Musikvideo: Hania Rani - Leaving

The album starts with a song called Leaving which reminds me a bit the beginning of Schubert's Winterreise. We don't know who is leaving and why, what happened before and where he/she is heading to. We don't know if he/she is a lover, a friend or somebody else. The song tells a story about the moment of "leaving", when we still can stop the person. It starts with words "Are you leaving, is there a better place?" The character would love to keep the beloved person back but knows that it will not happen. The song is based on very specific harmony formula, that appears not from the beginning in the song, so the key of the song is not revealed until the piano comes in and bring the full harmonies to the composition. Written in 2018, during the summer days, the song opened a whole new chapter in my creation. I started to build my compositions on contractions made from many layers pre-recorded on piano. The song became a starting point to many of other songs on the album.