A “Buddhist acrobatic meta-musical” from Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett?

The always-good Guardian UK website has a review of sorts of Monkey, a new theatre piece from graphic artist Jamie Hewlett and musician Damon Albarn (of Blur, Gorillaz, and seeingly a dozen other projects, some quite successful, all quite adventurous).

The piece climaxes with what Hewlett describes as “fifteen lotus maidens in pyramid formation, some doing the splits and all spinning plates in front of the all-knowing Buddha… it’s bliss.”

Read the Guardian‘s review/interview here.

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    [...] author of the review might do well to bone up on bands like, say, The Firstborn. Or Monkey. Or Shambhala. Or Witch. Or Meshuggah. Or The Wu. Or Asunder. Or Garuda. Or Lamb of God. Or Ruin. [...]

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