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Blake Hazard was born in Northern Vermont and taught herself to play guitar by writing songs. Her father, a guitarist, played traditional folk and country tunes as well as some Brazilian and jazz standards. Those jazz and bossa nova sounds would combine to form Hazard’s musical sensibilities, as did her childhood experiences listening to Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, and, later, to Bjork, PJ Harvey, Beth Orton and Aphex Twin.

Blake graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, just north of Manhattan, and spent two years as a visiting undergraduate at Harvard University. During this time Hazard recorded solo acoustic demos of her first songs with the help of Mark Sandman (Morphine) at his home studio, and with Paul Q. Kolderie (producer of Radiohead, Hole). With former members of Helium (Mike Leahy, Brian Dunton, Shawn King Devlin), she recorded demos at Fort Apache Studios in Cambridge, which earned her a spot in the Boston Phoenix’s Top Ten list of the best undiscovered Boston bands. Her interests began to shift from what had begun as an alt-country pop sound to a more electronic influenced, beat-oriented production. At this time, her band line-up changed to include Rich Gilbert (Frank Black, Tanya Donelly) on guitar, Joe Klompus (Tracey Bonham, Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt, Jackdrag) on bass and Steve Scully (Nina Gordon, Jack Drag) on drums. It was Klompus who introduced Blake to producer John Dragonetti, founder of the band Jack Drag.
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