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London Undersound
This is a collection of thoughts, ideas, feelings and catharsis in a city of immense diversity, imagination and beliefs. Featuring a whole range of artists, some less known, some celebrated, this music attempts to capture a zeitgeist and common humanity that pervades superficial divides.
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Philtre
"Philtre means 'healing' or 'magic' potion and that's how I feel Music"
Inspired by elements of all his recent projects, in particular his return to DJ'ing, Sawhney collated ideas for this album over several months in 2004, and by the time he locked himself away to record, found the music flowed more easily than ever.
"His Most free flowing, natural, and effortlessly impressive album to date *****"
-The Times
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Human
Drawing on influences ranging from urban R&B to Indian classical music and the Velvet Underground,
this record is Nitin Sawhney's most auto biographical.
"Throbs with a rare sense of urgency and passion throughout"
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Time Out
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Prophesy
The millennial epic Prophesy involved a trip which saw Nitin recording 300 musicians around the
world, and spanned the range of human experience - from Aboriginal Australia, to a choir of
Soweto school children, to a New York taxi driver alienated by technology
"Epic and Diverse"
-Q Magazine
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Beyond Skin
A compulsive and unclassifiable mixture of Indian classical music, flamenco, acoustic drum and bass,
hip-hop, jazz and soul, Beyond Skin is one of those albums that vibes in its own excellent orbit.
"If you are going to buy one album this year... make sure its got the name Nitin Sawhney all over it"
-7 Magazine
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Displacing The Priest
Nitin's third album entered the often distant space between spirituality and organized religion.
"Electronica never sounded so good"
-Time Out
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Migration
One of the pioneering albums of what came to be known as the ‘Asian Underground’.
"It would be easier to jot down what this man can't do than what he can"
-The Guardian
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Spirit Dance
Nitin Sawhney's first album journeying through an exciting fusion between jazz and Indian classical music
that has led to some of the most innovation recordings and compositions to emanate from the London scene.
"...whose more recent involvement in the development of an exciting fusion between jazz and Indian classical
music has led to some of the most innovative recordings and compositions to emanate from the London scene"..."
-Time Out
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