The Official Community Of Nitin Sawhney

Nitin and Will Young collaborated last year to write some tracks, one of which has ended up on Will's new album. It's called 'Home', a wonderful orchestral arrangement with indian strings and very personal sounding lyrics. Sad but uplifting - give it a listen

A sample has been posted on Will's official website HERE just scroll down to click on the media player links.

You can hear the full version of 'Home' (around 9 minutes I believe) when Will's album Keep On is released on 21st November.

hey

its such a chill out tune, i tink its gna do really well


btw. have u got any samples or anything of the collaborations with Raghav ??

shoiab:

btw. have u got any samples or anything of the collaborations with Raghav ??

Sorry, I haven't. I'm quite new to Nitin's music and this site - it's his involvement with Will that interested me and made me want to listen to his other stuff. I especially love Human.

I'd be really interested to hear Nitin's thoughts on the track 'Home'

I just heard-saw the song you did with Will Young on YouTube. I realise it?s a collaboration but poignant, stirring, beautiful.. are words that come to mind. Actually, I like it much more than many of the tracks on Philtre...

So, it seems that you guys... your people still haven?t fixed the mailing list (maybe I?m impatient but I always wanted to send one of those ? they?re neat) so I guess I?ll somehow find out if you play any more concerts when I?m back in London, since this forum appears to be a ghost town. I fear even you Buga may be a cyber phantom.

I?ve been listening to your music for a few years now. I think maybe 7. I?ve changed heaps in that time but I?ve never grown out of your music?

Be well,
I send you love,

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“Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart...... The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.”
Clarissa Pinkola-Estes

Rhian! I?ve been ill!!! This should have been my week of leisurely pursuits and I?ve spent pretty much most of it horizontal with the flu! And you know, even though I was still slightly out of it and just a tad photophobic, I still managed to crawl out of my sickbed and join the peace march. The good thing about running a temperature was that I was impervious to the cold but the downside of still being out of sorts was that every time I looked up at the big screen in Trafalgar Square, the images appeared to jump out at me! Not least of all, the Ugly Rumours video!!! Fortunately, I was close enough to the front to see the speakers and that was fine until, at one point, I noticed that George Galloway was standing just a few feet in front of me and, I?m sorry, I?m sorry, great man though he is, I still can?t shift that god-awful image of him impersonating a cat?..

?.Anyway, so, no, I?m not a ?cyber phantom?, not yet anyway! However, I think I know what?s behind the absence of Mr.Sawhney from the forum. A poem! An extremely long poem?if not the longest! I?m talking about the ?Mahabharata? ofcourse. If, like me, you are totally unfamiliar with it, it is an Indian epic, apparently, 2,500,000 words long, which makes ?War And Peace? look like a pamphlet by comparison (OK, that?s more than a slight exaggeration! And I?m even less familiar with W.A.P. as I refuse to read Tolstoy!). So, anyway, it?s being brought to life through song, dance and puppetry at Sadlerswells (the Mahabharata - not War And Peace!!!!) this April, and guess who?s written the music? Exactly! Poor bloke must be knackered!!!! I mean, it?s on for four days!!! Whether that?s four separate performances or one, 96 hour long performance, I couldn?t say?. Anyway, just because I?m posting a link, don?t you lot all go buying up the tickets before I get mine!!!! (Sorry Rhian, unless you get yourself over here, you?ll have to miss out!)
http://www.sadlerswells.com/whats_on/2006_2007/mahabharata.asp

If you weren?t able to make the peace march and want to know what you missed, check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydt0SL5rYow
and then, when you've picked yourself back up off the floor, go to http://www.uglyrumours.com/ !!!

Peace!

Buga

Rhian:

I just heard-saw the song you did with Will Young on YouTube. I realise it?s a collaboration but poignant, stirring, beautiful.. are words that come to mind. Actually, I like it much more than many of the tracks on Philtre...
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hmmm yes, the youtube video is from the Electric Proms. You can find the song on Will Young's album "Keep On". And yes, I have got it - you might have guessed I buy anything that Nitin has done that I can get my hands on. I'm not sure whether the videos on youtube are bootlegs - a lot of Nitin's stuff is available either on this site or on the Prophecy DVD ( I've got that too...) There are some new videos uploaded on youtube - acoustic versions of Prophecy and Moonrise - lovely!

Rhian, I can assure you that Buga Divino does indeed exist outside cyberspace. I sometimes wonder about myself I went out to a Greek restaurant last night with 7 people I know through the internet (though one used to be one of my students so I knew him in real life
first!).

rosemary

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Confucius

Hope you're feeling better now Buga ! I guess illness is a sure sign you're no cyber woman although I think you and Rosemary may be employed by Mr. Bothra... I felt sure he would answer my message but it was swiftly received by you guys. Can I get on the payroll too ?! Has Mr. Sawhney done any other collaborations with Will Young, Rosemary?

As for the Mahabharata.. It coincidentally (there are no such things by the way) happens to be on a weekend when I'm back in the ratropolis doing something else so actually I already have tickets. . No, Buga, I've only read the Baghavad Giita but I'm sure the Mahabharata is a great thing. Let's hope they can do it justice. Actually, I know you can Nitin - hope you're enjoying it. There's a free post-show talk after the friday performance but it doesn't say if Mr. Sawhney will appear...

When I came back to the forum I swore to myself I'd only write 1 message but hey...

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“Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart...... The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.”
Clarissa Pinkola-Estes

When I came back to the forum I swore to myself I'd only write 1 message but hey...

Yeah, don't worry, you're not the only one to promise yourself that!!!

Cheers Rhian ~ I may still be a wheezing bag of snot but it feels great to be vertical again, as you can imagine!

So you're going to the same performance as us then? Oh yes you are! But, before you panic and try to change your tickets, remind yourself of the fact that we've no idea what you look like so you needn't worry about being mobbed! Better still, if you're really worried that we might still somehow work out who you are, take a plastic bucket with you and, whenever you feel that you are being stared at, place it over your head and no one will bother you ~ works for me everytime!!!

I've no idea if Mr. Sawhney is likely to participate in the after-show talk ~ he's so famously shy isn't he! Still, they succeeded in getting him to talk at the cinema earlier this year..... I believe they had to lure him into position by laying a trail of intriguingly patterned carpet tiles. It proved to be quite effective too because he barely took his eyes off the floor the whole time he was talking. Perhaps we should take some dazzling carpet samples with us, and maybe I could borrow the number-square mat from work as well and we could sneak down to the front, strew them about the place and see what happens.....!

On the subject of unlikely heroes, thanks to anyone who has supported the Ugly Rumours rise to fame! Tony's band are currently residing at No.6 according to the latest from Respect and it's hoped that they'll be up at the top at No.1 by the weekend......

Rhian:

Hope you're feeling better now Buga ! I guess illness is a sure sign you're no cyber woman although I think you and Rosemary may be employed by Mr. Bothra... I felt sure he would answer my message but it was swiftly received by you guys. Can I get on the payroll too ?! Has Mr. Sawhney done any other collaborations with Will Young, Rosemary?

Being on the payroll - in our dreams ...... I'm not aware of any other collaborations between Nitin and Will Young - though that's not to say that there aren't.

I can't imagine why you might be worried about bumping into us at Sadlers Well

Buga, did you know that the patterning of carpet is used by department stores to make you browse and buy. Certain patterns are designed to keep you moving, others to make you stop. You could make the carpet up into a big arrow in our direction! Yet another piece of random information (I blame my parents, as they bought me Look and Learn magazine to inspire a love of knowledge instead of the Beano or Dandy like the rest of my peers).

rosemary

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Confucius

You are absolutely right about that, Rosemary. Those ?Look and Learn? magazines were obviously a wise investment?clearly you didn?t fritter away your childhood wishing you could be Minnie the Minx!!! Mind you, remember moving on to reading teen mags? As though adolescence wasn?t horrific enough, you could read about it too! Thankfully, they were enough to put me off venturing anywhere near the likes of Cosmo ( I was more likely to nose through a Freak Brothers comic, or the occasional 2000AD ~ oh my, Judge Dredd! Firm but fair!!! ) and you couldn?t pay me to read any of that other Stepford wife fodder either! That said, I?ve surprised myself. I?ve bought a copy of OK. Now, you?d think that I?d want to keep something that crass to myself but I got it for one article only ~ a friend?s school choir are featured in it and I know how much that means to them!

I went off track a bit there, I know but, let's face it, we couldn?t write less Will-related stuff if we tried (sorry Will?.and, erm, ?.. oh my memory? the guy who?s forum this is?..)!

Carpet! Yes!! Did you know that particle physicists have been erroneously working on ?Go Faster? carpet designs for the past 15 years? It?s true. The Carpet Enhanced Research Nerds were so impressed with department store carpeting that they devoted years of pointless experimentation, lining their ion colliders with a succession of patterned carpets, each one designed to encourage the ions to move faster?.. and not one of them worked. The confounded nerds just couldn?t figure out why. They published their findings in a major science journal and waited for useful feedback. ?Why don?t you use a bigger magnet?? suggested one reader. An interesting response but what did it have to do with carpet?

Back to the lab they went, this time focussing all of their attention on piles. (For those of you with wall to wall wood-veneer flooring and a scattering of rag rugs, if you don?t know what I mean by a ?pile?, you deserve to remain ignorant!) Similarly, it seemed that the direction in which the pile lay made no difference and so this series of experiments also proved to be unsuccessful. Again, they published their findings. ?You need a bigger magnet!? came the response of several more, rather eminent readers. Still the nerds chose to ignore the suggestion in favour of yet more carpet-related dabbling.

This time they tried experimenting with different combinations of both pattern AND pile direction?. if nothing else, at least the results were consistent and, confronted by failure once more, they decided to swallow their collective pride and sought the advise of the Wise One (not you Nitin, the other bloke!), but Mr. Hawking wasn?t answering his phone. They left a despairing message on his answer machine anyway. Shunned and mocked by other particle physicists, they retreated to a large hole in Geneva, where they began to build a really big collider. This time they would try something new, something truly radical?.. they placed an order for a large quantity of shagpile (again, if you?ve no idea of what I?m on about?..!). Previously, they had avoided anything longer than an inch incase it interfered with the speed of the ions and caused them to slow down rather than speed up. Now they simply had nothing to lose!

Within a matter of days, they were delighted by the sound of a muffled thud which announced the arrival of a gigantic roll of carpet, tipped unceremoniously out of the back of a delivery van, a hundred metres above. No sooner had it landed, it vanished under the bulk a colossal hunk of metal, which was likewise, tossed casually into the hole. ?What the hell?.????? There was a post-it stuck to it. It read, ?Thought you might like to try this. It?s an extremely big magnet. Good luck! Stephen.? No kidding! Barely a tuft of wool was visible beneath it. There was only one thing to do and that was to move the magnet and, since it took up so much space anyway, and getting it back out of the hole would be nigh impossible, they decided to install it and chucked out the old horseshoe magnet they?d been using for the past decade and a half?.

?.. So now, finally, it may be possible to unravel the greatest riddle of all, by means of the largest piece of laboratory equipment ever constructed, of how the universe came into being?. Just as soon as they?ve finished laying the carpet??

Well Buga dear, aren?t you getting your acronyms mixed up. Maybe it is as a result of your recently discovered downmarket reading material. Surely you know that CERN stands for Conseil Europ?en pour la Recherche Nucl?aire- http://info.cern.ch. I knew some physicists who went there when I was at university. They were likeable nerdy blokes wearing T shirts bearing the legend ?What do physicists eat for lunch??
The answer on the back of the shirt was ?Fission Chips?. I just hope that there is a more varied menu at the restaurant at the end of the universe. As for the answer to life and the universe ? it is 42 of course.

These canny physicists also had a back up plan (must have been talking to a Careers Adviser). In case they never discovered the origins of the universe, they decided to create their own virtual universe. And so the world wide web was born.

As for Mr Hawking, he lives dangerously. I remember him manoeuvring his wheelchair across the road in Cambridge, bringing my car to a screeching halt.

Rosemary

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Confucius

Oh come on now, Rosemary, be fair to the guy! You had just mounted the pavement and appeared to be gunning for him - where else could the man go? And how was he to know that you'd just as suddenly swerve back onto the road????

I'd struggle to get on the pavement there it was so narrow. Vision was limited though because it was round the bend.

Rosemary

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Confucius

......Your vision was round the bend....????