damon & naomi | the earth is blue
CD (202020.01) - $10.00
LP (202020.01LP) - $12.00
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"Damon and Naomi met in Boston's Galaxie 500, kick-starting a whole school of Velvet Underground derived melancholia in the late 80's. Subsequently exploring the limits of riff-heavy psychedelia with Magic Hour, they've recorded extensively as a duo in late 60's West Coast singer-songwriter mode, and are lynchpins of an international community of like-minded musicians. The Earth Is Blue rekindles their partnership with the guitarist Michio Kurihara, of the Japanese acid-folk band Ghost, whose sensitive leads thread sinewy paths through unashamedly pretty songs, shaping drifting pieces like House Of Glass into sustained climaxes. The album's title track is a slow burning, happy-sad classic, while George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps takes the translucent form of a medieval folk song. Sensitive souls! Harken! Tim Buckley fans! Cease your mourning! Weeping teenagers! Weep no more! The Earth is Blue." -- The Sunday Times, Stewart Lee
1 - Beautiful Close Double (4:37)
2 - A Second Life (4:46)
3 - Malibran (4:39)
4 - House of Glass (6:23)
5 - Sometimes (4:42)
6 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (5:36)
7 - Ueno Station (5:16)
8 - The Robot Speaks (4:27)
9 - Araçá Azul (2:43)
10 - The Earth is Blue (6:47)
Damon Krukowski | acoustic guitar, drums, vocals
Naomi Yang | bass, keyboards, vocals
Michio Kurihara | electric guitar
tracks 1, 3, 6, 10
Greg Kelley | trumpet
Bhob Rainey | soprano sax
track 5
Dana Kletter | piano
produced by Damon & Naomi
engineered & mixed by Damon Krukowski at Kali Studios, 2003 – 2004
