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Galaxie 500 graduates Damon & Naomi have another combo tour coming up, but this one is with Espers' Helena Espvall and Ghost's Masaki Batoh instead of Boris and Ghost's Michio Kurihara. The excursion is in support of a pair of releases, both coming out July 22.

The Damon & Naomi release is a reissue of their first post-Galaxie 500 album, More Sad Hits. They've remastered the record and included new liner notes and photos in the package for a release on their own 20/20/20 label.

Espvall and Batoh's first recorded collaboration, meanwhile, is a self-titled, full-length affair that will be introduced to record store shelves by Drag City.

The joint tour, finally, kicks off June 12, following a single Damon & Naomi gig at the end of this month.

More Sad Hits:

01 E.T.A.
02 Little Red Record Co.
03 Information Age
04 Laika
05 This Car Climbed Mt. Washington
06 Memories
07 Astrafiammante
08 Boston's Daily Temperature
09 (Scene Change)
10 Sir Thomas and Sir Robert
11 Once More
12 This Changing World

Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh:

01 Polska (Polska After Pekkos Per)
02 Kristallen den Fina (The Beautiful Crystal)
03 Uti Var Hage (In Our Pasture Land)
04 Trollmor Vaggvisa
05 Beneath Halo
06 Bicinium
07 Zeranium
08 Jag Vet en Dejlig Rosa (I Know of a Beautiful Rose)
09 Neko Nemurenai
10 Death Letter
11 Kling Klang
12 Kyklopes

Damon & Naomi:

05-31 Peterborough, NH - The Thing in the Spring Festival
06-12 Cambridge, MA - T.T. the Bear's Place *
06-13 Portland, ME - SPACE Gallery *
06-14 Brooklyn, NY - Southpaw *
06-15 New York, NY - (Le) Poisson Rouge *
06-16 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
06-17 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
06-18 Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks *
06-20 Louisville, KY - Terrastock Festival *
06-21 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
06-25 Dublin, Ireland - Whelan's (Upstairs)
06-26 Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
06-27 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Black Box
06-28 London, England - TBA
06-29 Toulouse, France - Les Siestes Électroniques Festival
06-30 Bordeaux, France - CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art
07-02 Paris, France - Le Mécanique Ondulatoire

* with Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh