Video: Damon Albarn - Dr Dee 'The Marvelous Dream'

myworldmusicfriends.com Now that you’ve had a chance to read about all the exciting music featured in the current issue of  Songlines , don’t forget that you can watch it and listen to it too. Each issue, we create a YouTube playlist of featured videos to help give the full interactive experience. You can view the playlist  here . Some of the highlights of this issue’s videos include: Damon Albarn does Dr Dee (read more on p16-17)   Boycott or Not?: Koby Israelite [...]

Pendant que monsieur annonce sur Guardian.co.uk le fait que Blur et Gorillaz sont deux projets qui se trouvent maintenant derrière lui, il se permet d'annoncer « Dr Dee » , son tout premier album solo. Pour revenir sur les déclarations de l'artiste,il semblerait donc pour commencer avec Blur , que le concert qu'ils donneront au Hyde Park le 12 août 2012 pour la fermeture des Jeux Olympiques serait le dernier et que leur dernier titre « Under the Westway » enregistré en une seule prise serait leur dernière [...]

Damon Albarn has spacious sleeves, and he keeps a gazillion |gəˈzɪljən| (see also kazillion) number of projects up there at any given time.  Dr Dee (what!?) is just one of those creative ventures. It's a new studio album consisting of 18 tracks inspired by the life of mathematician, polymath and advisor to Elizabeth I, John Dee (oh, right), and will be released by Parlophone on May 7th. Pre-Order it here . It's also an opera... But unlike  Monkey: Journey To The West , here [...]

Nuova valanga di novità dall'infaticabile Damon Albarn . Mentre i Blur viaggiano lenti ma convinti verso il nuovo disco , Albarn trova il tempo per anticiparci i risultati del suo progetto R ocket Juice and the Moon con una traccia impreziosita dal featuring di Erykah Badu . Si intitola "Hey Shooter" e potete ascoltarla con il widget in fondo al post. Quello che vedete in apertura invece, è il videotrailer di un altro progetto di Mr. Albarn . Si tratta del disco colonna sonora dello spettacolo ispirato a John Dee [...]

Damon Albarn's latest opera, Dr Dee, will be released in album form on May 8th via Virgin. It details the life of 16th century scientist and scientific advisor to Queen Elizabeth, John Dee, and has already recieved critical acclaim after running in Manchester last summer. To see it in real-time is another option. Dr Dee will be given a

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Damon Albarn is always busy (hell, he just released a song of the year contender as Gorillaz and premiered new music with Blur) and it looks like his previously hinted at solo offering will be the next project that we see from the beloved singer and songwriter. Titled Dr Dee , the album will be released on May 8th via Virgin Records. You may remember the Dr Dee project as something Albarn was working on last year for a stage production and now we will all get to share in the [...]

Tal parece que Damon Albarn no puede mantenerse estático por mucho tiempo. Hace días estrenó un track para Converse llamado " DoYaThing ", donde colaboró con André 3000 y James Murphy . Después, haría una presentación histórica con su banda Blur, cerrando la entrega de los Brit Awards. Ahora está preparando todo para el lanzamiento de un nuevo álbum solista, Dr. Dee . El nuevo material de Albarn parece alejarse de lo que ha hecho anteriormente con Blur o Gorillaz, pero suena muy interesante. Se trata de un proyecto conceptual, una [...]

We're happy to admit that we tend to go apeshit for anything Damon Albarn produces. After a quick listen to the video preview (above), his latest project Dr. Dee has us particularly excited. Based on the life of John Dee, an advisor to Elizabeth the First , Dr. Dee is a stage production that will see its debut in London come June. In the meantime, the record will drop May 8th, and supposedly features "Albarn's voice with early English choral and instrumentation alongside modern, West African and Renaissance sounds". Make of that what [...]

Filed under: News Astrid Stawiarz, Getty Images Damon Albarn , otherwise known as the man who launched 1,000 albums, has announced yet another musical project due to hit shelves on May 8. The album, 'Dr Dee,' Albarn's solo debut, is a recording of the opera he wrote last year and is no less ambitious than his numerous other musical occupations ( Gorillaz , the Good, the Bad, and the Queen , that Congo project , [...]

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Damon Albarn has announced details of his new solo album entitled Dr. Dee . Set for release in May of this year via Parlophone, the LP was recorded late last year. It features the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and was mixed by Valgeir Sigursson in Reykjavik. The press release says: Dr Dee is 18 tracks of songs and music inspired by the life of John Dee, mathematician, polymath and advisor to Elizabeth I. Described by Albarn as 'strange pastoral folk', Dr Dee is a fitting companion to the end of another Elizabethan age. [...]

Damon Albarn has announced he'll be releasing a solo album this May on Parlophone Records. The album, which is released on May 7th, is called Dr Dee and is "inspired by the life of John Dee, mathematician, polymath and advisor to Elizabeth I." It's also been described as "strange pastoral folk." Interesting. Watch the video for 'The Marvelous Dream' below.

Damon Albarn has written an album based on the life of John Dee, a "mathematician, polymath and advisor to Elizabeth I". We'll let you draw your own conclusions. Dr Dee is out 7 May 2012.