Bat for Lashes - The Dream of Delphi
peter73
22.02.2024 - 14:30
Officially announcing my new album ‘The Dream of Delphi’, coming out May 31st
And today the title track and accompanying video will be released…
https://www.facebook.com/batforlashes
The Dream Of Delphi - Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAMO6HHfsdM
Tracklist
1. The Dream Of Delphi
2. Christmas Day
3. Letter To My Daughter
4. At Your Feet
5. The Midwives Have Left
6. Home
7. Breaking Up
8. Delphi Dancing
9. Her First Morning
10. Waking Up
11. The Dream of Delphi (Bonus Extended Strings Version)
MickHead
21.03.2024 - 19:39
2. Single "Letter To My Daughter" gestreamt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LTfbtnjclw
Armin
21.03.2024 - 19:57- Newsbeitrag
BAT FOR LASHES
SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER’
WATCH SECOND CHAPTER OF ALBUM FILM
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SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM
‘THE DREAM OF DELPHI’ OUT MAY 31ST
VIA MERCURY KX
London-based musician and multi-disciplinary artist Natasha Khan - aka Bat For Lashes - today shares ‘Letter To My Daughter’, the second single from her upcoming sixth studio album ‘The Dream Of Delphi’, out May 31st via acclaimed label Mercury KX, heralding a new era for the three time Brit Award and Mercury Prize nominee. She also shares its video, the second chapter of her album film, produced in collaboration with creative director and choreographer Alexandra Green and directed by Freddie Leyden.
‘Letter To My Daughter’ opens with polyphonic electronic synths - inspired by 70s science documentaries and archival footage of early experimental electronic machines - underpinning a stunning & introspective vocal performance from Natasha, finally building to a climax of lush, cinematic strings.
Speaking on the track, Natasha adds: “This title is pretty self-explanatory. If I was on my deathbed, it’s what I’d say to Delphi to give her some sense of being at home in the world, the galaxy, the universe we live in. Before Delphi was born I started writing her a book of letters, inspired by Maya Angelou’s book of the same name, Letter To My Daughter. It documents a very strange but magical year, full of special memories and historic worldly moments. This ride of life is always continuing and we’re all just energy moving from one form into another, always. She’s also just part of an echo, ancestral line or spiral in the cosmos, like the spiral that I saw in her soft hair when she was a baby. She is part of something much greater than any of us individually; she comes from the past and she comes from the future.”
Natasha became pregnant at the start of a new decade, a few months after her last album, 2019’s Lost Girls, was released. “I was writing letters to Delphi from the time she was the size of a tomato seed. About everything that was happening in the world, like the riots after George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement, about the pandemic and COVID, about the world that she was going to be born into.” She knew straight away that she wanted to call her daughter Delphi Josephine: her child’s first name is connected to a Greek female oracle, and her second is after Natasha’s mother. “I almost felt a strange sense of protection because I was harbouring a new life,” she says of that peculiar, frightening time. “It gave me hope that something good was going to come out of it. I also had this person to talk to.”
Whenever she could, and was allowed to by lockdowns, Natasha would steal out in her mask to her studio (64 Sound, in Highland Park, East LA) and to her engineer Tyler Karmen’s house to write in feverish bursts. Sitting down at the piano or harmonium, or setting up loops on Prophet or Juno synthesisers, Natasha simply let herself loose. Many of the first takes of these experiments are included as they were originally done.
In The Dream of Delphi, we meet the Motherwitch: the name Khan gives to the armour she puts on when she is exploring the depths and peaks of herself in her new capacity as a parent and protector. “I’ve turned the mother in me into this more potent, heightened archetype of the aspects of myself that are a mother. [The Motherwitch] helps me be able to take something so vulnerable and personal out into the world – I felt I couldn't just do it as Natasha, because it’s so, so deep.”
Moments of quiet domesticity sit amongst flashes of existential wonder in these ten spiralling compositions. Lyrics about the break-up of Natasha’s relationship with Delphi’s father interweave with the place of the mother in the never-ending cycle of life, death and rebirth. Ideas and sounds both ancient and modern also mesh mesmerisingly together, pianos, bass flutes and harps blending with organs, mellotrons and the whirling sound patterns of synthesisers, inspired by her love of female and trans artists like Delia Derbyshire, Constance Demby and Beverly Glenn Copeland, and her longstanding interests in ambient and orchestral film soundtracks.
After teasing new music and live staging last year as part of the Christine & The Queens curated Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre, Bat For Lashes will take to the stage again this summer for her first run of headline concerts for five years with a highly conceptual show that combines movement and elements of performance art alongside her virtuosic vocal performance and live band.
Last year Bat For Lashes released ‘Motherwitch’, a hand-illustrated reimagining of Tarot using multiple original female archetypes, visual symbols and an abstract spiritualist painters’ colour palette across 40 cards to provide a storyteller's guide into the mysteries and beauty of our own internal landscapes. The Motherwitch oracle deck lands somewhere between Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s ‘Oblique Strategies’ and the Wild Unknown Tarot Deck, while the deck also stands alone as a bespoke art object in and of itself. The 40 cards were entirely designed and conceived by Khan, creating an oracle deck for use as a tool for the creative process and also as a conduit to the subconscious realms. Produced in collaboration with East London wellness brand She’s Lost Control, the deck is available to purchase HERE.
‘The Dream of Delphi’ marks a stark new chapter in the already varied, and critically acclaimed story of Bat For Lashes. Welcome to ‘The Motherwitch’s’ domain.
The Dream Of Delphi Tracklist:
1. The Dream Of Delphi
2. Christmas Day
3. Letter To My Daughter
4. At Your Feet
5. The Midwives Have Left
6. Home
7. Breaking Up
8. Delphi Dancing
9. Her First Morning
10. Waking Up
11. The Dream of Delphi (Bonus Extended Strings Version)
Bat For Lashes Tour Dates:
12-Jun O2 Academy 2, Oxford UK
18-Jun Town Hall, Birmingham, UK
19-Jun Beacon, Bristol, UK
24-Jun Barbican, London, UK
25-Jun Bexhill De La Warr Pavillion, UK
27-Jun Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK
6-Jul Beauregard Festival, France
29-Jun Siren's Call Festival, Luxembourg
18-Jul Colours of Ostrava, Czech Republic
23-Aug Edinburgh International Festival, UK
MickHead
25.04.2024 - 10:05
3. Single "Home" gestreamt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ahoz_pwtI
Vive
25.04.2024 - 10:31
wieso müssen die songs immer so einen Elektronik-flavour haben? frühere BFL-songs wie "Daniel" oder "moon and moon" sind doch auch ohne ausgekommen.
wenn sie selbst das Gefühl hat, die neuen songs sollen solche Elemente haben, dann godspeed, aber ich rieche da das label trying to make it more contemporary.
bat for lashes unplugged, das wär schön
AliBlaBla
26.04.2024 - 12:16
@Vive
Ich bin da bei dir, zu 100%.
Also, macht mir nicht die Songs zunichte, auch auf dem letzten Album übrigens nicht (welches besser ist, als sein Ruf), aber ich wünsche mir auch manches in anderem Gewand.
MickHead
23.05.2024 - 15:02
Letzter Song vor dem Release.
"At Your Feet"
https://youtu.be/Rsecp8tPgMw?si=oYfZ2tOonR8YBzi7
AliBlaBla
23.05.2024 - 15:08
Ui ui ui, gespannt...
OMalley
29.05.2024 - 21:47
Die gibt es noch? Ich war auf der Two suns-Tour in der Kölner Kulturkirche. Wunderbarer Abend, tolle Band, tolle Frau und eine tolle Location.
Mal reinhören die Tage. Hab den Draht zu ihr kurz danach verloren.
cargo
31.05.2024 - 10:51
Konzeptalbum hin oder her, das ist ziemlich furchtbar geworden. Eine Ansammlung aus Interludes und drei "normalen" Songs. Da ist keinerlei Substanz dahinter.
NeoMath
01.06.2024 - 08:12
Bin bei cargo.
Dieses Album kann man umblättern.
Klingt wie die Ansammlung von losen Ideen, aus denen dann halt irgendwas zusammengebastelt wurde; ohne Herz und Seele.
Total schade.
Yndi
01.06.2024 - 09:09
Und bei den drei Songs hab ich auch noch das Gefühl, dass ich die von Bat For Lashes schon gehört habe.
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