''Never Trust a Hippy'' (or ''NTAH'') is the first solo album by Adrian Sherwood. It was released on Peter Gabriel's

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label. It includes guest performances by

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and

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and

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(sampled from the title track of the album ''

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''). The album also contains Sherwood's

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of the track "Paradise of Nada" by Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali and Temple of Sound.

Track listing

Personnel

;Musicians * Harry Beckett –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*Crucial Tony –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

(4) *

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

(3, 5) *Ghetto Priest –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

(6) *Emily Sherwood Hyman – vocals (10) *Jazzwad –

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

(1, 4, 8),

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

(1, 4, 8), drum machine (1, 4, 8) * Hariharan – vocals (2, 9) *

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– drums (6, 11) *

Steven "Lenky" Marsden Steven "Lenky" Marsden is a Jamaican-born music producer and musician who specializes primarily in dancehall reggae music. He also arranges and remixes pop and hip hop songs. Marsden is the founder of the Jamaica-based label, 40/40 Records and ...

– drums (2, 9) * Skip McDonald – guitar (1-3, 5-11) *Michael Mondesir – bass guitar (8) *Simon Mundey –

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(4), bass guitar (4) *Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(11) *Carlton "Bubblers" Ogilvie –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

(1, 3, 5, 6, 8),

(6, 10), vocals (10), drums (10) * Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali – vocals (7) *

– vocals (6) * Robert "Robbie" Shakespeare – bass guitar (3, 5) *Denise Sherwood – vocals (9, 10) *Temple of Sound – bass guitar (7), percussion (7) *Sorra Wilson-Dickson –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

(6) ;Technical personnel *Nick Coplowe –

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

(1),

(1) *Paul Grady – mixing, recording *Kevin Metcalfe – mastering * Adrian Sherwood –

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Release history

References

External links

*
Official album page (Real World Records)
* 2003 albums Adrian Sherwood albums Albums produced by Adrian Sherwood Real World Records albums {{2000s-electronic-album-stub