Paul Avion



Paul Avion
R U With Me
Self-Released


 ADDS 11/9/10
If ELO, Devendra Banhart and Bob Marley were placed into an orbiting centrifuge and blended into The White Album, it might sound a little like this: R U With Me, Paul Avion’s first nationally released album.
New Orleans to L.A., to Paris, to the slums of Africa ….
In 2009, SPIN.com named Paul Avion second in its “8 Undiscovered Bands Worth a Listen,” but if Avion hasn’t been better known until now, it’s probably because his life reads like a restless diary.
Moving from his hometown of New Orleans to L.A.‘s Silver Lake music scene in 2005, he recorded a number of songs in varying styles with fellow New Orleans native Ben Mumphrey (producer of Frank Black’s Devil’s Workshop and the Breeders’ Mountain Battles).
The result was Menage a Trois, a collection of songs that received consistent airplay on L.A.‘s KXLU, KCRW and more.
2010 was perhaps Avion’s most unexpected year.
Reporting from the African slums for SPIN Earth, Avion lived and worked at a school for disabled children in Kenya’s largest slum. The result was the video series, “Avion in Africa,” parts of which can be seen at www.paulavion.com.
The other result is R U With Me, Avion’s first full-length album, showcasing his mercurial energy that spans musical topography as well as geography, with just a twist of revolution.
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RIYL: Devendra Banhart, Belle and Sebastian, Pulp, Destroyer.

TRY: #4, 2, 5


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