London-based musician and multi-disciplinary artist Natasha Khan, also known as Bat For Lashes, today shares 'Letter To My Daughter', the second single from her upcoming sixth studio album 'The Dream Of Delphi', out 31 May via the acclaimed Mercury KX label. , heralding a new era for the three-time Brit Award and Mercury Prize nominee.
She also shares her video, the second chapter of her film album, produced in collaboration with creative director and choreographer Alexandra Green and directed by Freddie Leyden.
'Letter To My Daughter' begins with polyphonic electronic synthesizers inspired by 1970s science documentaries and archival footage of early experimental electronic machines. These synths underpin a stunning, introspective vocal performance from Natasha, which eventually builds to a climax of lush, cinematic strings.
Natasha says on the track: “This title is self-explanatory. If I were on my deathbed, this is what I would say to Delphi to give it a sense of being at home in the world, the galaxy, the universe in which we live. Before Delphi was born, I began writing a book of letters to her. 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 mundane historical moments. This journey of life always continues and we are all simply energy moving from one form to another, always. It is also just part of an echo, ancestral line or spiral in the cosmos, like the spiral I saw in his soft hair as a baby. She is part of something much bigger than any of us individually; She comes from the past and she comes from the future.”
Check out 'Letter to My Daughter' – BELOW:
Natasha became pregnant at the beginning of a new decade, a few months after her last album, 2019. lost girlswas released. “I had been writing letters to Delphi since 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 she was going to be born into.” She knew immediately that she wanted to name her daughter Delphi Josephine: her daughter's first name is related to a Greek female oracle, and the second is that of Natasha's mother. “I almost felt a strange sense of protection because I was harboring a new life.” she says of that peculiar and terrifying time. “It gave me hope that something good was going to come out of this. I also had this person to talk to.”
Whenever she could and the confinements allowed, Natasha escaped with her mask to her studio (64 Sound, in Highland Park, East LA) and to the house of her engineer Tyler Karmen to write in feverish bursts. Sitting at the piano or harmonium or setting up loops on Prophet or Juno synthesizers, Natasha simply let herself go. Many of the first shots of these experiments are included as they were originally performed.
Delphi's Dream song list:
1. The dream of Delphi
2. Christmas day
3. Letter to my daughter
4. At your feet
5. The midwives are gone
6. Home
7. Breaking up
8. Delphi Dance
9. His first morning
10. Wake up
11. The Delphian Dream (additional version with extended strings)
Bat For Lashes Tour Dates:
June 12 O2 Academy 2, Oxford, UK
June 18 Town Hall, Birmingham, United Kingdom
June 19 Beacon, Bristol, UK
June 24 Barbican, London, United Kingdom
June 25 Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion, United Kingdom
June 27 Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK
July 6 Beauregard Festival, France
June 29 Siren Song Festival, Luxembourg
July 18 Colors of Ostrava, Czech Republic
August 23 Edinburgh International Festival, United Kingdom
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