EPIC Damon Albarn teaches audience to sing back up - POLARIS - The Nearer The Fountain Launch 9/2021

Описание: From the mosh pit POV an awesome performance of Polaris, the stunning 10th track of Albarn's new album The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, at the one-of-a-kind concert in Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. The event was a stunning amalgamation of Albarn's solo music and tracks from his other projects, including Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad and the Queen and the Dr Dee opera score. Hope you enjoy the footage, there are 20 videos in all.

Albarn was accompanied by Mike Smith, Femi Koleoso on drums, Simon Tong on guitar, Seye Adelekan on bass, Seckou Keita on the kora, Arngeir Hauksson on the theorbo, a violin tercet and countertenor Christopher Robson.

The album was initiated by the Lyon Festival commissioning Albarn to 'do whatever he wanted' and started life in 2019 as an orchestral project and live experience, inspired by the landscapes of Iceland. Albarn returned to the music in lockdown to develop the work into 11 tracks which “further explore themes of fragility, loss, emergence and rebirth”.
The album title is from a John Clare poem Love and Memory.
Albarn said during the concert that he created the music imagining a band playing on an abandoned cruise ship in an icy bay, with no one able to hear it..

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Polaris
If you get blown off course
In filling in the parts of your life
That have disappeared
Medicating
Quick step reflections
In the dark mirrors of our lives

Polaris
Watching the embers fall
Onto sublime boulevards
Medicating
Joining the saline to start the inspection of the lines

See the birds they have been taken by the wind
They are not together now
They will have to wait until tomorrow
To see each other again

Polaris, Polaris
Polaris, Polaris

See the birds they have been taken by the wind
They are not together now
They will have to wait until tomorrow
To see each other again

The infinite pages we scroll out upon the garden
In the shadow of the oak
I miss the alarm in the music they're in
And so back to the visions
All around us
Where you will be, gone
Polaris, Polaris
Polaris, Polaris