Monday, March 07, 2011

damon and naomi "and you are there"


DAMON & NAOMI SHARE VIDEO BY CHRIS MARKER FOR ALBUM TRACK, “AND YOU ARE THERE”

NEW ALBUM, FALSE BEATS AND TRUE HEARTS, OUT MAY 8th on Broken Horse

In anticipation of their upcoming record False Beats and True Hearts, out May 8th on Broken Horse , Damon & Naomi are very excited to announce a new “video” by visual artist Chris Marker, best known for his groundbreaking film La jetée, the inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. Consisting of a single still image set to album track “And You Are There”, the project will be premiered and hosted by the venerable Wire Magazine. Naomi explains the connection between the artist and the art:

The song, “And You Are There,” is about the way time can compress when you are lost in a memory, something I have learned a lot about from Chris Marker’s work – his films (La Jetée, Sans Soleil), his writing (Immemory), his photographs. When the song was finished, I sent it to Chris with a note – since his work had provided inspiration for the song, I wondered, might he in turn have a visual response to it? He sent back this image, with the note:

“Dunno if it fits your pretty Proustian melancholy, but I thought it could... And thanks for linking me to music, the only real art for me as you know (cinema? you kiddin’...)

Watch Chris Marker’s video for Damon & Naomi’s “And You Are There"

here


Bringing the music to the masses, May/June coast-to-coast U.S. tours are being planned with Amor de Dias, the new project from Alasdair Maclean of the Clientele. Their debut album will be out on Merge the same day False Beats and True Hearts is released, and it features Damon & Naomi guesting on one track. The two bands have played together in England, but this will be Amor de Dias's US debut. Japanese psych-rock demigod Michio Kurihara (Boris, Ghost) will play electric guitar with Damon & Naomi on tour, as on the album.

UK dates are also in the works for D&N, together with Richard Youngs -- Damon plays drums on Richard Youngs's forthcoming album on Jagjaguwar, and there are plans for Richard and Damon to perform live at these shows as a duo. If so, it will be the first time Damon will tour behind a drum kit this millennium!

AND YOU ARE THERE

Like the sunlight falling through a fence

The image comes and goes

Memories flickering within me

Where they are I don’t know

An orange light, a flash of white

Feel the sun, hear that sound within me

The past is but a moving image

It reappears then disappears

And though I can’t understand its movements

It erases all those years

An orange light, a flash of white

Feel the sun, hear that sound within me

And you are there once again

What I carry deep inside me

These feelings come and go

The past I thought was so distant

Flickers like an afterglow

And you are there once again

— Naomi Yang, 2011

Damon & Naomi online:

www.damonandnaomi.com

www.20-20-20.com

www.myspace.com/damonandnaomi

www.facebook.com/pages/Damon-Naomi/105076796191185