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Win a Cripple Crow album
and tour package!
The winner of this prize will win a copy of Cripple
Crow, a poster, inscense, and
a pair of tickets to any show (other than Vegoose) on Devendra Banhart's
October tour.
 Cripple
Crow is Devendra Banhart's fourth proper studio album and
his first release in the US through XL Recordings. Devendra Banhart exploded
on the international music scene three years ago quickly winning a coterie
of devoted fans as well as an unusually hefty amount of critical kudos
with his debut release Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day Goes By The Sun
Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit on
Young God Records. The critical acclaim and the size of his audience both
at home and abroad increased dramatically with the release of 2004's Rejoicing
In The Hands and Nino Rojo albums. Cripple Crow arrives
this September and will be followed by a U.S. tour in October.
 Cripple
Crow was recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY in late Winter
2005 with regular sidekick Andy Cabic, Noah Georgeson and Thom Monahan
joining Devendra in the studio; the latter co-engineered & co-produced
and the former did co-engineering, co-producing and also contributed sundry
instrumental and vocal accompaniment. This new album finds Devendra continuing
his extraordinary growth as a writer, vocalist and musician. Songs like
"Now That I Know" and "I Do Dig a Certain Girl" among others, provide
more of the hushed, mysterious acoustic alchemy that delighted listeners
on preceding sets, though the new tunes show even greater artistic depth
and delicacy. Other performances are more elaborate, and feature a range
of electric instruments, rock rhythm section, sitar, flute, violin, cello,
exotic percussion, et cetera. Banhart and company evoke a tribe of sun-dappled
psychedelic gypsies on "When They Come," while "Long Haired Child" has
a more acid-damaged garage-band cut and thrust. "Pensando Enti," "Quedate
Luna" and "Luna De Margarita" are gorgeous ballads sung in lilting Spanish
which was Devendra's native tongue until his teenage years. Cripple
Crow witnesses Banhart furthering his mastery of the acoustic/experimental
idiom he helped pioneer as well providing himself with fresh challenges
an artist.
Devendra Banhart has emerged as one of the most fascinating,
unpredictable and inspiring artists of his generation and with Cripple
Crow he continues to surprise and delight an ever-increasing audience
of fans and critics alike.
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