Hania Rani - Nostalgia (2024)

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
1. Rani: 24.03 (Live at Studio 1, Warsaw) (5:52)
2. Bellamy, Rani: Thin Line (Live at Studio 1, Warsaw) (6:55)
3. Watson, Rani: Dancing with Ghosts (Live at Studio 1, Warsaw) (5:31)
4. Rani: The Boat (Live at Studio 1, Warsaw) (6:37)
5. Rani: It Comes in Waves (Live at Studio 1, Warsaw) (7:10)
6. Bellamy, Rani: Don't Break My Heart (Live at Studio 1, Warsaw) (6:55)
7. Rani: Komeda (Live at Studio 1, Warsaw) (10:34)
8. Rani: Utrata (Live at Studio 1, Warsaw) (5:09)
9. Rani: Nostalgia (Live at Roundhouse, London) (5:47)