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redirect|Panda Bear|the mammal|Giant pandaInfobox musical artist | name = Panda Bear| image = Panda_Bear,_the_musician.jpg| caption = Panda Bear at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, 2007 | background = solo_singer| Born = Birth date and age|1978|7|17|mf=y| origin =| genre = Experimental music|Experimental , Psychedelic pop , Electronic music|Electronic , Ambient music|Ambient | years_active = 1998–present| label = Paw Tracks , FatCat Records , Domino Records , Catsup Plate, St. Ives, http://www.uuar.com/ UAAR, Soccer Star| instrument = Singing|Vocals , Drum kit|drums , Sampler (musical instrument)|sampler , synthesizer , guitar , piano | associated_acts = Animal Collective , Jane (American band)|Jane , John Maus | website = http://www.myspace.com/pandabear www.myspace.com/pandabear Noah Benjamin Lennox http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm? requesttimeout=300& mode=results& searchstr=1678244& search_in=c& search_type=exact& search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v& results_pp=20& start=1 (born July 17, http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ynIQr3GeOMw Happy Birthday Panda Bear - YouTube video 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore , Maryland ) also known as Panda Bear , is an Experimental music|experimental musician and a founding member of Animal Collective .
Early life
Lennox grew up in the Roland Park, Baltimore|Roland Park section of Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore , Maryland , and attended high school at Kimberton Waldorf School in Chester County, Pennsylvania. As a child and teenager, he played sports, mainly soccer and basketball. He also studied piano until he was eight, then cello, and later on he sang tenor in his high school chamber choir . http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/pandabeariw.htm Interview, The Milk Factory , March 2005.
Though he and his family have never been very religious, Lennox briefly attended Boston University where he majored in Religion because of his interest "in the concept of God". http://mafama.blogspot.com/2007/01/panda-bear-m-fama.html Interview, Má Fama radio, January 8, 2007 While a student at the University, Lennox starred in three student short films: Fish Sticks and Fecal Matters , both directed by Andrew Drazek; and Appy Halloween , directed by Black Nasty.
Musical career
Animal Collective
main|Animal Collective Lennox had been friends with Deakin (musician)|Deakin (Josh Dibb) since the second grade. http://www.pbsfm.org.au/Documents.asp? ID=5455& Title=Animal+Collective+-+Strawberry+Jam Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam, PBS 106.7FM , 2007 Deakin introduced Lennox to his high school friends Avey Tare (Dave Portner) and Geologist (musician)|Geologist (Brian Weitz). For years, the four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Lennox, along with Deakin moved to New York in 2000.Coyle, Jake. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101201369.html "Animal Collective Sings Alien Pop Tunes", The Washington Post , 2007-10-12. The band then became more collaborative in nature and they finally settled on the name "Animal Collective". Lennox and Avey Tare are the only members who have contributed to all of the band's releases.
Since the 2007 releases of Panda Bear's Person Pitch and Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam , he has focused more on using samplers and other electronics in their shows. He has named Black Dice as a major influence stating "Black Dice took us on our first tour and I feel like the wisest things I’ve learned about being in a band I learned by watching them." http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/pandabeariw.htm Interview with Panda Bear, The Milk Factory, April 2005 and that he looks to Black Dice "as a model for a band. ... I feel like as a band, I can't speak for the other guys of Animal Collective, but certainly for myself, like I modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching the way Black Dice did it." http://www.magicrpm.com/videos/saga/animal-collective/saga-animal-collective-5-5 Magic's Saga Animal Collective Part 5/5, February 5th, 2009 In addition to singing, Lennox played drums and occasionally guitar in Animal Collective's live performances. (He cites Stewart Copeland as the biggest influence on his drumming style.)
Solo work
Lennox's debut album Panda Bear (album)|Panda Bear was released in 1999 on Paw Tracks|Soccer Star Records . After focusing more on touring and recording with Animal Collective , he released the follow-up Young Prayer in 2004 and the highly acclaimed third solo album Person Pitch in 2007. Of his songwriting style, Lennox says "I get impatient writing songs, I can't spend more than a couple of hours before I get frustrated. So I got to kind of spit it out real fast. My favorite songs are the ones where I worked really really fast on, when it comes all out in like two hours or something."
Lennox's fourth album Tomboy (album)| Tomboy was due to be released "near the end of 2010".Panda Bear|Tomboy. Gorilla vs Bear . January, 28, 2010. He started performing material from Tomboy on December 5, 2008 at a show with No Age in Miami, FL. During a brief European tour in January 2010, he played three shows consisting almost entirely of new material. Ramin Ton: "Panda Bear live @ HAU2 January 15th" January 17th, 2010 On March 7, 2010, a tour setlist with titles for ten of the new songs was posted on Panda Bear's MySpace blog. PARIS LONDON DUBLIN - Panda Bear's MySpace Blog.Panda Bear has also played Primavera Sound Festival in 2010. The single "Tomboy" and the b-side "Slow Motion" were released in July 2010. It was announced in August that singles "You Can Count on Me" and "Alsatian Darn" would be released via Domino on September 28. The limited 500 copies of "You Can Count On Me" sold out in less than a day. The single "Last Night at the Jetty" was released December 2010. The single "Surfer's Hymn" was released March 28, 2011. Panda Bear's fourth album "Tomboy" was released April 12, 2011 on his own label, Paw Tracks.
His song "Comfy In Nautica" appears in ABC's 2010 global warming movie Earth 2100
Lennox has been chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he will curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England. http://www.atpfestival.com/events/jeffmangum.php ATP curated by Jeff Mangum
Outside musical collaborations
Lennox also plays in the band Jane (American band)|Jane and Together with DJ Scott Mou. He has also performed on tracks with Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter) and Ducktails (Matt Mondanile of Real Estate).
Personal life
In 2004, Lennox moved from New York to Lisbon , Portugal . He first visited the city for a vacation following a long Animal Collective tour in 2003. Lennox says about Lisbon: "Since I got off the airplane here for the first time I had a good feeling about this place." It was while on vacation that he met his wife, the fashion designer Fernanda Pereira. After visiting each other in Lisbon and New York, Lennox decided to move to Europe because he also felt "connected to the European way of life“, considering himself as a "slow moving kind of person“ and Lisbon as a "slow moving kind of place“.Lennox and Pereira are married and have a daughter, Nadja,Kelly, Jennifer. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/32257/good-times-other-realities-a-conversation-with-panda-bear "Good Times, Other Realities: A Conversation with Panda Bear", PopMatters , March 26, 2007 and a son, as of June 2010. http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/06/breaking-news-panda-bear-and-his-wife-have-second-child-new-born-son-arrives-in-world.html Panda Bear and his wife have second child, new born son arrives in world. June 9, 2010 In 2007, he and Pereira collaborated on a line of sweatshirts called 2nd Things . http://2ndthings.blogspot.com/ 2ndthings @ Blogspot
Musical equipment
Korg M3 - workstation synthesizer
Roland SP-555 - Sampler (musical instrument)|Sampler
Roland SP-303|Boss SP-303 "Dr. Sample" Lennox, Noah http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/6544-panda-bear/ "Pitchfork: Guest Lists: Panda Bear", Pitchfork , February 15, 2007, accessed March 22, 2011.
" You Can Count On Me (Panda Bear song)|You Can Count on Me " (October 19, 2010, Domino)
" Last Night at the Jetty " (December 13, http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php? id=347 2010, FatCat Records)
" Surfer's Hymn " (March 28, 2011, Kompakt)
Remix(es)
"Boneless" (remix of Notwist song "Boneless") on "Boneless" 7"
"As Young As Yesterday" (remix of Korallreven song "As Young As Yesterday") on "As Young As Yesterday" 12" (2011) http://acephalerecords.com/index.php? /releases/ace018--korallreven--as-young-as-yesterday/
Appearances
One untitled track on Visionaire|Visionaire 53 - Sound (December 1, 2007, Visionaire Publishing, LLC)
"Anna" on the album East of Eden (album)|East of Eden by Taken by Trees (September 7, 2009)
" Walkabout (Atlas Sound song)|Walkabout " on the album Logos (album)|Logos by Atlas Sound (October 20, 2009)
"Stick to My Side" on the album Black Noise (Pantha du Prince album)|Black Noise by Pantha du Prince (February 9, 2010)
"Killin' the Vibe" (bonus track) on the album "Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics" by Ducktails (January 18, 2011)
"Atiba Song" composed music for a skateboarding montage directed by Atiba Jefferson and Ty Evans. The track was initially created by Atiba, then finished by Panda Bear.
"Things Fall Apart" on the album Dedication (Zomby album)|Dedication by Zomby (July 11, 2011)
http://synconation.com/reviews/sensibly-disconnected-a-review-of-panda-bear%E2%80%99s-tomboy/ Sensibly Disconnected: A Review Of Panda Bear’s Tomboy on Synconation
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