Khan and His Dream Natasha Little World Singer and songwriter Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes has been compared to many other women whose fatal volatile Tori Amos, Bjork, PJ Harvey and Kate Bush. And the style songwriting Khan definitely fits in the same genus as the other women artists. However, just as each of them, Khan has a style and dynamism that are very unique for her.
Khan imagination takes us back to an age of knights, dragons, unicorns and. Natasha statements in interviews, she can see the inspiration for his songs from his mind.
She talks about the inspiration for, Fur and Gold, his first album, it came in a dream. She worked in a nursery school and having trouble paying its bills, then she had a dream about Joan of Arc inspiring her to begin an album. After the success of Fur and Gold, Natasha had some personal experience that the number of albums inspired two, under his alter personality Pearl. Pearl a hottie blonde, egocentric, is the subject of many songs on the two Suns album.
Natasha uses unusual instruments, bat for Lashes. The bells, violas, and harpsichords, are merged with the synthesis, creating a haunting yet beautiful sound.
The vocals and lush soundscapes, two suns, it is easy to forget that words are knights and emerald cities. Bat for Lashes fans will be really impressed by the new level of artistic ability which generates Two Suns. The others have not dropped, I hope it will not.
Posted on January 22, 2010.
