Psychedelic gypsy hipster Devendra Banhart shows art in tandem with new album.
The wandering freak folk star has just released his seventh album 'Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon', featuring collaborations with the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson, The Strokes' Nick Valensi and actor Gael Garcia Bernal. Now he finds his art alongside Paul Klee's at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art.Banhart's drawings, created while working on the album, share space with works by the early 20th Century Swiss primitive surrealist in an exhibition called 'Abstract Rhythms'. The drawings can also be found reproduced in an extensive booklet for the deluxe special edition of the album.
According to NME, Banhart said he created the drawings and the album around the narrative of fictional character Smokey, which is an amalgam of many figures from mythology.
