Damon Albarn Talks Gorillaz`s Star-Studded New LP, Blur`s Future
(WorldNews Music)

Damon Albarn (right) discusses collaborating with De La Soul, Lou Reed and many others in his Gorillaz project, and what the future may hold for Blur. Linda Brownlee Damon Albarn can easily fill an hour with stories of how he seeks, wrangles and records the motley armies of guest vocalists, players and contributing producers that pack the Blur singer`s periodic albums of apocalyptically charged hip-hop, credited to the cartoon-avatar quartet Gorillaz. On a recent afternoon in his New York hotel, a few weeks before the release of Gorillaz` fifth album, Humanz, Albarn - who launched the animated band in 1998 with fellow Englishman, illustrator Jamie Hewlett - rhapsodized about an encounter in...