On Giacometti Hania Rani

• 1 Rani: Allegra 04:01
• 2 Rani: Spring 03:06
• 3 Rani: Stampa 02:00
• 4 Rani: Struggle 02:43
• 5 Rani: Morning 02:34
• 6 Rani: In Between 02:19
• 7 Rani: Knots 01:54
• 8 Rani: Dreamy 02:59
• 9 Rani: Storm 03:18
• 10 Rani: Time 05:53
• 11 Rani: Mountains 04:07
• 12 Rani: Annette 03:22
• 13 Rani: Alberto 03:47
• Total Runtime 42:03

Info for On Giacometti

Hania Rani kündigt "On Giacometti" an, eine zarte Meditation über das Leben und die Kunst von Alberto Giacometti und seiner Familie. "On Giacometti" ist eine Sammlung wunderschöner Aufnahmen, die von dem berühmten Künstler und seiner Familie inspiriert sind und einige von Ranis bisher zartesten Kompositionen enthalten. Auf Einladung der Filmregisseurin Susanna Fanzun, die einen Dokumentarfilm über den legendären Künstler Alberto Giacometti drehen wollte, zog sich Hania Rani in die Schweizer Berge zurück, um in glücklicher Abgeschiedenheit zu komponieren. Wie Rani im Folgenden wortgewandt erklärt, basieren die Kompositionen auf improvisierten Melodien, einfachen Harmonien und Strukturen und sind von der Stille der Berge inspiriert, während Rani zu ihrem Hauptinstrument, dem Klavier, zurückkehrt. Das Ergebnis erinnert auf betörende Weise an ihr geliebtes Debütalbum Esja, allerdings mit subtilen zusätzlichen Synthesizer-Schichten und auf zwei Stücken mit dem Cello ihrer Freundin und langjährigen Wegbereiterin Dobrawa Czocher.

Hania Rani

Hania Rani
is an award-winning pianist, composer and singer. Her debut album ‘Esja’, a beguiling collection of solo piano pieces on Gondwana Records was released to international acclaim in 2019, earning Rani four prestigious Fryderyk Awards including “Best Debut Album”, “Best Alternative Album” and “Best New Arrangement”, in recognition from the Polish music industry’s very own Grammys.

Her follow-up sophomore album, the expansive, cinematic, ‘Home’, was released in 2020 on Gondwana Records and finds Rani expanding her palate: adding vocals and subtle electronics to her music as well as being accompanied by bassist Ziemowit Klimek and drummer Wojtek Warmijak. The album earned Rani another notable accolade of “Best Composer”, a further acknowledgement from Fryderyk and with Rough Trade including it in their essential “Albums of the Year”.

Hania’s third solo album ‘Ghosts‘ was released on October 6th 2023, and features Patrick Watson, Ólafur Arnalds and Duncan Bellamy (from Portico Quartet) and was made with the help of Viktor Orri Árnason (string arrangements) and Greg Freeman (mixing). ‘Ghosts’ was mastered by John Davis at Metropolis Studios.

“With ‘Ghosts’ I wanted to start something from scratch, picking tools and stories I was not familiar with, but which felt dear to me. ‘Ghosts’ is a story about life and death, light and darkness, real and unreal. It’s an attempt to touch ultimate qualities and craft my own mythologies; to face fears, take a deep dive into things that scare me but also seduce me subconsciously. ‘Ghosts’ collects all of these things together, mixing the past, present and the future into a new sound of mine.”

Newly announced ‘Nostalgia‘ is Rani’s first ‘real’ live album, recorded in a place of deep personal and artistic significance: the Polish Radio studios in Warsaw. Through Nostalgia, Hania presents the studios in her own perspective,as somewhere unique and unknown. A place of work, but something more. A place of ghosts and hidden meanings, of inspiration and mystery. By juxtaposing her music with evocative analogue photographs of the studios, Rani provides a closer look at her artistic journey – from composing to performance and recording – all seen through her own eyes. For Rani, it is an experimental step – the first time she brings her sonic and visual worlds together in a combined presentation.

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