To mark the release of their ambient album 'Refuge,' DevendraBanhart and Noah Georgeson took a walk around their favorite natural refuges in Los Angeles while listening to the record, and photographed some trees for our viewing pleasure.
Interviewing Devendra Banhart can feel like chatting with a— less dastardly, more affable—Captain Jack Sparrow. Theis a kaleidoscope of eccentricities and non sequiturs: he sits at his computer during our Zoom call, holding a piece of fabric over his eyes while naming his favorite colors—or rather, the colors that move him most
BANHART: This is the Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino of trees. I can’t believe I said that. I take it back, I take it back. This is a very special tree. We have to say something beautiful about it. I think it has more of a benign, demonic quality.BANHART: You know what? Just go ahead and write whatever you want. Forget everything we say. We trust you.GEORGESON: Oh, wow. I took this at the Huntington Gardens.
GEORGESON: Here’s the thing. I would eat you, but you would be the first meat I had ever intentionally eaten in my whole life.BANHART: Survival, man. I once saw Bear Grylls on television squeezing an elephant shit over his open mouth to get the water out of it. He’s trembling with repulsion, but he’s getting hydrated. I would definitely squeeze Noah’s feces.
BANHART: Anyways. Sycamore trees are native to Los Angeles. What’s happening in this photograph is something called inter-crown spacing, which is when trees almost touch, but they end up giving each other space. I think this is a metaphor for how the whole record works, because half of this record are songs influenced by Noah, and half of the record are songs that I influenced. That’s pretty poetic if I do say so myself.
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