Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino / Piotr Kurek presents Songs & Bodies

For Unsound New York 2025, Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino, her ever-evolving project, with opening support from Polish guitarist Piotr Kurek. The two Polish artists come together in the Main Hall for the opening performance of Unsound.

London-based pianist, composer, and singer Hania Rani was born and raised in Poland, where she went through classical training in Warsaw before relocating to Berlin. And it was there, at the heart of Europe's club scene, that she fell in love with electronic music, eventually figuring out a way to integrate her ornate solo piano compositions with delicate synthesized elements. With her Chilling Bambino alter-ego, Rani explores electronic sounds even more rigorously, focusing on her beloved Prophet synthesizer and augmenting her fluttering melodies with psychedelic rhythms.

The evening will begin with a performance from composer and multi-instrumentalist Piotr Kurek, presenting new music related to his Unsound-released album Songs & Bodies—best described as hypnagogic post-rock, an impressionistic blur of dissociated riffs, jazzy rhythms, and half-heard voices that casts a beguiling digital silhouette of '90s indie music. It’s the closest he’s come to old-fashioned songwriting, but the music is full of blemishes, wrinkles, and personal touches that position them very much in the present. Piotr will appear on stage with local musicians Wendy Eisenberg on guitar, Justin Frye on bass and Greg Fox on drums.