Devendra Banhart: Mala (CD)

Devendra Banhart

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Label:: Nonesuch
Year of recording ca.:: 2013
UPC/EAN:: 0075597959727
Release date:: 12.3.2013

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Devendra Banhart, der unlängst einen Vertrag bei Nonesuch Records unterschrieben hat, wird sein Labeldebüt „Mala“ veröffentlichen. Der Singer-/Songwriter co-produzierte das Werk gemeinsam mit seinem Langzeit-Bandkollegen, Gitarrist Noah Georgeson. Banharts letzte Veröffentlichung, das 2009er-Werk „What Will We Be“, erhielt großes Kritikerlob und wurde etwa vom ‚Rolling Stone’ bezeichnet als „das Beste, was er je gemacht hat“. Die ‚Los Angeles Times’ beschrieb das Album als „angenehmen, zurückgelehnten Folk, der überhaupt nicht nach Kompromiss klingt – vielmehr nach einem Künstler, der in seine eigene Haut wächst.“

Bahnart erhielt erste internationale Aufmerksamkeit mit seinem Debütalbum von 2002, „Oh Me Oh My... The Way The Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit“ – eine Kollektion von Aufnahmen, die er ursprünglich nur für sich selber gemacht hatte.
‚Pitchfork’ schrieb in der Review zur Platte: „Banharts vielversprechendes Debüt ist ein Zeichen dafür, dass da jemand für große, verrückte Dinge vorgesehen ist.“

Als vielbeachteter visueller Künstler tauchten Bahnarts ausgefeilte, genauestens gezeichnete, häufig enigmatische Kunstwerke in Gallerien auf der ganzen Welt auf, darunter auch auf der Art Basel Contemporary Art Fair in Miami, im San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, im Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brüssel und im Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. Er hat zudem das Coverartwork für fast alle seine Veröffentlichungen selbst gestaltet, 2010 erhielt er eine Grammy-Nominierung für die Gestaltung und Verpackung seines Albums „What Will We Be“.

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Mala, Banhart’s eighth studio album, was recorded in his then-home in Los Angeles. (He now resides in New York City.) He and Georgeson played most of the instruments themselves, using borrowed equipment and a vintage Tascam recorder they’d found in a pawn shop. “A lot of early hip-hop had been made on [the Tascam],” says Banhart. “And knowing my songs are not hip-hop whatsoever, we thought it would be interesting to see how these kinds of songs would sound on equipment that was used to record our favorite rap. Let’s see how this technology would work for us.” It was a new approach for the pair. “In the past we were more like, let’s use the oldest equipment we could find.”

Banhart also notes how his voice has developed over the years: “I don’t really take care of my voice, but, just like with playing guitar, you get more familiar with it, and you get better at it. I’ve always said that I’m very good at not knowing how to play the guitar but, really, it’s just that I’m very comfortable with the utter uncertainty of my approach.”

Banhart’s previous release, 2009’s What Will We Be, received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone calling it “the best he’s ever made.” The Los Angeles Times said the record “found him making comfortable, laid-back folk that didn’t sound like a compromise—more like an artist growing into his own.”

Devendra Banhart was born in Houston, TX, and moved with his mother to her native Caracas, Venezuela, when his parents separated. The family relocated to Los Angeles during his teenage years; it was there that he learned to speak English, skateboard, and play music. Banhart first began to perform in public while attending the San Francisco Art Institute. He has since lived in Los Angeles, Paris, San Francisco, and New York City.

Banhart first attracted international notice with his 2002 debut album, Oh Me Oh My … The Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit—a collection of recordings he had made for himself. Pitchfork said in its review: “Banhart’s promising debut is the sign of someone destined for great, strange things.” Subsequent albums include Rejoicing in the Hands, Niño Rojo, Cripple Crow, and Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. He has collaborated with fellow musicians including Antony and the Johnsons, Beck, Vashti Bunyan, Os Mutantes, Swans, and Vetiver. He also has performed with both Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, and was part of a David Byrne–curated concert at Carnegie Hall.

An accomplished visual artist, Banhart’s distinctive, minutely inked, often enigmatic drawings have appeared in galleries all over the world, including the Art Basel Contemporary Art Fair in Miami; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels; and Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. He has created the cover art for most of his records, including Mala, and in 2010 his artwork and packaging for What Will We Be was nominated for a Grammy.

(nonesuch. com)

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,,Im Kaffeehaus wird ,,Mala" vermutlich niemals aufgelegt werden, im Coffee Shop dagegen wohl öfter." (Rolling Stone, März 2013)

,,In den filigran ausgestatteten Songs auf MALA wird der Synthesizer zu einem zuverlässigen Freund, Banhart bewegt sich mit der Leichtigkeit eines Caetano Veloso durch die halbelektronischen Soundräume ..." (musikexpress, April 2013)

,,Die Musik atmet jene Freiheit und Individualität, die man auch bei Caetano Veloso findet ..." (Stereo, Juni 2013)