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Label: Kabuki
Label Type: indie
Location: London, , United Kingdom
Rating: 10.00
Rating points: 200
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Member since: March 07, 2007
Last logged in: March 04, 2008, 03:37am
Account Status: Free Account
Rated by: 20 people
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Latest Journal Entry: New Tour and new EP! February 17, 2008, 09:31am
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Biography Lahannya has always lived life on her own terms, eschewing convention and bending the rigid rules imposed by society to her advantage. It is therefore no surprise that her first release was a totally self-produced track on the Amduscias compilation of anarchist US diy label Zenflesh. Amidst the aural assault of Noise/Girl and the nightmare soundscapes of Petit Mal, Lahannya’s “Drowning” at first appears to be a highly unusual contribution, but in terms of attitude and philosophy Lahannya is a perfect fit. Inspired by the positive feedback and the Zenflesh way of just doing it, Lahannya went on to produce her debut EP and release it on her own label. The 4-track “Drowning” EP was extremely positively received by fanzines and underground music Web sites worldwide, which compared its sound to Throwing Muses, Cranes and a more ambient Garbage.
After moving from Brighton on England’s South coast into the heart of London Lahannya took up a DJ residency at the infamous Slimelight, London’s longest running alternative club night and a regular hang-out for national and international underground artists. Her DJ activities led to interesting friendships and collaborations, the first of which was her contribution to the 2003 Greenhaus release “Another Life”. In 2004 Lahannya began her long-term collaboration with Soman, resulting in club hits like “Tears”, “Eye to Eye”, “Mask” and the remix of Combichrist's “Sex, Drugs and Industrial” as well as festival performances at M’Era Luna, WGT and Summer Darkness among others.
At M'Era Luna 2004 a chance encounter with Lutz Demmler of controversial German goth-rock band Umbra et Imago provided the trigger for Lahannya's return to her own material. Their brief acquaintance turned into fast friendship and eventually the decision to work together on Lahannya’s full-length debut album. “Shotgun Reality” was a departure from both her early solo work and her recent collaborations, yet its genre-breaching fusion of alternative rock, powerpop and gothic metal was instantly recognisable by the idiosyncratic vocal style and imaginative lyrics that have become Lahannya’s trademark. In late 2006 Lahannya and Lutz were joined first by Belle (Killing Miranda, Nosferatu) and shortly after by Chris Milden (NFD) and together the glamorous quartet presented “Shotgun Reality” live at sold-out tours in the UK and France with Courtney Love’s anarchic ex-collaborator Emilie Autumn and j-rock lolita Moon Kana.
For Lahannya standing still is a bit like dying and therefore the band are starting 2008 at full steam: Just six months after catapulting right into the heart of the European alternative scene with their impressive debut there will be a new release, in time for Lahannya’s extended tour supporting German goth-rock sensation ASP in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The "Welcome To The Underground" EP features four brand new tracks and a variety of remixes by renowned artists from the alternative scene. The stunning artwork was created by David Bircham, whose graphic novel Brodie's Law has become a worldwide underground success.
The EP presents the prequel to a story that will unfold in the next album and is a subject that is very close to the heart of Lahannya and her band. “Welcome To The Underground” paints a bleak picture of our future – a future in which due to fear and lethargy our nation has sleepwalked into a surveillance society and our personal lives are under state control. Individualists, free thinkers and anyone seeking an alternative lifestyle either lives a life of pretence, constantly on guard, or is forced to exist completely outside society as we know it, in the underground. Not everyone is prepared to accept that we no longer live in a free country and the underground is rising to fight back… Discography  | Lahannya: Welcome To The UndergroundMarch 2008
Kabuki | The brand new EP! |  | Xotox: In den zehn MorgenMarch 2008
Pronoize | Lahannya contributed lyrics and vocals to the track "Habitat" |  | ASP: Nie MehrNovember 2007
Trisol | Remix of the title track with vocals by Lahannya |  | Lahannya: Shotgun RealityOctober 2007
Kabuki | The long awaited Lahannya debut album! |  | Lahannya: Bleed For MeOctober 2007
Kabuki | Download-only single with exclusive electronic remix of Narcotic! |  | Soman: MaskApril 2007
Infacted | Mask
Eye to Eye
(lyrics/vocals by Lahannya) |  | Dracul: Like an AnimalApril 2006
Spirit Production | Vampiria's Dream
Deathwish
(lyrics/vocals by Lahannya) |  | Various: Harmonia MundiFebruary 2006
Danse Macabre | My Angel by Wintry
(lyrics/vocals by Lahannya) |  | Xotox: [Psi]June 2005
Pronoize | [Psi] video on double CD edition
(intro spoken by Lahannya) |  | Various: Machineries of Joy Vol 3November 2004
Out Of Line | Antique by Soman
(lyrics/vocals by Lahannya) |  | Combichrist: Sex, Drogen und IndustrieNovember 2004
Out Of Line | Sex, Drugs and Industrial
Soman remix
(vocals by Lahannya) |  | Soman: RevengeAugust 2004
Out Of Line | Tears feat. Lahannya
(lyrics/vocals by Lahannya) |  | Greenhaus: Another LifeAutumn 2003
Phuture Recordings | Trigger
Plainsong
Human Nature
Rockstar
Delusions
Another Life
Fragments
One Day Closer
Solar One
(lyrics/vocals by Lahannya except Plainsong, vocals only) |  | Lahannya: DrowningAutumn 2000
Kabuki | Drowning
Narcotic
Losing Yourself
Drowning - Reprise
(music/lyrics/vocals by Lahannya) |  | Various: AmdusciasAutumn 1998
Zenflesh | Drowning by Lahannya
(lyrics/vocals by Lahannya) | | 
Lahannya - vocals, songwriting, lyrics and occasionally guitar 
Lutz - bass, songwriting, production 
Chris - guitar 
Belle - drums [photos courtesy of Diana Zassi and Concrete Shell] Lahannya Live Dates
07 Mar 08: Legends, Newcastle [UK] with ASP
08 Mar 08: Corporation, Sheffield [UK]
09 Mar 08: Underworld, London [UK]
25 Mar 08: Matrix - Bochum [D]
26 Mar 08: Batschkapp - Frankfurt [D]
27 Mar 08: Max - Kiel [D]
28 Mar 08: Pressenwerk - Bad Salzungen [D]
29 Mar 08: Factory - Magdeburg [D]
30 Mar 08: Mau - Rostock [D]
01 Apr 08: Orpheum - Graz [A]
02 Apr 08: Spektrum - Augsburg [D]
03 Apr 08: E-Werk - Erlangen [D]
04 Apr 08: F-Haus - Jena [D]
05 Apr 08: Kammgarn - Kaiserslautern [D]
06 Apr 08: Batschkapp - Frankfurt [D]
09 Apr 08: X-tra - Zürich [CH] Lahannya's other homes on the Web:
- Lahannya Web site
- Lahannya's Diary
- Lahannya Gallery
- Lahannya Mailing List
- Lahannya @ myspace.com
- Lahannya @ Last.fm
- Lahannya @ Bebo.com Lahannya collaborators and partners
Soman
Xotox
Greenhaus
Dracul
Twilight Sound Studio
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Sounds Like:
Alternative rock flirting with electro... Lacuna Coil meets The Birthday Massacre
Influences:
Cranes, Tori Amos, Snake River Conspiracy, Kidneythieves, Celldweller, Disturbed, Prodigy, Hole, Stina Nordenstam, Curve, Ladytron, Bush
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