According to the Times of India, Nitin Sawhney will be coming to India to perform in February 2012. This is pretty huge (#twss) as it’s his first tour of the country. The tour will most likely be happening across five cities to launch his latest studio album, Last Days of Meaning. So far, no dates have been confirmed.
Nitin Sawhney has released nine albums to date, of which his most critically acclaimed was his fourth, gold-selling album, Beyond Skin, that got him a Mercury Prize nomination in 2000. His music takes a little and a lot from various genres including jazz, soul, trip hop, drum and bass weaved in with orchestral and Indian textures. He has fingered many pies including DJing, creating scores for film, TV, theatre, dance, video games, as well as acting, writing, directing and commentating.
Sawhney has performed and worked with the likes of Imogen Heap, Paul McCartney, Anoushka Shankar, Sting, AR Rahman, Brian Eno, Ellie Goulding, and Nelson Mandela to name a few. He has worked on scores for Cirque De Soleil, Mira Nair’s film The Namesake, the London Symphony Orchestra and most recently been for a production of Hitchcock’s The Lodger at the Royal Albert Hall .
At the moment, Sawhney is putting together the score for Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of the Salman Rushdie novel Midnight’s Children. The movie is set to release in 2012.
Check out Nitin Sawhney’s lead single, ‘The Devil and Midnight’ from his new album, Last Days of Meaning below.
More from Nitin Sawhney as we hear it.
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