The ever industrious Damon Albarn is on another side of the globe, again working with new people, sounds and styles. Monkey: Journey to the West is an “Operatic” adaptation of a Chinese folk story dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Albarn collaborated with Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng and Gorillaz’ Jamie Hewlett on the production, which also includes the talents of numerous Chinese acrobats and musicians.
Samples of the recently released soundtrack (based on the production pieces) can be found on the official site here. Among them are the particularly charming song here:
Previously, Albarn collaborated with numerous Malian musicians on Mali Music. Perhaps unknown to most, he also lent a strange and haunting soundtrack to Ravenous, an odd film about cannibals in the early American West.
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