"On Giacometti is a winter album of sorts, although an early track is titled "Spring." The music reflects the season and space in which it was recorded: a winter residency snuggled in the Swiss mountains, where pianist Hania Rani worked on the score to a film about Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The music is suitably spacious: calm and expansive, like the view of distant peaks, a vast expanse of snow, the feeling of being alone, but not isolated ... Rani mentions the dampening and heightening effects of the white blanket and the way in which perspectives shift in the mountains, making small things seem large and large things seem small. These compositions, however, remain humble: often molded improvisations, shaped like drifts of notes piling up on the side of a well-supplied home. In "Morning," one can imagine the glitter of frost on a windowpane, tentative footsteps on a fuzzy rug, a cup of coffee and contemplation".
