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Devendra Banhart Releasing Split Album in May

We assume you've heard of Devendra Banhart. Yes? Excellent. The big news is that, come May, five new songs by Mr. Banhart will make their way to the public. And if "five" sounds like an awfully small number to be associated with a record by this particular gentleman-- he was barely able to limit himself to 23 words for the title of his first album-- well, you're ahead of us again. Well done.

On May 31, Troubleman Unlimited will release an album-length split featuring five songs by Devendra Banhart, and five by Jana Hunter, whose "Farm, CA" showed up on The Golden Apples of the Sun, a compilation curated by Banhart last summer. That song aside, Hunter is substantially less well-known than Banhart-- the split LP is kind of a Dre/Snoop venture, as far as we can tell-- but we can't imagine anyone who's into the freak-folk aesthetic not grabbing for their wallet immediately upon hearing about a song entitled "That Dragon Is My Husband"-- and we can't imagine anyone not being curious about the Pied Piper of freak-folk covering "Step in the Name of Love". Tracklist:

>> Devendra Banhart:
01 At the Hop
02 In Golden Empress Hands
03 We All Know
04 The Good Red Road
05 Little Monkey/Step in the Name of Love

>> Jana Hunter:
06 Black Haven
07 A Bright-Ass Light
08 Brystal Lariat
09 That Dragon Is My Husband
10 Laughing and Crying

Expect the CD's launch to be accompanied by a vinyl release of the same album, only on fancy colored vinyl. Or, hell, don't expect it if you don't want to, but it'll happen anyway.

* Devendra Banhart: http://www.younggodrecords.com.../

Jana Hunter: http://www.janahunter.tk/
Posted by Aaron Mandel in on Thu: 03-17-05: 12:00 AM CST | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink
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