A Sunday Conversation with Michael Wertz; Artist, Illustrator and Album Cover/Concert Poster Design, Radio Personality, Musician, Man for all Seasons
My name is Michael Wertz, and I am an Illustrator, and a Bay Area native.
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"I'm Sort Of English Melancholy": Damon Albarn Interviewed
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.
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Craft Of The Lost Art: Jneiro Jarel
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.
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DRC Music to reunite for one-off performance
Looks like Damon Albarn is getting the band back together.
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DRC Music Team To Re-Unite
The team behind DRC Music album 'Kinshasa One Two' are set to re-unite for a Rough Trade in-store.
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Kwes Makes Live Debut In London
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.
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The Brit-pop king jams with locals in Kinshasa, one of Africa's poorest cities
On Damon Albarn's fifth day in Africa, things were looking up.
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DRC Music: Kinshasa One Two, CD review
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.
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Another Honest Jon’s Chop Up @ Vicar Street, Dublin
Journey to the West, Doctor Dee. Damon Albarn's career path has a multi-faceted global outlook these days.
Read MoreBlur, RHCP and Fela Kuti members team up
They are also set to release self-titled collaborative album which has been described as 'mostly instrumental'.
Read MoreAlbum Review: DRC Music – Kinshasa One Two
Altruism aside, musical charity records are usually giant creative busts.
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DRC Music – Kinshasa One Two
"World music" and "collaboration" are usually two words which, when used together, point to a midlife crisis.
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Damon Albarn Hopes To Release More Congolese Collaborations
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.
Read MoreDRC Music – ‘Hallo’ ft. Tout Puissant Mukalo, Nelly Liyemge (video)
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.
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Damon Albarn and DRC Music Record for the Congo's Poorest
One word you could never apply to off-and-on Blur frontman Damon Albarn is "idle".
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DRC Music - Kinshasa One Two
David Toop imagined future music in his book Ocean of Sound as "all winking lights and digital exchanges across alien cultures."
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Weekly Bits 39/2011
Don't have much to share this week, but still a couple of things you should know of.
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Album: DRC Music, Kinshasa One Two (Warp)
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.
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Caught in the Net: Gold Panda retains his high standards
The British electronic producer Gold Panda fashioned one of the best debuts of 2010 with his sparkling Lucky Shiner album.
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Oxjam Music Festival - Fatboy Slim
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.
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Stream New Albums From Ryan Adams, DJ Shadow, Damon Albarn's DRC Music
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.
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Listen: DRC Music - Kinshasa One Two
DRC Music are streaming their album 'Kinshasa One Two' a week before its release.
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