COMPOSERS: Nitin Sawhney
LABELS: Outcaste Caste
ALBUM TITLE: Nitin Sawhney
PERFORMER: Sawhney (g, p, synths, d, perc); Aref Dervesh (tabla, dholak); Jayanta Bose, Natacha Atlas, Denise Anyogu and Iqbal Hussain (vcls); Pritam Singh (tabla); Duncan Bridgeman (didgeridoo)
CATALOGUE NO: CD 001 (distr. Pinnacle)
A near-ambient mix of dreamy jazz funk and Indian ‘bhangra’, Nitin Sawhney’s evocative second album was conceived as a soundtrack to the Asian diaspora and it places him firmly among the most talented and innovative writers on the British contemporary scene. Garry Booth