{"product_id":"romantic-piano-gia-margaret-vinyl-limited-edition","title":"Romantic Piano - Gia Margaret [VINYL Limited Edition]","description":"At first, Gia Margaret called her 2023 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. '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 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 1\u003cbr\u003e1. Hinoki Wood - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e2. Ways of Seeing - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e3. Cicadae - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e4. Juno - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e5. A Stretch - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e6. City Song - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e7. Sitting at the Piano - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e8. Guitar Piece - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e9. La Langue De L'amiti‚ (Feat. David Bazan) - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e10. 2017 - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e11. April to April - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e12. Cinnamon - Gia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Golden Discs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57774631289180,"sku":"JAG448LPC1","price":11.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/4731\/2476\/files\/MUS000764127.jpg?v=1780305812","url":"https:\/\/westvinyl.com\/products\/romantic-piano-gia-margaret-vinyl-limited-edition","provider":"West End Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}