Roger Eno & Lol Hammond - Damage

Title: Damage Artist: Roger Eno & Lol Hammond Release Date: 3/23/1999 Re-Released On: 1/6/2004 Label: United States Of Distribution LTD., All Saints, Thirsty Ear Recordings Duration: 57:51 UPCs: 700436603928, 825947124424, 5024545070422, 604388620326 Genre: Electronica Styles: Experimental Electronic, Instrumental Rock, Progressive Electronic, Ethnic Fusion, Ambient, Experimental, Piano/New Age, Art Rock Moods: Ethereal, Calm/Peaceful, Gentle, Hypnotic Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Code
2. Damage
3. Something Orange
4. Gerrard St. 415
5. Sky Becomes a Loop
6. Room Without Lights
7. Lose That Skin
8. Blue Kind of Drug
9. Kinky Ink
10. Coming Up for Air
11. Burst
12. Hip Hop Flipperty Flop
13. Sky Becomes a Reprise

Year Type Label Catalog # 2004 CD All Saints 37 2003 CD United States Of Distribution LTD. 273 2003 CD All Saints 37 1999 CD Thirsty Ear Recordings 66039

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This might seem like an unlikely pairing: the composer Roger Eno (who, though he has always had one foot in the pop music world, is classically trained and composes primarily in that mode) and Drum Club cofounder, Lol Hammond, who is known mainly for his work in the sphere of electronic dance music. This is one of those projects that is either going to succeed wildly or fail utterly, and happily, it's a solid success. Eno brings a level of harmonic sophistication to the proceedings that is generally missing from the world of techno, not to mention a contemplative, almost pastoral sensibility that he shares with his more famous brother Brian (to whom we owe the word "ambient" as a musical term). Hammond, for his part, takes what could have been almost soporific keyboard parts and muscles them up with electronic rhythm that never sounds artifically imposed. Hence, the soothing and yet rhythmically interesting flow of "Something Orange," and the slow, swinging, trip-hop pianism of "Hip Hop Flipperty Flop," which sounds for all the world like Music for Airports remixed by Portishead. That's a compliment. You can't really call this music "challenging," but somehow it's still very rewarding. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

Name Credits David Robertson Illustrations, Artwork Lol Hammond Treatments, Synthesizer, Performer, Arranger, Loops, Producer, Piano Matt Rowlands Engineer Nick Robertson Art Direction, Design, Artwork Roger Eno Synthesizer, Piano, Guitar