"It's really about the music, the passion, the art, the soul and the beauty," says Neneh Cherry. She's describing the magic of the Meltdown festival, but could equally be surmising the motivations behind a career that's spanned three decades and during which she's evolved from post-punk renegade to bona fide pop star and, latterly, dogged experimentalist.
Cherry's latest album, Blank Project, is her first solo release in 18 years and sees the 50-year-old's ruminations on loss, love, depression and recovery enmeshed in sparse, jazz-influenced electronica spun by Ben and Tom Page, AKA RocketNumberNine. Cherry stands in darkness between the brothers Tom on drums and Ben on keyboards as her soft, spoken-word prayer slowly unfurls into a powerful, soulful hymn over the metronome-aping rhythm of Across the Water.
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by Betty Clarke via Electronic music | The Guardian
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