Decambier & the Twelve Days of X-Ambias

I'm feeling the ambience of the world around me right now more strongly that usual, so I decided that all of December will be dedicated to Ambient Music.

Ambient music prioritizes creating a sonic environment or mood rather than following a traditional musical narrative. It often avoids the cyclical progression of chords found in other genres. Many ambient pieces rely on sustained notes, drones, or long-lasting soundscapes. Many ambient works use electronic instruments & effects to create layers of texture / atmosphere. The goal of ambient music is often to induce a sense of calm or to create a space for thought.

The term Ambient was first applied to music in 1978 by Brian Eno's AMBIENT 1 "Music for Airports".

Eno sez: 
       "Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."

I am going to try & devote this month to touching on the many diverse types of Ambient Music: ambient Dub, ambient techno, drone, ambient house (perhaps even ambient pop or metal), field recordings, environmental sounds, even glitch or noise, lowercase, minimal piano, new age, dark ambient, musique concrete, wherever this wandering insanity might take me.

One thing of note, many of these ambient compositions don't have typical song-oriented track breaks. Many times the composition continues unbroken across numerous (or even all) tracks. Wherever this occurs, I have eliminated track breaks & allowed the compositions to unfold in their intended manner. I have tried to note the lack of breaks or the run-on tracks when I could (or remembered). Less interested in the tracklist accuracy than with the musical integrity.

Bat Sounds

Let's start out this Ambient Decambier with a bit of the quietus of nature around us, as only Adrian Sherwood could imagine it.

This release was limited to 300 copies with glow in the dark, screen printed cover.

"First exhibited as a soundtrack to Jeremy Deller's 2017 installation Send Bat Echolocation Sounds to Dub Reggae Producers at BRÜCKENMUSIK 23. Located under the Deutzer Brücke in Cologne, the installation's cavernous aspect also nods to Deller's 2004 Turner Prize-winning work Memory Bucket, which captured a bat colony leaving their cave in Texas. The Mexican Freetail bats featured here on Sherwood's ambient Dub were recorded at that Frio Cave in West Texas in the autumn of 2011." 

 

Jeremy Deller & Adrian Sherwood - Freetail Dub, The Vinyl Factory VF283, 2018.
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Free Tail Dub

 

 

 

Solar Sounds

At one with my surroundings, I travel through nature to the Solar Lodge...

In the Solar Lodge. 

Solar Lodge is an Italian ambient/industrial project which started in Rome, whose members are Enrico Angarano (guitar, devices) & Fulvio Biondo (keyboards, devices). They got together in 1986, disbanded in 2003, but then got back together in 2011 for some live events. 

 

Solar Lodge - Heartbeat of the Roses cassette, Minus Habens Records MHT13, 1989.

Lato 1 -
Our Dead Steeds  
On the Ship  
A3 Figures in a Landscape 

Lato 2 - 
White Swan  
Sacrifice of Elements  
Heartbeat of the Roses

 

 

  

Have an Ambient December,
NØ

Sound September 13

On-U Sound 

 

 

I have always found Adrian Sherwood to be a top notch songwriter/musician/producer who has been vital in the creative evolution of UK Dub. On-U Sound System promoted a myriad of artists, getting their Sound out to the music-hungry fans. Sherwood created Hitrun Records, Green Tea, Soundboy as well as co-founding Carib Gems & Pressure Sounds. I have probably shared more of On-U Sound music here at NSS than any other. Therefore it was a hard struggle as to what to share this Sound Systember. 

 

Two acts that deserve my attention here are New Age Steppers & Revolutionary Dub Warriors. The Steppers I have not shared enough & RDW I have shared much of their limited output but they are one of my favorite usually-overlooked bands. So I'm going to hit both of these now.

First up, New Age Steppers.

New Age Steppers was the brainchild of Adrian Sherwood & Ari Up. The Steppers were a constantly changing Dub collective that featured at various times On-U stalwarts Bim Sherman, Style Scott, Eskimo Fox, with artists like Ari Up & Viv of the Slits, Mark Stewart & Bruce Smith of the Pop Group, Keith Levene, & many others (greats like Michael Rose, Neneh Cherry, Nick Plytas, Bingy Bunny & Bubblers, Vivien Goldman...).

I've shared their 1980 self-titled debut here.

In 2021 On-U released a five CD box set containing the debut plus the follow-up Action Battlefield (1981) & Foundation Steppers (1983) along with Avant Gardening, containing rare Dubs, version excursions, & unreleased tracks from the vault 1980-1983 (listen particularly for dearly departed Mark Stewart on "May I Version", a bonus digital file not on the LP).

Making up for having slighted them in the past... 

 

New Age Steppers - Stepping Into a New Age 1980-2012, On-U Sound ONUCD149, 2021.
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Action Battlefield Disc 2 -

My Whole World    
Observe Life    
Got to Get Away    
My Love    
Problems    
Nuclear Zulu    
Guiding Star

 

 

 

 

Foundation Steppers Disc 3 -

Some Love    
Memories    
5 Dog Race    
Misplaced Love    
Dreamers    
Stabilizer    
Stormy Weather    
Vice of My Enemies
Mandarin

 

 

 

 

Avant Gardening Disc 5 -

Aggro Dub Version    
Send for Me    
Izalize    
Unclear    
Singing Love    
I Scream (Rimshot)    
Avante Gardening    
Wide World Version    
Some Dub    
May I Version

 

 

 

Revolutionary Dub Warriors

 

The Revolutionary Dub Warriors were formed in 1991 in the Reading area by some of the originators of the Free Festival scene whose prime musical interest was Reggae Sound Systems. Their contemporaries were the Megadog & Whirly-Gig outfits, Zion Train, Dreadzone, & the Orb. The interest in Bass & space were the only rules which governed their Sounds.

All of these groups had Dub as a common theme, to greater or lesser extents. All of them used their music to feed this Dub-influenced Sound into new strains of the genre.

 

Revolutionary Dub Warriors' debut was 1994s Deliverance with On-U Sound which I’ve shared here. RDW's sound is that of raw Roots Dubbed up in their own unique way. The band feature live drums, bass, & percussion but also use electronic effects & instruments to enhance the mesmerising effect of their music. The Dub Warriors were known on the Free Festival circuit for their incendiary live sets. It was perhaps this quality which helped them gravitate towards the On-U Sound stable who at that time had become regulars on the festival scene through the contributions of African Head Charge, Gary Clail with On-U Sound System, & the mighty Dub Syndicate. On-U were also at a critical stage in their history as a label in that they had to expand their artist roster, most of whom had grown with the label, in order to keep some freshness & variety in its output.

1994 - Live at the Boatrace & 1996 - Know Your Enemy here.
1996 - State of Evolution here.
1998 - teamed with Mad Professor for Ariwa release 1998 Dub Fusion here.

Here are two live sets, where RDW are at their finest showcasing their Sound System style, that I have yet to share. Starting with the 1993s self-released cassette on Warrior Dance...

 

Revolutionary Dub Wariors - Live at the Marquee cassette, Warrior Dance, 1993.

Side A -
Centenary
Demascus Gate
Homeward Dub
Changes
Wicked Dub
Creation

Side B -
Creation (Reprise)
Dread Dub
Freedom
Dub Warrior
Resistance

 

 

 

 

& one from Brighton's Essential Festival the following summer, a live mix from Adrian Sherwood for the On-U Sound System.

 

Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Live at Essential Festival, Brighton, May 30, 1994

Dub the E (Intro)
Creation
Walkabout
Mount Uhuru
Dread
Dub the E
Industrial
Warrior

 

 

 

 

Dub Warriors frontman, bass player, & songwriter Steve Swann has worked with & been part of such luminaries as the Kaya Collective (1983), Military Surplus (1984), Radical Dance Faction (1984), Dub the Earth (1987), Hi Tech Roots Dynamics (1991) before becoming a founding member of Revolutionary Dub Warriors (1991).

Here is one from Dub the Earth with Steve Swann...

 

Dub the Earth - Heatham House: The Lost Tapes '94.

MF'er Dub
Slug Shag
Knock on Wood
Thailand Dub
Vivisection
Running Out
Hard & Soft
Release the Dub
Pressure Drop
Heartbreaker Dub

 

 

 

 

Steve was also part of Hi-Tech Roots Dynamics, a project for Martin Campbell. Campbell is a UK roots & Dub veteran, the founder of Channel One (UK). HiTech Roots Dynamics consisted of Jah Rej Forte (riddim & lead guitar, Jah Works label owner), Steve Swann (bass, guitar), Martin Campbell (drums, bass, keyboards), MJ Harris (keyboards, riddim guitar), Timm Hill (saxophone), Squidjy (piano).

Here Hi-Tech meets up with Gerald Thomas Moore aka The Outsider (melodica, lead guitar, keyboards, penny whistle). This one's got it all: Jah Works; The Outsider; Steve Swann, Channel One (UK). Gotta love it... 

The Outsider meets The High-Tech Roots Dynamics - At Channel One UK, 

Jah Works JW011CD, 1993.

Alfa
George William Gordon
Rumours of War
Demascus Gate
Warm Love
Jerusalem
Livin' Vibes
Serengeti
Freedom Struggle
Distant Thunder
Cool Runnings
Jerusalem Dub

 

 

 

Bass culture,
NØ

Prompted by My Last Post

Here's a match made in musickal heaven...

The idea for this session came about following the tragic passing of Andrew Weatherall & then an incredible show in Manchester featuring Dub maestro Adrian Sherwood a few days later. At the start of the evening Adrian paid touching tribute to Andrew Weatherall, friend & oft-times collaborator.

This mix celebrates those connections with selections from both producers that span nearly 40 years from squelchy Dub in the early 80s through to deep electronica from 2020. The pallet of both producers is vast. The session features both of their work with Primal Scream, as well as Dub to pulsing floor fillers. The commonality here is heavyweight bass.

Mixed by Gentleman Kush.

 

Sherwood x Weatherall – Dub Electroniks, 2020

Brain Damage (Adrian Sherwood & Jazzwad remix) - Easy Star Allstars
JU-87 - Primal Scream
Boys Outside (Andrew Weatherall Dub 1) - Steve Mason
Here Come the Warm Dreads (featuring Brian Eno) - Lee “Scratch” Perry
Ravi Shankar - Dub Syndicate
Higher than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts) - Primal Scream
Two Semi Tones & a Raver - Adrian Sherwood
Wilmot meets Lord Scruffage - Sabres of Paradise
Wilmot - Sabres of Paradise
UK All Stars in Dub (Adrian Sherwood remix) - Congo Natty
Loaded (Andy Weatherall mix) - Primal Scream
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Weatherall’s ‘A Mix in Two Halves’ remix) - St Etienne
Late Flowering Dub - Asphodells
Release the Pressure (Adrian Sherwood mix) - Leftfield
Unknown Plunderer (Radioactive Man remix) - Andrew Weatherall
Ribcage (Adrian Sherwood remix) - Dubfire
The Only Redeemer (Adrian Sherwood remix) - Noiseshaper
Direct Action (Weatherall remix) - Radical Majik
Glide by Shooting - Two Lone Swordsmen

Enjoy,
NØ

From Me (& On-U Sound) to You All for Thanksgiving

 

Sherwood at the Controls was a series of two (so far) releases showcasing Adrian's productions & remixes, well, at the controls, don't ya know. 

Here's the Japanese release on this first one with bonus Deadly Headley - "Liberty City Dub" with complete 32 page booklet. Every time I listen to this I think that never in a million years would I have picked these track for a compilation yet how spectacularly perfect a set it is in its depth & breadth of sound. Truly a masterpiece. 

 

Various - Sherwood at the Controls Volume 1: 1979-1984, On-U Sound BRC-450, 2015.
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Hungry, So Angry - Medium Medium
Let it Take You There - Maximum Joy
Some Day My Caliph Will Come - Nadjma
Learning to Cope with Cowardice (flexi version) - Mark Stewart & Maffia
Middle Mass - The Fall
Strange Clues - Gardening by Moonlight
Mistah Linn He Dead - Shriekback
Running (Feeling Wild) - Voice of Authority featuring Congo Ashanti Roy
Man Next Door - The Slits
Third Gear (Kills) - Annie Anxiety aka Little Annie
Nuclear Weapon - Prince Far I
Reaching the Bad Man - Singers & Players
In a Trap - African Head Charge
Private Armies Dub - Vivien Goldman
bonus track    
Liberty City Dub - Deadly Headley 

 

This one, while featuring more obvious choices, is still a perfectly knit bundle of musical joy.

 

 

Various - Sherwood at the Controls Volume 2: 1985-1990, On-U Sound ONUCD132, 2016.

Hypnotized (12" mix) - Mark Stewart
Mind at the End of the Tether - Tackhead
Don't Forget that Beat (alternate Dub) - Doug Wimbish & Fats Comet
The Value of Nothing - Flux
Masimbabele 89 (Adrian Sherwood remix) - The Unknown Cases
These Sounds - Keith LeBlanc
Television (dance mix) - The Beatnigs
Girls & Boys - Pankow
All Day (Adrian Sherwood remix) - Ministry
Big Bondage (Kinky Sex wet mix) - Rinf
Don't Blow Your Top (Adrian Sherwood remix) - KMFDM
Snatch-a-Style - Dub Syndicate
Music & Science Madness - Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Haunting Ground Dub - Bim Sherman
Hold Some Version - African Head Charge
Early Mafia - Dub Syndicate

Everyone give of yourself to those you love ,
NØ

Ridin' the Slipstreams

Reuploadedby Request 01/02/2026

 

 

 

I am so gloriously high right now as I scratch out these silly little syllables. My mind has so many things to say, so many ways to go. It's hard to pick a direction. I've decide to shit-can the stuff I already hammered out & start again.  I want to touch on my travels but that wound is still too painful. I just want to play some musick. I took the tincture before deciding to add the RSO so the dosage is over the top. I'm flipping between dimensions as fast as Buckaroo Bonzai...

Heading East

I have traversed this continent many times in the past. Most often when I was younger. Driving, busing, flying, & hitchhiking. In fact the last time I hitched, I decided I had done the cross-country shuffle so often that I hitched up to Seattle, caught the Frazier River Canyon train as far as Banff, Alberta, hitched across Canada to Toronto, grabbed a Greyhound into Buffalo, then hitched southward to Hicksville, USA.

As I've aged I've became more & more sedentary, traveling less & less, mostly for family events or emergencies, birth or death. I guess I had lost touch with the whole process until we decided to displace ourselves & move back to my birthplace.

Fantastic Four - Alvin Stone (The Birth & Death of a Gangster), Westbound Records W-201, 1975.
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Side 1 -
Alvin Stone (The Birth & Death of a Gangster)
Have a Little Mercy
Country Line

Side 2 -
Let This Moment Last Forever
Words
My Love Won't Stop at Nothing

I chose Interstate 80 as the most direct & expeditious route. I knew from past experience that it's not the most scenic of routes, but little did I know that it is now primarily a trucking highway. Private vehicles are outnumbered by 18 wheelers about 100 to 1. Our journey became mad dashes between vegan restaurants & modernized roadside rest stops.

 

 

The biggest surprise was finding the Sweet Melissa Restaurant, 213 S 1st Street, Laramie Wyoming. Not only was this a world-shaking surprise in cowboy hat/six-shooter wearing Wyoming, but also it is one of the best restaurants I've ever eaten at, & that's high praise from a Cali veg-head.

 

In honor of this superb find & special occasion, I'm posting up something relatively new, but the one piece of musick that helped me the very most on my journey, like Sweet Melissa Restaurant & Sweet Mary Jane.

Denise Sherwood - This Road, Evergreen Recordings EVER110CD, 2020.

Music Shall Live (featuring Lee 'Scratch' Perry)
Let Me In
Amnesia Moon
Sweet Mary Jane
Ghost Heart
Fairy Tales
Uncertain Times
Sunny Days
Won't Bow Down
Toughen Up
Sweet Love

 

The most fun we had aside from eating was playing a variety game we made up visiting the deluge of rest stops along I-80 (ya have to stay hydrated, but if ya do, then ya gotta stop a lot...it's a fine line).

 

Nebraska has rest areas.

 

Indiana I-80 is a toll-road. They don't want you to have to get off & on paying needless tolls, theirs are travel plazas with gas & food thrown in.

 

The most unbelievable were the Iowa art-walk rest stops. They have tiled bathrooms & art galore.

 

Here's art galore from On-U Sound founder, mix-master, & daddy...

Adrian Sherwood - Resistance Mix, On-U Sound 2012.

Two Semitones & a Raver – Adrian Sherwood
Swish – Pinch/Sherwood (featuring Andy Fairley)
Where's My Money – Caspa
Garrison Town – Mustakillah Sound, United Forces of Dub (featuring Ghetto Priest)
Revolution – Congo Natty
Greenleaves- Adrian Sherwood
Immigrants – Adrian Sherwood
Run Them Away – Pinch/Sherwood (featuring Bim Sherman)
Skies over Cairo – Django Django
God Smiled – Lee Perry
We Flick the Switch – Adrian Sherwood (featuring Lilli)
Mash-up 1 – MC Hippo (featuring Mikey Dread & Big Youth)
Mash-up 2 – featuring Brother Culture & Prince Far I
Take Heed – Prince Far I
Ghettolgy – Pinch/Sherwood (featuring Junior Delgado)
Microchip – Congo Natty
New Beginning – Congo Natty

 

Little did I know that time zones are time portals. I always thought that as I traveled east through the various zones I lost an hour each. I hadn't realized that I went backwards in years as well. I am now living at least twenty years in the west coast past. It is a very temporally disorienting adjustment, not all bad, mind you, but very, very strange. They are just coming into the twenty-first century in many ways. It's taken quite a bit of adjustment & a great deal of online ordering just to keep in vegan basics. It has caused us to begin making our own vegan cheez & plant-based meat substitutes (as well as breads, tortillas, pickled veggies, nut butters, & many more of our staples). So as I said, not all bad, just strange.

One of many On-U Sound releases that soothed the pains...

Charlie 'Eskimo' Fox - Nattorius-Alter Riddim, On-U Sound ON-U CD 0089, 2004.

Changes
Nuclear Zulu
This Man Pt 1
This Man Pt 2
Its Not so Easy
In a Vision
Wipe Your Tears
Natty Farmyard
Who Could it Be?
Sweet Memories
Down Hail

For me, as is my usual, musick was the one thing that kept me from completely losing it. I listened to music as I drove, before & while falling asleep, just about 24-7. Here is some of the things that lifted my spirits. Hope the do yours as well...

Watching the landscape (with serpents)...

Minóy – Landscape with Serpent, Minóy Cassetteworks, 1987

Side A -
Stalker

Side B -
Landscape with Serpent

 

Change of scenery...change of pace...

 

Delroy 'Bitty' McLean w/ Sly & Robbie - Love Restart, Taxi SRCD002, 2018.

Take My Heart (Love Restart)
I've Found Someone
Babylon Has Fallen
Open Eyes
Is That Your Reward?
Song of Songs
Broke My Heart
Every Word & Move
War is Over
My Call
Made to Fall in Love

 

Can’t pick up anything on the short-wave but Oldies...

 

The Pop Group - Live Stuff 1980, various venues.

a. Shake the Foundations (featuring Ari Up)

Alexandra Palace, London, England, June 16, 1980

b1. Feed the Hungry
b2. Hotter than 1000 Suns
b3. Liberty City
b4. Work Work Work

Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland, August 15, 1980

c. There are No Spectators

Koln, Germany, February 5, 1980

d1. Thief of Fire
d2. Forces of Oppression

Odissea 2001, Milan, Italy, April 25, 1980

 

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." W. C. Fields 

Royal Treatment Plant - Hope is Not Enough, Universal RTP005, 2008.

Hope is Not Enough
Half as Much
Get Played
Undercurrent
Hearts & Minds
Crack Whore
You Don’t Need Me
Pricey

 

Almost deliverance...

 

Revolutionary Dub Warriors - State of Evolution, On-U Sound ON-U CD 83, 1996.

 

Irie Warrior
Iration
Direct Action
Creation
Oppressor
Rough Dub
Sorrow Go
No Reservation
War Zone
Antelopean
Chi

 

I also listened to hours upon hours of Hours of Slack. Here's an hour for you:

Church of the SubGenius - Subversion Special, 1986.

The Word of "Bob," via Philo Drummond, Ivan Stang, the late Dr. X (Lamont Duvoe), Puzzling Evidence, Buck Naked, G Gordon Gordon, Glassmadness, F. LeMur, Rev. Norel Pref, DK Jones

The Church of the SubGenius Radio Ministry seeks to brainwash you totally into abject lifelong subservience to The High Epopt and Living SlackMaster, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, 

 

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Slack to all...

I've quoted the rest elsewhere elsewhen so here's today's lesson:

"How I wish, 

how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls 

swimming in a fish bowl year after year.
Running over the same old ground, 

what have we found?
The same old fears - - -"

Wish you were here,
NØ

Say Her Name [Thoughts of You]

Her name is Shara Nelson.

She’s been called the Aretha of trip-hop. Her name is Shara Nelson.

Fuck, I shouldn’t have got so high & then listened to "Thoughts of You" while typing this shit-storm. I’m sitting here at the ole PC with major wood. (ha...ha...he said "wood"). Then "How Close" comes on: "How close is too close?..there must be a reason for this tension...I’m giving you time to blow your mind...How close is too close, baby?" Now I've gotta head to the bathroom to clean up, then I’ll hit this sucka again.

Shara was only eighteen when she hooked up with those scoundrels at On-U Sound & made her debut in 1983 as the vocalist with The Circuit on Aiming At Your Heart. She made numerous On-U guest appearances with Voice of Authority, Singers & Players, Missing Brazilians, & Dub Syndicate throughout the 80s.

Shara Nelson & the Circuit - Aiming at Your Heart 12" 45, On-U Sound MIX 2, 1983.

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Side A -
Aiming at Your Heart (Part 1)
Aiming at Your Heart (Part 2)

Side B -
Just as Long as We Have Love (Part 1)
Just as Long as We Have Love (Part 2)

However it is her work with Massive Attack on their 1991 debut album Blue Lines for which Shara remains most associated, in particular the highly acclaimed "Unfinished Sympathy".

"Unfinished Sympathy" was first released under the temporary group name Massive. It was written by the three band members Robert "3D" Del Naja, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, as well as vocalist Shara Nelson, & the group's co-producer Jonathan "Jonny Dollar" Sharp. The song was released as the second single from Blue Lines, on the band's Wild Bunch label distributed through Circa Records on 11 February 1991.

Massive Attack - Shara tracks from Blue Lines, Wild Bunch Records WBRCD 1, 1991.

Safe from Harm
Unfinished Sympathy
Daydreaming
Lately


In total, Nelson co-wrote & provided vocals on four tracks on the Blue Lines album, including another hit single "Safe from Harm". Nelson also recorded & appears on another track with Massive Attack entitled "Just a Matter of Time", which was exclusively included on a short film the group made of the same name. It was shot on Super 8mm film on location in Bristol, 7 minutes of greatness & quite rare.







After Blue Lines, Shara launched a successful major label solo career. Her debut was What Silence Knows (co-writing & singing all tracks) on the Cooltempo/Chrysalis label.

Shara Nelson - What Silence Knows, Cooltempo ctcd35, 1993.

Nobody
Pain Revisited
One Goodbye in Ten
Inside Out
Uptight
Down the Road
Chance
Thoughts of You
How Close
What Silence Knows


She also released singles such as "Uptight" produced by Mike Peden. The one I’m posting (7243 8 81184 2 2) contains the supremely superior Adrian Sherwood & Style Scott unreleased version of the song "What Silence Knows" (Style plain rips it up!).

Shara Nelson - Uptight CD single, Cooltempo cdcool 286, 1994.

Uptight (Uno Perfecto edit)
Uptight (Uno Perfecto mix)
Uptight (Dirty Lowdown vocal mix)
What Silence Knows (Adrian Sherwood / Style Scott unreleased version)


Then life took its toll & Shara stepped away from the limelight.

In 2003, after more than 10 years away, she returned to On-U's spin-off imprint of the time, Soundboy & recorded a vocal version of Sherwood's "Hari Up Hari" from Never Trust a Hippy.

Adrian Sherwood - "Hari Up Hari  (Shara Nelson vocal version)" 

from promo 12" on Real World Records RWAS DJ 1, 2003.

She also released a self-credited track "Nobody Else" featuring a rhythm by Jazzwad [Rhythm 214].

Shara Nelson - Nobody Else 10'', Sound Boy SB012, 2004.

Side A -
Nobody Else

Side B -
Nobody Else (version)

Also in 2003, Nelson collaborated with Futurasound on the track "Right Now".

She co-wrote & sang "Say My Name" with Little Axe. When Shara begs you to "Say My Name", you'll truly know what longing is all about.

Little Axe - "Say My Name" from Champagne & Grits, 

Real World Records, 7243 5 76746 2 1, 2004.

Since then she has worked with 10th Planet ("Push Me Away"), NUfrequency ("Go That Deep" & "Promised"), Doug Wimbish ("I Wanna Know" - co-writer & vocalist).

Several new tracks have been posted on Nelson's official website, including "Promise to You", "Different" & "If".

In September 2012 Shara performed live for the first time in many years, performing her hit "Unfinished Sympathy" at the concert in aid of Cool Earth produced by Angelica Campion-Armstrong.

Since then she has contributed vocals to the tracks "Badger Swagger" by The Artful Badger, "All Together Now" on The Peace Collective single. Nelson, Simon Britton, & John Power wrote & recorded the title track "Looking" for the motion picture "ANTI-SOCIAL". Nelson is currently continuing work in the studio with Simon Britton & various collaborators for her next solo album purportedly due sometime this year.

& if you are still drooling for more, here’s a baby bonus...

Presence featuring Shara Nelson - Sense of Danger (Part 1) 12'' EP, Pagan PAGAN 024, 1998.

Side A -
Sense of Danger (original Presence mix)

Side B -
Sense of Danger (Pepe Bradock remix)
Sense of Danger (Furry Phreaks Dub)

bonus bonus:
Presence - Matter of Fact featuring Shara Nelson from All Systems Gone, Pagan PAGAN CD1010, 1999.

Enjoy,
NØ