May 26 street date. At first, Gia Margaret called her new album "Romantic Piano" to be a bit cheeky. Its 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. Its 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. "Romantic Piano" is curious, calming, patient and incredibly moving - but it doesn't overstay its 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 the debut's lyrical songs. "Romantic Piano", too, is almost totally without words.
May 26 street date. At first, Gia Margaret called her new album "Romantic Piano" to be a bit cheeky. Its 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. Its 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. "Romantic Piano" is curious, calming, patient and incredibly moving - but it doesn't overstay its 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 the debut's lyrical songs. "Romantic Piano", too, is almost totally without words.
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