Dominik Wania

Lonely Shadows is the first ECM solo album from Dominik Wania, a musician of striking originality. The Polish pianist’s sensitivity to touch, tone and texture is informed by his classical background, but he also has instincts of a great improviser, acutely focused on the unfolding details of the music in the moment, with an inherent sense for structure. The balancing of influences from both disciplines makes him one of the most distinctive players of his generation and Lonely Shadows is a testimony to his creativity and a significant addition to ECM’s celebrated line of solo piano recordings. Lonely Shadows follows two critically acclaimed albums – Unloved and Three Crowns – in which Wania has been heard as a member of the Maciej Obara Quartet. It was during the recording of Unloved, three years ago, that the idea of the present album was first raised.

PERSONNEL:

• DOMINIK WANIA, piano

TRACKS:

• 01. Lonely Shadows
• 02. New Life Experience
• 03. Melting Spirit
• 04. Towards the Light
• 05. Relativity
• 06. Liquid fluid
• 07. Think twice
• 08. AG76
• 09. Subjective objectivity
• 10. Indifferent attitude
• 11. All What Remains