''Vetiver'' is the debut album by

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Vetiver ''Chrysopogon zizanioides'', commonly known as vetiver and khus, is a perennial bunchgrass of the family Poaceae. Vetiver is most closely related to ''Sorghum'' but shares many morphological characteristics with other fragrant grasses, such as ...

. It was released in 2004 on DiCristina.

Track listing

#"Oh Papa" – 2:38 #"Without a Song" – 4:36 #"Farther On" – 2:49 #"Amour Fou" with Devendra Banhart – 4:34 #"Los Pajaros del Rio" with Devendra Banhart – 3:44 #"Amerilie" – 3:14 #"Arboretum" – 1:59 #"Angels' Share" – with

Hope Sandoval Hope Sandoval (born June 24, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead singer of Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions. Sandoval has toured and collaborated with other artists, including Massive Attack, for whom she san ...

4:21 #"Luna Sea" – 4:17 #"Belles" – 5:06 #"On a Nerve" – 7:39

Personnel

;Musicians *Alissa Anderson –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

*Devendra Banhart –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

, vocals,

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...

*Andy Cabic –

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

, guitar, vocals *

Jim Gaylord Jim Gaylord (born 1974) is an American artist living and working in New York City. Based in a tradition of collage, his work is usually made from heavy paper that is cut out and pieced together into relief-like pictures. Gaylord was born in Washin ...

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violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

*Nick Holdzkom –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

*Craig Koozer – bass,

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Joanna Newsom –

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

*Colm O'Ciosoig –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

*Hope Sandoval – vocals ;Production *Thom Monahan – audio engineer, audio production, engineer

References

2004 debut albums Vetiver albums {{2000s-folk-album-stub