Maria Chiara Argirò
Maria Chiara Argirò is a creative pianist and composer whose work branches out from jazz into folk, art-pop, and electronic music. She made her solo debut with 2016's mainly acoustic-based The Fall Dance, then continued expanding her sound with her successive releases, embracing house and atmospheric indie rock on 2022's Forest City. Closer, an adventurous electronic pop album, appeared in 2024.
Born in Rome, Argirò started taking classical piano lessons as a child, but she became enamored with jazz as a teenager, additionally falling in love with artists such as Pink Floyd and Nick Drake. She studied at the London Centre of Contemporary Music and Middlesex University, and extensively toured and recorded with groups such as These New Puritans and Kinkajous. Her first album, The Fall Dance, was released by Odradek Records in 2016. The album's vocalist, Leila Martial, returned for 2019's Hidden Seas, issued by Cavalo Records, the label Argirò co-founded with frequent collaborator Liran Donin. Flow, a collaboration with guitarist Jamie Leeming, appeared in 2020. Argirò radically shifted her sound for her 2022 Innovative Leisure full-length Forest City, a more electronic record influenced by house and trip-hop, featuring the composer's own vocals for the first time. 2024's Closer ventured further into electronic pop, blending vibrant melodies and glitchy vocals with downtempo and garage beats.
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Closer
Electronic - Released by Innovative Leisure on 26 Apr 2024
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Flow
Maria Chiara Argirò, Jamie Leeming
Jazz - Released by Cavalo Records on 16 Oct 2020
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Forest City Remixes
Electronic - Released by Innovative Leisure on 18 Jan 2023
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Greenarp (Terracassette Remix)
Electronic - Released by Innovative Leisure on 28 Dec 2022
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Retrograde (Edit)
Maria Chiara Argirò, Jamie Leeming
Jazz - Released by Cavalo Records on 29 May 2020
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Kōsetsu
Maria Chiara Argirò, Jamie Leeming
Jazz - Released by Cavalo Records on 4 Sep 2020
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Clouds (Byron the Aquarius Remix)
Jazz - Released by Innovative Leisure on 15 Nov 2022
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Fables
Maria Chiara Argirò, Jamie Leeming
Jazz - Released by Cavalo Records on 30 Sep 2020
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