Gia Margaret

In the organizer's words:

Every artist has to find her own voice. Gia Margaret only found herself when she lost her voice. Due to a vocal cord injury that prevented her from singing for years, she developed other forms of musical expression and mastered the grammar of a complex, homey form of ambient music founded by Ernest Hood and perfected by The Books. Now, with her physical voice healed and her artistic voice honed, she has come full circle with Singing, her first vocal album since 2018's There's Always Glimmer. Led by gentle piano melodies that fall like breaths on glass, the music on Singing evinces the same sensitivity to detail that she developed in her stillness.

The album was partly recorded in London with Guy Sigsworth of Frou Frou. David Bazan and Amy Millan are featured, as are Kurt Vile and Sean Carey, while Margaret's longtime collaborator Doug Saltzman plays and co-produces much of the album. Deb Talan, formerly of The Weepies, contributes her voice, piano and guitar to the album's final and definitive statement "E-Motion".

Gia Margaret always sings. Every note of this album sings a warm requiem for her past self; every layer sings her future self into being. Throughout the album, she applies the lessons of speechlessness - the quasi-rational ways we communicate without communicating, the way formless sounds can penetrate like a scalpel to the core of things - to her own artistic voice.

Price information:

VVK: 25€ plus fees