Devendra Banhart
Track: Devendra Banhart releases new song, Nun, taken from forthcoming Flying Wig album; plus World Tour dates
In the run up to his Flying Wig album, due out on September 22nd on one of our favourite labels here at Backseat Mafia, Mexican Summer, Devendra Banhart has released a new single, Nun. Recorded in Topanga Canyon, Southern California with acclaimed Welsh musician Cate Le Bon as producer, it’s a perfect marriage of their psych folk stylings, …
See: Devendra Banhart and Noah Goergeson unveil an expansive, meditative ‘Refuge’ double set for August; come float within ‘Into Clouds’ and ‘In A Cistern’
THEIR first meeting may have been entirely inauspicious – the one enquiring of the other whether in fact he was, indeed, a French drug dealer – but once that initial barrier was overcome, the twin, surging talents of acid folk scion Devendra Banhart and minimalist composer and producer Noah Georgeson became firm friends; collaborators. And …
EP REVIEW: Devendra Banhart – ‘Vast Ovoid’: bursting with ideas
DEVENDRA BANHART was one of the main beneficiaries of the American acid-folk explosion just after the turn of the century. He came in as part of that movement with bands like Vetiver and Espers and became almost the George Best of the movement: piratically handsome with that dusky hair and huge hoop earrings, a brace …
Track: Devendra Banhart – Swan
Devendra Banhart has released a song, ‘Swan’, with all proceeds going to the Los Angeles Women’s Center. It’s a cover of a song by Ioanna Gika, taken from last years solo debut album Thalassa. Swan is this beautiful folk pop melody, and Bandarts smooth, delicate baritone fingers it way over the picked guitar accompaniment. The …