Nostalgia

Electronic Ambient, Modern Classical

25,00 €

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Label

Gondwana

Release date

September 27, 2024

Vinyl

BioVinyl

This album is about memories. About a feeling of nostalgia and
longing, both beautifully comforting and devastating. It is an
attempt to transform an unspoken sensation of the past to a solid
object serving the future, an urge to remember and hold onto
moments that we can't keep forever.
On the 6th of October 2023, the release date of her third solo album
‘Ghosts’, Hania performed a very special album release concert with a
string ensemble in a uniquely special location - Witold Lutosławski's
Concert Studio at the Polish Radio in Warsaw. Over the years, the
spaces of Polish Radio have become an important part of Hania’s life -
both privately and professionally. Visiting for the first time as a student of
Chopin University of Music and returning to make her first recordings in
late 2018, just before the release of the debut album ‘Esja’. It was also in
these studios that Hania recorded her Live from Studio 2 video and EP.
But whereas that featured a much-loved solo performance, for this very
special recording from the larger Studio 1, Hania is joined by her regular
collaborator Ziemowit Klimek on double bass and moog as well as a
luxurious eight-piece string ensemble featuring Karolina Gutowska violin
Jan Pietkiewicz violin Marta Piórkowska violin, Paweł Czarny viola,
Tomasz Rosiński viola, Dobrawa Czocher cello, Marianna Sikorska cello,
Mateusz Błaszczak cello.
Beautifully mixed by Greg Freeman in Berlin the music takes on a new
life as Hania’s ethereal vocals, beautiful playing and exhilarating
compositions are brought fully to life by the beautiful sweeping strings of
the expanded ensemble. The concert is included here in its entirety with
the addition of one beautiful extra performance – the title track ‘Nostalgia’
a beautiful interpretation of a much-loved piece from the Ghosts album
taken from her concert at the Roundhouse in London.
In addition the LP features a beautiful 16 page booklet of photographs
of the Polish radio studios taken by Hania herself and featuring her
thoughts on the recording, studios and the compositions themselves
and the CD includes the photos in a beautiful glued in 12 page booklet.

A1. 24.03 (Studio 1, Warsaw)
A2. Thin Line (Studio 1, Warsaw)
A3. Dancing with Ghosts (Studio 1, Warsaw)
B1. The Boat (Studio 1, Warsaw)
B2. It Comes in Waves (Studio 1, Warsaw)
C1. Don't Break My Heart (Studio 1, Warsaw)
C2. Komeda (Studio 1, Warsaw)
D1. Utrata (Studio 1, Warsaw)
B2. Nostalgia (Roundhouse, London)