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Uncut, November 2009
Album No 3 from Damon Albarn's virtual band. Guests are still to be confirmed, but De La Soul are back on tracks apparently called “Electric Shock” and “Sloped Tropics”. Here's bassist and band leader “Murdoc” to tell us more...
Murdoc: After the Demon Days Apollo shows in New York [April, 2006], we just split. Just walked out the door and off into the night. That was it. I didn’t see any of them until... Well, some of them I've never seen since. It was only me and 2D [vocals] at the Apollo shows, anyhow. How long have we been working on this record? How long is eternity? I started on this...well. Put it this way, The Blur band have reformed, toured and split up again in the time it took me to re-string my bass. But I'm a perfectionist so it takes time to get it right. This album makes Demon Days sound like an intro tape. No-one’s made something like this. N-ever. Guests? Yeah, we've got loads but I can't really say who at the moment. Legal issues. But it's getting crowded in here. Let's see. There's, er... some grizzled old piratey-looking guy. There's two or three genuine icons over there. One giant legend of the soul era. There’s someone kinda ‘grimy’... a couple of ‘golden larynxed chanteuses’... some epic opiumated string section... something exotic slumped in the corner. A bunch of what look like... ‘Goths’. They might be my kids, actually. And is that an actor over there? A camel. And er... there’s a couple of different obscure orchestras. A few donks. So yeah, it's a recipe I've been working for a while... “How to cook up a storm”. It’s just ferocious! This record's like a giant black wind howling a damaged opera straight into your cakehole. Mmmmm.... sexy. Anyhow, mate, I gotta go. My Mongolian throat singers have just turned up... Ozzy?!
Murdoc: After the Demon Days Apollo shows in New York [April, 2006], we just split. Just walked out the door and off into the night. That was it. I didn’t see any of them until... Well, some of them I've never seen since. It was only me and 2D [vocals] at the Apollo shows, anyhow. How long have we been working on this record? How long is eternity? I started on this...well. Put it this way, The Blur band have reformed, toured and split up again in the time it took me to re-string my bass. But I'm a perfectionist so it takes time to get it right. This album makes Demon Days sound like an intro tape. No-one’s made something like this. N-ever. Guests? Yeah, we've got loads but I can't really say who at the moment. Legal issues. But it's getting crowded in here. Let's see. There's, er... some grizzled old piratey-looking guy. There's two or three genuine icons over there. One giant legend of the soul era. There’s someone kinda ‘grimy’... a couple of ‘golden larynxed chanteuses’... some epic opiumated string section... something exotic slumped in the corner. A bunch of what look like... ‘Goths’. They might be my kids, actually. And is that an actor over there? A camel. And er... there’s a couple of different obscure orchestras. A few donks. So yeah, it's a recipe I've been working for a while... “How to cook up a storm”. It’s just ferocious! This record's like a giant black wind howling a damaged opera straight into your cakehole. Mmmmm.... sexy. Anyhow, mate, I gotta go. My Mongolian throat singers have just turned up... Ozzy?!