Gnomonsong is a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 formed by Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...

 and Andy Cabic

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, where he played in a band called The Raymond Brake...

 in partnership with Revolver USA. Banhart and Cabic do not deal with the business aspect of the label as much as work with the artists.

The label's first release was Texan

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 singer/songwriter Jana Hunter

Jana Hunter

Jana Hunter is a Baltimore-based songwriter and musician. She was born in Texas and is currently a member of Lower Dens.She is signed to Gnomonsong, a new record label run by Devendra Banhart and Vetiver's Andy Cabic...

's album, entitled Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom

Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom

Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom is a "best of" recording by Jana Hunter in 2005. It is the first release on Devendra Banhart's Gnomonsong record label. The album was recorded on two- and four-track recorders, and computers...

, released in October 2005. The second release was a CD version of the self-titled debut of Feathers

Feathers (band)

Feathers is a four piece band from Brisbane, Australia consisting of Michelle Brown, Helena Papageorgiou, Innez Tulloch and Susan Milanovic.They create dark reverb laden psychedelic dream pop with a sixties garage edge....

 (April 2006). Other releases include an album by Rio en Medio

Rio en Medio

Rio en Medio is the pseudonym of singer and baritone ukulelist Danielle Stech-Homsy.-Background:Born in the high desert of New Mexico, Danielle later made Brooklyn her home and there began to record and perform her own compositions...

 (Danielle Stech Homsy) called The Bride Of Dynamite and a release by Papercuts

Papercuts

Papercuts is an American indie pop project centered around Jason Robert Quever.-History:Papercuts is the musical project of San Francisco songwriter/producer Jason Quever. Quever had been making home recordings since high school, but the first official release as Papercuts was 2004's Mockingbird...

 entitled Can't Go Back

Can't Go Back

"Can't Go Back" is a song by the band Primal Scream. It was released as a single on 4 July 2008, and was the first and only single to be released from the band's ninth album, Beautiful Future. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 48 on 26 July 2008. The song was featured in the video for...

. Releases are also expected from ABRA

Abra

- Places :* Abra, Burkina Faso* Abra, Côte d'Ivoire* Abra , a province of the Philippines* Abra River, in the Philippines* El Abra, an archaeological excavation site in Colombia* Abra, Lebanon, a municipality of Lebanon- Other uses :...

, an NYC family band, as well as Michael Hurley.