hania rani
08.04.2025
KKL Luzern - Konzertsaal, luzern
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Hania Rani & Ensemble present: Ghosts The complete album specially arranged for large ensemble
This "Ensemble" tour is an attempt to realize an idea that Hania Rani has had in her head for a long time - to perform the complete album "Ghosts" live with a specially expanded ensemble at some of her favourite venues in Europe.
With the feeling of living in an atomized world and watching our attention span being reduced to a minimum, Hania Rani sees live performance as a rare chance to reconnect us with the ability to experience things conveyed with a larger gesture and stretched time. Releasing a 70-minute double album in 2023 was a conscious artistic decision, in direct contradiction to a widespread tendency to adapt the art form to a reality shaped by mass media. Hania Rani on her new album: "To me at least, snappy phrases and condensed music compositions which are ideally squeezed into two minutes are rather a brutal and bland expression of the complex and exciting world we are living in and the life we want to spend."
In March and April 2025, Hania Rani will bring this romantic concept to life by performing the project at the most prestigious and acoustically exciting venues in Europe. "Ghosts" will be arranged for a large ensemble of strings, woodwinds and brass that will accompany the artist on stage for all scheduled performances. Accompanied by a new lighting and stage design (Stuart Bailes), the musicians will attempt to manifest the complex nature of the album, which is woven from hundreds of sounds, flavors and stories. Hania Rani, who is used to being mostly alone on stage, surrounded by a plethora of keyboards, will this time be part of a larger whole: interacting with nine other musicians, most of them longtime collaborators and friends (cellist Dobrawa Czocher, bassist Ziemowit Klimek), who have a diverse musical background. "Together we will be able to present the com-plete record, whose orchestral and tangled nature wouldn't allow me to perform it on my own in the shape that it deserves. I am absolutely thrilled to explore it with both acoustic and digital sounds, mixing seemingly separate worlds that form my musical style and artistic trajectory," says the artist. She continues about the upcoming tour: "What utterly interests me is how one thing can be distributed through endless translations - losing its initial shape but at the same time morphing into something new through different perspectives and environments. Both personal and com-mon can beautifully exist together. Through the multiple voices of brilliant minds and talents, both on the stage and taking care of the visual and technical side of the show, I will try to con-front the 'Ghosts' - an essence of what fascinates, moves but also scares us. Embrace the undefined shape of the unspoken and convey it by polymorphic interpretations."
This tour can also be seen as a résumé of her extensive tours in 2023 and 2024 and as a last shining piece before a well-deserved time of rest. The artist concludes: "I find it utterly inspiring and moving to finish this exciting ghostly adventure in such a profound and expansive way - celebrating it with a spe-cial set of people and my dear listeners."
This "Ensemble" tour is an attempt to realize an idea that Hania Rani has had in her head for a long time - to perform the complete album "Ghosts" live with a specially expanded ensemble at some of her favourite venues in Europe.
With the feeling of living in an atomized world and watching our attention span being reduced to a minimum, Hania Rani sees live performance as a rare chance to reconnect us with the ability to experience things conveyed with a larger gesture and stretched time. Releasing a 70-minute double album in 2023 was a conscious artistic decision, in direct contradiction to a widespread tendency to adapt the art form to a reality shaped by mass media. Hania Rani on her new album: "To me at least, snappy phrases and condensed music compositions which are ideally squeezed into two minutes are rather a brutal and bland expression of the complex and exciting world we are living in and the life we want to spend."
In March and April 2025, Hania Rani will bring this romantic concept to life by performing the project at the most prestigious and acoustically exciting venues in Europe. "Ghosts" will be arranged for a large ensemble of strings, woodwinds and brass that will accompany the artist on stage for all scheduled performances. Accompanied by a new lighting and stage design (Stuart Bailes), the musicians will attempt to manifest the complex nature of the album, which is woven from hundreds of sounds, flavors and stories. Hania Rani, who is used to being mostly alone on stage, surrounded by a plethora of keyboards, will this time be part of a larger whole: interacting with nine other musicians, most of them longtime collaborators and friends (cellist Dobrawa Czocher, bassist Ziemowit Klimek), who have a diverse musical background. "Together we will be able to present the com-plete record, whose orchestral and tangled nature wouldn't allow me to perform it on my own in the shape that it deserves. I am absolutely thrilled to explore it with both acoustic and digital sounds, mixing seemingly separate worlds that form my musical style and artistic trajectory," says the artist. She continues about the upcoming tour: "What utterly interests me is how one thing can be distributed through endless translations - losing its initial shape but at the same time morphing into something new through different perspectives and environments. Both personal and com-mon can beautifully exist together. Through the multiple voices of brilliant minds and talents, both on the stage and taking care of the visual and technical side of the show, I will try to con-front the 'Ghosts' - an essence of what fascinates, moves but also scares us. Embrace the undefined shape of the unspoken and convey it by polymorphic interpretations."
This tour can also be seen as a résumé of her extensive tours in 2023 and 2024 and as a last shining piece before a well-deserved time of rest. The artist concludes: "I find it utterly inspiring and moving to finish this exciting ghostly adventure in such a profound and expansive way - celebrating it with a spe-cial set of people and my dear listeners."