{"id":70688,"date":"2016-06-01T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=70688"},"modified":"2016-06-01T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:44:38","slug":"hana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2016\/06\/01\/hana\/","title":{"rendered":"Hana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Hana, the synth wondergirl turning heartbreak into harmonies.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken from the Summer Issue of Wonderland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-01-at-10.36.25.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-70696\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-01-at-10.36.25-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-01 at 10.36.25\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p ><em>White cotton hoodie by TOPSHOP, perspex jewelled choker by VIVIENNE WESTWOOD<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Hana Pestle, with her purple plaited mane, looks like a pixie version of Lara Croft. Pestle has been intermittently touring with our cover star Grimes for the best part of a year, but despite the sudden worldwide attention which is part and parcel of touring with an alt-pop superstar, the 26-year-old singer is still an open book \u2014 both on the record and off it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just been really lucky with how it\u2019s all turned out,\u201d Pestle grins when I commend her for securing tour slots alongside Purity Ring, Shamir and Lana Del Rey. \u201cI was a complete emotional mess at the end of Purity Ring because that had been such a great experience and then I\u2019m announcing all these dates for places all over.\u201d In a previous incarnation, HANA was just Hana, a 17-year-old girl arrived in LA from Montana \u201cwhere there is literally more cows than people\u201d playing bluesy-rock songs and Leonard Cohen covers, to mild success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just felt really stagnant for a while,\u201d she sighs. \u201cI had gotten into a routine. I got into the college market, so I was playing around tonnes of campuses around the country. It was amazing and I felt really lucky because I was able to pay my bills doing what I love, which is playing music, but I didn\u2019t feel artistically fulfilled.\u201d The end of a five year relationship pushed Pestle towards a fresh start and in 2013, she dropped her last name, capitalised all four letters of her first, and swapped acoustic guitars for synths and switchboards.<\/p>\n<p>Pestle moulded heartbreak into harmonies, unpicking her experiences to create what would become material for her first EP under her new title. \u201c\u2018Chimera\u2019 is one of the oldest ones I wrote when I broke up with my boyfriend,\u201d I tell her it\u2019s my favourite of the five tracks her publicist has shared with me on the sly. \u201cHe was treating me like I was the devil, so I thought: \u2018Ok well, if I was some evil woman, what would I say?\u2019&#8230; I took some of the lyrics from emails I got from this guy where he\u2019s like: \u2018You\u2019re a vampire woman!\u2019 And I was like: \u2018Well I\u2019m not, but if I was&#8230;\u2019\u201d She raises an eyebrow and erupts with a crazy fairy cackle.<\/p>\n<p>As is seemingly the norm in this digital age, Pestle\u2019s return first surfaced quietly online but despite this new, understated fac\u0327ade, it wasn\u2019t her intention to be so enigmatic. \u201cHANA to me is a completely new project. That was the only thing I was prioritising, I wasn\u2019t trying to be super-mysterious or anything. It went better than I could have hoped. It was really exciting that first day when we posted \u2018Clay\u2019 and a couple of my friends posted about it, and then the whole day I was like: \u2018Wait, who else posted about it?\u2019\u201d Turns out Lorde and Grimes had both tweeted out the innocuous Soundcloud link and that was that. No pomp, no ceremony, just talent admiring talent.<\/p>\n<p>12 months later, \u201cClay\u201d has been joined by \u201cUnderwater\u201d and \u201cAvalanche\u201d. Muted thuds of pulsing beats slide down her cascading calls, always softly harmonised and somewhat digitally-enhanced, but only ever enough to still sound like magic, rather than the binary noise of technology. In the year since that first day, HANA\u2019s fans have found comfort in the artist\u2019s honest lyrics and willingness to share. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to remind myself what I went through and what I learned,\u201d Pestle concludes. \u201cIt was crazy on these tours getting letters from young girls who say that\u2019s helped them get out of bad relationships. Things like that are why I restarted and put a new focus on me being in control, that\u2019s the basis of what this whole project is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-01-at-10.36.51.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-70698\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-01-at-10.36.51-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-01 at 10.36.51\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p ><em>White cotton hoodie by TOPSHOP, white mesh ruffle dress and white trainers both by NICOPANDA<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>Photography<\/strong>: Nuria Rius<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fashion<\/strong>: Toni-Blaze Ibekwe<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>Hair<\/strong>: Scott Jordan using BUMBLE 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