Gia Margaret - Singing - VINYL LP

Album Tracks 1. Danse Tropicale 2. Ouannassa 3. Bahia 4. Buleria 5. Turquoise, Pt. III 6. Naima 7. Ouverture 8. Voyage de L'eau

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

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, InchRomanticInch 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.InchI wanted to make music that was useful,Inch 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. InchWriting instrumental music, in general, is a much more joyful process than I find in lyrical songwriting,Inch she says. InchThe process ultimately effects my songwriting.Inch 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. InchI really didn't want to play in an orchestra,Inch she said of her decision, InchI 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.Inch 'Romantic Piano' does indeed touch on a rare feeling in art o