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SNAP SHOT: DEVENDRA BANHART.
XL artist Devendra Banhart is currently holed up in an LA mansion recording the follow-up to 2005's Cripple Crow, but a track placement from a previous album in the latest European-wide Orange television campaign is serving to re-engage audiences with his music.
Banhart has sold almost 200,000 copies of his breakthrough set and XL is confident about building on that foundation with the new album, currently scheduled for a summer release. New management in the shape of famed Neil Young and Joni Mitchell curator Elliot Robert is also aimed at taking the artist to wider audiences.
The current Orange campaign draws on a track entitled Little Yellow Spider, lifted from Banhart's 2004 studio album Nino Rojo, and is airing intermittently across Europe for a six-month period.
XL managing director Ben Beardsworth says the tie-up was an ...
- Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow.(SOUND ADVICE)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording...
- Magazine article from: Interview McDonell-Parry, Amelia September 1, 2005 700+ words
DEVENDRA BANHART Cripple Crow (XL/Beggars) San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart emerged three years ago as the Cat Stevens-esque face of the neo-folk implosion with 2002's Oh Me Oh My ... (Young God), his critically...
- CLEAR AS FOLK.(Devendra Banhart.)(Sound Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: WWD August 9, 2005 700+ words
...Kelly NEW YORK -- When a then-teenage Devendra Banhart opened the used Nick Drake cd his father...his fourth album, "Cripple Crow" (XL Recordings/Beggars Banquet), to...girlfriends' clothes." Caption(s): Devendra Banhart
- Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow.
- Magazine article from: Music Week September 10, 2005 700+ words
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow (XL XLCD192) Banhart's third UK release has the added bonus of the current zeitgeist for alternative folk blowing its sails. Not...
- Devendra Banhart: think all the bohemian spirit. Experimental joie de vivre,...
- Magazine article from: Interview Lohan, Lindsay April 1, 2006 700+ words
LINDSAY LOHAN: Okay, let's begin. DEVENDRA BANHART: So my big, exciting thing for this interview is I made...Georgeson who co-produced and co-engineered Cripple Crow [XL Recordings], and Eliza Douglas, who was also in the band...
- Devendra Banhart.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Thrasher April 1, 2006 700+ words
IN 2003 Devendra Banhart, a hirsute, homeless, then 21-year-old, came out of nowhere...wide-reaching theme, his music was about to end up on major label XL in 2005 when he released Cripple Crow. The following interview took...
- Devendra Banhart: Heard Somebody Say.
- Magazine article from: Music Week November 12, 2005 700+ words
Devendra Banhart Heard Somebody Say (XL XLS222CD) Almost everyone that hears Banhart's album Cripple Crow seems to love it, and Heard Somebody Say is an excellent...
- Devendra Banhart - Carmensita.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire August 1, 2008 700+ words
...screen. And so we turn our eyes to Devendra Banhart and his story of good, evil, snakes...hero. He's ... well, he's Devendra Banhart. But he's also an exiled prince...More importantly, she's boffing Devendra Banhart, thus her appearance here. It is...
- Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands.(Brief Review)(Sound Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: Interview Selkirk, Milena June 1, 2004 700+ words
DEVENDRA BANHART Rejoicing in the Hands (Young God) When eccentric singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart sings "It's like finding home in an old folk song" on "A Sight to Behold," he might as well be describing himself. On his sophomore...
- Devendra Banhart.(Concert Review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Sprague, David October 24, 2005 700+ words
...300 capacity; $25 top) Presented inhouse. Band: Devendra Banhart, Andy Cabic, Noah Georgeson, Luckey Remington, Otto...in whatever duds might help draw a receptive audience. Devendra Banhart, on the other hand, has the spirit of that bygone era...
- Five questions for folk singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart.
- News wire article from: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) September 18, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Ben Edmonds Twenty-six-year-old Devendra Banhart is part of the scene that has regrettably been termed...Direct (from MCT Photo Service, 202-383-6099): Devendra Banhart For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup...
