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Bursting with tender, autobiographical vignettes, \u003ci\u003eMa \u003c\/i\u003edisplays a shift from the sonic experimentation of his previous albums to an intricate, captivating story-telling and emotional intimacy. Banhart favours organic sounds to accompany his voice and guitar, the arrangements bolstered by strings, woodwinds, brass, and keyboards. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe simply titled \u003ci\u003eMa\u003c\/i\u003e is Devendra Banhart’s third album for Nonesuch, one that addresses — often in a beguilingly oblique way — the unconditional nature of maternal love, the desire to nurture, the passing down of wisdom, the longing to establish the relationship of mother to child, and the consequences of that bond being broken. Banhart doesn’t approach the album’s maternal theme in a literal way; rather, by contemplating it, alluding to it, regarding the concept of motherhood from different angles, he has fashioned an album of multiple, intertwining narratives. Its concerns are both personal and global, with subtly autobiographical looks at life and death and ruminations about the precarious state of the world. The many light-hearted moments of Ma are balanced by deeply melancholic, even sombre ones. Three tracks are in Spanish, the language that is as much Banhart’s native tongue as English, and one in Portuguese.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50390974136651,"sku":"1068781","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50390987014475,"sku":"1068783","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/65f69692-3c7e-4043-9968-8a007a7c2859_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726396232"},{"product_id":"cripple-crow-2","title":"Cripple Crow","description":"German translation goes here.","brand":"XL","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50409843294539,"sku":"2023435","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50410577461579,"sku":"263253","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Cripple_Crow_56ad6583_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726645035"},{"product_id":"smokey-rolls-down-thunder-canyon-limited-version","title":"Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon - Limited Version","description":"\u003cp\u003eDevendra Banhart emerged as one of the most fascinating, unpredictable and inspiring artists of his generation. 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Basic tracks were laid down using a core lineup of Banhart (guitar, piano, cuatro, psaltery), Georgeson (zither, guitar, backing vocals, hammond b-3, bass, et al), Luckey Remington (bass, guitar, background singing, water drum and freedom chime), Greg Rogove (drums, tablas, supporting vocals, geese and duck calls, pots and pans, mop stomp), and Pete Newsom (piano, keyboards, backing vox).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Devendra's previous album \u003ci\u003eCripple Crow \u003c\/i\u003esounded like Devendra trading licks with a never ending caravan of passing musical gypsies, \u003ci\u003eSmokey\u003c\/i\u003e is very much the work of a band.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vocal arrangements are noticeably more intricate and ambitious with lush harmonies running through many of these numbers. 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The pair’s coming together is one prophesied by the mirror-image titles of their early solo albums (Banhart’s 2002 \u003ci\u003eOh Me Oh My\u003c\/i\u003e to Le Bon’s 2009 \u003ci\u003eMe Oh My\u003c\/i\u003e) 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. “She’s the only person I wanted to make this record with,” Banhart admits. “We set out to make a record sonically unlike anything I have made before – with a new creative partner at the helm. 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