Hildegard von Bingen was a Catholic saint who lived in the 12th century who was also a composer, writer, and theologist. In a press release, Banhart says of the song, "In my head there was this little movie, an alternative universe, I guess-- Hildegard is sequestered in her cloister, and one day she gets a VHS cassette and it's the prime era of the MTV VJ, and she just goes wild. 'That’s it for me,' she says. 'That's how I'm going to get my message across.' So she escapes the cloister…and becomes a VJ."
Credit Pitchfork with the exclusive. The album, Mala, will be out 12 March. When you
preorder the album, you can download this track.
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