News of outré Scandi jazz ensemble
the Thing combining forces with Stockholm songstress
Neneh Cherry was largely neglected and with nothing readily available for aural digestion, well, little wonder perhaps. However that their first collaborative effort
The Cherry Thing was to feature reinterpretations of tracks from an eclectic spectrum ranging from DOOM to The Stooges and would be restrung by the ageless vocal chords of a lady now approaching her fiftieth year, this avant-garde work begins to assume genuine intrigue. They return to protopunk for the first sonic sample available: a rework of Suicide's Dream Baby Dream that perhaps coincidentally recalls Iggy's
Préliminaires LP of '09. Exchanging the louche slurs and whirly organs of the original with Cherry's inimitable croon and baritone brass tones evocative of those tooted from Colin Stetson's humongous sax, the result is an improvisational indulgence that, if not as corybantic as the seminal Bitches Brew, would almost certainly have Seb Rochford tapping a toe or two approvingly.
The Cherry Thing is released via
Smalltown Supersound June 18th...
