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  Vashti Bunyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Despite the failure of her album at the time, her influence over a new generation of folk artists, such as Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, kept her music alive.
In the late nineties, Banhart wrote to her asking for her advice on whether to continue with music to which she replied, beginning her connection with many of the contemporary performers who cite her work.
The album was produced by composer Max Richter and featured many of her contemporary followers including Banhart, Newsom, Adem, Kevin Barker of Currituck Co, Otto Hauser of Espers and Adam Pierce of Mice Parade.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vashti_Bunyan   (661 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Devendra Banhart (born 30 May, 1981 in Houston, Texas) is a psych folk singer/songwriter whose first few records were released on the Young God Records label from New York City; his most recent CD was released by XL Recordings.
Banhart was "curator" for a compilation CD released by Bastet (an imprint of the alternative magazine Arthur) called The Golden Apples of the Sun.
Banhart also was one of the younger musicians responsible for "rediscovering" the music of folksinger Vashti Bunyan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Devendra_Banhart   (534 words)

  
 Beggars Group, USA
Devendra Banhart was born in Texas in 1981, then moved with his family to live with his grandmother in Caracas, Venezuela.
Devendra’s artwork has graced the covers of all three of his full-length CD releases and one EP, appeared in national publications including BB Gun and Magnet and a selection was self-published in book form as Light Aligns.
Devendra Banhart has emerged as one of the most fascinating, unpredictable and inspiring artists of his generation and with Cripple Crow he continues to surprise and delight an ever-increasing audience of fans and critics alike.
www.beggars.com /us/devendrabanhart/index.html   (940 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing In The Hands (2004): Reviews
Banhart is a complete antidote to all the consumer focus groups or hit-writers, too scared to tamper with the formula.
Banhart ceaselessly entrances with his brilliant combination of John Fahey-esque pickings, absurd and sometimes profoundly resonating lyrics and the craft to convey both kinds with equal candor.
Banhart is a rockcrit bandwagon right now, but his sub-par evocation of early Marc Bolan doesn't produce much in the way of memorable songs: I expect the rockcrits will be on to the next flavor of the month by the time Banhart releases another album.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/banhartdevendra/rejoicinginthehands   (967 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart Album Reviews
Rejoicing in the Hands by 23-year-old Devendra Banhart is probably the most perplexing singer-songwriter album I have heard in a long, long while (as such, it also makes a belated entrance into my list of favorite albums released in 2004).
Many of his colleagues wallow too much in their own neologisms and smart-ass lyrics, but Banhart's striking lyrical imagery (which often seems random, indeed) is delivered with a sincerity that's simply to captivating to be considered a trick.
devendra banhart is an amazing songwriter and should be appreciated more forget pete doherty people should take a look at devendras lyrics, I have been amazed by his albums and waiting to buy his new one "crippled Crow".
www.guypetersreviews.com /devendrabanhart.php   (411 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart: Nino Rojo - PopMatters Music Review
Devendra Banhart is a worldly guy and recorded tons of songs on various lo-fi machines, including an answering machine.
The pictures Devendra invokes in the listener's mind are always near-disturbing, but so completely childlike and innocent, it really does bring to mind thoughts of children making up songs as they will during play, and singing whatever silly stories come to mind and just reveling in that.
Banhart, like Jandek, is undoubtedly one of the few truly original and captivating popular musical artists in the States these days.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/banhartdevendra-nino.shtml   (975 words)

  
 *Sixeyes MP3 Blog: Interview :: Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is a young man who comes to us from Texas by way of Caracas, Venezuela.
Banhart is far from the mainstream current, you'll find him floating on his back in a tiny, rocky stream, slipping over the rocks like a long slender leaf; a verdant green in the steely blue water.
Devendra: The difference was that even though there were definite themes and actual songs pre-written upon entering the studio, the whole things feels like a strange by-product of being in the Bearsville woods surrounded by our family [*six: Bearsville, NY, where Cripple Crow was recorded].
sixeyes.blogspot.com /2005/08/interview-devendra-banhart.html   (1142 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cripple Crow: Music: Devendra Banhart,Devendra Banhart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Banhart went to great lengths to enshroud himself with some of his most talented friends: Adam Forkner of White Rainbow, Andy Cabic of Vetiver, the free-folk band Feathers, and producer Thom Monahan among them.
Devendra exploded on the international music scene three years ago, quickly accumulating devoted fans as well as an unusually hefty amount of critical kudos with his debut and subsequent releases.
Banhart's mature musical vision is, specially considering how young he is and how adventurous he remains when it comes to writing new songs, nothing less than remarkable.
www.amazon.com /Cripple-Crow-Devendra-Banhart/dp/B000A78Z82   (2019 words)

  
 Waterloo Records - Devendra Banhart : Rejoicing In The Hands
Acclaimed eccentric singer/songwriter Devendra Banhart takes a step out of the lo-fi basement and into the hi-fi living room for this critically lauded album.
During a span of only 10 days, Banhart recorded more than 30 songs (co-produced by former Swans leader Michael Gira) that were subsequently divided between this record and its companion disc, NINO ROJO.
Banhart's deft acoustic guitar finger-picking and vocal warbling show the influence of country blues masters like Blind Willie McTell and Skip James, while another of his idols, reclusive 1970s folk icon Vashti Bunyan, appears on the title track.
www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=13&upc=65845700242   (381 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Cripple Crow: Music: Devendra Banhart,Devendra Banhart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Devendra Banhart exploded on the international music scene 3 years ago quickly winning a coterie of devoted fans as well as an unusually hefty amount of critical kudos.
That Banhart's talent is remarkable will not be news to anyone who's listened to him already, what has not ceased to amaze me is how mature his musical vision is, specially considering how young he is and how adventurous he remains when it comes to writing new songs.
Devendra showed signs of expanding his range on its predecessor Nino Rojo with the shambling rock shanty romp of Be Kind and the kazoo freak-out that closed We All Know.
www.amazon.co.uk /Cripple-Crow-Devendra-Banhart/dp/B000A78Z82   (1610 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart
It was unsettling to find out that Devendra was twenty-one years old and had only been playing a few years.
Banhart grew up loving the music of Mississippi John Hurt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Karen Dalton and Fred Neil.
Devendra selected 22 songs for this debut record.
www.freewilliamsburg.com /february_2003/banhart.html   (1769 words)

  
 *Sixeyes MP3 Blog: 'Niño Rojo' DEVENDRA BANHART
Add on top of that the previously mentioned tidbit that Banhart put these (57) tracks onto tape during the same ten-day session and the similarity of the two discs is to be expected.
Both recordings are sparse and bear a timeless air, showcasing Banhart’s arresting vocals – be they hushed or closer to teeth on a chalkboard; they grab a hold and push you up against the nearest wall for a welcome frisking.
Banhart creates original, individual music - eccentric, mystical, calming, disturbing… just perfect for the hipster willing to display his hipster cred with what is perceived as un-hip music.
sixeyes.blogspot.com /2005/01/nio-rojo-devendra-banhart.html   (326 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart : Niño Rojo - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
His unaffected aesthetic is etched in the ether of mysterious traditional and psychedelic folk musics from the British Isle and in an America that disappeared the first time in the '30s with the Dust Bowl and for the second time in the grimness of mid-'70s determinism in the shadows of post-Vietnam shame and malaise.
Banhart's songs don't hearken back so much as remind us of what we no longer possess as a culture.
For Banhart, writing a song is one discovery -- give a listen to "At the Hop" written with Andy Cabic with its bright, canny, gorgeously impure love poetry -- and recording is another.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3013210,00.html   (517 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Banhart's fourth album isn't a compilation, nor is it billed as a group project, but he's assembled such a rich cast of cohorts here, it feels more like the fruit of community interaction than the product of a lone singer/songwriter.
The communal vibe is hinted at by the album's artwork: Rather than adorning the cover with his usual calligraphic scribbles, Banhart offers a composite photo of "The Family" (a term he often ascribes to his musical friends), gathered beneath a large knotty tree and accompanied by the disembodied heads of smiling spirits.
Banhart's ambition is apparent throughout, but at 22 tracks and almost 75 minutes, the album does stretch its legs too long.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/15298/Devendra_Banhart_Cripple_Crow   (692 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow (2005): Reviews
It feels exactly like the kind of album Devendra Banhart ought to have playing in his head -- a cacophony of cool sounds, a plethora of contradictory ideas, a patchwork quilt of psychedelically bright colors.
Banhart's pleas for peace and harmony have a guileless charm, and in "When They Come" they assume an epic urgency.
Banhart's talent, and sometimes "Cripple Crow" makes of him what some people perhaps want him to be: a simulacrum of an obscure 1960's musician, a maker of albums that were so rare they never existed.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/banhartdevendra/cripplecrow   (1036 words)

  
 NPR : Devendra Banhart's Surreal Sound
All are sung in Banhart's stirring, whispered voice, which Ulaby says is unlike anything you're likely to have heard before.
Banhart has achieved cult status on many college radio stations, attracting listeners who find the impenetrability of his lyrics to be part of his appeal.
For his next album, Banhart is thinking of recording some songs in Spanish with his mother, who is Venezuelan.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1273015   (440 words)

  
 XL: Devendra Banhart
Devendra sifted through all the pictures selected his favourites and now the LP is ready.
Devendra's current single "I feel like a child" is proud to be NME's single of the week.
Devendra will perform a few songs from his album cripple crow on the clarrence bandstand at 7pm followed by a Q&A alongside a picnic in the beautiful setting of regents park.
www.xlrecordings.com /devendrabanhart   (2527 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart : Cripple Crow - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The disc is Banhart's first foray from Michael Gira's Young God label, and it's more adventurous than anything he's done before.
There are also five songs in Spanish, Banhart's native tongue, in a style that's a cross between flamenco and son.
In it, Banhart places a new generation in the firing line, and urges them to resist not with violence, but with pacifistic refusal.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3347218,00.html   (387 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Pop-folk phenomenon Devendra Banhart crafts delightfully eccentric music with a quivering voice that's at once childlike and inviting.
Besides, his songwriting and his guitar playing (in my opinion) have taken such leaps and bounds forward, that we were compelled to record them in a way that made it possible to really hear the performances clearly.
Devendra sat on his stool in that living room for 10 days, 12 hours a day, and played, constantly.
music.download.com /devendrabanhart/3600-8702_32-100016532.html   (646 words)

  
 Midheaven Mailorder | Browse by Artist: BANHART, DEVENDRA
Banhart gives himself so wholly and so without artifice or posture, that even the most jaded of listeners can't help but be awed.
Devendra pleads to be put in the subject's suitcase, so he'll never be apart from his companion...After yet another brilliant release from Devendra Banhart, we share his sentiment, hoping the talented singer-songwriter continues to take us along on his journey as one of the more memorable musicians of our time.
Banhart's voice is as shaky as his songs' connection to everyday reality.
www.midheaven.com /artists/banhart.devendra.html   (1572 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: BANHART, DEVENDRA
The songs were recorded on various borrowed and usually broken 4-track cassette recorders by Banhart himself in various haphazard locations around the globe.
Banhart sat on a stool in that living room for ten days, twelve hours per, playing constantly, sometimes with a chorus of cicadas when they recorded at night with open windows.
Devendra Banhart is so amazingly magical, unique, and genuine that people just gravitate naturally to his music; best friends' grandmothers relate to it, hard-ass experimentalists enthuse about it, even country/bluegrass purists recognize the man's talents.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/banhart.devendra.html   (411 words)

  
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Devendra unlike no other artist has inspired me to reach for and TRY to express as a musician the purest essence of music.
devendra likes his absinthe cold and to the point...i think he is entering his obvious "the band" phase...hopefully he will deliver some more goodies before dying....i suspect he won´t reach his thirties...just a premonition...yeeeeehaw.
I looove devendra banhar his music is totally great i am 14 and this is some of the best stuff i have heard in my short music loving life.
www.kvrx.org /locallive/performance.php?pid=492   (2233 words)

  
 * Dusted Reviews - Devendra Banhart *
Devendra Banhart apparently doesn’t believe in time off: less than a year after the release of Nino Rojo, the second of his two full-length releases in 2004, the prolific troubadour is back with the 22-song, 74-minute Cripple Crow.
Whereas Banhart’s past three albums were essentially one-man shows, relying primarily on acoustic guitar and vocals, Crow works with a considerably broader palette: only two of the album’s 22 tracks are solo acoustic performances, and full band arrangements take priority.
This isn’t to say that Banhart has abandoned his own style to slavishly imitate others; rather, he tries on a multiplicity of voices here, marking a sharp contrast to his relatively homogeneous earlier work.
dustedmagazine.com /reviews/2393   (598 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart - PopMatters Concert Review
Like the other artists on this list, Devendra Banhart is a man with an impressive beard, a beard that ensures his recognition as a seriously bohemian artist.
Banhart possesses one of the most unique voices I've heard, drawing each note held for longer than a second into a trembling wall of vibrato.
The show started with Devendra picking away at his guitar, trailing off mid-way through the first phrase, blaming the sound people for the interruption.
www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/b/banhart-devendra-041124.shtml   (753 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - Devendra Banhart to curate ATP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Find out more about Devendra Banhart in the pages of NME Magazine, delivered straight to your door every week.
Devendra Banhart is the latest musician to curate a day at next year's mini-festival The United Sounds of ATP.
Banhart, Mudhoney and Yeah Yeah Yeahs will perform and curate a day during the first weekend of the event (May 12-14), whilst the second leg (May 19-21) will see the other three acts putting on their favourites.
www.nme.com /news/devendra-banhart/21530   (209 words)

  
 NPR : Devendra Banhart's 'Cripple Crow'
Devendra Banhart was named by guru Maharaji Prem Rawat.
World Cafe, October 20, 2005 ·; Cripple Crow is Devendra Banhart's new release of artful alternative folk songs.
Banhart's music blends West Coast grooves with a lo-fi sound that gives his lyrics sincerity and authority.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4961907   (239 words)

  
 Devendra Banhart - Biography - AOL Music
Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, and Los Angeles, Devendra Banhart was always playing music and drawing.
Acclaim for both was nearly unanimous, and Banhart's audience continued to expand.
Get Devendra Banhart biography information, download, listen and watch Devendra Banhart music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and use the music search function to find information on other new and established recording artists.
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 Live Review: Magnolia Electric Co. / Devendra Banhart
Banhart has become a new Messiah and his joyous message, hippie image and cosmic mumbo jumbo seem to attract a shitload of young people that would love being a member of a commune or community of beatniks, Freaks or something like that.
Even though the majority of the audience definitely seemed to be into this happening-like atmosphere, the childish enthusiasm of those around me, as well as Banhart's animated performance caused me to feel ill at ease, so I left.
Which is too bad, because reportedly I missed more crowd chants, dancing, kissing and hugging on stage, as well as Banhart waltzing with a huge stuffed animal.
www.guypetersreviews.com /livedevendrabanhart.php   (872 words)

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