For Pachyderm and Music Lovers: Watch Damon Albarn’s Official Video for “Mr. Tembo” Off New Solo Album

May 14th, 2014 in Music

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As highlighted repeatedly on these pages, the all-time Damon Albarn has released his first solo album, Everyday Robots, and it is what we’ve come to expect from Mr. Albarn:  nothing short of fantastic.  Albarn has now released the official video for Mr. Tembo off the new album.  As you’ll see in the heartwarming video (which we can’t say we expected from Albarn), he convinced London’s Pentecostal City Mission Church Choir to help in this homage to an orphaned baby elephant he met on his travels in Africa.  Watch as Albarn leads the choir while video of an elephant is shown on a TV mixed with cartoons depicting the elephant’s habitat being overrun by humanity.  Albarn has said he hadn’t imagined ever recording a song about an elephant since he would normally save such a song for performing on “kids’ birthdays.”  Albarn told Rolling Stone he met the baby elephant in Mkomazi, Tanzania. “It was recently orphaned and walked onto this aerodrome; the people I know took it in and called it Mr. Tembo,” he said. “I was there, and I met this little elephant, and he was very sweet. I sang it to him. It was recorded on a phone, and in a light-hearted moment, I put it on a list for Richard [Russell, producer].”  Check it out below.  That’s two heartwarming videos today.  Enough of this feelgood.

 

 

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