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YG 025CD
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"Culled from the same sessions as Rejoicing In The Hands, Niño Rojo is a companion album -- essentially the second part of a double album. 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. He emanates joy, generosity, whimsical imagination, superb guitar playing, lyrical complexity, and an absolutely one-of-a-kind voice. Niño Rojo does have a little more orchestration than Rejoicing, but that's more by coincidence than anything else, and simply adds a little color to the songs. Not even strictly necessary at all. Everything was there on tape when originally Banhart performed it."
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YG 024CD
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"With songwriting and guitar-playing that have progressed since Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit, and determined not to be ghettoized as a low-fi crank, Devendra Banhart and Michael Gira agreed it was best to move on to professional recording studios. 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. Overdubs were later added back in NYC. The title tune, a duet with the legendary '60s English folk gamin (one of Banhart idols) Vashti Bunyan -- is an obvious highlight, but Banhart's uncanny ability to transport the listener through words, voice, and pretty amazing finger-picked acoustic guitar is where the album's magic lies."
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"Six new tracks, plus two from his critically lauded Young God full-length album. UK release made available stateside. Six new tracks from the floating and constantly replenished pool of songs at Banhart's disposal (about 100 from which to choose at any given moment), and complemented them with two favorites from Oh Me Oh My... to make The Black Babies (UK)."
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