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new music: ‘dead come alive’, the unearthed neneh cherry track from the mid 1980s

October 9, 2015

Check out a rare Neneh Cherry track! Entitled ‘Dead Come Alive’, the newly released track (recorded in the mid-1980s) was a one-off with On-U Sound founder Adrian Sherwood‘s group the Circuit. Sherwood recently shared the track, part of a new On-U Sound compilation (curated by Trevor Jackson): ‘Science Fiction Dancehall Classics’. And how did he meet the “Buffalo Stance” singer, you ask? Sherwood states, “I met Neneh in 1979 because the band I was working with, Creation Rebel, got invited on this ‘Simply What’s Happening’ tour, which was pretty groundbreaking in the way it mixed up different styles of music. It was Don Cherry, Happy House (Lou Reed’s backing band at the time), The Slits, and Prince Hammer. After that me and Neneh ended up squatting a place together in Battersea in 1980, and we’re still friends to this day.” Listen to the single below.

By Alexander Aplerku, AFROPUNK Contributor

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