Vetiver

To Find Me Gone is the second album from Vetiver, singer/songwriter Andy Cabic's ever-evolving musical home base. To Find Me Gone comes two years after Vetiver's eponymous debut and is being released May 23 by DiCristina Stairbuilders. Since Vetiver's release, Andy has toured the world repeatedly as a member of close crony Devendra Banhart's live band ("Hairy Fairy" and "Queens of Sheba" are among the monikers they're known by), as well as with Vetiver (occasionally with Banhart in tow); Vetiver released Between, an EP of live and demo recordings in conjunction with their 2005 European tour. Over the passed two years, Cabic's Vetiver has transmuted into a full-on singer/ songwriter cum band/project aided and abetted by some of the best players (and Anyd's closest friends ) in the extended family of acoustic/experimentalists he finds himself a central member of. To Find Me Gone was skillfully produced by The Pernice Brothers' Thom Monahan at his home studio in Los Angeles during the Spring of '06; Thom also mixed the album with Andy. Most basic tracks were recorded by Cabic with guitarist Kevin Barker (Currituck County) and percussionist Otto Hauser (ESPers) who he then toured with extensively backing Banhart, road-testing and adjusting some of this repertoire during those shows. Finishing touches were added and additional songs recorded throughout the year by an intriguing cast of characters including Devendra, Noah Georgeson (producer of Joanna Newsome and another "Hairy Fairy"), Vetiver's resident cellist Alissa Anderson, Monahan, Brad Laner, "Farmer" Dave Scher, Dina Maccabee, Irene Sazer, Shaw Pong Liu, and Jessica Ivry among others.

Andy Cabic grew up in northern Virginia and spent a few years in Greensboro, North Carolina, playing guitar, writing music and recording as a member of the Raymond Brake. After moving to San Francisco, Cabic joined the rock band Tussle, simultaneously recruiting other local musicians including cellist Alissa Anderson, troubadour Devendra Banhart, along with special guests Colm O'Ciosoig (My Bloody Valentine), Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) and the then-unknown Joanna Newsom among others to record Vetiver. The album was released in 2004 to high critical praise from around the world:

Vetiver is named for an aromatic East Indian grass that grows in California, and their music delivers on the sunny, hazy sweetness the band's name suggests. Singer Andy Cabic has--with some help from Devendra Banhart--written a set of songs that at their best are strange, subdued and otherworldly, a quality you can't fake... Cabic's voice lures you in, like a less showy Jeff Buckley, and the rest of the songs unfold like a dream. There's the rapturous "Without a Song" (with a tapping-break in the middle that's unlike anything I've heard), the jaunty "Farther On," and the complex epics that make up the album's last half, with a detour for the goofy "Amour Fou" (co-written with Banhart). This is folk music that combines the ghostly power of scratchy blues 78s with the epic swirl of My Bloody Valentine or Mazzy Star (members of which make guest appearances) Phillip Cristman/Paste