s gift for world-building through music is remarkable—and with synesthesia guiding her creative lens, each note becomes color, and each composition a universe of emotion. In Illusions of Amethyst, the color is deep violet—shimmering, mysterious, and layered with melancholy.

The piece unfolds like a waltz frozen in time. Flowing minor-key melodies ripple gently across a delicate harmonic landscape, drawing listeners into a dreamscape both intimate and otherworldly. The piano, often gentle but never passive, carries a melodic grace that feels part lullaby, part lament.

Shadows drift beneath the surface, yet there’s a quiet beauty that refuses to dissolve into sorrow. It’s a composition that doesn’t demand attention—it simply invites you to surrender to its spell. This single also serves as the entrance to the visual world of The Puppetmaker, the music video that accompanies the track. In it, a masked artisan toils in an abandoned world, his ritualistic craft echoing the song’s themes of memory, longing, and delicate illusion. The imagery and music are perfectly entwined, with each movement of the Puppetmaker’s hands mirroring the careful elegance of Jacqueline’s piano lines. It’s a seamless fusion of sight and sound—a dance between the tactile and the intangible. Illusions of Amethyst is not just a composition; it’s the first portal into the rich tapestry of Frozen Star, an album Jacqueline describes as more colorful than her debut, Singularity.

Where Singularity journeyed through timeless spaces and ancient echoes, Frozen Star explores more vivid emotional terrain. In this new collection, each piece belongs to a different realm within the Chromaverse—Jacqueline’s synesthetic universe where music and color converge into story. In Illusions of Amethyst, Jacqueline Cordes offers a powerful opening statement—one that merges classical discipline with cinematic atmosphere and imaginative storytelling. Her ability to translate color into music, emotion into architecture, makes this more than a listening experience. It becomes a passage into something far deeper: a personal mythology of sound and sensation. This is a song to close your eyes to, breathe with, and disappear inside.