Polish Composer Hania Rani Embarks on July 2022 Tour Bringing Her Kate Bush-Meets-Nils Frahm Experimental Sound to NYC, Seattle, LA, and more

POLISH COMPOSER HANIA RANI EMBARKS ON SUMMER TOUR BRINGING HER KATE BUSH- MEETS-NILS FRAHM EXPERIMENTAL SOUND TO NEW YORK CITY, LOS ANGELES, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO  AND MORE THIS JULY 2022   WATCH MUSIC VIDEO FOR HER LATEST SINGLE “KYIV”

Download hi-res photo   “Enchanting…for fans of Nils Frahm, of Olafur Arnalds, you’re in for a real treat” NPR Music   “The ambitious follow-up Home moves into Nils Frahm-ish electronica and sees Rani singing, in English, on five tracks, sounding like a young Kate Bush” The Guardian   “simple , minimalist beauty…a respite from the day’s headlines” BBC   Best of 2020 Picks from New York Times   “A moment of beauty we all need right now” Classic FM   June 16, 2022 – Award winning Polish composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Hania Rani today announces her North American Summer Tour, bringing her “enchanting” (NPR) sound to Montreal, Toronto, Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and more. For full tour dates, visit https://haniarani.com/. Rani will be performing music from her critically acclaimed 2020 album Home as well as her debut album Esja (2019). Listen to her most recent single “Kyiv” here, dedicated to the Ukrainian fight for freedom.   Born on the Baltic coast of Poland in 1990, Hania Rani was raised next to the sea, interpreting the landscape with her piano from a very early age. When she realized she couldn’t express the full range of her musical thoughts on the piano, she started adding her voice, starting a journey of layering and experimenting which has earned the young female composer accolades and early praise for her work so far.   Hania Rani is an award-winning pianist,composer, singer, producer and musician who has been compared to Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm, adding a bit of FKA Twigs in the mix with her ethereal voice and stunning pop-oriented production. Her debut album Esja (Gondwana Records, 2019) earned her critical acclaim - sweeping Poland’s equivalent of GRAMMYS including winning Best Debut Album, Best Alternative Album among others; she won 2019’s Empik Bestseller Awards for “Discovery of the Year 2019” and Sanki’s “New Face of Polish Music” as well, racking up a list of accolades for a fresh-on-the-scene young female composer.   Her sophomore album Home (Gondwana Records, 2020), which NPR Music called “adventurous, enchanting,” showed Rani’s musical range. On Home, Rani explored the full range of her abilities by adding stunning vocals, pop-production and minimalist composition, all while musically and emotionally the idea of an inner ‘home’ that is always there no matter what uncertainty you face in the outside world – an apt message for the year 2020.   Watch Hania Rani perform live from S2 Studios   Watch the video for her song “Home” here “The song is about building a new home, in a symbolic meaning, after a devastating event. It’s a composition full of light and hope for new things to come. The song is also a call to a beloved one to come back, but the return is unfortunately not possible” – Hania Rani   Hania Rani - North American Tour 2022 July 6 - Montreal - Montreal Jazz Festival July 7 - Toronto - Wavelength Music Series @ St. Anne’s Parish Hall July 8 - Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey July 11 & 12  - Los Angeles, CA - The Sun Rose July 14 - San Francisco - The Chapel July 17 - New York City - Le Poisson Rouge   About Hania Rani: Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who, was born in Gdansk and splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. Her debut album ‘Esja’, a beguiling collection of solo piano pieces on Gondwana Records was released to international acclaim on April 5th 2019 including nominations in 5 categories in the Polish music industries very own Grammys, the Fryderyki, and winning the Discovery of the Year 2019 in the Empik chain's Bestseller Awards and the prestigious Sanki award for the most interesting new face of Polish music chosen by Polish journalists. Rani also composed the music for her first full length movie "I Never Cry" directed by Piotr Domalewski and for the play "Nora" directed by Michał Zdunik. Her song "Eden" was used as a soundtrack of a short movie by Małgorzata Szumowska for Miu Miu's movie cycle "Women's Tales"   Her follow-up album, the expansive, cinematic, ‘Home’, is rebased on May 15th and finds Rani expanding her palate: adding vocals and subtle electronics to her music as well as being joined on some tracks by bassist Ziemowit Klimek and drummer Wojtek Warmijak. The album reunites her with recording engineers, Piotr Wieczorek and Ignacy Gruszecki (Monochrom Studio) and the tracks were again mixed again by Gijs van Klooster in his studio in Amsterdam and by Piotr Wieczorek in Warsaw ( Ombelico and Come Back Home). Home was mastered by Zino Mikorey in Berlin (known for his work on albums by artists such as Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds). For Rani, Home, is very much a continuation of the work she started on Esja, “the completion of the sentence” as she puts it. The album offers a metaphorical journey: the story of places that become our home sometimes by chance, sometimes by choice. It is the story of leaving a place that is familiar and the journey that follows it. Home opens with the fragment of the short story "Loneliness" by Bruno Schulz, which can be seen as a parable of a journey that does not necessarily mean going beyond the physical door but can signify going beyond the symbolic limits of our knowledge and imagination.   https://haniarani.com/ ;