Hania Rani - Home

my role: mixer, sound designer

After the acclaimed debut album Esja Hania took some bold steps in new musical territories with her new album Home that we finished and mixed in my studio.

Speaking of the new album Hania said: “One can be lost but can find home in his inner part - which can mean many things - soul, imagination, mind, intuition, passion. I strongly believe that when being in uncertain times and living an unstable life we can still reach peace with ourselves and be able to find ‘home’ anywhere’ This is what I would like to express with my music - one can travel the whole world but not see anything. It is not where we are going but how much we are able to see and hear things happening around us”.

The album has many new Hania-flowing-flavours that you will love. Here’s one:

The second single is F Major with another beautiful video:

Listen to the album in your favorite player here.

Hania about working together:

What I was happy to learn by working with Gijs that he always tries to understand your vision and find your style. He is very experienced and a musician himself, and he is open to another person ideas and trying to help make them happen. He has a huge knowledge about technical stuff and all music genres.
What I appreciate is that I actually also learnt a lot about producing, mixing, performing and writing music - we spent a lot of time simply talking about music and exploring things that we like. Gijs was also keen to know more about me as a person to understand more my vision of music and art.

I was very happy with the result of the mixing of my first album "Esja", it sounded great both on digital version and vinyl and managed to bring my ideas in an accessible way. It was an obvious decision for me to work once again together on my second album "Home", way more complex than the first, minimalistic one.
I hope we have still some records ahead of us!

In the press:

"Gijs is a very experienced producer and musician, he is a bit older than me and happy to share his knowledge to other people and artists. He tries to get the best from the artist's vision for the album, although he is also keen to share his thoughts and solutions. This happened in a couple of songs, where Gijs added a bit of sound designing from his side and I am very grateful for it..."

Mezzanine

"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

"As a whole, Home is a beautiful album, encompassing all which home is and isn't. The addition of gentle, mediative electronic elements to Rani's palette elevates her storytelling.."

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