RobMoro TV | Gia Margaret – ‘City Song’

Chicago-based musician Gia Margaret debuts the video for the latest single ‘City Song’, taken from her new album, “Romantic Piano”.

The track is a delicate and slow-moving embrace of serenity and fervor for someone.

In the video for ‘City Song’ spurs interpretative dancing that evokes the lyrics, blending an aesthetic of empty rooms and grandeur that can be filled with beauty and romantisicim.

It was directed and Edited by Lua Borges, a Brazilian-born and Chicago-based director who has previously done stunning work for Squirrel Flowers, Adelaide, and Beach Bunny.

“’City Song’ feels heavier than the other songs on “Romantic Piano”, in the same way that being in the city feels much heavier to me than being out in an open field. I thought it could serve as a more potent pause in a lighter natured sequence of music. An inversion to the way an instrumental song can serve as a brief but necessary moment of lightness in a heavier lyric-based record. It is partly reflective on core memory. It seems both random and fated that a passing moment can mean so much later on (and sometimes forever!). More abstractly, this song ponders a strange occurrence I’ve experienced: that a flash of memory can feel like a message from a spirit/guardian of someone or something beyond me.”

Gia Margaret.

“Romantic Piano” is a more compositional structured album rather than a strongly lyrical one, taking inspiration from the time out Margaret had to take from touring while recovering from illness.

“Romantic Piano” is out now via Jagjaguwar.