London Tripping
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jazzy_daveA day in London and a chance to ride the 38 bus from Victoria through to Charing Cross Road. Popped into Foyles bookshop, and then strolled down to Berwick Street to peruse the Record and Video Exchange shop and Reckless Records. Bought the following CD's dead cheap -
Dinosaur Pile Up “Growing Pains” (Friends Versus Records CD) £1
Seasick Steve “I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left” (Warner Music CD) £3
Risil “Non Meters Volume One” (Important Records CD) £1
Afterwards I had a look at what Fopp had to offer. Bought a CD for £2 and two paperback books,respectively £2 and £3 each.
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns (Parlophone CD)
William Burroughs “The Soft Machine” (Fourth Estate).
Philip K Dick “Flow My Tears The Policeman Said” (Gollancz)
On the journey I read “The Disappearing Spoon” book on the history of the elements and the Periodic table.
Bat For Lashes is a solo project of Natasha Khan,born 25th October 1979, a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, based in Brighton (UK).
Born to a Pakistani father, part of the eminent family of squash-playing Khans, and an English mother, her early childhood was spent travelling the world following her father who trained the Pakistani squash team, summers in Pakistan, and the rest of the time in Hertfordshire. She had a strict religious upbringing until her parents separated when she was 11 years old.
Khan graduated in film and music, whilst 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.
"Two Suns", her second album, is an etheral gothic dreamworld of sonic beauty. Just like the Brightonian lady herself.
Natasha Khan
Dinosaur Pile Up “Growing Pains” (Friends Versus Records CD) £1
Seasick Steve “I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left” (Warner Music CD) £3
Risil “Non Meters Volume One” (Important Records CD) £1
Afterwards I had a look at what Fopp had to offer. Bought a CD for £2 and two paperback books,respectively £2 and £3 each.
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns (Parlophone CD)
William Burroughs “The Soft Machine” (Fourth Estate).
Philip K Dick “Flow My Tears The Policeman Said” (Gollancz)
On the journey I read “The Disappearing Spoon” book on the history of the elements and the Periodic table.
Bat For Lashes is a solo project of Natasha Khan,born 25th October 1979, a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, based in Brighton (UK).
Born to a Pakistani father, part of the eminent family of squash-playing Khans, and an English mother, her early childhood was spent travelling the world following her father who trained the Pakistani squash team, summers in Pakistan, and the rest of the time in Hertfordshire. She had a strict religious upbringing until her parents separated when she was 11 years old.
Khan graduated in film and music, whilst 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.
"Two Suns", her second album, is an etheral gothic dreamworld of sonic beauty. Just like the Brightonian lady herself.
Natasha Khan
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