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Devendra Banhart - Refuge [New CD]
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Duration
- Album
- Modified Item
- No
- Title
- Refuge
- Album Name
- Refuge
- Type
- Album
- Brand
- Dead Oceans
- UPC
- 0656606156223
- Artist
- Banhart, Devendra / Georgeson, Noah
- Format
- CD
- Release Year
- 2021
- Record Label
- Dead Oceans, Dedo
- Release Title
- Refuge
- Genre
- Rock
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Product Identifiers
Record Label
Dead Oceans, Dedo
UPC
0656606156223
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5048610742
Product Key Features
Format
CD
Release Year
2021
Genre
Rock
Artist
Banhart, Devendra / Georgeson, Noah
Release Title
Refuge
Dimensions
Item Height
0.30 in
Item Weight
0.11 lb
Item Length
5.69 in
Item Width
4.94 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
1
Number of Tracks
13
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Tracks
1.1 Book of Bringhi 1.2 A Cat 1.3 Rise from Your Wave 1.4 Peloponnese Lament 1.5 In a Cistern 1.6 Into Clouds 1.7 For Em 1.8 Three Gates 1.9 Horn in Deep Night 1.10 Sky Burial 1.11 Asura Cave 1.12 Aran in Repose 1.13 Lament Return
Notes
Last spring, Devendra Banhart and Noah Georgeson started to make a record that was like nothing they had made before - an ambient album that would be both a haven from a suddenly terrified world and a heartfelt musical dialogue between two men who have been friends and collaborators for over two decades. Refuge is an album of profound meditative beauty which offers the listener a much-needed sense of peace and renewal. But while it was recorded in 2020 it's roots go back much further - all the way to the start of their friendship and, beyond that, to the shared sounds and ethics of their childhoods. "When the pandemic began, we realised we needed to make this record," Devendra says. "But we've been talking about it for so long. It's kind of been 20 years in the making." Devendra and Noah met on the night of Halloween, 1999. Noah lived on Castro Street, the epicentre of San Francisco's Halloween celebrations, so their first encounter was in costume. "He was wearing a skirt and I was dressed as Bjorn Borg," Noah remembers. "I wasn't sure if this was Halloween or just him and it was the same for me. His first impression was that I was a French drug dealer." Having established that he was not, in fact, a French drug dealer, they became fast friends. Noah, whose production and mixing credits include Joanna Newsom and the Strokes, came on board as co-producer of Devendra's 2005 album Cripple Crow and they have been working together ever since. Devendra grew up in Venezuela while Noah, six years older, is a native of Nevada City, California. But as they got to know each other, they realised that they had a similar history in the New Age subculture of the 1980s: a world of meditation, Eastern music, the Bhagavad Gita and The Whole Earth Catalog. Childhood memories were coloured by the aromas of health food stores and the sound of New Age labels like Windham Hill Records. "We recognised that in each other," Devendra says. "Our whole childhoods were spent in health food stores. I have visceral memories of a Windham Hill album playing, the old worn-in wood, the Birkenstocks - all the hippie accoutrements. We wanted to make an album that evoked that nostalgic feeling." Twenty years ago, though, this music was deeply unfashionable. "It wasn't cool for a long time," Noah says. "I went to grad school for music composition. Coming from an academically rigorous world, I rejected this kind of music because it's simple, gestural music. It took me a while to come to a place where I was OK with that. It was not our intention to mimic these records but that New Age world is part of the musical foundation." He also cites the influence of the maverick composers Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and Pauline Oliveros, whose practice of "Deep Listening" was very influential for this record. Oliveros has described "Deep Listening" as "an aesthetic based upon principles of improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation," and came up with the term after she recorded a piece in a cistern. Refuge's track "In A Cistern" is a direct nod to this. It was while making Devendra's 2019 album Ma that the pair finally decided to make their ambient record. At one point there was a rather expensive plan to travel around capturing "natural sounds of the dying world," but the global lockdown in March 2020 demanded a radical change of strategy. Even though they only live a short drive away from each other in Los Angeles, they were unable to meet, so Devendra and Noah had to record their tracks separately and weave them together remotely. "It feels like the most intimate thing we've done but it's the first time we haven't been in the same studio," Devendra says. "This would be the only record we could possibly make like this." Despite complicating logistics, 2020 created an emotional craving for music with this contemplative, therapeutic quality. "It's been such an uncertain, frightening time," Devendra says. "I was turning more than ever to ambient mu
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