Romantic Piano: Limited Seaglass Wave Translucent Vinyl LP The New Pornographers Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Claudia Fontaine and Durga McBroom

Robert Glasper’s 2005 Blue Note debut Canvas signaled the arrival of a singular new voice in jazz and his 2007 follow-up In My Element solidified his status as a rising star who was taking the music someplace new

For their first album as Gilla Band

Romantic Piano: Limited Seaglass Wave Translucent Vinyl LP The New Pornographers LighthouseAt 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 Tsegu Maryam Gubrou 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