Indeed, the desert detritus provided distinctive, signature subjects and populate some of her most revered canvases, including, as one particularly iconic example, Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue. To me they are strangely more living than the animals walking around-hair, eyes and all with their tails switching." The painter famously collected, displayed as decor, and painted what she provocatively described on more than one occasion as the boney "trash" littering the desert, so strikingly different from the kinds of urban litter she would have known along the streets of New York City. To me they are as beautiful as anything I know. So I brought home the bleached bones as my symbols of the desert. I always think that I cannot stay with it long enough. The painter expounded on their allure in a 1939 exhibition brochure essay, explaining, "I have wanted to paint the desert and I haven’t known how. According to a press release, the song was released as an official tribute to Allen.A key component of O’Keeffe’s personal and artistic association with the southwestern United States, particularly New Mexico, was her attraction to animal bones. Without any prior announcement, "How Far?" released a few days later on, as a standalone audio with no accompanying video or episodic EP like other Song Machine releases. Allen had previously worked with Gorillaz founder, Damon Albarn, through a band called The Good, the Bad & the Queen, where both participated as members of through the 2000s. On 30 April 2020, Tony Allen, an afrobeat drummer featured on the song, died of abdominal aortic aneurysm at the age of 79. It was the last song from the album to be recorded in studio before lockdown was ordered.
"How Far?" was written and recorded in the weeks prior to lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The single marks the first posthumously released material featuring Tony Allen (which was released two days after Allen's death), as well as the final song to be recorded during Allen's lifetime. It is part of the Song Machine project, a web series involving the ongoing release of various Gorillaz singles and music videos featuring different guest musicians over the course of 2020, though it is not considered an official episode of the series. The track was released on without any prior announcement as the fourth single for Gorillaz' seventh studio album, Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.
" How Far?" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, featuring Tony Allen and Skepta.
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