DRC Music News and Photos

Kwes – Meantime [EP]

Tue, April 24 2012 6:48am - Source: The Four Oh Five

You can't exactly describe music man Kwes as lazy.

A Sunday Conversation with Michael Wertz; Artist, Illustrator and Album Cover/Concert Poster Design, Radio Personality, Musician, Man for all Seasons

Sun, April 22 2012 7:37am - Source: The Ripple Effect

My name is Michael Wertz, and I am an Illustrator, and a Bay Area native.

"I'm Sort Of English Melancholy": Damon Albarn Interviewed

Tue, March 27 2012 10:22am - Source: The Quietus

Love him or loathe him, Damon Albarn's two-decade journey from brash Britpop poster boy to shape-shifting art-pop mogul has made him one of the most interesting and prolific musical icons of his generation.

Craft Of The Lost Art: Jneiro Jarel

Thu, January 26 2012 4:03pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

Sure, there were reports that rap music had gone off the boil around the Millennium but out at the fringes, out at the edge the genre was still producing new talent who couldn't be placed in any one box.

DRC Music to reunite for one-off performance

Tue, November 29 2011 5:55pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

Looks like Damon Albarn is getting the band back together.

DRC Music Team To Re-Unite

Mon, November 28 2011 3:18pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

The team behind DRC Music album 'Kinshasa One Two' are set to re-unite for a Rough Trade in-store.

Kwes Makes Live Debut In London

Tue, November 22 2011 1:09pm - Source: The Quietus

Kwes, the Warp-signed producer and contributor to Damon Albarn's DRC Music project, has announced his debut live show, at London's Shacklewell Arms next Monday 28th November.

The Brit-pop king jams with locals in Kinshasa, one of Africa's poorest cities

Mon, November 14 2011 4:10pm - Source: Rolling Stone

On Damon Albarn's fifth day in Africa, things were looking up.

DRC Music: Kinshasa One Two, CD review

Thu, November 03 2011 6:00pm - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

Damon Albarn collaborates with Congolese musicians on this Oxfam project or, rather, mixes field recordings of thumb piano orchestras and street rappers into a dubby stream of consciousness that feels like Gorillaz Go To Africa.

Another Honest Jon’s Chop Up @ Vicar Street, Dublin

Wed, November 02 2011 11:48pm - Source: Nialler 9

Journey to the West, Doctor Dee. Damon Albarn's career path has a multi-faceted global outlook these days.

Blur, RHCP and Fela Kuti members team up

Fri, October 28 2011 3:56pm - Source: Music Week

They are also set to release self-titled collaborative album which has been described as 'mostly instrumental'.

Album Review: DRC Music – Kinshasa One Two

Tue, October 18 2011 12:07pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

Altruism aside, musical charity records are usually giant creative busts.

DRC Music – Kinshasa One Two

Fri, October 14 2011 1:42pm - Source: The Blue Walrus

"World music" and "collaboration" are usually two words which, when used together, point to a midlife crisis.

Damon Albarn Hopes To Release More Congolese Collaborations

Wed, October 12 2011 11:36am - Source: Xfm

Damon Albarn's been telling Xfm all about his new DRC Music project which has recorded an album for Oxfam in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

DRC Music – ‘Hallo’ ft. Tout Puissant Mukalo, Nelly Liyemge (video)

Mon, October 10 2011 8:32am - Source: Nialler 9

The first video from DRC Music , the week-long project for Oxfam fronted by Damo Albarn in the Congo with Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Actress and more.

Damon Albarn and DRC Music Record for the Congo's Poorest

Wed, October 05 2011 6:47pm - Source: Spinner

One word you could never apply to off-and-on Blur frontman Damon Albarn is "idle".

DRC Music - Kinshasa One Two

Tue, October 04 2011 5:20am - Source: Pitchfork Media

David Toop imagined future music in his book Ocean of Sound as "all winking lights and digital exchanges across alien cultures."

Weekly Bits 39/2011

Sun, October 02 2011 5:59pm - Source: Nutriot

Don't have much to share this week, but still a couple of things you should know of.

Album: DRC Music, Kinshasa One Two (Warp)

Thu, September 29 2011 11:38pm - Source: The Independent - Music

For his latest expedition into Africa, Damon Albarn took along a posse of Anglo-American producers – including Jneiro Jarel and Remi Kabaka – to Kinshasa to work on five days' recordings with local Congolese bands like Tout Puissant Mukalo and Bokatola System, collaborating on the hoof, as it were.

Caught in the Net: Gold Panda retains his high standards

Thu, September 29 2011 11:38pm - Source: The Independent - Music

The British electronic producer Gold Panda fashioned one of the best debuts of 2010 with his sparkling Lucky Shiner album.

Oxjam Music Festival - Fatboy Slim

Tue, September 27 2011 9:07am - Source: ClashMusic.com

Oxford based global charity Oxfam launch their 5th annual money raising music festival, Oxjam, this week in London with exclusive intimate gigs in the Oxfam shop on Kingsland Road, Dalston.

Stream New Albums From Ryan Adams, DJ Shadow, Damon Albarn's DRC Music

Mon, September 26 2011 4:10pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

The shapeshifting Ryan Adams returns with his new solo album Ashes & Fire , which is out October 11 via PAX AM / Capitol Records in the U.S. and October 10 in the UK. via Pax-Am/ Columbia.