Hania Rani

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Don’t Break My Heart was originally composed in 2017. There was something extremely nostalgic about the original version of the song and I let myself performed it couple of times but I knew that it could never make it to any of my future albums because of its completely old school vibe. I lost interest in the track for a while and let it live its own life till the moment I started to work with @duncan_bellamy_ from my beloved band @PorticoQuartet, which has been such a significant inspiration for me. I asked Duncan if he would be interested in collaborating on a couple of songs for my upcoming album and he agreed. Differently to Patrick Watson, who I invited to work on “Dancing with Ghosts”, I proposed to have a bit of an opposite workflow. Instead of sending Duncan a ready song, I asked him to share with me some selected beats, loops or sequences that I could be inspired by. I didn’t want him to follow the song structure because I am usually using very simple rhythm motives. I wanted rather to follow his intuition in time and rework my own ideas around his beats. This is what happend with DBMH. I found this one terrific loop and pitched it down, so it became deeper and more groovy. Without a reason I thought about singing on top of it my old song “Don’t Break My Heart” even though it was composed in a different metrum and key. This resulted not only in the change in melody but even in the song’s structure and lyrics. And it ultimately felt right. I immediately sent it to Duncan and luckily he liked it as well and added on top an almost translucent layer of live drums which filled the missing gap in the track.
It was a tremendously fervent moment from when I just let myself flow with music, soaking the track with a vast amount of choirs and vocal lines and thrilling layers of moog, recorded by my dear friend @ziemowitklimek. DBMH, which used to be an apotheosis of melancholy, received a new character and was embedded in an utterly new soundscape. It became my personal anthem, which endured through time, experiences and letting me overcome my boundaries in expressing my feelings in front of the listeners. You need guts to sing it on stage, believe me. | Posted on 15/Sep/2023 15:06:32