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On June 21, 2005 Capitol Records/EMI Music Catalog Marketing will release Sinead O’Connor: Collaborations, a newly-compiled album that explores her unique work with a broad range of artists across many genres and cultures, including trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack, Ghostland, Afro Celt Sound System, U2’s Bono and the Edge, Peter Gabriel, Moby, Irish folk-pop singer Damien Dempsey, and the Specials’ Terry Hall. A strong figure with a hypnotic style, Sinead O’Connor resists the mainstream, finding reverie and demand among some of the world’s greatest artists.
The collection opens with “Special Cases,” a haunting collaboration from O’Connor and downtempo masters Massive Attack, resonating in both sound and lyric and setting the tone for a moody, soulful journey across continents. Experimenting with reggae on the track “1000 Mirrors” for Asian Dub Foundation, O’Connor is clearly at home with a genre that is well suited to her ethereal vocals. She was also recruited by British dance act Bomb The Bass for the track “Empire,” for which she worked with reggae poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Once again looking for heavy beats with an unearthly element, O’Connor lends her style to the atmospheric “Guide Me God’ with Natacha Atlas for Ghostland -- a London trio whose varying ethnicities laid the foundation for an eclectic sound; Junior Vasquez remixed the track in 2002, and it became an international dance hit.
A bluesy cover of Dury's “Wake Up And Make Love With Me”’ lures the listener from a chilled haze only to thrust them into a sexy, reverb-heavy duet with U2’s Bono on “I'm Not Your Baby,” which was produced for the 1997 Wim Wenders film The End Of Violence. Sinéad again worked with U2 when she collaborated with guitarist the Edge on the hopeful ballad “Heroine” from his soundtrack to the 1986 movie Captive.
A collaboration with a worldly Peter Gabriel on “Blood Of Eden” is a dark duet in which Sinéad's soothing chorus offers a response to Gabriel's plaintive prayers. There were more experimental partnerships, too. Her vocal contribution to Aslan's piano-led “Up In Arms” helped to steer the Dublin band's 2001 album, Waiting For This Madness To End, to No. 1 in Ireland. In collaborating with the hard-hitting Dublin singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey on “It's All Good,” a folky track from his acclaimed Seize The Day, Sinéad came full circle and returned to her Irish roots.
Another familiar figure from Sinéad's roster of collaborations is former Specials singer Terry Hall. The pair initially got together in 1987 when O'Connor supplied the vocals on “Monkey In Winter,” the B-side to a single by Hall’s band the Colourfield. They were later reunited on a kitsch send-up of Dana’s 1970 Eurovision Song Contest winner “All Kinds Of Everything,” which is also included on this collection.
For more information on Sinead O’Connor, visit www.sinead-oconnor.com
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Sinead O’Connor: Collaborations
1. MASSIVE ATTACK - Special Cases (Radio Edit)
2. ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION FEATURING SINÉAD O'CONNOR - 1000 Mirrors
3. BOMB THE BASS FEATURING SINÉAD O'CONNOR & BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH - Empire
4. GHOSTLAND - Guide Me God
5. JAH WOBBLE'S INVADERS OF THE HEART FEATURING SINÉAD O'CONNOR - Visions Of You
6. AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM - Release (Album Edit)
7. SINÉAD O'CONNOR WITH THE BLOCKHEADS - Wake Up And Make Love With Me
8. THE THE - Kingdom Of Rain (Album version)
9. U2 & SINÉAD O'CONNOR - I’m Not Your Baby
10. CONJURE ONE FEATURING SINÉAD O'CONNOR - Tears From The Moon (Album Version)
11. PETER GABRIEL & SINÉAD O'CONNOR - Blood Of Eden (Radio Edit)
12. MOBY FEATURING SINÉAD O'CONNOR – Harbour
13. ASLAN – Up In Arms
14. DAMIEN DEMPSEY FEATURING SINÉAD O'CONNOR - It’s All Good
15. THE EDGE & SINÉAD O'CONNOR - Heroine (Theme from “Captive”)
16. THE COLOURFIELD FEATURING SINÉAD O'CONNOR - Monkey In Winter
17. SINÉAD O'CONNOR & TERRY HALL - All Kinds Of Everything
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