Track Listing

1. Lilac Land
2. The Well
3. On The Avenue
4. Within These Walls
5. Red Flower
6. Defibrillation
7. Stars Never Fade
8. A Silver Thread
9. The Turnaround
10. Cruel Queen

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119054 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

CD Description
Brand new album from Damon & Naomi (Damon & Naomi have an established career, starting as members of Galaxie 500 and Magic Hour): saxophonist Bob 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 guitar-playing skills 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 US tour with Boris coming up this autumn, Damon & Naomi have achieved a mastery over their music and careers. 'Within these walls' reflects that newfound freedom, takes new chances, and maintains a fundamental honesty. Never before has the duo been so direct and forthright, nor so musically captivating. In 2005, Damon & Naomi released 'The earth is blue', an album that looked out to all the places they had visited and cultures they'd experienced. Two years later, and two decades into their uniquely realized career, the duo casts its view inward with the release of 'Within these walls'. With emotional songs and highly personalized lyrics, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang explore the depths of the human condition, with its pain and loss and tragedy balled up with the quiet beauty of existence. And, beyond life itself, where to look for inspiration on such solemn topics? Everyone has their own sources, but Krukowski and Yang take it directly to the chairman of the board. 'We bought lots of Frank Sinatra LPs, cleaning out the local stores', they say. '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 loaded on instruments while keeping the vocals pure and clear, provided a new approach for how Damon & Naomi would record the new record, which has a greater amount of varied instrumentation than they have ever used before.