Damon's plans in and out of Blur

Blur frontman Damon Albarn has been talking to the U.K. press about his recent and upcoming activity both in and out of the band. Albarn has been in Bamako in Mali, West Africa, as part of the Oxfam charity's On The Line project, which is exploring the similarities and differences between eight countries on the Greenwich Meridian, also including the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Togo.

More information about the charity project can be found at www.ontheline.org.uk [site down], and Albarn intends to make an album inspired by the visit later in the year.

By then, Blur will have had a greatest hits album released in the U.K. by Food/Parlophone, for which they have recorded a new single, a nine-and-a-half-minute track called "Black Book." Albarn told The Times newspaper that the band also recorded a song recently with Marianne Faithfull, whom Blur met after seeing her in concert.

In addition, Albarn has followed his work on the soundtrack of the Kevin Spacey movie "Ordinary Decent Criminal" by writing the score for "101 Reykjavik," an Icelandic film starring former Sugarcubes member Einar Benediktsson, which premiered recently at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

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