indie rock, alt.folk
8 - midnight
$12 donation
stacie slotnick presents
“the critique of pure reason”
DEVENDRA BANHART
&
Alexander McGregor
TWO SHOWS:
8:30pm and 10:30 pm
Advance tickets available starting Saturday, 11/1
at Twisted Village in Harvard Square.
The Critique of Pure Reason series is thrilled to welcome back Young Gods recording artist Devendra Banhart. At once startlingly original and eerily reminiscent of 60s folk icons such as Donovan and Vashti Bunyan, Banhart’s voice is like no other (comparisons have been made to everyone, pretty much, from Tiny Tim to Billie Holliday). Equally striking are his intricate finger-picked guitar-playing style, and his stream-of-consciousness, vivid, highly expressionistic lyrics. Banhart’s subjects—from pumpkin seeds, to old gloves, to the state of Michigan—take on mythic proportions, with incredible depth of feeling and and a seemingly casual, yet virtuosic gift for the perfect turn of phrase.
Alexander McGregor’s history consists of a long musical blood-line, the highlights of which are his Texan grandfather playing trombone in Tommy Dorsey’s band, and his Colombian great-grandfather being a wandering troubadour who disappeared one day, guitar in hand, into the coffee fields and never returned. He thinks he fits in to this history someplace (and so do the people who’ve seen him perform, or heard his brilliant cd, "Part One : Aguirre Returns.") This is why he goes by his given name.
Production: stacie slotnick - thecprthecpr@yahoo.com