Romantic Piano: Vinyl LP Scouting For Girls He just never got around

He just never got around to releasing them

Across fourteen sunbleached songs - written solo or with his brother Kody - Ruban draws from the rich traditions of West Coast AOR

Abby Dahlquist (piano/synthesizer)

Gigi Masin has enjoyed a revival in recent years through his Calypso album on R&S’s Apollo label and renewed touring

Tracked live in co-producer Brad Cook’s North Carolina studio

Romantic Piano: Vinyl LP Scouting For Girls He just never got aroundAt 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