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Damon Albarn

Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, April 2012

"Music is like blood or air," Damon Albarn believes. "It's part of us. We open up to its invisible flow. My life is immersed in it — music of the natural world, of birdsong, of traffic, of construction and the music of my dreams." Rob Fitzpatrick enters the womb-like west London studio where the nation's most prolific composer has made "a strange pastoral folk album".

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