A Head Full of Wishes

Thomas Barrasso sent me a bunch of lovely photos of Damon & Naomi at their recent show in Cambridge MA. I haven't as yet managed to get the pictures bit of A Head Full of Wishes into the new site and it seemed a shame to sit on these so here are a couple of [...]

Damon & Naomi were interviewed for the public radio show Weekend America in which they discuss the influence that Frank Sinatra had on their recent album.

You can download Damon & Naomi's recent performance in Washington DC from www.dimeadozen.org - registration is required.
It's a decent recording although the taper was a little unimpressed...
So, that said, this is basically girlfriend music. Very nicely orchestrated girlfriend music - with four musicians, they still manage to create a very dense atmosphere of sound (I [...]

The new Damon & Naomi album is out now - Within These Walls takes a step down a darker alley...

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Damon & Naomi Within These WallsStreet date: Sept 25, 200720/20/20202020.05
In 2005, Damon & Naomi released The Earth Is Blue, an album that looked outward to all the places they had visited and cultures they've experienced. The release was also a voyage in itself, marking their departure from a ten-year relationship with Sub Pop and the [...]

Damon & Naomi are setting out on a tour of the US with the Japanese band Boris in October. Guitarist Michio Kurihara will be playing with both bands and Helena Espvall the Espers cellist and Bhob Rainey will accompany Damon & Naomi.
The tour has been dubbed the Roaring Silence Revue and you can see the [...]

Damon Krukowski has put together an hour long podcast of some other people's "sad songs" for Spanish radio show La Noche Inventada as well as tracks by the artists on International Sad Hits (volume 1) you can also here some fine tracks by Sandy Denny, Robert Wyatt, Tim Buckley and Pentangle amongst many others.
Well worth [...]

Damon & Naomi have announced details of their new album on their website.
The album called Within These Walls will be released on 20|20|20 records on 25th September. It will feature contributions from Kurihara, the Espers strings and Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey.
You can preview a track and pre-order the album for just $10 from Damon [...]

Les concerts a emorter de Blogotheque features Damon & Naomi performing (and drinking a lot of wine it seems!) in a Parisian apartment. The first video features covers of The Everly Brothers I Wonder If... and Bob Dylan's Hey Sister. The second video is Araca Azul/The Earth is Blue.
The videos can be streamed or downloaded [...]

It's been almost excactly a year since I posted the first track from the Magnetophone demos, so I guess a reminder is in order. Magnetophone was a short-lived project of Damon & Naomi's after Galaxie 500 split up. The band recorded some demos but nothing was officially released, they (apparently) played a couple of gigs [...]