Hania Rani kündigt "On Giacometti" an, eine zarte Meditation über das Leben und die Kunst von Alberto Giacometti und seiner Familie. "On Giacometti" ist eine Sammlung wunderschöner Aufnahmen, die von dem renommierten Künstler und seiner Familie inspiriert wurden, und enthält einige von Rani’s bisher zutiefst delikaten Kompositionen. Eingeladen von der Filmregisseurin Susanna Fanzun, um ihren bevorstehenden Dokumentarfilm über den legendären Künstler Alberto Giacometti zu vertonen, begab sich Hania Rani in die Schweizer Berge, um in glückseliger Isolation zu komponieren. Wie Rani unten eloquent erklärt, basieren die Kompositionen auf improvisierten Melodien, einfachen Harmonien und Strukturen und sind von der Stille der Berge inspiriert, wenn Rani zu ihrem Hauptinstrument, dem Klavier, zurückkehrt. Die Ergebnisse erinnern betörend an ihr geliebtes Debütalbum Esja, aber mit subtilen zusätzlichen Synthesizerschichten und auf zwei Tracks Cello von der Freundin und langjährigen Mitarbeiterin Dobrawa Czocher. 'On Giacometti' wird als limitierte LP mit maßgeschneiderter Verpackung präsentiert, die Les Naturals - Chocolat (Gmund) nachhaltige Recyclingpappe aus 100 % Altpapier mit Foil Artwork von Lukasz Palczynski enthält. Plus doppelseitig bedruckte Beilage und Download-Code im Inneren. ------ 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. Tracklisting 01: Allegra 02: Spring 03: Stampa 04: Struggle 05: Morning 06: In Between 07: Knots 08: Dreamy 09: Storm 10: Time 11: Mountains 12: Annette 13: Alberto