Damon在 Blur於 Coachella演出之前接受滚石杂志的访问在昨天刊出， 谈到了 Blur的新专辑还有他个人专辑的计画等等。 原文及图：http://tinyurl.com/p74f67w 就访问的内容翻译一下，翻得不好的地方请见谅:) Q&A: Damon Albarn on the Future of Blur, His First Ever Solo Album and Why He Doesn't Hate Oasis Anymore Checking in with the busiest man in rock in the middle of another jam-packed year BY JONATHAN RINGEN May 28, 2013 6:00 AM ET Damon Albarn is hours away from the first U.S. Blur show in years, but as he kicks back on a hotel patio overlooking a golf course near Coachella, his mind drifts to other things. Like the record he made with Bobby Womack, before the soul legend almost died last year. "He's OK," Albarn says, taking a sip of green tea. "We've actually just confirmed to play Glastonbury – he's got incredible spirit, you know?" Or his spectacular Peking-opera-inspired Monkey: Journey to the West, which is coming to New York's Lincoln Center in July after an acclaimed run in London. "The exciting thing about productions is they change every time," he says. "I'll have the perspective this time to actually see if it's any good." And he's definitely psyched about his first solo record, which he recently wrapped with XL Records boss Richard Russell. "Richard does the rhythmic side, and I do everything else," Albarn says. "It's sort of folk soul." Albarn plans to hit the road behind the LP, playing songs drawn from his entire career, including Blur and Gorillaz, for the first time. And a new Blur LP, which the band would record between festival gigs in Europe this summer, is a definite possibility. "We've got a couple of occasions when we're stuck in the middle of nowhere," he says. "So we might make the record in a week. If we can, it would be nice." 访谈问答内容： Q: What drives you to take on all these different projects? There's Blur; Gorillaz; the Good, the Bad and the Queen; two operas; and way more. 是什麽促使你做这麽多不同的事情呢? A: I get bored extremely easily. Blur was definitely my Nineties, Gorillaz was my 2000s, and then I've done a lot of different stuff this decade. 我很容易就感到无聊了。Blur是我的90年代；Gorillaz是我的2000年代， 而这十年我又做了许多不同的事情。 Q: How connected do you feel to songs you wrote, at this point, decades ago? 对於以前写的歌，你觉得和现在的你有多大的连结? A: I enjoy playing them. A lot of the songs were quite dystopian in their worldview. And a lot of that stuff is much more pressing now than it was then. It seemed like the future then, and now it just seems like every day. So I can kind of get into it. 我很享受表演这些歌。很多歌的观点是反乌托邦式的；很多歌现在则是更逼人了， 它们在当时看起来像未来会发生的事，现在则是好像每天都在上演， 所以我很能投入在其中。 Q:Is there a song that you think was especially prescient? 有哪一首歌你觉得是未卜先知呢? A: song like [1995's] "The Universal," which sings about, "This is the next century, where the universal's free . . . satellites in every home . . . " 像是 The Universal这首歌：这是下个世纪，每个人家里都有卫星... Q: Blur is one of the biggest bands of all time in England, but the tune the band is best known for in America is "Song 2," which is pretty uncharacteristic. What's it like to have that in your pocket? The reaction to that song must be so intense. Blur在英格兰很出名，不过在美国最有名的还是 song 2这首歌，这蛮不寻常的。 对此你有什麽感想? 表演它时反应一定很热烈吧! A: The "woo-hoo" one, yes. Well, thank god! It really is guaranteed to make the whole place explode. Unfortunately, it's only two minutes. 没错，这首歌保证让现场情绪嗨翻。很可惜它只有两分钟。 Q: In some ways Gorillaz are a bigger band in America than Blur. 某些方面来说 Gorillaz比Blur在美国成功。 A: Oh much bigger, yeah. It would be nice to play "Clint Eastwood" and "Feel Good Inc." with Blur, but I can't. They won't play them with me! [Laughs] But I've just finished a solo record – when I go tour that, I'll play play stuff from all my different bands. 成功的可多了。如果可以和blur其他成员一起表演 Clint Eastwood和Feel Good Inc. 那一定很棒，不过我不行这样做，因为他们不会同意的!(笑) 不过我刚完成了一张 个人专辑，当我为它巡回时，我会表演我在不同乐团里的歌曲。 Q: What's the record like? 这张专辑长得什麽样子? A:I've been making it with [XL Records chief] Richard Russell. We worked together on the Bobby Womack record, and really enjoy working together. He's done spectacularly well as a music mogul, but I think he wants to focus his energy on producing records. Making a solo record is can be such a disaster, so I thought if we're going to make a record with my name on it, I should get someone to really produce it – take that responsibility away from myself. Richard does the kind of rhythmic side of it and I do everything else. 我和 XL唱片的 Richard Russell一起录制它，我们在 Bobby Womack的专辑 合作得很愉快。他做为音乐产业巨擘表现很称职，不过我想他现在应该更想 参予制作唱片。出个人专辑可能是一场灾难，所以我想如果要以我个人名义 出一张唱片，我最好找个人来好好制作，把那个责任压力稍微分担一下。 Richard掌握节奏而我做其他的部分。 Q: How is Bobby doing? Bobby最近怎样? A: He's not the healthiest of guys, but he's able to do gigs and he's got incredible spirit. He doesn't let anything keep him down too long, you know? As soon as he opens his mouth and that voice comes out, he's just transported. It's such a magnificent voice. 我不会说他很健康，不过他还是能应付演出，而且他拥有强大的意志精神。 他不会任何事阻碍他太久；他的声音有着惊人的力量。 Q: What did you learn from that last huge, spectacular tour you did with Gorillaz in 2010? 从2010年Gorillaz大阵仗的巡演你学到了什麽? A: That was the most expensive tour of all time. I had 70 musicians. I toured around the world, played massive venues all around the world. I made about 20 pounds by the end of it [laughs], so I won't be going on another of those. It was incredible fun, I loved doing it, but economically it was an absolute fucking disaster. 那真的是很昂贵的巡演，我带着70个音乐家，在世界各地的大场地中演出。 我最後赚了20英磅(笑)，所以我大概不会在这样做了。这真的好玩极了， 我很爱这样表演，不过就商业来说这真是一场灾难。 Q: Tell me about the opera – the footage I saw online looked incredible. 谈谈你的歌剧吧! A: It's very eccentric. It's colorful and youthful and fantastic for kids. I mean it's just a brilliant thing for kids. My daughter was inspired enough by it to start learning Mandarin after she watched it. And it's got this wonderful sort of anti-hero monkey who's just so irreverent and almost . . . amoral [laughs]. Kids love a character like that. 它很古怪，色彩缤纷、青春洋溢，很适合给小孩看。我的女儿还因此而想要去学中文。 这只猴子不是传统的英雄角色，不仅无礼甚至反道德(笑)。儿童都很爱这种角色。 Q: What kind of research went into it? 你怎麽为这出戏收集题材的? A: I had four very interesting journeys across China. Like two weeks at a time. We were taken to some very rural, untouched places far away from the crazy commercial growth aspect of China. Back to places that felt positively medieval. I listened to a lot of traditional music, too. One day I had lunch with a music professor in Beijing and I quite earnestly sat down with him and said, "So what advice can you give me as to how to approach this?" And he took me into this library and there were like 1000 books of Chinese folk music notated and said, "Well, you either do it that way or just . . . do it instinctively." So I went for the latter. 我有过四次有趣的中国旅行经验，大概一次两周这样吧。我们去了一些乡村地方， 远离了经济发展的尘嚣。这些地方感觉很中世纪，我也听了很多传统的音乐。 有一天我和一位音乐教授在北京用中餐，我问他该如何了解这种音乐呢? 於是他带我到一个图书馆，里面大概有上千本书吧，他说：「我们都这样做 (研究这些书)或是凭感觉。」 所以我当然选了後者啦! Q: The Stone Roses are also playing tonight. Are they friends? The Stone Roses今晚也要演出，你们是朋友吗? A: We're not friends, but I know them. We Brits always stick together. And all of the animosity of the Nineties is gone. I mean, I was playing "Tender" with Noel [Gallagher] at the Albert Hall two weeks ago, with Paul Weller on the drums. It's all in the past now. 我们不算朋友，不过我认识他们。我们英国人总是黏在一起。 所有90年代的爱恨情仇都已成过往－你看，我和 Noel Gallagher 一起演出 Tender这首歌，还有 Paul Weller做为鼓手， 那些东西早就是过去式了。 --

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