DAMON ALBARN The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows TRANSGRESSIVE
He sings about being “imprisoned on this island”
FOR more than 20 years, Damon Albarn seems to have been desperate to escape the suffocatingly restrictive straitjacket of Britpop and engage with a wider world. There have been collaborations with musicians from Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, Syria, Japan, Cuba and Iceland; charity projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Chinese operas commissioned in Paris; hook-ups with everyone from Bobby Womack to Lou Reed, from De La Soul to Erykah Badu.
As a routine example ofis soaked in a peculiar English melancholy.
