On Giacometti, by Hania Rani

On Giacometti

by Hania Rani

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realm-of-winds I love all of Hania's work, I love it's delicate flow as it weaves through air, cloud, mountain stream. And I so appreciate her gifts of music to help the people of Ukraine. Many times have I listened to her exquisite art as a kind of therapy, a way to escape to some other world. What a blessing her music is to all of us. Favorite track: Mountains.

Tim Heiler A beautiful record full of lush, dreamy textures. But it's toooo short. The magic passes in the blink of an eye. As all good moments do, I guess? Poetic beauty. Favorite track: Storm.

Carlos Ibanez Magical, soothing little melodies to ride along these uncertain times. Favorite track: Allegra.

k7michał Very nicely captured moments of solace and solitude; very contemplative and filled with longing.

One of my favorite aspects of this recording is hearing the metallic harmonics of the upper strings on the piano, or the sounds of the key strokes and all its little imperfections. It gives a feeling of honesty, humbleness and truth of reality and its hardships.

Thank you Hania for keeping strict to the theme and format for this album. It makes for a great journey. Favorite track: Alberto.

cajgel beauty is the wings that allow our soul to fly and dream. and who brings beauty makes it possible

piarwood Again, beautiful, dreamy, lovely.

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1.	Allegra 04:01	buy track
2.	Spring 03:06	buy track
3.	Stampa 02:00	buy track
4.	Struggle 02:43	buy track
5.	Morning 02:34	buy track
6.	In Between 02:19	buy track
7.	Knots 01:54	buy track
8.	Dreamy 02:59	buy track
9.	Storm 03:18	buy track
10.	Time 05:53	buy track
11.	Mountains 04:07	buy track
12.	Annette 03:22	buy track
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Hania Rani announces "On Giacometti" a tender meditation on the life and art of Alberto Giacometti and family.

"On Giacometti" is a collection of beautiful recordings inspired by the renowned artist and family and features some of Rani’s most profoundly delicate compositions to date. Invited by film director Susanna Fanzun, to score her forthcoming documentary on the legendary artist Alberto Giacometti, Hania Rani took herself to the Swiss mountains to compose in blissful isolation. As Rani explains eloquently below the compositions are based on improvised melodies, simple harmonies and structures and inspired by the silence of the mountains as Rani returns to her main instrument, the piano. The results are beguilingly reminiscent of her beloved debut album Esja, but with subtle extra layers of synthesiser, and on two tracks cello from friend and long-running collaborator Dobrawa Czocher.

'On Giacometti' is presented as a limited edition LP with bespoke packaging featuring Les Naturals - Chocolat (Gmund) sustainable recycled paperboard made from 100 % recovered paper with Foil Artwork by Łukasz Pałczyński. Plus Double sided printed insert and download code inside.

Words by Hania Rani "On Giacometti"

When I was asked to compose a soundtrack for a movie about the family of Giacometti I didn't think twice.
Alberto Giacometti, a Swiss artist, who worked mainly as painter and sculptor has been one of my favourite artists for a long time. His individual style, aesthetics and the character of his creative process is still fascinating to me on many levels, so being able to dive even deeper into his universe, getting to know not only him but also his family was an opportunity that I couldn’t miss.

Little did I know how far this "yes" will take me - not only mentally and on a creative level but also physically. Thanks to the director of the documentary - Susanna Fanzun and by a stroke of luck and a couple of extra questions I decided to move for a couple of months to the Swiss mountains, not far away from the place where Giacometti was born and where the place he called home was, although he didn’t live there. Susanna showed me a place close to her hometown where I could rent a studio and work on the soundtrack but also for my other projects. It was the middle of a winter, the area was full of ice and snow, just like only it can happen still in the mountains. The residency house was located in a valley surrounded by high mountains and the sun in the winter season was not coming up for too long during the day. I remember she told me about it and added "that not everyone is feeling well there, but I hope you will". I did.

Being almost separated from reality, the city and its entertainments, people rushing and everything that usually takes my attention I could fully concentrate on the music and soundtrack, spending most of the day with my own thoughts and having enough space to experiment and be free in a creative process. This soundtrack would probably be a very different thing if composed in a place that I am usually living in. I took this a chance to explore something new about myself as a composer and human being, taking the opposite direction that I would usually choose for myself.

The album "On Giacometti" includes the excerpts from the soundtrack, the most representative tracks and those which became a strong voice itself. Based a lot on improvised melodies, simple harmonies, structures and silence it reminds me of my debut album "Esja" which was partly composed and recorded in another chilly place - Iceland. All these components, both mental and physical, guided me back to my main instrument - piano, which I tried to redefine again with a language of the space that I was working in. The space is usually the key element that gives me the answer about the arrangement or character of the project. Space seems to be the first to appear and music is the invisible power which is changing its angels.

Living surrounded by mountains makes you change the perspective and understanding of scale as Alberto Giacometti once famously wrote in a letter.
It gives an impression that things that are actually far away, like mountains, are close and the other ones that are not so far away, like people, seem small, watched from a distance.
You feel like touching the mountain top with your finger could be as easy as touching the tip of your nose.
The snow additionally protects the whole area from the noise, each sound lands softly on the ground accompanied by echoes of immeasurable space. Each scratch or whisper is becoming an autonomic entity, opening the gate to the world of ghosts and lost spirits. It's easy to think that time stands still there, while nothing is moving and changing at the first sight.

But the ubiquitous ice and snow reveal the passage of time, transforming frozen paysage into the wild stream of water - each day, hour and second. Melting and vanishing, clearing the space from white powder and noise consuming surface. Invisible process for a one night traveller, becomes painfully real for longer time settlers.

Time flows with each new wave of sound coming through the river, reminding us that we are part of the cycle, which endlessly repeats itself.

I left the valley with the first breath of the spring.

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released February 17, 2023

2023, Gondwana Records

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Hania Rani Warsaw, Poland

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who, was born in Gdansk and splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin

Her new album, the expansive, cinematic, ‘Home’, is rebased on May 29th and finds Rani expanding her palate: adding vocals and subtle electronics to her music as well as being joined on some tracks by bassist Ziemowit Klimek and drummer Wojtek Warmijak. ... more

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Mar 31

District 272 Club (ex Striptease)

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E-werk, Saal

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La Cigale

Paris, France
Apr 26

ORANGE CIVIC CENTRE

Orange, NSW
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Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

Melbourne, VIC
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York Theatre, Seymour Centre

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The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre

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Parkbühne Geyserhaus

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