Gia Margaret - Singing - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Every artist has to discover their voice. Gia Margaret didn't find herself until she lost hers. With a vocal injury that kept her from singing for years, she developed other musical languages, mastering the grammar of an intricate, homey form of ambient music pioneered by Ernest Hood and perfected by The Books. Now, her physical voice healed and her artistic voice honed, she comes full circle with Singing, her first vocal album since 2018's There's Always Glimmer. Led by soft piano lines that fall like breath on glass, the music on Singing evidences the same jeweler's sensitivity to detail that she developed in her silence. InchThere was a time when I really didn't know if I would sing again. So once I healed, there was a lot of internal pressure to come back strong,Inch Margaret says. InchI didn't know who I was anymore. So it felt like beginning again, and reconnecting with these very old, old parts of myself.Inch This feeling of intermixed alienation and rediscovery is palpable across the album. In opener InchEveryone Around Me Dancing,Inch she watches a party from the wings, aware of how her body keeps her from communal joy while also providing new modes of self-knowledge. Shut out from the scene, she is Inchcloser to the ground, the planet.Inch In InchAlive Inside,Inch she's so far away from the source that she's praying to whoever might hear (Incha god, a friend that's gone, a spiritInch). As her voice rises, it seems to be trapped in a web of distortion; it's as if in her pursuit, she's pushing at the very boundaries of what can be said. The process of making Singing was one of learning how to trust each of those feelings. The album was partially recorded in London with Frou Frou's Guy Sigsworth, who helped Margaret unify the spree of ideas she had for InchGood Friend,Inch an album highlight that includes Gregorian chant by ILA and turntable scratches, among ma