Monkey magic (Guardian Unlimited)- wood easel
Fifteen lotus maidens in pyramid formation, some doing the splits and all spinning plates in front of the all-knowing Buddha. I make the mistake of opening the interview a little vaguely by asking Damon what the agenda is today. Perhaps we are taking a break to consider the idea that life is always moving, flowing and changing, and the less said about that the better. He wonders if perhaps it’s from the 1940s, and is therefore a Nazi typewriter. Damon dances to his music, unashamedly lost in the thoughts he’s having about how three years of thoughts - about the history and future of China, about how to follow up Blur, Gorillaz, his Mali music, his film soundtracks, the decaying London of The Good, the Bad and the Queen, his own perfectionist craving for newness that honours oldness, for strangeness that emphasises romance - have turned into an electric music that is clearly by the musician responsible for the above, and yet by a new kind of musician. Eleven beginnings to a piece of writing about the one or the two known as Monkey.
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