Raw Like Sushi [30th Anniversary Edition]

by Neneh Cherry

Overview

Neneh Cherry's actions throughout the early to mid-'80s indicated boundless creative energy and an instinct to mix it up. She wasn't yet out of her teens by the time she had performed and/or recorded with stepfather Don Cherry and younger mavericks Rip Rig + Panic, the Slits, and Vivien Goldman, and had spun early rap records on pirate radio. A little later, in 1987, she seized the mike on a version of Morgan/McVey's "Looking Good Diving." The next year, the track was revamped into Cherry's first solo power move, aided by Bomb the Bass' vibrating and colorful mix of sampled, scratched, played, and programmed sounds dropped with astonishing precision. At once a personal manifesto and celebration and critique of city-street peacocking -- a hip-hop quotable is in every rhyme and interjection -- "Buffalo Stance" entered the U.K. chart in December 1988 and went supernova on a worldwide scale early the following year. The full scope of Cherry's vision was shown almost smack in the middle of 1989 with Raw Like Sushi. With songwriting partner and fellow arranger/producer Cameron "Booga Bear" McVey at her side, Cherry in sly, knowing fashion conducts a combined gender studies and sociology course doubling as a cosmopolitan pop triumph. Switching with masterful ease between assured singing and rapping -- no features necessary -- Cherry covers matters ranging from the consequences of lust to the devaluation of children. More often, she examines from multiple perspectives the ways in which men and women exploit one another, softening each blow with either a degree of benevolence or whatcha-gonna-do-about-it humor. Among the other accomplices are Will Malone, Nellee Hooper, and Jonny Dollar, as well as Mushroom and 3D of Massive Attack, a crew who altogether fill the hip-hop-minded LP with elements of go-go, Latin freestyle, and new jack swing, and foreshadow what was later termed trip-hop. Not easily classifiable as a whole, Raw Like Sushi is one of the most soulful and "hip-hop" albums considered neither R&B nor rap. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	01/31/2020
Label:	Virgin
UPC:	0602508133206
Rank:	56308

Tracks

1. Buffalo Stance
2. Manchild
3. Kisses on the Wind
4. Inna City Mamma
5. The Next Generation
6. Love Ghetto
7. Heart
8. Phoney Ladies
9. Outre Risque Locomotive
10. So Here I Come

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Neneh Cherry   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Jared Minnies   Guitar
Jock Loveband   Vocals (Background)
Claudia Fontaine   Vocals (Background)
Eagle-Eye Cherry   Vocals
Sandy McLelland   Vocals (Background)
Gordon Dukes   Vocals (Background)
Tim Simenon   Turntables
Gilly G.   Vocals
Chandra Armstead   Vocals (Background)
Jeff Scantlebury   Congas
Jerod   Guitar
Booga Bear   Vocals (Background)
Phil Chill   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Wil Malone   Conductor,String Conductor,Vocals (Background)
Will Malone   Vocals (Background)
Gilbert Gordon   Lead Vocals
Mushroom   Turntables
Sarah Erde   Vocals

Technical Credits

Smith & Mighty   Remixing,Performer
Kevin Saunderson   Remixing,Performer
Latin Rascals   Remixing,Performer
The Dynamic Duo   Beats,Mixing,Arranger,Producer,Remixing,Performer,Programming,Musical Producer,Additional Production
Eagle-Eye Cherry   MC
Eric Calvi   Engineer
John Sharpe   Engineer,Musician,Performer
Vincent Bell   Arranger,Producer
David Morales   Remixing
Alvin Moody   Beats,Arranger,Musician,Producer,Performer,Programming
Mark Saunders   Beats,Mixing,Arranger,Engineer,Musician,Producer,Performer,Programming
Robert del Naja   Composer
Martin Rex   Engineer,String Engineer
Neneh Cherry   Arranger,Composer,Producer,Remixing,Performer
Massive Attack   Remixing,Performer
Arthur Baker   Remixing,Performer
Nick Plytas   Arranger,Musician,Producer,Performer,Programming
Tim Simenon   Beats,Arranger,Musician,Producer,Programming
Andrew Vowles   Producer,Musical Producer
Bomb the Bass   Mixing,Producer
Leroy Smart   Composer
Phil Ramacon   Composer
Phil Gibbs   Composer
Philip Glass   Composer
Nellee Hooper   Arranger,Performer
Bryan "Chuck" New   Mixing,Arranger,Composer,Producer,Remixing
Jamie J. Morgan   Composer
Booga Bear   Beats,Mixing,Arranger,Producer,Executive Producer
Bryan Chuck   Mixing,Composer,Producer
Phil Chill   Beats,Mixing,Arranger,Composer,Engineer,Musician,Producer,Performer,Programming
Cameron McVey   Composer,Producer
David Pine   Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Q Engstrom   Engineer
Wil Malone   Arranger,Composer,Musician,Producer,Performer,Programming,String Arrangements
Jamie Morgan   Composer
Jonathan Sharp   Engineer
Will Malone   Composer,Musician,Programming
Phillip Gibbs   Composer
Gilbert Gordon   Composer
Mushroom   Arranger,Producer
Andrew Vowels   Musical Producer
The Bubble Bunch   Producer