Blur’s Damon Albarn is playing music in Mali with The Wire and Luther star Idris Elba. The odd British duo is in the middle of a weeklong trip to Bamako, the country’s capital, where they’ll jam out with Brian Eno, Holy Other, Ghostpoet, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, and a number of Malian musicians at a local community center. Reportedly, the massive group is trying to lay down tracks for a record. The whole thing’s part of Albarn’s African Express initiative that, just last year, had celebrities like Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones touring the continent via train.