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More a companion piece than a fresh LP in its own right, Nino Rojo compiles the studio out-takes from Devendra Banhart's 'proper' 2004 album, Rejoicing in the Hands. But far from revealing this San Franciscan faerie-folk finger-picker as a talent stretching himself too thin, it offers some very real evidence that Banhart's muse is at the very least, eerily deep, and at the most, potentially bottomless. And really, why not? That high, quavering voice would sound good reciting a shopping list, and his guitar-playing - deft in complexity, fingers audibly scraping from fret to fret - seems to be limitless in its capacity to discover
More a companion piece than a fresh LP in its own right, Nino Rojo compiles the studio out-takes from Devendra Banhart's 'proper' 2004 album, Rejoicing in the Hands. But far from revealing this San Franciscan faerie-folk finger-picker as a talent stretching himself too thin, it offers some very real evidence that Banhart's muse is at the very least, eerily deep, and at the most, potentially bottomless. And really, why not? That high, quavering voice would sound good reciting a shopping list, and his guitar-playing - deft in complexity, fingers audibly scraping from fret to fret - seems to be limitless in its capacity to discover strange, creepy-pretty melodies. As before, Banhart doesn't always present his songs totally neat: "Ay Mama" gains a gentle power from quiet yawns of background brass, while "We All Know" and "Be Kind" are as close as he gets to full-band tracks, bolstered by slapped tambourines and reedy harmonica. The finest song here, though, is "Little Yellow Spider", a quaint nursery-rhyme with a barb in its tail: "Hey there little sexy pig, you made it with a man/ And now you've got a little kid with hooves instead of hands". Magic, as is the Banhart way. --Louis Pattison
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Manufacturer: xl
Release date: 14 September 2004
EAN: 0634904018528 UPC: 634904018528
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