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[372] Street of the Love of Days - Amor de Días
While The Clientele were on hiatus Alasdair Maclean of the band released two albums of gentle folk music with Lupe Nuñez-Fernandez (of Pipas) as Amor de Días. Damon and Naomi guested on the first of these, Street of the Love of Days, in 2011.
The sleeve notes list Damon and Naomi’s “help” on “percussion” and “bass” but don’t specify on which tracks they appear.
The album is so beautiful (as is the follow up, The House at Sea).
Amor de Días toured with Damon & Naomi quite a lot during around the time of this release and I saw them a few times because of that the first time at Cafe Oto in September 2009:
Amor de Dias is the new project of Alasdair MacLean of The Clientle and Lupe Núñez-Fernández of Pipas. They played a short but very beautiful set of tropic-tinged folk guitar music accompanied on a couple of tracks by "Anne" on a huge recorder. Alasdair introduced the first track as "someone born in Aberdeen trying to play guitar like Caetano Veloso." I think a couple of the numbers were tracks from Bonfires on the Heath, the new album by The Clientele coming out next month.
Review: Damon & Naomi @ Cafe OTO, London
The second time was at the lovely and still missed The Luminaire in Kilburn:
While touring with Damon & Naomi the members of Amor de Días would often join them on stage. Here are both Alasdair and Lupe guesting with D&N on their cover of the Rolling Stones’ Shine a Light in 2011.
The CLientele started making music and touring again in 2017 and have released two albums since then and an Instagram post from a couple of weeks back showed them back in the studio “tracking strings, brass and.. ourselves”… so more coming, which is always good news.
- Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/166
- Artist: Amor de Días
- Title: Street of the Love of Days
- Format: CD
- Bought direct from the band for a tenner.