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Bat for Lashes - Moon and Moon
Multi-instrumentalist Bat for Lashes plays the piano, bass, guitar, autoharp AND the harpischord. DAMN I envy her!
If you are wondering, like me, what the hell is an autoharp?
Bat For Lashes - Prescilla THAT thing in this song would be that instrument.
Natasha Khan playing Telecaster guitar {HQ} (piece of mind is the song)
Bat For Lashes: Pitchfork interview
Bat For Lashes - Sarah And in this at least some of her backing band seems to be female!
Feat. her current touring drummer Sarah Jones' epicness on A live version of Glass
Sarah Jones also drums for the New Young Pony Club BTW Rest assured, they will be profiled in the near future!
Her current touring guitarist is Charlotte Hatherley Rest assured, she will also be featured in the near future. But here's taste of her music to tide you over Alexander
My fav song is Daniel. This is a live version, but you should listen to the album version on her myspace The video is on youtube, on Vevo, if you can access it.
Interview with Platform 09 where she talks about her music and art
Music OMH Interview: Bat For Lashes dives more into her inspiration for storytelling, her sets and costumes.
Khan, was born in London on 25 October 1979.[2] Until the age of five she was raised in Wembley where her parents had met and married several years before. She was born to a Pakistani father, Rehmat Khan (a former professional squash player from Peshawar) and to an English mother.
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Khan graduated in music and visual arts;[5] while at university her experimental work was influenced by artists such as Steve Reich and Susan Hiller, and she produced multi-media work centred on sound installations, animations and performance. She went on to work as a nursery school teacher, and it was during this period that she began writing the material for her first album. "Whenever I'm writing music it's a very visual place in my mind," she said. "It has a location full of characters and colours and landscapes, so those two things really complement each other, and they help the other one to blossom and support the other. They are like brother and sister."MORE
Bat for Lashes - Moon and Moon
Multi-instrumentalist Bat for Lashes plays the piano, bass, guitar, autoharp AND the harpischord. DAMN I envy her!
If you are wondering, like me, what the hell is an autoharp?
Bat For Lashes - Prescilla THAT thing in this song would be that instrument.
Natasha Khan playing Telecaster guitar {HQ} (piece of mind is the song)
Bat For Lashes: Pitchfork interview
Pitchfork: Was the sequencer part of what-- you know, starting with [Fur and Gold's] "Prescilla"-- kind of shifted you toward this kind of focus on being more rhythmic-oriented, the drums being in the forefront?
NK: Well, on the first album, that "Prescilla" beat was me and my friend stamping on bits of wood and clapping in my bedroom. A lot of the first album, we kept so much of what I had made myself. This one I kept quite a few elements but, rhythmically, I think I just got a little bit more confident in terms of my drum programming ability and what I wanted and I was experiencing living in Brooklyn and hearing like Gang Gang Dance, TV on the Radio, Moon & Moon, and the early incarnation of Amazing Baby-- these weird, psychedelic kind of bands. Steven [Kurtz], who played for Moon & Moon, has that rolling kind of tom sound that I was just like, "Oh my god, I love that so much," and I started writing beats that were being inspired by that kind of sound. I just felt like delving into it.
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Pitchfork: You mentioned it got kind of dancey on that one track. And you've got a different backing band on your tour now-- [solo artist and former Ash guitarist] Charlotte Hatherley, among others-- what do they bring? What does she bring?
NK: They're all amazing. I'm so excited about the new band, because it's much bigger, and much more like, it's just like this big monster that's multifaceted and really powerful and epic but then really gentle and beautiful when it is. Charlotte plays guitar, bass, percussion, and she sings beautifully and plays synth. And then Sarah Jones [of New Young Pony Club], she's like the best drummer in the world. She's just really blossomed. During the tour, all of us, just mouths agape, like-- she plays hip-hop samples, massive timpani, a real kit, and sings as well, and is just incredible. And then Ben Christophers is the harp, marxophone, autoharp, piano chord, harmonium, weird instrument banks, and then he also uses samples. So he's a real multifaceted-- they're all like little octopuses that just do this amazing job. (best quote EVAR) I'm really just honored that they're playing with me, because I think they're all really super hot in their own way.MORE
Bat For Lashes - Sarah And in this at least some of her backing band seems to be female!
Feat. her current touring drummer Sarah Jones' epicness on A live version of Glass
Sarah Jones also drums for the New Young Pony Club BTW Rest assured, they will be profiled in the near future!
Her current touring guitarist is Charlotte Hatherley Rest assured, she will also be featured in the near future. But here's taste of her music to tide you over Alexander
My fav song is Daniel. This is a live version, but you should listen to the album version on her myspace The video is on youtube, on Vevo, if you can access it.
Interview with Platform 09 where she talks about her music and art
Music OMH Interview: Bat For Lashes dives more into her inspiration for storytelling, her sets and costumes.
