THE last time I saw Damon Albarn – until now that is – was at Wembley Stadium in July 2023.  He and his Blur bandmates, arms ...

Launched in Mali in 2006, Africa Express is a global collaborative community of musicians. At first, the idea was to link Malian artists like Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyaté and Amadou & Mariam with ...

Graham Coxon, Damon Albarn and Alex James perform on stage in Africa Express: The Circus Credit: Robin Little It was here that Albarn's love of music was nurtured.

Africa Express, a musical collective led by Damon Albarn, will release a new album, EGOLI, on July 12 via Africa Express Records.The album will feature appearances by Gruff Rhys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs ...

Damon Albarn has expressed a desire to make music in Palestine and Israel to bring greater communication between cultures through art.

Damon Albarn with Rokia Traoree, Africa Express 1992. Africa Express, the project of Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn that brings Western and African musicians together, was accused of ...

It’s their summer and God bless them. I hope everyone has a wonderful time but I’m going to be in a very, very different ...

UPDATE 3: Africa Express responds. Founded in 2006 by Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, the Africa Express project brings together Western and African musicians to collaborate. Fatboy Slim ...

Damon Albarn's Africa Express just released new four-track EP, Molo, which is a stepping stone towards their album due to land this summer. MOLO, which means "Hello" in South Africa's Xhosa language, ...

Africa Express is Damon Albarn’s project that brings together Western musical luminaries (Brian Eno, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, Albarn himself) with Malian musicians.

It’s a homecoming for Damon Albarn, the big top tent housing Africa Express: The Circus is erected just a few streets away from where he grew up. He spent his early life in Leytonstone, east ...

A collaboration between Blur and Oasis was once unthinkable. The two bands were rivals during the heyday of Britpop. The feud ...