Désolé (music video)

The music video for Désolé premiered on the Gorillaz YouTube channel on February 27, 2020 at 11:00AM EST as Episode Two. undefined The song features Fatoumata Diawara.

Synopsis
Désolé – the second episode of Song Machine – features multiple Grammy Award nominee and Malian superstar Fatoumata Diawara and sees our intrepid heroes teleport themselves via a Kong Studios portal to Lake Como, Italy. Being Episode 2, it accompanies 2D boating on Lake Como with Damon Albarn and Fatoumata Diawara and Noodle and Russel playing their respective instruments at the dock, while accidentally leaving their bandmate Murdoc behind, lonely at the Kong Studios. An accident? Or possibly not…

Credits

 * Director: Jamie Hewlett
 * Co-Directors: Tim McCourt, Max Taylor
 * Producer: Eva Dahlqvist
 * Animators: Venla Linna, Simone Crillo, Setareh Seto, Diego Porral
 * Clean Up Artists: Setareh Seto, Diego Porral, Venla Linna
 * Compositor: Freddie Lewis-Wall
 * Production Company: The Line
 * Gorillaz are managed by Eleven Management

Trivia

 * The music video for this track features several callbacks and references to past Gorillaz and Damon Albarn material
 * When Murdoc is crying on the sofa in Kong Studios, The cover for the 2015 Blur album; "The Magic Whip" appears on the wall.
 * 2-D is seen reading the 1974 book; British Airways French Phrasebook: for visitors to Belgium, France and Switzerland, however the word "airways" has been edited to read "hairways" instead