In captivity, they may receive honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food. Giant pandas in the wild occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents, or carrion. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the giant panda is a folivore, with bamboo shoots and leaves making up more than 99% of its diet. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the red panda, a neighboring musteloid. It is characterised by its bold black-and-white coat and rotund body. The giant panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca), also known as the panda bear (or simply the panda), is a bear species endemic to China. He says a big thank you as he leaves the stage having twisted the audience's minds in a manner he deemed suitable."Panda" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters It goes completely grey during a chilling performance of 'Tropic Of Cancer' where Noah allows the lyrics and vocal to be the real attention grabber. The backdrop feels almost living as it adapts and changes to the tracks played, it glows ominously during 'Surfers Hymn' to add to the trippy and unpredictable nature of the song. His crowd wait in hushed anticipation as an ominous strobe begins to spin and Lennox steps onstage to begin 'You Can Count On Me'. The musician has been touring with both outfits for close on twenty years now and his abilities to also push live boundaries is applaudable. A co-founding member of Animal Collection, Noah is considered a deity in the indie world as both his solo work and his work with Animal Collection is celebrated for its experimentation and ability to push boundaries. Noah Benjamin Lennox, better known by his stage persona of Panda Bear is one of the most creatively visual performers currently working. I would love to go to another live show of Panda Bear's again one day soon. That song really resonated with me and stuck with me the whole evening. My favorite of the night turned out to be "You Can Count on Me". Panda Bear performed a lovely set of songs, such as "I'm Not/Comfy in Nautica", "Take Pills", "You Can Count on Me", and "Last Night at the Jetty".Įach song was awesome and I really enjoyed them all. The stage looked great as well, simple yet beautiful. The crowd response was really positive and Panda Bear seemed to love that very much. Panda Bear arrived wearing a great t-shirt and black jeans. A clear night sky overhead filled with stars only added to the ambience of the show. The weather was great and there was a great energy in the crowd. The venue for his concert was an outdoor one. He performs music in several genres such as Experimental, psychedelic pop, electronic, dub, and ambient. Panda Bear is a very talented American musician. It’d be infuriating if it wasn’t so good. Lennox sits at an enviable position, critical acclaim, a dedicated fanbase, a succesful band and a solo project that can equal anything his main act does. Five albums later he’s arguably just as respected for his solo work than anything he’s done in AC, even catching the ear of Jeff Magnum, who asked him to perform at the 2011 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival the Neutral Milk Hotel mainman was curating. Since then, Lennox has been very successfully able to juggle his solo work with his growing fortunes in Animal Collective. Along with his childhood friend and Animal Collective bandmate Deakin (A.K.A Josh Dibb), he created his own label, Soccer Star Records, to release that very record, and began a long and artistically fruitful career with it. He was so inspired by it that by the age of 20 he’ recorded his first full length album as Panda Bear. In fact, Richard James was one of the artists that got Lennox into electronic music while in his teenage years. Which is to be expected coming from an artist who counts Aphex Twin as one of his key influences. However, when you take into account the fact that the image itself is also the name of the artist and the record, we get into the experimental territory that his music also occupies. After all, Lennox’s music as Panda Bear is accessible to most fans of forward thinking pop music, just like how most people would be drawn to a record whose cover was a hand drawn picture of a panda. Now I might just be reading far too much into this, but I think this makes a lot of sense. An avid artist for most of his life, Lennox drew pictures of pandas on the covers of all his solo work as their artwork and sure enough, that became his stage name. Sometimes the simplest origin is the most fitting, and nowhere is this more apparent than in how Noah Lennox took the stage name Panda Bear for his solo work.
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