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Tuo tarpu Dėdė Telegrafas rašo išsamų pažintinį straipsnį, nuo A iki Z, apie mergelę ūksnių dvasią "who doesn't quite fit"...
Pakarpėm:
// "Bat for Lashes first appeared on the musical horizon in 2006. In a British music scene blighted by a quagmire of blokeish indie bands such as Razorlight and the Kooks, Khan offered an appealingly enigmatic alternative. Soon afterwards she was likened to pop-esotericists Kate Bush and Björk: the latter described her as 'brilliant' following an early performance in London.
One of the most visible signs of Khan's increasing fame was a sudden preponderance of girls affecting her shaman-chic of gold headbands, feathers and totems. 'I'd walk past and look at them and think, is that anything to do with me, or just something you saw in a magazine?' She likes to display a certain aloofness – 'It's not really anything to do with me' – but it is clear that she is slightly excited by it. 'When Madonna first came out everybody started wearing fingerless gloves and lace in their hair,' she says, before swiftly checking herself. 'Not that I'm in that same league.'
Khan's father left the family when she was 11, leaving Natasha's mother with the task of bringing up three children alone. She won't talk about the ins and outs of why he left – 'I don't think I should go into it, it is quite personal' – but she suggests that the clash in cultures between her parents might have been a contributing factor.
Her father's departure had a great affect on Khan. At first she retreated to the piano, shunning lessons in favour of improvisation. 'I suppose it was the time when things become a little bit more real,' she says. 'I think it strengthened my desire to play and write and become a bit more serious about it: in that situation, you need to find a channel to express things, to get them out.'
To save money she worked in a Christmas-card-packing factory. 'My internal imaginary life was really fruitful at that time. I remember packing cards and just listening to songs that I had made the night before on my mini-disc player. All day long just listening and dreaming, while counting the cards to be packed; 'One-two-three… four-five-six-seven-eight-nine… 10-11-12.'
Returning from the States she moved to Britain's very own bohemian enclave, Brighton, and in 2000 studied for a degree in music and visual arts at the University of Brighton. Khan wrote songs while at university, but it was not until 2004 that she started Bat for Lashes, so named simply because she liked the way the random words sounded together.
Khan is also a self-confessed control freak. She writes all of her songs, designs the costumes that she wears on stage as well as the set (in 2007 she transformed the stage of Koko in Camden into an enchanted woodland) and album artwork, comes up with video ideas and co-produces all her material with Coldplay's producer, David Kosten. 'Maybe it is quite big-headed of me to think that I can rule over every area,' Khan says. 'But I just feel so specific about what I am trying to do.'" //
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Vietoje Post Scriptum, nuotraukų eiliškumo tvarka:
1. Sleep Alone
2. Prescilla
3. Pearl's Dream (+ her alter ego)
4. Daniel
