HANIA RANI - Nostalgia - 2LP - Black Bio-Vinyl [SEP 27]

2LP - Standard weight, 2 x high quality black BioVinyl at Optimal in Germany for maximum sound quality. Comes with a 16-page booklet featuring Hania’s unique analogue photos, along with her thoughts on the recording process, studios, and the compositions themselves.

On the 6th of October 2023, the release date of her third solo album ‘Ghosts’, Hania Rani organised a special album release concert with a string ensemble in a very unique location - Witold Lutosławski's Concert Studio at the Polish Radio in Warsaw.

“Over the years, the spaces of Polish Radio became an important part of my life - both privately and professionally. I visited it for the first time as a student of Chopin University of Music and came back to make my first recordings in late 2018, just before the release of the debut album ‘Esja’. Since then I have been a regular guest.”

The building is located in the Mokotów district in Warsaw and has served generations of musicians and sound engineers for decades. For Hania it is a home from home; a beloved recording studio but something more important and resonant too. Nostalgia does more than just present a memorable concert; it celebrates a space and an idea as through the mediums of photography and recorded sound. Hania creates something profound and enlightening.

“Some months after this special concert in Studio S1 I came back to the chambers of Polish Radio. This time not as a musician, but as an observer. It was one of the coldest Mondays of January and Warsaw was adorned with fresh, plush snow. The building seemed completely empty, so I was able to navigate freely with my camera from space to space without interruption. I relished each object and each room waiting patiently to be consumed by a film roll. The obscure lighting was putting things in a subtle movement, the strong white beams were making them still again”

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; The deluxe LP comes with a 16-page booklet featuring Hania’s unique analogue photos, along with her thoughts on the recording process, studios, and the compositions themselves. The CD includes these photos in a beautifully glued-in 12-page booklet. 

Tracklist: 

Side 1
1. 24.03 (Studio 1, Warsaw)
2. Thin Line (Studio 1, Warsaw)
3. Dancing with Ghosts (Studio 1, Warsaw)

Side 2
1. The Boat (Studio 1, Warsaw)
2. It Comes in Waves (Studio 1, Warsaw) 07:09

Side 3
1. Don't Break My Heart (Studio 1, Warsaw)
2. Komeda (Studio 1, Warsaw)

Side 4
1. Utrata (Studio 1, Warsaw)
2. Nostalgia (Roundhouse, London)