Hania Rani - Esja [CD Album]

Gondwana Records

£12.55

Format: CD Album
Catalogue No.: GONDCD030
Barcode: 5050580701847
Release Date: 21st May 2021
Genre: Electronica/Dance (Ambient)

01: Eden
02: Sun
03: Hawaii Oslo
04: Pour Trois
05: Biesy
06: Luka
07: Glass
08: Today It Came
09: Esja
10: Now, Run

LP comes with heavy weight reverse board sleeve including a double sided printed insert plus digital download code.

"I think I am the same as an artist and as a person. Music is my way of communication and I see the art, the music as a whole thing, with no borders, divisions, or even genres."

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik, and released an album with her Polish group tęskno last year. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London (where she made her debut at the Gondwana 10thanniversary festival last October) and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

Esja is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. "No hiding behind the "collaborations" or "projects" anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I am".

Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.

Expect support from accross the media spectrum from Mojo to Uncut and Gilles Peterson and Mary Ann Hobbs on 6 Music to Radio 3 and beyond. Full servicing to the Gondwana Records datebase.

Confirmed tour dates

25.04. Poznan

27.04. Brussels

03.05. Newcastle

11.05. Berlin

To be confirmed soon:

London, Dublin, Manchester, Amsterdam/ Utrecht, Hamburg, Paris and Milan for May.