About Me

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Thank you for dropping in. I’m Hani, a singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer, primarily focused on songwriting and performing. Originally from Ilkley, West Yorkshire, I have previously been based in Shanghai and am now based in London. I have been a member of numerous rock bands (including the Manchester band Proud Mary), soul bands, jazz bands, and have composed for film and theatre.

My first two solo albums of experimental alternative rock The Polar Route (2018) and When In London (2025) brought together and captured some of these experiences, and were both recorded in Utopia Lab Studios, Suzhou, China with the engineering and mixing assistance of my close friend Blayne Duffy. Both albums drew some critical comparisons to 90s Britpop and industrial music and received some praise for my songwriting and production ideas.

While The Polar Route took inspiration from the playful release and euphoric energy of China’s novel rock scene, When In London is a willfully complex song-set of existential dread taking inspiration from some of my favourite dystopian funk opuses like Bowie’s Station To Station and Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Solid State Survivor.

Amongst many other creative projects in the pipeline (including a palindromic  east-west art-rock fusion music project which I hope to record in Hunza Valley, Pakistan in collaboration with folk musicians), I am right now gearing up to release my recently completed more emotive third album called The Departure Lounge, preceded by its lead single ‘The Sharpest Knife’.

 

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