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The Blood of Eden

"My grip is surely slipping
I think I've lost my hold
Yes, I think I've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance anymore
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows
Between you and me, I do not understand..."

youtube.com/watch?v=3XhDGkg8Sp
#PeterGabriel #ShuhadaSadaqat #SineadOConnor #FridayNightMusicVideos #TheBloodofEden #90sMusic #Duet #PowerPop

YouTubePeter Gabriel - Blood Of EdenBy Peter Gabriel
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1001 Other Albums

As randomly chosen by survey* on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 973 on The List, submitted by yours truly (i.e., buffyleigh).

As I sadly so often end up doing, I often don’t catch up on an artist’s discography until after they’ve left us. And while the circumstances are sad, it can be a really beautiful experience to discover new favorite albums that I didn’t even know existed when the artist was with us. This album is one such discovery – Shuhada’ Sadaqat’s (a.k.a. Sinéad O’Connor’s) album of reggae covers.

I generally stay away from covers, especially if they’re done in the same style as the originals. But I think this entire album is so tastefully and beautifully done, Sadaqat’s respect for the material is so obvious. Introduced to reggae in her early London days via a friend who collected all the records that were on the Jamaican charts, and then becoming a fly on the wall of a record shop owned and frequented by old Jamaicans,** Sadaqat connected deeply with the Rastafari community, seeing parallels between their struggles and those of the Irish people, as well as how she approached her own beliefs. As she wrote in the liner notes:

Thanks first and foremost to the great men who wrote and performed these songs and whose inspiration has kept me nourished with strength at times when I might otherwise have lost faith in myself. These men were part of a battle fought for self esteem and for the freeing of God from religion. As such, they are my heroes, my teachers, my masters, my priests, my prophets, my guides and my godfathers. And I could never in a million words or years, express the love and gratitude I feel toward them, for the truth and rights which they benevolently taught through music and which raised God from the dead in the soul of a little Irish Catholic woman. Nor could I express the influence they have had on my own singing and songwriting. The originals of these songs can never be bettered, and so all I can hope in recording them, is to honour the composers and pass on their teachings…

Throw Down Your Arms was recorded in Jamaica and was produced by the amazing duo Sly & Robbie (i.e., Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare), who also played drums and bass on the album. Nearly half of the album is Burning Spear covers,*** the others covers of The Abyssinians, Junior Byles, Devon Irons, Israel Vibration, Peter Tosh, and Buju Banton, ending with Bob Marley & The Wailers’ “War” (which she had previously covered in the infamous 1992 Saturday Night Live performance). Sadaqat personally payed for the majority of the record herself and donated 10% of the profits to Rasta elders in Jamaica.

A physical copy of the album is a bit hard to track down but, if you can, try to get the double-disc version – the second disc is a really fantastic dub version of the album, which I tend to prefer. A Youtube link to the dub version is also below, hopefully it works for you.

Happy listening and, Shuhada’ Sadaqat, may you rest in peace.

*The survey choices that led to this spotlight were “If you walk with Jesus”, “He’s gonna save your soul”, “You gotta keep the devil”, and “Way down in the hole”, following the earlier survey that had “When you walk through the garden”, “You gotta watch your back”, “Well, I beg your pardon”, and “Walk the straight and narrow track”. The fourth phrase was the winning selection, so the survey result was translated as picking the fourth album in The List with one of the phrase’s words in the title, the matching word here being “down”.
**See the chapter called “A Lesson or Two” in her memoir, Rememberings (which I highly recommend), published under the name Sinéad O’Connor.
***5 of the 12 songs are from Burning Spear. If you haven’t already, check out our earlier spotlight on Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey, an album I actually discovered via Throw Down Your Arms (because I’m always doing these things backwards, lol).

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/08/21/sinead-oconnor-throw-down-your-arms-2005-ireland/

The cover art is a photo of a the artist when very young, in a lacy white dress and veil for her first communion. Irish knot patterns in green, red, white, and gold are on either side of the photo, with the artist's name at the top in a gold font, and the album name at the bottom, with a white background.
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#SineadOConnor (#ShuhadaSadaqat) told #Israel’s Itamar Ben Gvir his 'soul had failed' after death threat

Irish singer, who converted to Islam, wrote to current Israeli national security minister after a group he led threatened to kill her

By Daniel Hilton
Published date: 27 July 2023

'Nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the #Palestinian plight'

- Sinead O'Connor

"Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, who died on Wednesday aged 56, wrote a letter to Itamar Ben Gvir, now Israel’s far-right national security minister, condemning him and his group for threatening to kill her.

"The incident happened weeks after O’Connor cancelled a planned concert in #Jerusalem in June 1997, organised by #Palestinian and #Israeli women to promote the idea of the city as a shared capital. The death threats were claimed by #JewishSupremacist group the #IdeologicalFront.

"The Irish singer was one of the most famous names in music after her cover of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U topped the charts worldwide in 1990. She became a Muslim in 2018 and changed her name to Shuhada Sadaqat.

"#BenGvir, who was then a leading member of the Ideological Front, had appeared on Israeli radio after the cancellation. O’Connor said in an open letter that he 'gloated' about his 'success' in preventing my appearance'.

"She added: 'I have some things to say in response to your organisation's recent threat upon my life..."

Read more:

middleeasteye.net/news/sinead-

Middle East EyeSinead O’Connor told Israel’s Itamar Ben Gvir his 'soul had failed' after death threatIrish singer, who converted to Islam, wrote to current Israeli national security minister after a group he led threatened to kill her
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