The Mountain/Bob Baker Marionette Theater/The Broad, Los Angeles, September 9-23

The LA singer-songwriter reimagines his catalogue via a series of livestreamed performances across the city

CULTURAL plurality is intrinsic to the work of Devendra Banhart. His 11 studio albums - plus visual art, poetry and various collaborations - draw from disparate genres, languages, disciplines and philosophies to form an unconventional mosaic that is singular in its exploratory breadth. Banhart often occupies the role of storyteller, stepping into imagined characters and settings to reveal the joy, absurdity and beauty of the human condition, a playful Shakespearean mode that made him a leader of the so-called freak folk movement of the early aughts, and later a mutilingual pop experimentalist and wild fever-dream expressionist. “Y el graffiti dice Peter Pan,” he sings on “Todo Los Dolores” from his 2004 breakthrough album Rejoicing In The Hands, which translates to “and the graffiti says Peter Pan”. It’s a line that’s applied to much of his output, in which DIY artistry is marked with a palpable sense of childlike wonder.