{"id":27585,"date":"2017-07-15T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27585"},"modified":"2017-07-15T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:55:39","slug":"watch-underappreciated-vocalist-damon-albarn-and-mura-masa-perform-blu-on-la-blogotheque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-07\/watch-underappreciated-vocalist-damon-albarn-and-mura-masa-perform-blu-on-la-blogotheque\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Underappreciated Vocalist Damon Albarn and Mura Masa Perform &#8220;Blu&#8221; on La Blogoth\u00e8que"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/albarnjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/albarnjpg-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/albarnjpg-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/albarnjpg-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/albarnjpg-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/albarnjpg-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/albarnjpg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muramasa.me\/\"><strong>Mura Masa<\/strong><\/a> is Brit producer <strong>Alex Crossan<\/strong>, and for his just-released debut album he\u2019s managed to corral a group of guests, including the ridiculously talented <strong>Damon Albarn <\/strong>(<strong>Blur, Gorillaz<\/strong>, etc.). While his songwriting, instrumental, arrangement, and production talents are oft-praised, <strong>Albarn<\/strong>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t get enough credit for his singular, nuanced vocals. To hear what we&#8217;re saying, watch <strong>Albarn&#8217;s<\/strong> understated but deeply-felt vocal on the <strong>Mura Masa<\/strong> song <em><strong>Blu<\/strong><\/em>, as captured live by <strong>La Blogoth\u00e8que<\/strong>. After some gibberish, the song actually starts at 1:45. Proof positive that <strong>Albarn<\/strong> could even sing <strong>Rod McKuen<\/strong> and make him sound interesting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcpHjL8dPdM\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mura Masa is Brit producer Alex Crossan, and for his just-released debut album he\u2019s managed to corral a group of guests, including the ridiculously talented Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz, etc.). While his songwriting, instrumental, arrangement, and production talents are oft-praised, Albarn\u00a0doesn&#8217;t get enough credit for his singular, nuanced vocals. To hear what we&#8217;re saying, watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27589,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27585\/revisions\/27589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}