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 ...

A political undercurrent bubbles through much of Albarn's conversation. The Africa Express event was scheduled for Friday March 29, the day Britain was long expected to leave the EU.

Albarn’s Africa Express gigs have a storied history of surprise performances and jaw-dropping collaborations that includes luminaries such as Sir Paul McCartney, Björk, Brian Eno, Led Zeppelin ...

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

Tonight is significant for another reason. 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.

Damon Albarn's music collective Africa Express announces a new album, "Egoli," to be released in June.

The pace switches up on “Kuduro”, where old Africa Express hands Fatoumata Diawara and Moonchild Sanelly trade verses in Bambara and Xhosa, both equally disappointed by men. Marimba punks Son Rompe ...

Damon Albarn ‘s Africa Express group has been accused of unfair treatment of musicians. The project was founded in 2006, and aims to bring musicians of all genres and countries together to ...

Over the weekend, Damon Albarn joined his Africa Express collective on-stage at the Bahidorá Festival, which took place in Morelos, which is just outside of Mexico City. Albarn helped out with a ...

Oasis and Blur have a storied history of name-calling and fallouts throughout the 1990s, a rivalry which peaked via a chart ...

Damon Albarn has accepted that his band Blur were beaten by Oasis in the battle of Britpop and is now hailing his former ...