Song Info On Aftersun

Primarily Found On:

Digital Download from dotallison.com

Also Found On:

The links below will take you either to the Collector section of MASSIVEATTACK.IE, or to an external website - either amazon.com or discogs.com, where you can find out more about all the the album (s)/release (s) that this particular Massive Attack song appears on.

The end credits of the film "Danny The Dog" and on "Unleashed": Unrated Version

First Released On:

28th October 2005

Duration:

07:02

Variations/Remixes:

N/A

Credits:

Written by Robert Del Naja, Neil Davidge, Dot Allison and Magnus Fiennes

Produced by Robert Del Naja and Neil Davidge

Recorded and engineered by Lee Shephard

Sampled:

N/A

Covered:

N/A

Vocalist(s):

Dot Allison

Lyrics:

History:

Back in 2001, news first reached us via the NME that Dot Allison had contributed vocals to at least two Massive Attack songs. It is not known wheather either of these songs would end up as being Aftersun or if Aftersun came from a later session. A later session or not, the principal reason why Aftersun was not included on the soundtrack album to Danny The Dog when it appears in the end credits of the film, is because it was composed in 2003 before the scoring for the Danny The Dog project took place. It was concidered by Massive Attack to not belong on the album as it was not created specfically with the film in mind at the time but was needed to fill the necessary vocals song for the end credits. The only available mix of Aftersun heard in the end credits is said to not be the finished mix of the song and neither Massive Attack nor Dot Allsion is entirely satisifed with it.

Additional Info:

Co-Writer of Aftersun, Magnus Fiennes is a record producer who has collaborated frequently with Dot Allison before in the past on her Afterglow album for instance.

The theatrical version of Unleashed (released mainly in the US and the UK) does not feature Aftersun but instead two songs from hip-hop producer "The RZA" with no Massive Attack involvement in them. The Unrated DVD version of Unleashed does however retain Aftersun, similar to versions of the film named "Danny The Dog".

This "Aftersun" bears no relation to the other unreleased and unheard Massive Attack track also called Aftersun which was a product of the 2000/2001 LP4 recording sessions with Lupine Howl. Massive Attack liked the name but decided to dump the original song. This is quite similar to the naming process behind Antistar.

Live Appearances:

Aftersun has never once been played live.

Quotes:

Dot Allison on Aftersun - "To be honest I would prefer to work on a track where there is not a film production company in the background. I reckon we will make an astounding track with the right time and energy. We love Aftersun as a song, but we would like to hear a different mix" [MassiveAttackArea.com - Febuary 2005]

Jerome Lateur, the music producer of the film Danny The Dog on why Aftersun was excluded from the film's soundtrack album- "It is not on the soundtrack, as it does belong to the movie itself. It is an artistic choice of M.A. ; a wish to render as well as possible the musical atmosphere of the movie, to keep an experimental approach, and that’s quite interesting. And that’s true for the soundtrack, but not for the whole movie" [MassiveAttackArea.com - October 2004]