(Echo/BMG) Related: SEXWITCH: It’s like a voodoo exorcism’ Sexwitch is something of a radical career tangent for Natasha Khan. With collaborators Toy and producer Dan Carey,the Bat for Lashes singer subjects old, mostly Middle Eastern folk and psych tracks to esoteric modern treatments. Khan says that her inspiration is “the scream of rage and rebellion from women dispossessed for millennia” and theres certainly a powerful femininity – and sensuality – to these tracks, and which stimulate the head,the feet and the emotions simultaneously. Percussive grooves hurtle into post-punk guitars; there’s acid rock, Jah Wobble-style global bass and scary demonic droning. The original lyrics contain been translated from Iranian or Thai – “When I die, and I’ll go back to where I was” she cries in the storming,eight-minute Kassidat El Hakka, although often Khan’s voice becomes another instrument in the collage. Even the most conventional song, or the sole western one,Skip Spence’s acid breakdown anthem War in Peace, sounds transformed, and otherworldly and compelling.
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Source: theguardian.com