Devendra Banhart Releases "Love Song (Helado Negro Remix)" Ahead of European Tour
To coincide with the start of Devendra Banhart’s European tour next week, a remix of his “Love Song” by Helado Negro was released on Nonesuch Records today. Watch a video for the song here. The original version of “Love Song” appears on Banhart’s latest studio album, Ma. Helado Negro, aka Roberto Carlos Lange, says, “Music always makes me feel like you travel and hear, feel, and see where the sounds are from and take you. Devendra’s ‘Love Song’ does this. It haunts you with love.” He continues, “All of this album does this; it always makes you feel comforted and you’re never a stranger in the places he takes you. The remix I made is me as a witness to these sounds floating through this haunted feeling of love.”
To coincide with the start of Devendra Banhart’s European tour next week, a remix of his “Love Song” by Helado Negro was released on Nonesuch Records today. A video for the song can be seen below. The original version of “Love Song” appears on Banhart’s latest studio album, Ma, which was released to critical acclaim in September 2019. “Love Song (Helado Negro Remix)” is available for download from the Nonesuch Store and iTunes and may be streamed at Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon.
Helado Negro, aka Roberto Carlos Lange, says, “Music always makes me feel like you travel and hear, feel, and see where the sounds are from and take you. Devendra’s ‘Love Song’ does this. It haunts you with love.” He continues, “All of this album does this; it always makes you feel comforted and you’re never a stranger in the places he takes you. The remix I made is me as a witness to these sounds floating through this haunted feeling of love.”
“Helado Negro has made a rainbow out of frostbite, an orchid out of an Orc, a palace out of a pancake,” Banhart added. “In his reworked vision of ‘Love Song,’ it’s like he set the whole song free, gave it space to roam, way beyond where it once was, so nice and relaxing … Thank you dear hermano!”
Banhart’s upcoming European tour comprises twenty-one dates, beginning in Poland on January 21, and also includes concerts in Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. For details and tickets, see below, or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. Additionally, Banhart will perform at this year’s Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 28.
Ma, full of tender, autobiographical vignettes, displays a shift from the sonic experimentation of his previous albums to an intricate, captivating story-telling and emotional intimacy. Banhart favors organic sounds to accompany his voice and guitar, the arrangements bolstered by strings, woodwinds, brass, and keyboards. He sings in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Uncut says, “Ma’s thesis is quietly revolutionary, celebrating the nurturing quality of female instinct. Banhart’s most focussed work to date,” while Q wrote, “Banhart’s singular world remains as intoxicating as ever, as if all human life is here.” Pitchfork concurs, “His best and most cohesive statement in more than a decade.” The album features the singles “Kantori Ongaku“ (“Country Music”), “Abre Los Manos“ (“Open Your Hands”), and “Memorial.”
Jan 21&22 | Palladium | Warsaw, POLAND |
Jan 24 | Astra Kulturhaus | Berlin, GERMANY |
Jan 25 | Palac Akropolis* | Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC |
Jan 26 | Felsenkeller | Leipzig, GERMANY |
Jan 28 | Ancienne Belgique* | Brussels, BELGIUM |
Jan 29 | Stadtgarten* | Cologne, GERMANY |
Jan 30 | Paradiso | Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS |
Feb 1 | Annabel | Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS |
Feb 2 | Doornroosje | Nijmegan, NETHERLANDS |
Feb 4 | Shepherd's Bush Empire | London, UK |
Feb 5 | Salle Pleyel | Paris, FRANCE |
Feb 7 | Alhambra, Antigel Festival | Geneva, SWITZERLAND |
Feb 8 | X-tra | Zurich, SWITZERLAND |
Feb 9 | Teatro Dal Verme | Milan, ITALY |
Feb 11 | Sala Riviera* | Madrid, SPAIN |
Feb 12 | Teatro Victoria Eugenia | San Sebastian, SPAIN |
Feb 13 | Razzmatazz | Barcelona, SPAIN |
Feb 15 | Hard Club* | Porto, PORTUGAL |
Feb 16&17 | Capitólio | Lisbon, PORTUGAL |
Mar 28 | Big Ears Festival | Knoxville, TN |
* sold out
- Log in to post comments
Related Posts
-
Wednesday, March 10, 2021Wednesday, March 10, 2021
David Byrne and Laurie Anderson will be part of NYC's Park Avenue Armory's new season of new commissions created by artists during and in response to the pandemic, presented in a socially distanced space with masks worn. The season is due to open March 24 with Bill T. Jones's Afterwardsness, followed at dates TBA by SOCIAL! the social distance dance club, an interactive experience conceived by Byrne, choreographer Steven Hoggett, and set designer Christine Jones, in which the audience is invited to dance in their own socially distanced spotlights to a curated playlist, with instructional voiceover by Byrne; and Party in the Bardo, in which Anderson and jazz pianist/composer Jason Moran perform, underpinned by drones from Lou Reed's guitars.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn Tour -
Tuesday, February 9, 2021Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Chris Thile, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Rhiannon Giddens, Jeremy Denk, Mandy Patinkin, Gaby Moreno, and Nico Muhly will take part in NY PopsUp, a festival featuring hundreds of pop-up performances—many of which are free of charge and all open to the public—throughout New York City and State. Additionally, Thile and Salvant are on a council of artistic advisors partnering with curator Zack Winokur to program the series. NYPopsUp, which will run from Saturday, February 20, through Labor Day, will make stages out of existing landscapes, including iconic transit stations, parks, subway platforms, museums, skate parks, street corners, fire escapes, parking lots, storefronts, and upstate venues. The festival is being coordinated with state public health officials and will strictly adhere to Department of Health COVID-19 protocols.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn Tour