Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
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Artist: Devendra BanhartBrand: Baker
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Xl Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Cristobal
- So Long Old Bean
- Samba Vexillographica
- Seahorse
- Bad Girl
- Seaside
- Shabop Shalom
- Tonada Yanomaminista
- Rosa
- Saved
- Lover
- Carmencita
- Other Woman, The
- Freely
- I Remember
- My Dearest Friend
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Free Music Review: very impressive production qualities
Hit: 5 Stars
I should start by saying I'm no expert on contemporary music. When it comes to new artists, I rely on friends to send music in my direction. A friend sent me this album for my birthday and I gave it a few listens without being much impressed and instead being a bit turned off by its whimsicalness. I started listening to it again after about 3 months of non-stop listening to Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago. This time I was completely taken by the album. Banhart's range impressed me but more than that I was amazed at the perfect rendering of so many different styles. I mean, if you listen to the rock guitar in Sea Horse, you feel you could be listening to an outtake from Neil Young's After the Goldrush album. There are countless instances of Banhart perfectly rendering other musical styles and influences on this album. A friend encouraged me to buy Cripple Crow, which she said was better. I like it a lot but to my ears Smokey Rolls is a musically far more accomplished album. Then again, I think Nick Cave's No More Shall We Part is musically head and shoulders above the Boatman's Call, and I know that is a minority opinion.
I have no interest in pigeon-holing Banhart into any specific musical style/genre. I saw a video of him on youtube in which he presented lots of his favourite vinyl records. His respect for the artists was evident and in my opinion Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon is an album which offers evidence of Banhart's very broad range of influences and in its masterful rendering of so many styles makes clear the depth of his respect for the artists who have influenced him.
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Recorded in Topanga Canyon in the Santa Monica mountains. Neil Young lived there while recording "After The Gold Rush" and the area has also been home to Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Joni Mitchell, Mick Fleetwood, and members of The Doors. Those ghosts inhabit the sound and vibe of these recording sessions. Banhart's whole "freak folk" tag is gone, replaced with this classic, gorgeous rock album. Some songs are fragile and solipsistic, others have a pronounced tropicalia influence, and still others are wildly electric and epic.More from Devendra Banhart
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