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"Photographs (You Are Taking Now)" is a song recorded by English recording artist and songwriter and Blur & Gorillaz frontman, Damon Albarn, from his debut solo studio album ''Everyday Robots'' (2014). The song was featured in a number of promotional teaser trailers for the album, featured on Albarn's official YouTube account in late 2013. The song contains a sample of late writer, Timothy Leary. ==Background== On 18 January 2014, the Warner Music Store was updated to include Damon Albarn's new album and its name was revealed – ''Everyday Robots'', which is also the name of the first single.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Everyday Robots" – 7" vinyl % HD bundle )〕 The deluxe edition of the album came packaged with a DVD of Albarn performing a few album tracks live at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. The DVD was filmed on 3 December 2013. On the next day, the album's information was removed from the website, which made many believe it was not supposed to have leaked so soon. A series of trailers also appeared on Albarn's YouTube account as a way of promoting the album. The trailers featured a lot of images, mainly from Albarn's past and his previous projects. As well as a 21-second clip which featured Albarn at the piano and, before showing the title: Damon Albarn. First Solo Album. Coming Soon. A further trailer appeared on Albarn's YouTube channel, which featured footage of Albarn and Russell in Albarn's Studio 13 in West London recording the album itself, showing many instruments and song lyrics written onto pieces of paper. "Photographs (You Are Taking Now)" contains a sample of writer Timothy Leary from the audiobook ''The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead''. The sample itself is Leary talking the listener through a trip on LSD. The use of samples is something that Richard Russell, the song's producer is well known for. Russell was the executive producer for Gil Scott-Heron's 2010 comeback album "I'm New Here", in which multiple samples where used on the album, Bobby Womack's "''The Bravest Man in the Universe''", features a sample of Gil Scott-Heron as well. Russell is an out-spoken advocate of sampling and has used the technique on the remix version of "I'm New Here" with Jamie xx of The xx. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Photographs (You Are Taking Now)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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