Jamie Hughlett Biography

I would like to speculate about those who are behind this project. About what place this phenomenon in musical culture occupies .. This project is unique in that it has both a virtual composition and the composition of the real. At the time of the beginning of the zero, this was a new word in the musical segment - several incomprehensible painted humanoids perform music in clips and concerts.

Music, I must say, sounds experimentally and unusual for the musical mainstream. It is not surprising that this project immediately attracted the attention of both listeners and musical critics. But about everything in order. They met back in the year when Hughlett interviewed the members of the Blur group. But at that time there was no friendship between Damon and Hughlett.

Moreover, their relationship was far from ideal. Everything has changed much later, by the end of the X. Then the guys found a common language. Once, looking at the nonsense on the MTV channel, the guys decided to create their own project, which seemed to reflect that absurdity broadcast on this channel. That is, even then the concept of their future project arose. Further - more. Hughlett painted four characters, each of which had his own name, his own fictional biography, and mythology.

Albarn took over the musical component. Of course, he was not alone in all the music of this project. For example, a musician Remi Kabaka-Ml was involved in the team. Musicians of different generations and genres were connected to the Gorillaz project. In general, Gorillaz is such an eclectic project, where everything is mixed in the music: rock, experimental electronics, down-temperature, reggae, hip-hop and even jazz!

A motley company of musicians of all stripes gathered under the guise of Gorillaz, and Albarn and Hughlett led all this “ugliness”. It was the drawn "cartoons" who entered the forefront, singing and playing in the clips with the voices and hands of real musicians. A little about the Gorillaz characters themselves. Murdok Nikkalz - bassist and founder of the group; Stuart Harold sweat or 2D - keyboard player and vocalist of the team; Russell Hobbs - drummer and sometimes rapper; Nudl is the only team of the team, guitarist.

Gorillaz Gorillaz Their first mini-album of Tomorrow Comes Today was released in the year, but had no success due to poor advertising. But in the year they release their first full -fledged album, and the single CLINT EASTWOOD, which became a hit in Europe and the USA, preceded it. Well, then - a performance on Brit Awards in the year, where the project participants themselves were shown using 3D animation.

Then - in the year they released their second Demon Days album, where, among other things, there were two bright single - Feel Good Inc together with the De La Soul rap, as well as the Dare single, for which Sean Ryder, vocalist of the Happy Mondays group, recorded. The producer of the record was the famous Deanger Mouse. And finally, in the year Gorillaz released their new Cracker Island album, where they had collaborations with Tame Impala, singer and musician David Bek and others.

Speaking of music, I repeat once again: on the face - musical eclecticism: electronic bits, gesturing through this guitar parties, intersperses of rap and so on. Experiment on the experiment. Gorillaz is when the classic rock x A la Kinks is funny with hip-hop, dub, trip-hop .. In general, Gorillaz is a real postmodern woven from quotes, when there are a lot of references and absolutely polar genres are connected in the songs.

Under the auspices of this project, the older generation of performers like the same Lou Reed from The Velvet Underground is adjacent to the younger at the time of the emergence of the SNUP DOGG, TAME IMPALA group. The project is filled with poster on modern culture MTV. Let's not forget that this is the Albarn project. As you know, Damon has always been distinguished by his special sense of humor and sarcasm.

This can be seen in the Blur songs. If his “enemies” in the era of British Popa brothers Gallaghaires always sought to fill their songs with a kind of pathos, albeit sometimes shrouded in a narcotic dope, then Albarn had a talent of the observer behind the life of typical English residents of the middle class, over which he teases in his songs. Remember the song Blur Charmless Man ..

Albarn himself was a native of a wealthy middle class and he, unlike the same gallachers with their "proletarian" straightforwardness, always had a typical English sense of humor and sarcasm in his arsenal. So his project Gorillaz is also built in irony. On the other hand, he and Hughlett brought such a thing as a “virtual group” to a maximum. It is at the time of the emergence of the project at the end of the xg.

And then the project of Albarn and Hughlett fell just by the way. This is just the same Simulakr, a copy of the non -existent reality, which the philosopher Baudrillard wrote about. Although not .. reality still exists. In the form of two slightly rumpled people with bags under the eyes - Damon Albarn and Jamie Hughlett.