Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
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Artist: Devendra BanhartEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2004-09-21
Music Label: Young God Records
Soundtracks:
- Wake Up, Little Sparrow
- Ay Mama
- We All Know
- Little Yellow Spider
- A Ribbon
- At the Hop
- My Ships
- Noah
- Sister
- Water May Walk
- Horseheadedfleshwizard
- An Island
- Be Kind
- Owl Eyes
- The Good Red Road
- Electric Heart
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Free Music Review: Personal opinion #1: everyone seems insane.
Hit: 5 Stars
I cannot comprehend anyone saying "Rejoicing In The Hands" is a better album than "Nino Rojo". A couple going so far to say this is Devendra's "least spectacular". I guess it's respectable that they still perceive it as "spectacular". But don't be fooled, because this is without a doubt his best album yet.
I've been listening to Devendra for a little less than a month now. I first fell in love with his collaborative band Vetiver. After hearing that album, I decided to look more into the individuals involved. And individually, Devendra seems the more accomplished. So I started with "Rejoicing In The Hands".
I love "Rejoicing...", but without going into too much comparing and contrasting, I prefer "Nino Rojo" immensely more. While "Rejoicing..." has my two favorite Devendra songs in "A Sight To Behold" & "Fall", "Nino Rojo" is much more consistently interesting from the first to last song. For one thing, Devendra's guitar playing is much more engaging on this album.
Someone stated the album starts off "simple" with "Wake Up, Little Sparrow". It's folk, as much as I love folk: it's simple music. I wonder if he means simple as in it being just Devendra and his guitar? A lot of folk is like that, whatever. I, however, enjoy this song. My favorite song however is the wonderful "We All Know"; this is songwriting at its best. "Sister" is another amazing song. "Noah" starts off with Devendra (with the help of female vocals) singing "Not everyone can relate/ to what you and I appreciate", which I consider to be a testament to Devendra's ghostly sound. "Be Kind" is good and reminds me of "Fall" from "Rejoicing...", though not nearly as good. "Ribbon", "My Ships", "Yellow Little Spider", "Owl Eyes" & "Horseheadedfleshwizard" are other great songs on this album.
Overall, again, I prefer this album to "Rejoicing In The Hands", but you really cannot go wrong with either.
Nino Rojo Poster
As was promised upon the release of Rejoicing in the Hands in the spring of 2004, Ni o Rojo is a companion piece. It was assembled from the same recording sessions at Lynn Bridges' Atlanta home that produced 57 tracks. Thirty-two were chosen for the two albums. Some were overdubbed minimally in New York by Young God label boss Michael Gira and Devendra Banhart adding a nip of keyboard or harmonica here, and tucked in horn, backing vocal, or electric guitar there. What these songs showcase is that Banhart is a songwriter of guileless vision. 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. His songs are spiritual, terminally unhip, with labyrinthine grown-up melodies and the keen unsullied wisdom of children. These 16 songs include the mysterious minor key cipher that is "A Ribbon," with its eerie guitars, a beautifully etched chorus, and an all but hidden keyboard underscoring the quietly insistent vocal. His cover of Ella Jenkins' "Little Sparrow," opens the album; accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, Banhart transfers the song from the universe of its origin as childhood ballad to a bluesy exhortation to spiritual awakening. A slow, easy major chord stroll, "We All Know," with its delightfully ridiculous lyric ("...we belong to the floating hand that was made by animals/we dance so, we let go/we'll remove clothes and we'll trade lobes...."). Seamlessly it shifts and walks the edge of a vaudeville rag that comes complete with accompanying trombones in the chorus at the end. And speaking of rags, there's the nocturnal spiritual guitar blues of "My Ships" that recalls the Rev. Gary Davis illustrating the point that Banhart confines himself to no one terrain, no single point of origin or destination. 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. Combining them is yet a third for both performer and listener. Like its companion recording, Ni o Rojo is about the shared delight of new encounters with music and language and is an adventure in the hearing. ~ Thom Jurek, RoviFolk Music CDs
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