I'm not sure what the exact appeal is of 'Lonely Shadows'. Clearly not an orthodox jazz sound (there is no real use of any jazz language here at all although Wania is an improvising jazz pianist), 'Lonely Shadows' operates somehow on the same frequency as Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert. I would say since I first heard the track from the album of the same name still to be released I have played it dozens of times. It is pretty rare for me to keep returning to a single track.

Wania manages to conduct a conversation between his expressive right hand and the left hand more submissive accompaniment. He contributes a great poise, and a lot of anticipation is kept up and maintained in the track: you want to know what comes next and even after frequent listens still find a mystery in the piece that knowing what comes next does not actually answer. I wonder what the rest of the album will be like and will it be of this same standard. If it is then we are in for quite a feast. One thing the track isn't is yet another neat quasi-minimalist explosition that you often get in the wake of Ludovico Einaudi. Instead there is a halting and haunting melancholy, a searching for answers that are never quite found, a monastic retreat in many respects.