Damon Albarn Offers More Info on Gorillaz/Alan Moore Opera
We've got some new info on the opera that Gorillaz are working on with Watchmen scribe Alan Moore. According to an interview with Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett on Vulture, the opera is based on the life of Elizabethan English alchemist/magician/mathematician John Dee who, as Albarn says, "was responsible for creating the concept of the British Empire."
Wikipedia tells us Dee "devoted much time and effort in the last thirty years or so of his life to attempting to commune with angels...
Pitchfork — We've got some new info on the opera that Gorillaz are working on with Watchmen scribe Alan Moore. According to an interview with Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewle... more info
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