Damon Albarn - Music from Dr. Dee
Dr Dee was a confidante of Elizabeth I, a mathematician, navigational pioneer, alchemist and supposed magician. He was the warden of Chetham's Library (Manchester) – the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, and a place once frequented by Karl Marx for 10 years at the end of the 1500s. By this time, having blazed an intellectual trail across Britain and Europe, Dee was at the end of his life, with plenty of controversy and emotional wreckage behind him. One biography sums up his presence in Manchester as a matter of "virtual exile, placing him far outside the orbit of the Queen and her court".
O Damon Albarn έγραψε την όπερα Dr. Dee μαζί με τον σκηνοθέτη Rufus Norris (2011)
Σε περίπτωση που ενδιαφέρεστε: The opera was scored for a band combining Elizabethan English instruments (viola de gamba, shawm, dulcian, crumhorn, recorder, lute) with the African kora and the distinctive drumming of Nigerian percussionist Tony Allen. Damon Albarn played acoustic guitar and harmonium and sang on a number of songs. A twenty-piece conventional orchestra was provided by the BBC Philharmonic and conducted by André de Ridder.[9]
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήΠροφανώς δεν τραγουδούσε μόνο ο Damon..Ελπίζω να κυκλοφορήσει σε dvd γιατί αποκλείεται να το δούμε αλλιώς