Margaret, Gia: Romantic Piano - Seaglass Wave Translucent (Vinyl LP)
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At first, Gia Margaret called her new album 'Romantic Piano' to be a bit cheeky. It's spare, gentle piano works share more spirit with Erik Satie, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou and the 'Marginalia' releases of Masakatsu Takagi than they do with, say, a cozy and candlelit date night. But in that cheekiness lies hidden intention: across the gorgeous set, Romantic is suggested in a more classic sense, what the Germans call waldeinsamkeit. It's compositions conjure the sublime themes of the Romantic poets: solitude in nature; nature's ability to heal and to teach; a sense of contented melancholy.I wanted to make music that was useful, says Margaret, vastly understating the power of the record. 'Romantic Piano' is curious, calming, patient and incredibly moving - but it doesn't overstay it's welcome for more than a second.Margaret's debut, 'There's Always Glimmer,' was a lyrical wonder, but when an illness on tour left her unable to sing, she made her ambient album 'Mia Gargaret' (another cheeky title!) which revealed a keen intuition for arrangement and composition not fully shown on 'There's Always Glimmer's lyrical songs. 'Romantic Piano', too, is almost totally without words. Writing instrumental music, in general, is a much more joyful process than I find in lyrical songwriting, she says. The process ultimately effects my songwriting. And while Margaret has more songwriterly material on the way, 'Romantic Piano' solidifies her as a compositional force.Originally pursing a degree in composition, Margaret dropped out of music school halfway through. I really didn't want to play in an orchestra, she said of her decision, I really just wanted to write movie scores. Then, I started to focus more and more on being a songwriter. 'Romantic Piano' scratched an old itch. 'Romantic Piano' does indeed touch on a rare feeling in art often only reserved for the cinema - a simultaneous wide-lens awe of existence and the post-language intimate inner monologue of being marooned in these skulls of ours. How very Romantic! Hinoki Wood, Ways of Seeing, Cicadas, Juno, A Stretch, City Song, Sitting at the Piano, Guitar Piece, La Langue de L'amitié, 2017, April to April, Cinnamon, A Hidden Track
At first, Gia Margaret called her new album 'Romantic Piano' to be a bit cheeky. It's spare, gentle piano works share more spirit with Erik Satie, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou and the 'Marginalia' releases of Masakatsu Takagi than they do with, say, a cozy and candlelit date night. But in that cheekiness lies hidden intention: across the gorgeous set, Romantic is suggested in a more classic sense, what the Germans call waldeinsamkeit. It's compositions conjure the sublime themes of the Romantic poets: solitude in nature; nature's ability to heal and to teach; a sense of contented melancholy.I wanted to make music that was useful, says Margaret, vastly understating the power of the record. 'Romantic Piano' is curious, calming, patient and incredibly moving - but it doesn't overstay it's welcome for more than a second.Margaret's debut, 'There's Always Glimmer,' was a lyrical wonder, but when an illness on tour left her unable to sing, she made her ambient album 'Mia Gargaret' (another cheeky title!) which revealed a keen intuition for arrangement and composition not fully shown on 'There's Always Glimmer's lyrical songs. 'Romantic Piano', too, is almost totally without words. Writing instrumental music, in general, is a much more joyful process than I find in lyrical songwriting, she says. The process ultimately effects my songwriting. And while Margaret has more songwriterly material on the way, 'Romantic Piano' solidifies her as a compositional force.Originally pursing a degree in composition, Margaret dropped out of music school halfway through. I really didn't want to play in an orchestra, she said of her decision, I really just wanted to write movie scores. Then, I started to focus more and more on being a songwriter. 'Romantic Piano' scratched an old itch. 'Romantic Piano' does indeed touch on a rare feeling in art often only reserved for the cinema - a simultaneous wide-lens awe of existence and the post-language intimate inner monologue of being marooned in these skulls of ours. How very Romantic! Hinoki Wood, Ways of Seeing, Cicadas, Juno, A Stretch, City Song, Sitting at the Piano, Guitar Piece, La Langue de L'amitié, 2017, April to April, Cinnamon, A Hidden Track