Pitchfork

You'd think being in Blur would be enough to prove your musical worth to the world for a long time, but Damon Albarn keeps dipping his hands in whatever he can find.

As previously reported, Albarn's The Good, the Bad and the Queen will release their self-titled debut LP in January, and Gorillaz just released a whole ani-metric ton of Demon Days-related material. But those are just the beginning.

Billboard.com reports that Albarn produced Algerian group El Gusto's forthcoming album, due out in the spring on his Honest Jon's label. He also wrote the score to "Monkey: Journey to the West", a circus opera piece based on a Chinese legend and scheduled to premiere June 28 at the Manchester International Festival of Arts.

Then there is the requisite multimedia collaboration: a feature-length Gorillaz movie, on which Albarn is collaborating with director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, etc.)