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Name
  
Simon Emmerson


Role
  
Record Producer

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Music groups
  
Afro Celt Sound System (Since 1995), The Imagined Village (Since 2007)

Albums
  
Empire & Love, Capture 1995‑2010, Seed, Pod, Volume 5: Anatomic

Similar People
  
James McNally, Johnny Kalsi, Iarla O Lionaird, N'Faly Kouyate, Eliza Carthy

Simon Emmerson is a record producer, guitarist, DJ, musical director at Lush, and founder of the group Afro Celt Sound System.

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He is also the main organiser of The Imagined Village, a collaborative work from many roots artists. Emmerson also plays on this album.

In 1995 Emmerson was nominated for a Grammy for his production work on Baaba Maal's album Firin' in Fouta.

Earlier in his career, under the pseudonym Simon Booth, he was a member of the bands Working Week and Weekend, played guitar on Everything but the Girl's debut album Eden and produced records for Baaba Maal and Manu Dibango.

Emmerson is a keen bird watcher.

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Afro Celt Sound System

  • See Afro Celt Sound System
  • Production credits

  • Firin' in Fouta - Baaba Maal (1994)
  • Witness - Show of Hands (2006)
  • The Imagined Village - Various (Real World Records 2007)
  • References

    Simon Emmerson Wikipedia