The Dam’s slow burning, hypno-hopeful creates a playlist of her most-loved tracks.\n<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nBea wears jacket by MARQUES ALMEIDA.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p >Bea is all too aware that in giving this interview, she could expose everything she\u2019s been hiding for the past few months. \u201cI\u2019m trying to explain things without telling you too much,\u201d she says, coyly. \u201cBecause I\u2019d like to keep the interpretation open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >Ever since her tracks \u201cBreadwinner\u201d and \u201cSafe Ground\u201d appeared online earlier this year, the Amsterdam-based singer has fought hard to safeguard her identity. She deals in startling music and equally arresting imagery. Nothing else.<\/p>\n<p >She\u2019s already begged us not to print her full name (\u201cIf I have the right to ask you not to use it, then I\u2019m going to ask you not to use it\u201d), and to keep schtum about her musical collaborator, a Dutch pop producer. \u201cHe usually makes very different stuff from my music,\u201d is all she\u2019ll offer up.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve probably said no to something like 25 different interview or photo shoot requests,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s felt good for me not to delve into that hype. I want to wait until I feel I\u2019ve accomplished something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >The reason why Bea\u2019s finally speaking to\u00a0<i>Wonderland<\/i>\u00a0is that she\u00a0<i>has<\/i>\u00a0accomplished something quite significant. This morning, she uploaded\u00a0<i>Good Thinking<\/i>, her self-released debut EP.\u00a0In a year, 23-year-old Bea has gone from being the voice of insipid Dutch techno 12 inches to a dazzling pop prospect. Solo, her dance floor credentials have mutated into eccentric electronica \u2014 Bristol trip-hop rubs up against glacial electronics, offsetting her piercing voice.<\/p>\n<p >The EP\u2019s standout track is \u201cBelow\u201d, a groove-heavy anti-capitalist tirade, underscored by a frenetic tubular bells sample. \u201cFilthy Believer\u201d is about \u201cold sex\u201d and then there\u2019s \u201cWe\u2019re Like The Hard Born\u201d, which she says, \u201ccomes from a very sad place. It\u2019s how I feel when I observe people in a group when I go out at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BEA-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40819\" alt=\"BEA 2\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BEA-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p ><em>Bea wears jacket by FYODR GOLAN, skirt by MARNI, watch by BABY G and boots by CHEAP MONDAY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p >Bea has always felt like something of an outsider. Born in the Netherlands to Cornish immigrant parents, she attended Dutch school but was steeped in English culture at home, the radio set permanently to BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n<p >She has mixed feelings about her hometown of Amsterdam. She finds its live music scene \u201cdismal\u201d and has struggled to find musicians to support her on stage. But she admires the city\u2019s intimacy. These days she\u2019s \u201cliving a kind of double life\u201d financing her music with three jobs: waitressing at a noodle restaurant, working on the door at parties and occasionally assisting photographers on shoots.<\/p>\n<p >Her visual grounding is stamped across her music. She speaks of a \u201chealthy and very personal working relationship\u201d with Piet Langeveld, \u201can autonomous visual artist\u201d. Their close bond resulted in an unforgettable photograph of Bea, slumped in a shallow bath against a mosaic of green tiles, wearing a translucent muscle man bodysuit, procured from a costume shop. (The look recalls Robbie Williams ripping off his flesh to become the dancing cadaver in the \u201cRock DJ\u201d video.) \u201cIt was meant for a man, so I had to sew the crotch out.\u201d Bea\u2019s engaged in a fraught staring competition with the camera, albeit with a distinctly arched eyebrow.<\/p>\n<p >She carries this theme into \u201cWe\u2019re Like The Hard Born\u201d, where, this time clad in a naked suit, she films herself with an iPhone perched on a selfie stick. A billowing smoke machine suggests a plain somewhere between a Turkish bath and the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n<p >\u201cWhen you watch it, you\u2019re looking at me observing myself,\u201d she says. \u201cYou need to have patience for it.\u201d Patience is rewarded with the image of a singing digital Labrador, superimposed over Bea\u2019s face. Don\u2019t seek any explanation for this, though: it\u2019s the product of an imagination that shuns justification.\u00a0\u201cI want to put question marks where other people might put exclamation marks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here the songstress creates a playlist exclusively for\u00a0<em>Wonderland…<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andy Stott – ‘Leaving’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xdm2N_f4GTE\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>iiO – ‘Rapture’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/on8DJBt07eU\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chic – ‘At Last I Am Free’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qo0LYX6COv0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Haruomi Hosono – ‘Sportsmen’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cqdv032mFbg\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judee Sill – ‘The Donor’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZeITxqrAOws\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw – ‘Mermaid’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KcWMCNwh8x8\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>William Orbit – ‘Water From A Vine Leaf’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PneAIfv30jA\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>BANGS – ‘Take U To Da Movies’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HmJbJs-9ST0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arvo P\u00e4rt – ‘Salve Regina’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ed23A2skdX0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Piotr Kurek – ‘Becoming Light’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vW5kAGB4JYQ\" allowfullscreen=\"\" 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Bea wears jacket by MARQUES ALMEIDA.<\/i><\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p >Bea is all too aware that in giving this interview, she could expose everything she\u2019s been hiding for the past few months. \u201cI\u2019m trying to explain things without telling you too much,\u201d she says, coyly. \u201cBecause I\u2019d like to keep the interpretation open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >Ever since her tracks \u201cBreadwinner\u201d and \u201cSafe Ground\u201d appeared online earlier this year, the Amsterdam-based singer has fought hard to safeguard her identity. She deals in startling music and equally arresting imagery. Nothing else.<\/p>\n<p >She\u2019s already begged us not to print her full name (\u201cIf I have the right to ask you not to use it, then I\u2019m going to ask you not to use it\u201d), and to keep schtum about her musical collaborator, a Dutch pop producer. \u201cHe usually makes very different stuff from my music,\u201d is all she\u2019ll offer up.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve probably said no to something like 25 different interview or photo shoot requests,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s felt good for me not to delve into that hype. I want to wait until I feel I\u2019ve accomplished something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >The reason why Bea\u2019s finally speaking to\u00a0<i>Wonderland<\/i>\u00a0is that she\u00a0<i>has<\/i>\u00a0accomplished something quite significant. This morning, she uploaded\u00a0<i>Good Thinking<\/i>, her self-released debut EP.\u00a0In a year, 23-year-old Bea has gone from being the voice of insipid Dutch techno 12 inches to a dazzling pop prospect. Solo, her dance floor credentials have mutated into eccentric electronica \u2014 Bristol trip-hop rubs up against glacial electronics, offsetting her piercing voice.<\/p>\n<p >The EP\u2019s standout track is \u201cBelow\u201d, a groove-heavy anti-capitalist tirade, underscored by a frenetic tubular bells sample. \u201cFilthy Believer\u201d is about \u201cold sex\u201d and then there\u2019s \u201cWe\u2019re Like The Hard Born\u201d, which she says, \u201ccomes from a very sad place. It\u2019s how I feel when I observe people in a group when I go out at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BEA-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40819\" alt=\"BEA 2\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BEA-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p ><em>Bea wears jacket by FYODR GOLAN, skirt by MARNI, watch by BABY G and boots by CHEAP MONDAY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p >Bea has always felt like something of an outsider. Born in the Netherlands to Cornish immigrant parents, she attended Dutch school but was steeped in English culture at home, the radio set permanently to BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n<p >She has mixed feelings about her hometown of Amsterdam. She finds its live music scene \u201cdismal\u201d and has struggled to find musicians to support her on stage. But she admires the city\u2019s intimacy. These days she\u2019s \u201cliving a kind of double life\u201d financing her music with three jobs: waitressing at a noodle restaurant, working on the door at parties and occasionally assisting photographers on shoots.<\/p>\n<p >Her visual grounding is stamped across her music. She speaks of a \u201chealthy and very personal working relationship\u201d with Piet Langeveld, \u201can autonomous visual artist\u201d. Their close bond resulted in an unforgettable photograph of Bea, slumped in a shallow bath against a mosaic of green tiles, wearing a translucent muscle man bodysuit, procured from a costume shop. (The look recalls Robbie Williams ripping off his flesh to become the dancing cadaver in the \u201cRock DJ\u201d video.) \u201cIt was meant for a man, so I had to sew the crotch out.\u201d Bea\u2019s engaged in a fraught staring competition with the camera, albeit with a distinctly arched eyebrow.<\/p>\n<p >She carries this theme into \u201cWe\u2019re Like The Hard Born\u201d, where, this time clad in a naked suit, she films herself with an iPhone perched on a selfie stick. A billowing smoke machine suggests a plain somewhere between a Turkish bath and the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n<p >\u201cWhen you watch it, you\u2019re looking at me observing myself,\u201d she says. \u201cYou need to have patience for it.\u201d Patience is rewarded with the image of a singing digital Labrador, superimposed over Bea\u2019s face. Don\u2019t seek any explanation for this, though: it\u2019s the product of an imagination that shuns justification.\u00a0\u201cI want to put question marks where other people might put exclamation marks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here the songstress creates a playlist exclusively for\u00a0<em>Wonderland…<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andy Stott – ‘Leaving’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xdm2N_f4GTE\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>iiO – ‘Rapture’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/on8DJBt07eU\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chic – ‘At Last I Am Free’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qo0LYX6COv0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Haruomi Hosono – ‘Sportsmen’<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cqdv032mFbg\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judee Sill – ‘The 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