The Dream of Delphi Bat For Lashes

• 1 The Dream of Delphi 04:42
• 2 Christmas Day 01:52
• 3 Letter To My Daughter 02:36
• 4 At Your Feet 03:45
• 5 The Midwives Have Left 02:35
• 6 Home (Single Version) 03:14
• 7 Breaking Up 02:06
• 8 Delphi Dancing 02:58
• 9 Her First Morning 02:32
• 10 Waking up 04:01
• 11 The Dream of Delphi (Bonus Extended Strings Version) 06:01
• Total Runtime 36:22

Info for The Dream of Delphi

Die Londoner Musikerin Natasha Khan aka. Bat For Lashes veröffentlicht am 31. Mai ihr sechstes Studioalbum "The Dream Of Delphi". Natasha Khan, uns irdischen Sterblichen als Bat For Lashes bekannt, ist mit ihrem bisher persönlichsten Projekt zurück. "The Dream Of Delphi" beschreibt die Erfahrungen, die Khan, hier in der Rolle der Mutterhexe, während der Schwangerschaft und der Geburt ihrer Tochter Delphi während des Covid-19 Lockdowns machte. Versinken Sie in der neuen Single, dem Titeltrack, und sehen Sie sich das Video an, in dem Bat For Lashes Kate Bushs berühmtes rotes Kleid klaut und in der Abenddämmerung am Rande des englischen Meeres tanzt. - Ausfliegen

"The Dream Of Delphi" ist eine Ode an die Mutterschaft, die in LA, Natashas zweiter Heimat, während der Covid-19-Pandemie entstand. Es ist ein klangliches Archiv der Zeit, als Natasha ihre Tochter Delphi auf der Erde zur Welt brachte. Die Platte enthält zehn Songgedichte, die die Polarität der Navigation durch eine Welt, die scheinbar auf dem Kopf zu stehen schien, dokumentieren, während sie gleichzeitig die zutiefst persönlichen und transformierenden ersten Momente der Mutterschaft von Delphi, benannt nach dem griechischen Orakel, der antiken Wahrsagerin, erleben. Die Musik wurde zu Natashas Zufluchtsort, geboren aus gestohlenen Ausflügen ins Studio, wo jeder Track in wenigen Stunden improvisiert und fertiggestellt wurde und ihre tagebuchartigen Aufzeichnungen über einen Zeitraum von zwei Jahren chronologisiert; von "TheMidwives Have Left" über das Schreiben eines "Letter To My Daughter" bis hin zu "Waking up" sowie einer Coverversion des Lieblingssongs ihrer Tochter, "Home".

Bat For Lashes

Natasha Khan
(born 25 October 1979) is an English songwriter who records as Bat for Lashes. Incredibly photogenic and fashion-minded, Khan is a glamorous figure for the alternative music realm; a seeming star-in-waiting, successor to that mystical/sexual rock-heroine crown. Bat for Lashes' music has been championed by Björk, Radiohead, M.I.A., Kanye West, and Devendra Banhart.

Khan was born to a Pakistani father and an English mother. Her father, Rahmat, is a member of the Khan squash-playing dynasty; her cousin, Jahangir, is the most famous squash-player of all time. Raised in Wembley, then Rickmansworth, but often tripping to Pakistan to visit extended family, Khan’s childhood was split between the two countries, and torn between the two cultures. Describing herself as being “really geeky and sad at school”, Khan spent her days, on either continent, “daydreaming in the garden”, playing with tadpoles, spiders, and dogs, and 'praying to aliens.'

When her parents divorced when she was 12, Khan turned to music, drawing inspiration from Björk and Kate Bush, two artists to whom she has been frequently compared. “Growing up, Bjork and Kate Bush were really important to me,” offers Khan. “I get tired of being compared to them, and I hope that, as time goes on, I’m going to peel away more and more layers of myself to the point where I’ve made something, and become something, that isn’t comparable. But I understand why it happens.

“As a young teenaged girl, I already had a relationship with music, and had already written my own compositions on piano. But until I discovered those artists, it felt like I was missing part of my family. To know your ancestry, to know those who’ve gone before, is hugely important to any budding, young creative people.

“When I first heard [Björk and Kate Bush], I thought: ‘oh, so it’s okay’. I saw how other people had been interested in the same things as me, and had felt as much passion and emotion for sensuality, or spiritual things, or magical, invisible things as I did. Things turned them on the same way they turned me on. It was like getting a pat on the head from an older sister.”

Befitting someone whose art-school dissertation was on “the artist’s preoccupation with childhood and the subconscious” —a thesis in which she spoke of Michel Gondry and Tim Burton— Khan still draws on those days in her songs.

“Nick Cave has that quote that ‘the child invites tragedy into its life in order that its life become a serious matter’, and I think that’s a really fundamental idea to a lot of my work,” she explains. “My music isn’t something I plonk out on a guitar in a quest to be famous. It’s deeply-rooted in the things I need to discuss about my childhood, growing up conflicted between two cultures.” … (Source: www.altmusic.about.com)

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