Sinéad O'Connor Meets On-U Sound

Sean-Nós Nua was the first album I reached for after learning of Sinéad O'Connor's passing.  It is a collection of traditional Irish folk songs with contemporary touches, including electric guitar (Skip "Little Axe" McDonald), bass (Carlton "Bubblers" Ogilvie), Hammond organ (Nick "Mutant Hi-Fi" Coplowe), and programming (by Alan Branch and Professor Stretch).  These parenthetical names should be familiar to fans of Adrian Sherwood and On-U Sound.  Adrian and Skip coproduced Sean-Nós Nua.

Sinéad first worked with the On-U crew on her 2000 album Faith And Courage.  Four songs were produced by Adrian and Skip.  On the album's finale, "Kyrié Eléison",  Sinéad is accompanied by the voices of Bim Sherman, Ghetto Priest, Junior Delgado, and Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah.

Sinéad's 2000 single No Man's Woman was backed with an On-U remix of "This Is A Rebel Song", plus the folk tune "Her Mantle So Green".  The latter track reappeared in 2002 on the Sean-Nós Nua album.  

Sinéad's 2003 compilation She Who Dwells includes several songs "produced by O'Connor/Sherwood/McDonald".  She remade one of them ("Dense Water Deeper Down") for her final album, 2014's I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss.

Sinéad O'Connor Meets On-U Sound (today's share) concludes with "1000 Mirrors", her 2003 single with Asian Dub Foundation, which was produced by Adrian Sherwood and Nick Coplowe.