Biography
In the words of 100% Silk’s Amanda Brown,”The transformative duo of Damon “Magic Touch” Palermo and Daniel “Ital” Martin-McCormick together as Mi Ami have created a hardcore soft-serve swirl of afro-punk, disco-dance freakout, and primitive techno along their years-long journey toward ‘Decade’s fine exploratory house. The yin of Damon’s deep focus rhythm, a seemingly endless widening beat, meets the yang of Daniel’s DC edge, his spikiness, that unsettling anarchic tension, on “Horns,” the album’s sparkly, dizzying opener. “Time Of Love” has the elegance and persistence of Sade being hunted; it’s soul on the move – cymbal crash symbolism, flanger flatlines, and drum roll pleads. Flip to “Free Of Life” to hear laser lover beams shooting across reverb tense pad stabs and synth-shred sweeps. Finally, “Bells” returns to that track one anxiety, perfectly palindrome: Damon’s boom-thrum-tum give to Daniel’s pitch-punch take, with a kiss of guitar ghosts, the Fender-mender between punk pasts and dance dawning. ‘Decade ‘is a chemistry test, a steady study, a link of love.”
