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Nitin Sawhney (born 1964) is a British Indian musician, producer and composer. A recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award in 2017, his work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics, and spirituality. Sawhney is also active in the promotion of arts and cultural matters, and is a patron of numerous film festivals, venues, and educational institutions.
Solo career
Sawhney has released 10 studio albums. He has received 17 major national awards for his album work and is a recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award.
In 1999 Sawhney released his fourth breakthrough Gold-selling album, Beyond Skin, on London’s Outcaste Records, which took a prestigious Mercury Music Prize nomination and won Sawhney the coveted South Bank Show Award. After a subsequent signing to Richard Branson’s V2 Records, Sawhney released the Silver-certified Prophesy in 2001, winning a MOBO Award as well as a BBC Radio 3 Music Award. Sawhney’s seventh album, Philtre, was released in May 2005, taking yet another BBC Radio 3 Award and in 2008, his eighth album, London Undersound, released on Cooking Vinyl, featured artwork by Antony Gormley and performances from Paul McCartney, Anoushka Shankar, Imogen Heap and Natty, amongst many others.
Sawhney’s 2011 studio work, Last Days of Meaning, previewed at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2011, centres on a from actor, John Hurt, and follows the metaphorical, Dickensian journey of a lonely and intransigent man. His 2013 box-set release One Zero was recorded live-to-vinyl as a celebration of ten albums releases. Nitin’s tenth studio album, Dystopian Dream, was released in November 2015.
He produced Anoushka Shankar’s Grammy nominated album “Traces of You” featuring Norah Jones, and has recently produced the artist Nicki Wells’ debut album and the tenth album of concert pianist Helene Grimaud, Water.
Discography
Albums
Spirit Dance (1994) World Circuit
Migration (1995) Outcaste Records
Displacing the Priest (1996) Outcaste Records
Beyond Skin (1999) Outcaste Records/Zomba publishing
Prophesy (2001) V2/BMG/Zomba publishing
Human (2003) V2/Imagem publishing
Philtre (2005) V2/Imagem publishing
London Undersound (2008) Cooking Vinyl/Imagem publishing
Last Days of Meaning (2011)/Universal publishing
OneZero (2013) Cherry Red Records/Universal publishing
Dystopian Dream (2015) Positiv-ID
Compilations
Introducing Nitin Sawhney (1999) Outcaste
FabricLive.15 (2004) Fabric
All Mixed Up (2004) V2
In the Mind of... (2007) District 6
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