Hania Rani-Esja 5TH April 2019
Released by Matthew Halsall via his gondwana records this grabs you by the sensitive heart tugging frantically at every string.
Esja her acclaimed debut album of ten instrumental compositions or melodic improvisations.
The packaging tonal a raw looking neutral charcoal, a composed frame for the photographic center. Her Back naturally turned to the camera hair blowing gently in the prevailing wind. A black inner sleeve glowing brilliantly revealing vinyl label green. A single double-sided sheet pulls out.
One side credits featuring prominently a photo shot of an independent studio which can equally be seen in the video glass I think it was.
The other a philosophical note extract entitled on silence.
Beyond in which somehow we become desensitized to modern music due to its independent being that constant in conventional life.
The extraordinary power of appropriate music realistically is still affective effective however gradually declining.
Senses perception change with mental state time silence and private space Regardless
Unpredictable events naturally occur whether we intentionally choose to listen or not.
This alum realistically is sheer exquisite genuinely touching the much inner core of your organic being.
Just her and the modern piano undoubtedly played/sounding like one, not I, have adequately investigated in the idealized past.
The extraordinary richness, remarkable warmth, resonance crisp clear notes
Typically allow the attentive listener to switch off from the world finding comfort.
Even pleasant respite as the gentle complex music genuinely feels like a breathless pause from social reality in a prominent generality.
This successful album almost on a constant deep rotation
Minimalist continuous, each melodic movement of the expressive hands emits so much feeling.
Rotating pounded hammered out passionate emotion on those musical keys narrating a harmonious journey to us all. A mild spell you realistically are under each emotional song Sensitive fingers hammering caressing guiding thoughtfully stroking those keys.
Her follow up album is released later this month
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Published may 9th 2020
Hania Rani-Home
Gondwana records 3rd July
The albums release date was put back by a week or I may of got the dates mixed up which intensified the anticipation .Writing about this literally broke me into a crumbled wreck.A double gate fold sleeve picturesque in the middle of nowhere a drawing of a house vast graces the cover which is could have been drawn by a child? The weight in the top of the building whilst it’s translucent almost shadows as like a fading memory suggestive. A figure walks through the non existent door. The inner gatefold features a photo out to sea taken under a pier?Like her first album had an extract so does this an extracted piece of work titled loneliness which is even more relevant at this current time now, everybody will of experienced varying levels like everything I live with I have lived with loneliness for so many years now As well as composing the music Hania has also produced them playing Piano, synths, keyboards and a new instrument her voice This album sees her also incorporating new instrumentation double bass, drums and a string quartet.
This Notion of home complex multilayered in meaning, style, class and functionality fundamentally a basic need and desire despite the level of attainment or actuality one of affordability. A strange word is it not? Those idealisms and connotations
Home should offer security, safety, freedom, identity, allow you to be yourself yet home can also become a prison, a dangerous place I can imagine for those who have suffered domestic abuse as organisations have said incidents reported have gone up, the perpetrators using the epidemic to their advantage upon their victims. Personally I have lived in a bed-sit, I have lived in a one bed flat, then another the most beautiful flat in an old vicarage also a 3 bed 3 story house, each had their own stories/history they helped shape a little of mine all with their own qualities and charm. Back then friends would visit drop by food would be cooked their was such a huge sense of pride and achievement your ‘own place’ each one you could inject a little of your tastes and interests by personalizing each room revealing a little of yourself to actively being engaged within the local communities. That was back then.Home now is a room in which I rent everything is done I do everything and not do anything sometimes this room feels like the loneliest place I have known. Surrounded by inner dialogue thoughts here it’s the only space I exist renting a room though everyone else is fleeting temporary friendships, bonds it’s a struggle cause your always restarting establishing trust etc. it’s a room that’s devoid of pretty much everything part from minimal furniture after all these years I am still living out of boxes. Apart from my music and radio the two things that are a constant feature a constant companion .I have changed for both better in some ways and mentally worse.This is the loneliest I have ever being It saddens me that my age I am never going to own my own ‘home’. A base for these life journeys which have being travelled or occurred. Home is also a state of mind how things around us/within us align that intangible Sometimes it’s not about bricks and mortar but rather a feeling.Music is my constant companion the only thing that is always there secures me like an anchor. Unable to converse with music breaking the hum of the fridge in my room, the awful silence lingers in the air I know we are in an epidemic but even before then I was not allowed friends to visit making me feel like an untrustworthy child.Due to the geographical loca7tion isolation intensifies ,it feels more like a cell.Hania Rani has released her second album ‘home’ if you bought or heard esjre you will fall in love with this even more.Home is an album I need in my life it’s the first thing I wake up to, fall asleep to and its there for those times in between I have found it calms my mind stops my racing thoughts, its almost meditative and gives me space to breathe and I feel lighter. I have sobbed along with this album; I have smiled and danced to it to. How you really listen to it will be affected to your inner emotional state at that particular point in time. Home is constant change without that upheaval of renovation yet full of alterations. A faultless album which sees her changing direction not only with instrumentation but the introduction of vocalization which leaves a cross roads for future albums her voice is phenomenal spellbinding yet sensitive elusive alongside new elements of electronics along with drums and bass plus Quartet. Hania ranias music for me is also a reintroduction to music genres rediscovering minimalism and classical music that is of the now in which my interest once drifted off.Home as an album is far superior to her debut; the piano is still the main focusDelicate fragility and beauty Space and sparseness the added instrumentations work building the sound in many ways, it’s purely breathtaking.The piano again has been recorded in the intimate way that esjre was .Home an ethereal reflective album that makes you feel and think many things, her playing and story telling is bolder wider those including moments of natures life /everyday life which sometime goes unheard the clocks, the birdsong , its an album which see ranias at her most exciting and best totally spellbound by this young women playing the way she does ,this album has given me so much pleasure and sanity and right now its my favorite album of the year.
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