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SEXWITCH (Bat For Lashes) – ” Ha Howa Ha Howa “

Posted: September 18, 2015 in MUSIC
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Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) has a new project called Sexwitch. After sharing “Helelyos” last month, Khan has released another new track from the forthcoming record. In keeping with the rest of the album, which comprises covers of international psych and folk songs from the 1970s, “Ha Howa Ha Howa” is based on a Moroccan track sung by Cheikha Hanna Ouakki. Listen to the Sexwitch version below.
Speaking about the song in our interview about Sexwitch, Khan said:
“Ha Howa Ha Howa”, the “he addicted me” song—the girl that originally sang that [Cheikha Hanna Ouakki] was really young, 15, 16. She traveled around these mountain villages and became this vagabond singer. She’s the one that sounded so street, so contemporary. I loved her spirit, I felt her freedom in the way she was singing it. So it’s really nice to shine a light on that time in those countries where there was liberation. They feel the same things we do, it’s just blanketed in our impression of oppressive regimes. I think deep down, we’re all from the same place. People now can enjoy this kind of music next to contemporary psychedelic music. I think it’s really important to feel free, and to be free to express everyone’s humanity, the things that link us, that we’re all just falling in love with people or running away.
Sexwitch comes out September 25th. It’s a collaboration between Natalie Khan, producer Dan Carey, and Toy.

BAT FOR LASHES – ” Laura “

Posted: August 28, 2015 in MUSIC
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“Laura”, taken from Bat For Lashes’ album The Haunted Man  It was the third Bat for Lashes album,  released in October 2012 in the UK. The lead single, “Laura”, was released in July that year.

Natasha Khan better known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist she has directed a 15-minute short as part of a new anthology film called “Madly”.

Presented by MTV World, Madly is “six stories of modern love in all of its dizzying, sweet complications,” each directed by a different person. Khan’s short is called “I Do”.

In addition to Khan’s contribution, Madly will also feature films by Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Amores Perros), Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Maps to the Stars), and more.

It’s about a bride, the morning of her wedding, being disturbed by subterranean weird feelings, message and signs. On the way to her wedding, something really crazy happens, and you’re left wondering whether she’s gonna go through with it. It’s all about redemption of grief, putting ghosts to bed before you can move into a fully committed relationship. It’s very countryside, weird, English, surreal. I love directing. I worked with a brilliant DAP, Chloe Thomason—we had quite a strong female contingent, actually. She was my cinematographer, so we spent week beforehand sharing my favorite films, making storyboards, image boards, talking about color, types of light, composition of shots. I’ve been drawing a lot recently, I love the visual thing. It was really nice to have a collaborator again on that level. Directing actors was incredible. I think because of all the singing I do, it’s very much about being in your body and feeling things, so I felt like we had a good basis of understanding, ability to talk about nuances of performance. It was very whirlwind and I was worried I hadn’t got everything I needed, but then in the editing process—like an album—things just shine. Abi Fry, who played viola in the first Bat for Lashes band, she did the majority of the soundtrack. It was really nice to hand that over to someone. I did some synth drones but she was brilliant, she’s got beautiful pieces in the film. I can’t wait to direct a feature film, I really want to do it.

Khan will release her new album a project titled Sexwitch  a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey. in September. During a surprise Green Man Festival set in Wales on 22nd August, she debuted the music project , two days later, it was announced that Sexwitch’s eponymous debut album will be released on 25th September 2015 by Echo and BMG, consisting of six covers of 1970s psychedelic and folk songs from different parts of the world. On the same day, Khan has said that she had written most of the fourth Bat for Lashes album and hoped it would be released in 2016; she stated that it is “thematically linked” to the feature film she is writing.