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Flying Wig

by Devendra Banhart

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    Opaque blue vinyl includes "Flying Wig" print, each uniquely hand-painted by Devendra Banhart (limited to 30 for BandCamp Friday)
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    24” x 24” poster
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    Printed inner sleeve
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    4 panel wallet with 8 panel poster folder

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    Jacket signed by Devendra
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    Printed inner sleeve
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Feeling 06:19
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Fireflies 04:51
3.
Nun 03:28
4.
Sight Seer 05:03
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Sirens 04:28
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Charger 04:18
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Flying Wig 05:32
8.
Twin 06:00
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May 04:39
10.
The Party 03:21

about

Flying Wig is an album of recurrent dualities; a can of paradoxes, a box of worms. The redwood and pine-surrounded cabin studio where Banhart was “constantly listening to The Grateful Dead” somehow birthed something slick, modernist, city pop-adjacent and Eno-esque.

Banhart's eleventh record, it's the actualisation of a “precious friendship” with the acclaimed solo artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and Mexican Summer stable-mate Cate Le Bon — a coming together prophesied by the mirror-image titles of their early solo albums (Banhart’s 2002 Oh Me Oh My to Le Bon’s 2009 Me Oh My) and a tenderness built on crude haircuts (“we finally met, soon after she was cutting my hair with a fork and that was that”) and home-made tattoos — but never previously translated into the recording studio.

“It’s about transmuting despair into gratitude, wounds into forgiveness, and grief into praise,” - the product of a ritualistic creative practice that melts down and re-casts as it mulls, the stuff of sadness beautified as it changes shape — culminating in a record that “sounds like getting a very melancholic massage, or weeping, but in a really nice outfit… if I’m going to cry, I wanna do it in my best dress.”

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released September 22, 2023

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Devendra Banhart Los Angeles, California

Singer/songwriter, poet, artist and actor who was born in Houston, TX, and moved with his mother to her native Caracas, Venezuela. The family relocated to Los Angeles during his teenage years; it was there that he learned to speak English, skateboard, and play music. Banhart first began to perform in public while attending the San Francisco Art Institute. Flying Wig - out September 22. ... more

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