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# 🎵 Romantic Piano
- URL: https://helpful-koala.pikapod.net/romantic-piano/
- Published: 2023-06-03T14:03:27.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-31T00:55:52.000Z
- Author: Robert Rackley
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Gia Margaret [caught my ear a few years ago](https://micro.canneddragons.net/2020/04/27/margaret-on-the.html?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net), after she contracted a vocal illness that forced her to create instrumental music for her second album. I was mesmerized by the ambient track "Body" and the accompanying video.

Margaret just dropped a new album entitled *Romantic Piano*. It still follows a pattern of going light on the vocals. When it appears, her voice is treated almost [like one of the other instruments](https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/gia-margaret-romantic-piano-review?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net).

> After a long vocal hiatus following her illness in 2019, it is even clearer here that Margaret uses her voice as another instrument, a textured layer of warmth over sparse piano. “I can almost feel you,” she sings on an exhale as if the words spill out as merely a side effect of breathing.

On the track "La langue d'lamitié," a collaboration with Pedro The Lion's Dave Bazan, Margaret affects a sound that comes across as lo-fi with a bit more to ponder. The song ends with a sample concluding that music "is a language of feeling." Indeed.

[Romantic Piano by Gia Margaret](https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/romantic-piano?ref=helpful-koala.pikapod.net) 

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*For bonus points, check out this video of Margaret and her friend Zoya Zafar doing an accoustic stripped down cover of Slowdive's "Alison."*