Romantic Piano: Limited Seaglass Wave Translucent Vinyl LP The New Pornographers Claudia Fontaine and Durga McBroom

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Romantic Piano: Limited Seaglass Wave Translucent Vinyl LP The New Pornographers Claudia Fontaine and Durga McBroomAt 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