Hania Rani is a multi-award-winning composer and pianist who effortlessly switches between the worlds of classical and experimental music.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios with a 45-piece orchestra, “Non Fiction” marks a new chapter in Rani’s career as she transitions from the electronic sounds of her acclaimed album “Ghosts” to the symphonic realm, bridging the gap between her elegant experimentalism and her classical training.
Non Fiction is Rani’s first piano concerto and symphonic work, written in part in response to the discovery of the compositions of the young musical prodigy, Josima Feldschuh, which were written in the Warsaw Ghetto during the horrors of World War II. Moved by the young girl’s story, Rani decided to look at it through the lens of the current horrors in Ukraine and Gaza and examine how we perceive them through modern media. In doing so, Rani explores the constant coexistence of harmony and disorder, creates a sonic metaphor for the survival of the human mind in the face of violence, and uses the emotional value of sound to make these somehow distant conflicts more relatable to us on a human level.
