Devendra Banhart to Perform at Mill City Nights on May 30
For Immediate Release
DEVENDRA BANHART
May 30 at Mill City Nights
Presented by AEG Live, 89.3 The Current & CITY PAGES
Devendra Banhart releases his Nonesuch debut, Mala, on March 12, 2013. The singer/songwriter co-produced the record with his longtime bandmate, guitarist Noah Georgeson. Q magazine calls it a career-best LP. This is a beautiful album that counterpoints Banharts boundless and surreal imagination against a newly-discovered depth and sincerity. Surprising and enthralling. The Mala LP is pressed on 140-gram vinyl and includes the album on CD, an additional 7 with two bonus tracks, and an exclusive poster. Spring tour dates will be announced soon.
Mala, Banharts 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 recorder they had found in a pawn shop. The recorder is a couple of decades old piece of gear that a lot of early hip-hop had been made on, 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. Lets see how this technology would work for us.
Banharts previous release, 2009s What Will We Be, received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone calling it the best hes ever made. The Los Angeles Times said the record found him making comfortable, laid-back folk that didnt sound like a compromisemore 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 Spirita collection of recordings he had made for himself. Pitchfork said in its review: Banharts 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 Byrnecurated concert at Carnegie Hall.
An accomplished visual artist, Banharts 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, and in 2010 his artwork and packaging for What Will We Be was nominated for a Grammy.
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Event Details: Devendra Banhart
Venue: Mill City Nights
Show Date/Time: Thursday, May 30 at 9pm. Doors open at 8pm. Ages 18+
GA Tickets: $23 ($25 DOS)
Tickets will go on sale on Friday, March 22nd at the Mill City Nights box office, online at AXS.com, at the Electric Fetus Minneapolis location, or by calling 1-888-9-AXS-TIX. For more information, please visit www.millcitynights.com.
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