Devendra Banhart - Live @ Cologne

Devendra Banhart will release his new record, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, on September 25 on XL Recordings. Currently, he is touring in Europe before he will cross USA in September to promote the new songs.
I was happy to see him live for the first time last Wednesday in Cologne in an almost packed and very hot Gebäude 9. On stage, around him, were people from the Devendra Banhart community like Noah Georgeson or some members from Vetiver. Of course, they played mostly songs from the forthcoming album. The songs of Devendra offered me a feeling of lightness and happiness. I was like he says in Seahorse: “High; happy and free”. Seahorse is a song in three parts, it starts with an acoustic guitar very softly (high) then, after a beautiful piano intermission (happy), ends like a Jim Morrison song full of energy that allow the audience to move or dance (free).
Two more things to say, first, during the break, Devendra asked if there were any singer-songwriter among the spectators and invited one of them to come on stage and play; second – it’s a personal message – please Devendra, bring more handmade t-shirts!
Altogether during two hours, lyrics, melody and his voice brought me in a view that life can be better and less complicated that how it is every single day.

Lucky Girl

Web: devendrabanhart.com
MySpace: myspace.com/devendrabanhart

Devendra Banhart - Seahorse .mp3
Devendra Banhart - At The Hop .mp3

Photo: Lucky Girl