{"id":2196804,"date":"2025-12-12T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2196804"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:49:21","slug":"gorillaz-share-new-song-damascus-feat-omar-souleyman-yasiin-bey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gorillaz-share-new-song-damascus-feat-omar-souleyman-yasiin-bey\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorillaz Share New Song &#8220;Damascus&#8221; Feat. Omar Souleyman &#038; Yasiin Bey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gorillaz have been rolling out their new album <em>The Mountain<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stereogum.com\/2322623\/gorillaz-announce-new-album-the-mountain-hear-the-happy-dictator-feat-sparks\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for three months now<\/a>, and we still have to wait a while for it \u2014 but not quite as long as expected. The group has bumped the project&#8217;s release date ahead three weeks, from March 20 to Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the schedule change comes another advance track. &#8220;Damascus&#8221; is so named because the Syrian city is one of many where it was recorded, along with London, Devon, Mumbai, and New York. That&#8217;s just how Damon Albarn rolls. The song pairs Syrian dabke legend Omar Souleyman with New York hip-hop legend Yasiin Bey, and it&#8217;s a whole lot of fun. (I especially enjoyed when the erstwhile Mos Def declares, &#8220;Turkish coffee\/ Starbucks, get off me!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Listen below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Damascus (feat. Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZyDIrJ9Sic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Mountain<\/em> is out 2\/27 on KONG. Pre-order it here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorillaz have been rolling out their new album The Mountain for three months now, and we still have to wait a while for it \u2014 but not quite as long as expected. The group has bumped the project&#8217;s release date ahead three weeks, from March 20 to Feb. 27. Along with the schedule change comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2196805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gorillaz-Share-New-Song-Damascus-Feat-Omar-Souleyman-Yasiin.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196806,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196804\/revisions\/2196806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}