The Mexican Tour of Africa Express, the Musical Collective Founded by Damon Albarn

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Two decades ago, the ever restless Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), together with the British journalist Ian Birrell, founded Africa Express, a non-profit organization to promote musicians from that continent and promote exchange with artists from other geographies. The result is an ambitious artistic collective that began performing secret concerts in pubs and ended up playing at massive events such as the London Olympic Games and that, five albu…