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Damon & Naomi originally released More Sad Hits on Shimmy Disc one year after the breakup of Galaxie 500, when Dean Wareham left the group to pursue a career with Luna on Elektra Records. With no intention of doing any more recording, the duo were nonetheless convinced to go into the studio after Kramer told them he'd assist with both recording and release.

While Damon & Naomi have remained publicly silent regarding Wareham's recent autobiography, this album serves as all the answers anyone needs concerning their side of the drama. And with a shimmering and lonely beauty as only they can achieve, the two made a series of songs as emotionally stark as you're likely to hear. It was recently voted one of the "Top Twenty Most Overlooked Psychedelic Albums" along with Skip Spence and 13th Floor Elevators. This remastered reissue will contain new liner notes and photos.

In advance of the release, Damon & Naomi will be touring the states for a serious of special shows with Masaki Batoh and Helena Espvall, including a show at Terrastock.

"More Sad Hits is lovely. Naomi's voice is so true, like real water in a world of soda pop. And it goes right with Damon's. It's right, that fe/male voice doubleact." --Robert Wyatt

30-second MP3 excerpts:

E.T.A.
Little Red Record Co.
Information Age
Laika
This Car Climbed Mt. Washington
Memories
Astrafiammante
Boston's Daily Temperature
(Scene Change)
Sir Thomas And Sir Robert
Once More
This Changing World

Damon & Naomi originally released More Sad Hits on Shimmy Disc one year after the breakup of Galaxie 500, when Dean Wareham left the group to pursue a career with Luna on Elektra Records. With no intention of doing any more recording, the duo were nonetheless convinced to go into the studio after Kramer told them he'd assist with both recording and release.

While Damon & Naomi have remained publicly silent regarding Wareham's recent autobiography, this album serves as all the answers anyone needs concerning their side of the drama. And with a shimmering and lonely beauty as only they can achieve, the two made a series of songs as emotionally stark as you're likely to hear. It was recently voted one of the "Top Twenty Most Overlooked Psychedelic Albums" along with Skip Spence and 13th Floor Elevators. This remastered reissue will contain new liner notes and photos.

In advance of the release, Damon & Naomi will be touring the states for a serious of special shows with Masaki Batoh and Helena Espvall, including a show at Terrastock.

"More Sad Hits is lovely. Naomi's voice is so true, like real water in a world of soda pop. And it goes right with Damon's. It's right, that fe/male voice doubleact." --Robert Wyatt

30-second MP3 excerpts:

E.T.A.
Little Red Record Co.
Information Age
Laika
This Car Climbed Mt. Washington
Memories
Astrafiammante
Boston's Daily Temperature
(Scene Change)
Sir Thomas And Sir Robert
Once More
This Changing World

. The Earth Is Blue marks the first release on Damon & Naomi's record label, 20/20/20. After almost a decade with Sub Pop, the band decided to oversee the production and distribution of their new release. The Earth Is Blue is a song of hope, and its thoughtful charm will be a strong sedative toward worries beyond control.

In the five years since Damon & Naomi released With Ghost (Sub Pop), the duo have released the live Song To The Siren CD/DVD, which documented trips through the US, UK, Europe, Brazil, Japan and Taiwan supporting With Ghost.

They run Exact Change, an independent publishing company dedicated to re-releasing innovative surrealist literature of the 20th Century. Damon just released The Memory Theater Burned (Turtle Point Press), a dynamic and cerebral book of poetry. In addition, the band oversaw the recent releases of a Galaxie 500 DVD/CD of rare material. What's more, they just completed a swing state tour accompanying Yo La Tengo.

• Seminal group's first album in five years, and the debut release on their own label
  
• Two-thirds of late '80s critics' faves Galaxie 500
  
• Intricate cover of George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  
• Additional guitar layering by Ghost's Michio Kurihara
  
• The psychedelic folk music movement has finally caught up with what Damon & Naomi have been doing for years
• Extensive touring to every corner of the blue earth

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Beautiful Close Double
  A Second Life
  Malibran
  House Of Glass
  Sometimes
  While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  Ueno Station
  The Robot Speaks
  Ara Azul
  The Earth Is Blue

  If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

  Damon And Naomi "The Earth Is Blue" (202020)

  If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here.

  This title is also available for download at AmazonMP3

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And, beyond life itself, where to look for inspiration on such solemn topics? Everyone has their own sources, but Krukowski and Yang took it directly to the Chairman of the Board.

"We bought lots of Frank Sinatra LPs, cleaning out the local stores. He released one sad album and one happy album a year, you can tell by whether he's smiling or frowning on the cover." Listening to the production style of those albums (especially the sad ones!), how the arrangements were able to load on instruments while keeping the vocals pure and clear, provided a new approach for how Damon & Naomi would go about recording the new record, which has a greater amount of varied instrumentation than they ever used before. Saxophonist Bhob Rainey arranged horn and also lush string accompaniment (including cello performed by Helena Espvall of Espers), while the "silent third member" of Damon & Naomi, Michio Kurihara, contributes his skills as one of the world's greatest guitar players throughout.

Damon & Naomi have fully realized their ideal of how to be a band. With their own record label, recording their album completely at home, and with a national tour with Boris coming up this Fall, the duo have achieved a mastery over their music and careers. Within These Walls reflects that newfound freedom, taking new chances while maintaining a fundamental honesty. Never before have Damon & Naomi been so direct and forthright, nor so musically captivating.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Lilac Land
The Well
On The Aventine
Within These Walls
Red Flower
Defibrillation
Stars Never Fade
A Silver Thread
The Turnaround
Cruel Queen

If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

go to iTunes to browse downloads for Damon & Naomi "Within These Walls"

If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here.

This title is also available for download at AmazonMP3

For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service and emusic.com, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

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