Bonzorock Radio! Damon Albarn

Saturday April 9, 2011 | Southern FM 107.7 MHz

Damon Albarn was born in the Kingdom Reiuno a March 23, 1968 in Essex, Colchester, Ingleterra. He is an actor, writer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. Sings and performs guitar, piano, violin, melodica and keyboard.

I am part of Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, edit several solo albums and soundtracks for short films and television series.

BLUR, THE TAKEOFF

Blur, Blur means, perhaps an omen of what would be his career, the name of his first band, which transcended the limits of anonymity and became known throughout the world. The first definition of BLUR round as unclear, but is not this, what interests us forward to talk about Damon, but the idea of ​​indefinite, can not see behind. Albarn was and remains one of the most prolific artists, restless and has managed to combine the disparate parts of styles from around the world and has managed to integrate its numerous projects both famous musicians as ingnotos, but always talented bands coming to conform up to 60 musicians on their recordings and simultaneously for live performances.

GORILLAZ

Two successful and devoted friends, each in his area, Damon as members of one of the flagship bands of the 90s and Jamie Hewlett, creator of the comic entertainer Tank Girl cover art from many comic book from DC Comics, shared an apartment One year, after Albarn's separation from his first girlfriend, Justine Frischmann, founding member of Elastica.

This coexistence of a year, and repeated festivals organized there, with celebrities and unknown, eventually saturating the duo. Frivolity, lack of values ​​and creativity that they saw around them, woke them. It was the decline of the millennium, when many artists were limited to pay taxes to their predecessors, when retro, the mash up, abuse of technological tools generated a creative vacuum in many of the bands on the international scene.

One of the many early mornings found that watching MTV, it generated a conversation in which they felt had the video production was poor and it was not for lack of talent of the producers, but a sloth crawling because of the flatness that had at that time both in the public demanded and not confused with the artists of the century. Damon and Jamie felt that failure to make a cut and reinvent themselves, end up giving punishment as many of the artists who rotated there and others who swarmed at parties concurred that they were doing or generating commercial abominations only to comply with the record companies and waiting for the time to finish it all to go out drinking.

THE BAND

The characters in addition self-referential, they took things from friends and acquaintances of Damon and Jamie.

2-D was a singer and a store was selling organs in Crawly.

Murdoc, the bassist, leads a dark past which little is known.

Murdoc to rob the store of organs in the 2D working income for your car, running over him, injuring his eye and leaving him in a coma. Murdoc was sentenced to community service and was to take care of 2D who was in his car when in the wake of a second shock awakens from the coma become musical genius.

Noodles is an Asian girl who comes to Gorillaz precedent of an uncertain place, in a box shipped by fedex.

Russell, drummer for the band is from NY and is possessed by a dead friend, Del da Funky Homosapiens, which is the rapper to emerge from its head in the video for Clint Eastwood

Many artists be content with half of what achievement with Blur and Damon could be made and perhaps etnernamete copy themselves, repeating the formula of success of one of the most important bands of the 90. Perhaps the overexposure that generated in the Blur, but his judicious reading of the future of the music industry, and present tastes and the search for the music lovers and the general public, and especially the emerging concerns as a creator Damon , led him in search of a direct product, new look for a partner to supply the technology to take advantage conocimeiento (sphere in which the unknown is declared). All this combined led to a concept that was new, the virtual band .. achievement and recognition that many discover it as a musician comprehensive, making the departure of his career he needed BLUR. Gorillaz was born as a traditional band, with the base harmonic and rhythmic pop, integrating with the orchestration and electronica, with catchy and repetitive simple, incorporating a lot of black music, rap, hiphop.

By his own statement, Gorillaz topics starts to come together with rhythmic and melodic little ideas that are combined and will evolve as voices begin to appear and then it's time to adjust details.

SOLO

Damon has recorded some demos and songs in addition to numerous isolated soundtracks for several films, short films and television series.

Also recorded Mali Music in 2002 with Afel Bocoum, Toumani Diabaté & friends, and Ko Kan Ko Sata as a result of trips to Africa.

These trips were decisive in the course which was to take his career there as musicians began to bond with and develop a capacity to link with other people having grown up in a big rock band, had lost and he realized he wanted assembling different musicians and expand their musical horizon permanently.

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE QUEEN

Formed in 2006 with Damon Albarn on vocals and guitar, former Clash bassist Paul Simonon, former Verve guitarist Simon Tong (who participated in the tour with Blur's Think Tank album, Gorillaz and Demon Days) and Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the band of the late Fela Kuti, Africa 70.

The name is taken from a famous movie of the Spaghetti Western in the 60s starring Clint Eastwood: The Good, the bad and the ugly (the good, the bad and the ugly)

NEW BAND

During an interview revealed that he was preparing a new project in band format, which will include a Flea, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist and Tony Allen, drummer for The good, the bad and the queen.

It would have recorded almost entirely an album project released an album this year 2011.