Essential New Music: Devendra Banhart’s “Ape In Pink Marble”

If David Byrne had started his love of all things Latino/Brazilian/Cuban as an acoustic-guitar-slinging hippie-ish Venezuelan kid in Rhode Island with a yen for kitchen-magnet poetry and slippery crooning, he would’ve wound up more like Devendra Banhart than he did Malcolm Gladwell with a beat box and a baggy white suit. Now nine swaying, creaking … Continue reading Essential New Music: Devendra Banhart’s “Ape In Pink Marble”