{"id":21322,"date":"2014-05-14T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=21322"},"modified":"2014-05-14T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T22:17:14","slug":"for-pachyderm-and-music-lovers-watch-damon-albarns-official-video-for-mr-tembo-off-new-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-05\/for-pachyderm-and-music-lovers-watch-damon-albarns-official-video-for-mr-tembo-off-new-solo-album\/","title":{"rendered":"For Pachyderm and Music Lovers: Watch Damon Albarn’s Official Video for “Mr. Tembo” Off New Solo Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As highlighted<\/a> repeatedly on these pages<\/a>, the all-time Damon Albarn<\/strong><\/a> has released his first solo album, Everyday Robots<\/strong><\/em>, and it is what we’ve come to expect from Mr. Albarn<\/strong>:\u00a0 nothing short of fantastic.\u00a0 Albarn<\/strong> has now released the official video for Mr. Tembo<\/strong><\/em> off the new album.\u00a0 As you’ll see in the heartwarming video (which we can’t say we expected from Albarn<\/strong>), he convinced London’s\u00a0Pentecostal City Mission Church Choir<\/strong>\u00a0to help in this homage to an orphaned baby elephant he met on his travels in Africa.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.”\u00a0 Albarn told Rolling Stone<\/strong> 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].”\u00a0 Check it out below.\u00a0 That’s two heartwarming videos today.\u00a0 Enough of this feelgood.<\/p>\n

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