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After time spent in the studio with producer Cate Le Bon, Devendra Banhart announced Flying Wig – his follow-up to 2019’s Ma – with Twin, a reflection of the inspiration he found for the LP in Kobayashi Issa’s poem, ‘This dewdrop world, Is a dewdrop world, And yet, And yet…’.
“I’ve never read a more concise and clear illustration of hope,” he said. “It just sweeps me away by the breadth of its scope.”
As lonely as we might feel at our saddest, angriest, most desperate, most frustrated, most hopeless, most heartbroken moments, we have all felt that, everyone on earth, our ancestors before us, and those that will come after, have or will feel that. The ‘and yet, and yet’ is our ability to face despair with hope, to keep on failing and loving.