''Niño Rojo'' is the fourth studio release by

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artist

Devendra Banhart Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Texas and raised in Venezuela and California. In 2000, he dropped out of the San Francisco Art Institute to pursue a musical career. ...

and his third release on the label

Young God Records Young God Records is an independent record label formed by Michael Gira in 1990 that specializes in experimental, avant-garde and often non genre-specific releases. The label was named after an EP released by Gira's band Swans called '' Young Go ...

. It was released on September 13, 2004. In 2007, the song "Little Yellow Spider" was used in a commercial for

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mobile phone services and in 2005 the song "At The Hop" was featured in a commercial for Cathedral City cheese and in Fat Tire Beer's "Follow your Folly" commercial. In 2006 the album has received a silver certification from

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for 30,000+ copies sold in Europe.

Reception

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, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Niño Rojo'' received an average score of 82, based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Track listing

Personnel

- guitar (acoustic, electric), vocals, producer, artwork * Doug Anderson - mastering, mixing * Lynn Bridges - engineer *

Michael Gira Michael Rolfe Gira (; born February 19, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, author and artist. Now based in New Mexico, he founded the band Swans, in which he sings and plays guitar, in New York City in the 1980s at the height of ...

- harmonica, vocals, producer *

Thor Harris Thor Harris (born February 7, 1965) is an artist, sculptor, musician, painter, carpenter and handyman. He was the percussionist for Swans (2010–2016). He has performed with Shearwater (2001–2010), Bill Callahan, The Angels of Light, Li ...

- percussion *

Julia Kent Julia Kent is a Canadian cellist and composer from Vancouver, Canada, and based in New York City, United States. She has performed as a member of Rasputina and with Antony and the Johnsons. Musical career Kent creates music using looped cello ...

- cello * Jason LaFarge - vocals, engineer * Joe McGinty - piano, keyboards * Steve Moses - percussion, trombone * Siobhan - vocals * David Smith - trumpet * Lauren Dukoff - flute *

Andy Cabic Andy Cabic is a folk rock singer-songwriter, and lead member of the band Vetiver. He was born in Virginia and attended school at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. In the mid-1990s he was a member of the indie rock band The Raymond B ...

- backing vocals on "At the Hop"

Chart performance

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nino Rojo Devendra Banhart albums 2004 albums Young God Records albums Albums produced by Michael Gira