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Nostalgia - Black BioVinyl
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09/27/2024
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Black BioVinyl. With 16 Page Booklet. Catalog Number: GONDLP72 Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 4062548085211 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 Lutoslawski'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 Piorkowska violin, Pawel Czarny viola, Tomasz Rosinski viola, Dobrawa Czocher cello, Marianna Sikorska cello, Mateusz Blaszczak 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.