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Taken from forthcoming Entangled Remix EP featuring reworkings from Saint Etienne, Anton Newcombe, Lomond Campbell & The Anchoress Dot Allison follows the critically acclaimed Heart-Shaped Scars - her first solo album in a decade - with a remix of ‘Love Died In Our Arms’ by the late Lee “Scratch’ Perry, the final project of the legendary producer’s career.
Dot Allison is indebted to the strides made by Perry, with her origins in the electronic-dub-heavy trio One Dove and her early solo projects showcasing the sort of ambitious sonic experimentations Perry undertook throughout his career.
Through his music and in everyday life, Perry lived by his spirituality and deep appreciation for the world around him – themes that make up the core of the ethereal, world-appreciating music on Heart-Shaped Scars. As a longtime fan and sharer of musical values, Dot reached out to Perry about remix and production work on her new music. “I contacted Lee to ask if he’d consider doing a mix of ‘Love Died In Our Arms’ and got a lovely reply saying ‘yes’. He later confirmed the parts had arrived and the mix was going well. So I was deeply saddened to hear he’d passed soon after and so soon after we’d been in touch. Naturally I assumed the mix had not been completed and left it at that. So I was stunned two days later to hear, from Lee’s wife, that my song had been “the last thing in his life that Lee worked on.” As if that wasn’t enough, she responded to my email a day or so later expressing my gratitude and deepest sympathies by sending the finished mix. I genuinely cannot put into words what a profound moment and an honour and gift it felt under the circumstances - I was completely blown away. That my co-producer Fiona Cruickshank was there with me when I first heard it turned this into a really magical moment. I feel a duty to Lee’s own artistry and his fans to release his last remix and I do so with a deep gratitude to Lee, his wife and family for still forwarding me this mix under such sad circumstances, I remain deeply moved and grateful for my music to have been touched by Lee’s musical genius and spirit.”
Dot Allison’s Entangled Remix EP is a five-track EP of remixes of songs from her critically acclaimed 2021 album Heart-Shaped Scars. Out May 27th.
lyrics
We’ve got blood on our hands
We’ve got blood on our hands
Love died in our arms
Love died in our arms
We got blood on our hands
We’ve both got blood on our hands
This love died in our arms
This love died in our arms
A little water, A little water
It’s sure to clear us of this
A little water, A little water
It’s sure to clear us of this
So this was love
This was love
I can’t feel the pulse now
So this was love
This was love
Ssh, I can’t hear a sound now…
So this was love
This was love
Look but I can’t see my breath now
So this was love, this was love
And it’s gone, gone…
Weaving in between these notes
Whispering to me
I can hear
Love’s stubborn ghost…
Voices through the trees...
We’ve got blood on our hands
We’ve got blood on our hands
Love died in our hearts
Love died in our hearts
We got blood on our hands
We both got blood on our hands
This love it died in our arms
This love it died in our arms
So this was love
This was love
I can’t feel the pulse now
So this was love
This was love
Ssh, I can’t hear a sound now…
This was love
This was love
Look but I can’t see my breath now
So this was love, this was love
And it’s gone, gone…
….And (whispered)
I am a man
I cry alone
I triumph and conquer
Here on my own
But what is this
That alters my path? (I can’t feel the pulse now)
Shaking the tree
Of such a great man (I can’t hear a sound now)
If being Godless
Used to set me free (I can’t see my breath now)
What is this alter
I find here in front of me?
So sweet is the taste
So firm the shape
This low hanging fruit
Such succulent flesh
On my skin to rest
This low hanging fruit
In orchards at night
I steal just one bite
This low hanging fruit
We’ve got blood on our hands
credits
released February 4, 2022
Remixer: Lee "Scratch" Perry
Words - Dot Allison
Music - Dot Allison and Homay Schmitz
Published by Air-Edel Associates Ltd and Manners McDade Music Publishing Ltd
supported by 14 fans who also own “Love Died In Our Arms (Lee Scratch Perry Remix)”
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