{"id":2443913,"date":"2019-05-08T04:25:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=832733"},"modified":"2019-05-08T04:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:25:33","slug":"damon-albarns-africa-express-preview-new-album-with-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/damon-albarns-africa-express-preview-new-album-with-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Albarn\u2019s Africa Express Preview New Album With \u2018Johannesburg\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Africa Express<\/a>, a musical collective led by Damon Albarn<\/a>, will release a new album, EGOLI<\/em>, on July 12 via Africa Express Records. The album will feature appearances by Gruff Rhys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs\u2019 Nick Zinner, Georgia and several South African artists. Albarn previewed the release with a new song, \u201cJohannesburg,\u201d which includes guest appearances from Gruff Rhys, Morena Leraba, Radio 123 and Sibot.<\/p>\n

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Africa Express is excited to announce new album \u2018EGOLI\u2019\u2063
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Out 12th July! Pre-order using this link https:\/\/t.co\/uvL3igSrmy<\/a>
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Featured artists include @Damonalbarn<\/a>, BCUC, DJ Spoko, @_georgiauk<\/a>, @THEREALGHETTS<\/a>, @gruffingtonpost<\/a>, @MoonSanelly<\/a>, @muziou<\/a>, @mrjukesmusic<\/a>, Remi Kabaka pic.twitter.com\/6n2332puLD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Africa Express (@africaexpress) May 8, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

EGOLI<\/em> will include 18 tracks and is currently available for pre-order<\/a> via the band\u2019s website. Africa Express, which typically features Western and African artists collaborating, previously released a four-track EP called MOLO<\/em> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Blur<\/a>, Albarn\u2019s formative band, staged a recent reunion<\/a> at an Africa Express show in London, performing together for the first time in four years. During the performance, Albarn rejoined bandmates Dave Rowntree, Alex James and Graham Coxon to play \u201cSong 2,\u201d \u201cTender\u201d and \u201cClover Over Dover.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa Express, a musical collective led by Damon Albarn, will release a new album, EGOLI, on July 12 via Africa Express Records. The album will feature appearances by Gruff Rhys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs\u2019 Nick Zinner, Georgia and several South African artists. Albarn previewed the release with a new song, \u201cJohannesburg,\u201d which includes guest appearances from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 17:45:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}