The Cherry Thing

by Neneh Cherry & The Thing

The Cherry Thing cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 June 2012
  • Label: Smalltown Superjazzz
  • Country: Sweden
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Swedish pop innovator Neneh Cherry teams up with the explosive Scandinavian free-jazz trio The Thing (named after a composition by her stepfather, Don Cherry). The collaboration brilliantly reinterprets diverse material, including songs by Suicide and MF DOOM, through a passionate, avant-garde jazz lens.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Cashback
  2. Dream Baby Dream
  3. Too Tough To Die
  4. Sudden Moment
  5. Accordion
  6. Golden Heart
  7. Dirt
  8. What Reason Could I Give

Credits

  • Neneh Cherry - primary artist, vocals, written-by, vocal
  • The Thing - primary artist
  • Ingebrigt H氓ker Flaten - double bass, electric bass, vibraphone [vibes], electronics, electronics instrument, vibraphone, electric bass guitar
  • Paal Nilssen-Love - drums, percussion, drums (drum set)
  • Christer Both茅n - guimbri, ngoni [donso n'goni], gumbri, donso ng蓴ni
  • Mats Gustafsson - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, electronics [live electronics], organ, written-by, electronics instrument
  • Mats 脛leklint - trombone, arranged by [all horn arrangements], hornarranger
  • Per 脜ke Holmlander - tuba, contrabass trombone [cimbasso], cimbasso

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