Question: Devendra Banhart's musical sound can be compared to the band the Bowerbirds and also to his early childhood in what country?

Context articles: Lilian Katz
Deeper into Dream
Fabrizio Moretti
Wooden Wand
Bowerbirds (band)
What Will We Be
Megapuss
The Golden Apples of the Sun (album)
Devendra Banhart
Ape in Pink Marble

Lilian Gonshaw Katz (b. 1932) is a Professor Emerita of early childhood education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also principal investigator for the Illinois Early Learning Project, and a contributor to the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative.
 She founded two journals: "Early Childhood Research Quarterly" for which she served as editor-in-chief during its first six years, and "Early Childhood Research & Practice" the first on-line peer-reviewed early-childhood journal for which she remains editor-in-chief.
 Her scholarly work focused on the developmental stages of a teacher, child social development, and she has been a proponent of the project-based learning approach to childhood education, believing children learn best in informal and interactive situations.
Deeper into Dream is the eighth studio album by Australian indie pop musician Ben Lee, released on 11 October 2011 through Lojinx in Europe and Dangerbird Records in the United States.
 It is the first concept album in his catalogue, with a central theme that focuses on the power of dreams.
 Joining Lee for this dozen-song set are his longtime musical collaborators Nic Johns, Lara Meyerratken, and Petra Haden, as well as mixer Noah Georgeson (The Strokes, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom).
 While recording at his Laurel Canyon home studio, he also got a little help from his friends and family.
 For the last year, Lee has been recording and collecting their dreams, all of which are spliced into three dream collages.
Fabrizio Moretti (born June 2, 1980) is an Italian Brazilian musician best known as the drummer for American indie rock band The Strokes.
 Fabrizio's side project with Rodrigo Amarante of Los Hermanos and Binki Shapiro, entitled Little Joy debuted on Rough Trade Records.
 He created another short side project, Megapuss, with Devendra Banhart, Gregory Rogove and Noah Georgeson, and has played drums for Neon Neon, on their track "Dream Cars", from "Stainless Style", Devendra Banhart, Rodrigo Amarante, and Har Mar Superstar, whose track "Prisoner", from "Bye Bye 17", he also co-wrote.
Wooden Wand is the stage name of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, who has recorded under his given name as well as the name WAND.
 The style of music recorded by Toth and his many incarnations has drawn on a variety of both conventional and experimental folk and rock influences, including psychedelic folk, freak folk and indie.
 Though he was a significant player in the New Weird America trend of the early to mid-2000s along with Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Joanna Newsom, and collaborators The Vanishing Voice, Toth has been difficult to pigeonhole in one genre; recent releases have been identified as acid folk, free jazz, outlaw country, and country-tinged rock.
 Toth has appeared on labels including Kill Rock Stars, Ecstatic Peace!
, Rykodisc, and Young God.
Bowerbirds is an American folk band formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2006.
 The group comprises Philip Moore (vocals, guitar), Beth Tacular (accordion, vocals) and Mark Paulson (violin, vocals).
 Allmusic writer Stewart Mason places their sound on "the dividing line between the freak folk contingent led by Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom and the more straightforward sunshine pop of Lavender Diamond."
 Their debut album, "Hymns for a Dark Horse", released under Burly Time Records in 2007, received favorable reviews from publications such as Pitchfork, Time Out New York and Prefix Magazine.
Bowerbirds have toured in support of The Mountain Goats, with John Darnielle referring to the band as his "favorite new band in forever".
 Their second album, "Upper Air", was released July 7, 2009.
 The band released "The Clearing" on March 6, 2012.
What Will We Be is Devendra Banhart's seventh studio album released on October 27, 2009, on Warner Bros.
 Records.
 The album was co-produced by Banhart and Paul Butler from A Band of Bees.
 Rejoining Banhart are old band mates Noah Georgeson, Greg Rogove, Luckey Remington, and Rodrigo Amarante, all of whom worked with him on his previous album, "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon".
Megapuss is a band with the following members: Devendra Banhart, Gregory Rogove (of Priestbird), Fabrizio Moretti (of The Strokes), and Noah Georgeson (member of Devendra's band and his producer).
 Megapuss formed as a joke between Banhart and Rogove, where they created the song titles first and wrote humorous songs based on the titles.
The Golden Apples of the Sun is a limited edition compilation of contemporary folk music curated by musician Devendra Banhart for the art magazine "Arthur Magazine".
 The title comes from a Ray Bradbury short story (which is itself taken from a line in the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats).
 It collected 20 songs performed by recent underground folk and psychedelic artists and has since become considered the definitive compilation of what some have dubbed the New Weird America movement.
 It also featured artwork by Banhart himself.
Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a Venezuelan American 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 Francisco and Los Angeles.
 Banhart released his debut album in 2002, continuing to record his material on the Young God and XL labels, as well as other work on compilations and collaborations.
Ape in Pink Marble is the ninth studio album by folk rock musician Devendra Banhart, released on September 23, 2016 on Nonesuch Records.
 The album was written, produced, arranged, and recorded in Los Angeles by the singer/songwriter/guitarist with his longtime collaborators Noah Georgeson and Josiah Steinbrick, both of whom also worked on Banhart's previous album, "Mala" (2013).