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Damon Albarn releases new single ‘Royal Morning Blue’
It’s the latest track from his new solo album ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’.
Ahead of the release of his new solo album ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’, Damon Albarn is sharing new single ‘Royal Morning Blue’.
Directly inspired by the view from Damon’s piano looking out over the sea, watching the rain turning into snow, he says, “That’s why the song opens with ‘Rain turning into snow,’ because it’s that moment, that feeling. In all the darkness that we have experienced, that was such a beautiful, positive thing.”
Check it out now below.
‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’ Tracklisting:
1. The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
2. The Cormorant
3. Royal Morning Blue
4. Combustion
5. Daft Wader
6. Darkness To Light
7. Esja
8. The Tower Of Montevideo
9. Giraffe Trumpet Sea
10. Polaris
11. Particles
See Damon Albarn live at the following dates:
FEBRUARY
21 - London (Barbican)
22 - London (Barbican)
23 - Dublin (National Concert Hall)
24 - Dublin (National Concert Hall)
26 - Luxembourg (Philharmonie)
28 - Brussels (Bozar)
MARCH
01 - Brussels (Bozar)
02 - Eindhoven (Muziekgebouw)
04 - Paris (Philharmonie)
05 - Paris (Philharmonie)
06 - Lyon (Auditorium)
07 - Hamburg (ElbPhilharmonie)
09 - Copenhagen (KB Hallen)
11 - Reykjavik (Harpa)
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