Barry Adamson creates soundtracks for his own drama-filled dream world, one in which the film composers Elmer Bernstein and John Barry are patron saints, darkened streets are always slick with rain, men are men, and women are molls. A British-born multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and arranger, Adamson can brilliantly – and without words – suggest entire movie scenes with dizzying...

Out of the hellfire abrasion of the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, punk's wild bassman Barry Adamson has been developing a new line in personal revelation. The Negro Inside Me, though limited to six tracks and 31 minutes, is an upbeat celebration of mixed blood, interracial love and the release of something passionate.

Alternating between parallel careers producing (Ethyl...