Scottish singer-songwriter Dot Allison has shared a Lee “Scratch” Perry remix of her 2021 song “Love Died in Our Arms.” A press release bills the remix as “the final project of the legendary producer’s career.” Listen below.
The new single appears on Allison’s forthcoming Entangled Remix EP, which will also include reworks by Saint Etienne, Anton Newcombe, Lomond Campbell, and more. It arrives April 28 via SA Recordings. The project follows Allison’s 2021 LP Heart-Shaped Scars—her first solo record in almost a decade. Discussing the Perry collaboration in a press release, Dot Allison stated:
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.
Read Pitchfork’s Afterword feature “How Lee “Scratch” Perry Sculpted the Sounds of Reggae.”
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