AMAZING! Damon Albarn THE POISON TREE Live off The Good The Bad and The Queen's Merrie Land 9/2021

From our first full concert post pandemic - at the Shakespeare's Globe Theater under the harvest moon, comes this amazing performance of The Poison Tree. It is the 11th and last track on Albarn-fronted The Good, The Bad and The Queen's second album Merrie Land and this live performance was so beautiful we think it is worthy of the brilliant official video version (do yourself a favor and watch it too    • The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Poison...   ). This concert was a one-off event premiering Albarn's new album The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (out November 12, 2021). A stunning amalgamation of Albarn's solo music and tracks from his other projects, including Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad and the Queen and the Dr Dee opera score. Albarn's exquisite sound alchemy made for a truly cathartic experience that night. Hope you enjoy the footage, 20 videos in all. Accompanying Albarn on stage were Mike Smith, Femi Koleoso on drums, Simon Tong on guitar, Seye Adelekan on bass, Seckou Keita on the kora, Arngeir Hauksson on the theorbo, a violin tercet and countertenor Christopher Robson. The Nearer The Fountain album was initiated by the Lyon Festival commissioning Albarn to 'do whatever he wanted' and started life in 2019 as an orchestral project and live experience, inspired by the landscapes of Iceland. Albarn returned to the music in lockdown to develop the work into 11 tracks which “further explore themes of fragility, loss, emergence and rebirth”. The album title is from a John Clare poem Love and Memory. Albarn said during the concert that he created the music imagining a band playing on an abandoned cruise ship in an icy bay, with no one able to hear it.. FOLLOW. US   / wearethefor.  .   / theforevers     / theforeversband     / nataliasafran   http://nataliasafran.com If you've got dreams you keep And you're leaving me I'll see you in the next life I'll set you free To find your promised land If you're leaving me It's really sad It's really sad Because our love is lying on a fallow field It's the seed that you sowed And scattered with the fallen shields If you've got dreams you keep Because you're leaving me I'll see you in the next life Don't follow me To the poison tree That grew up next to me It's really sad It's really sad Because our love is lying on a fallow field (Fallow field) It's the seed that you sowed And scattered with the fallen shields (Fallen shields) Of a last crusade to save me from myself