It’s another cut from the forthcoming eponymous album
Sexwitch, the collaboration between Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan, producer Dan Carey, and TOY, have shared a second song from their upcoming debut LP, Sexwitch.
Ha Howa Ha Howa was originally recorded by Moroccan artist Cheikha Hanna Ouakki, and continues the theme of reworking 1970s psych and folk songs.
Speaking to Pitchfork, Khan said of the song, “Ha Howa Ha Howa, the he addicted me song—the girl that originally sang that [Cheikha Hanna Ouakki] was really young, 15, 16. She traveled around these mountain villages and became this vagabond singer. She’s the one that sounded so street, so contemporary. I loved her spirit, I felt her freedom in the way she was singing it. So it’s really nice to shine a light on that time in those countries where there was liberation. They feel the same things we do, it’s just blanketed in our impression of oppressive regimes.
I think deep down, we’re all from the same place. People now can enjoy this kind of music next to contemporary psychedelic music. I think it’s really important to feel free, and to be free to express everyone’s humanity, the things that link us, that we’re all just falling in love with people or running away.”
Listen to the track above.
(via Pitchfork)
