Devendra Banhart has unveiled a new band with guitarist Gyan Riley and producer/multi-instrumentalist Noah Georgeson called Hug. The trio will release their self-titled debut album on September 11, via David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label. Check out their fall tour dates below, along with lead single “Cow With Half Moon Parasol.”
Banhart and Georgeson are longtime collaborators, including on the 2021 ambient album Refuge. Riley, the son of minimalist composer Terry, and Georgeson were childhood friends. Riley said in a press release, “Being thirteen and completely obsessed with classical guitar, there were few people I could bond with over that…. Basically just my teacher and Noah.” When Georgeson finally introduced Riley to Banhart, years later in Brooklyn, “Everything was sparkling and I felt like a little kid,” says Banhart. “And so I knew—we must play.”
Hug:
10-08 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
10-09 North Adams, MA – MassMoCA
10-11 Frenchtown, PA – ArtYard
10-14 Minneapolis, MN – McGuire Theater at Walker Art Center
10-15 Chicago, IL – Constellation
11-18 Grass Valley, CA – The Center for the Arts
11-20 San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Club
Hug:
01 Cow With Half Moon Parasol
02 Cucullatus Dream
03 Arunachala
04 Sarva Mangalam
05 Bathypelagic
06 Forgotten Gate
07 Homunculus in the Foliage
08 Near Death Ibiza
09 Petrichor
10 Lippuvuori
11 Catatumbo