Swami, shave, junior
easy chill, take the pill, schwill
nudes, ludes, hairy old dudes

Seriously though, is this becoming a thing now? Like the Black Lips before him, Devendra Banhart revealed to Paste that he’ll likely be collaborating with the Gza on an upcoming track. They’ve even gone back and forth a few times already in the writing/sketching process. Aside from that, details are sparse, but there were some entertaining bits. One, Gza heard Banhart’s single “Baby” from Rza and independently felt compelled to freestyle over it. Two, this partially spawned from a party Rza and Banhart both DJ’ed separately. And three, when the two met they (logically) discussed atomic energy in depth. Still though, weird stuff. Maybe Liquid Swords has just been coming up on everyone’s shuffle at the same times… (Via: Paste)

We told you in June all about how Devendra Banhart’s gearing up to make his major label debut this fall, Warner Bros. set to release What Will We Be on October 27th. By taking a trip over to Banhart’s MySpace page you can stream “Baby,” a aired out shuffler whose guitar tones sound genuinely African at times. Plus, his voice sounds great—check it out.

After covering The Velvet Underground & Nico with a group of musical collaborators including Devendra Banhart and members of MGMT for the first iteration of his Record Club, Beck has opted to focus his second effort on Songs of Leonard Cohen and has posted his cover of “Suzanne” on his Record Club’s website. Collaborators include Devendra and MGMT again, along with members of Wolfmother and Little Joy.

The website describes the Record Club project as “an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day.” Relying on spontaneity (nothing is rehearsed or arranged beforehand), the group selects an album “to be reinterpreted and used as a framework.” A track is posted to the Record Club website once every week, and the recordings tend to be rough renditions, especially since they are frequently the first takes of the day. “There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens,” the site claims.

Check out the cover of “Suzanne” here, and be sure to check the Record Club’s website over the next few weeks for more covers from Songs of Leonard Cohen.

Marriage records promotes this new Little Wings track as “Sunday morning summer music”, but Kyle Field’s vocals sound as crackly as the Autumn leaves that will be falling in a month or so.  As Little Wings, Field is perhaps most known as part of Devendra Banhart’s Golden Apples Of The Sun compilation that established the name of freak folk a few years back.

The present single comes after a two year period of silence after 2007’s awesome Soft Pow’r LP, although Field has also recently designed a few skateboard decks.  The interest in skateboarding gives further insight into the possibility that Field and his cracking voice are reverting to middle school maturity.

Little Wings – Sandy Babe

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