Nitin Sawhney

METROPOLIS RECORDINGS PROUDLY PRESENT

NITIN SAWHNEY

Nitin is arguably the busiest, most versatile and sought after composer and producer around. As the holder of five honorary doctorates and three fellowships, he has worked with a host of celebrated artists including Paul McCartney and Sting and has made nine studio albums. He releases his first ever retrospective (an unique live recording) this summer. He has been nominated for a Mercury Music prize, won a MOBO, two BBC Radio 3 awards and a Southbank Show award, amongst 15 others.

He has scored over 50 films for cinema and television, with an Ivor Novello nomination for best score, leading to his much acclaimed orchestral music to the BAFTA-nominated BBC series, The Human Planet, Mira Nair’s film The Namesake, three film scores for live performance by the London Symphony Orchestra, two acclaimed videogame scores (leading to a second Ivor Novello nomination), and multiple compositions for Olivier winning theatrical and dance productions with Complicite and Akram Khan. Sawhney recently scored Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s book Midnight’s Children, Hitchcock’s early silent movie The Lodger, Khyentse Norbu’s Vara: A Blessing and Japan in a Day for Ridley and Tony Scott.

OneZero, Sawhney’s retrospective album to be released June 24th by Metropolis Recordings, was recorded recently and was cut live-to-vinyl. Using this long forsaken authentic vinyl recording technique, it includes four brand new tracks (one featuring Joss Stone) amongst tracks taken from Sawhney’s nine album back catalogue. His tenth studio record, Dystopian Dream, will be released next year. Sawhney is also producing Anoushka Shankar’s latest album (featuring Norah Jones) and hosts his own radio show for BBC Radio 2 – Nitin Sawhney Spins the Globe. The third series will air later this year.

In addition to the above and despite his classical background, Nitin is a surprisingly experienced and established club DJ, spinning everything from Afro Beat and Dubstep to Asian breakbeat and drum ‘n’ bass. Cutting his DJ-ing teeth at London’s tastemaker Fabric nightclub, Sawhney has DJ-ed at the Big Chill, Womad, Womadelaide and across the world at numerous festivals. Clubland has seen 3 international DJ album releases by Sawhney: All Mixed Up – The Definitive Remix Collection, Fabriclive 15 and In the Mind of…Nitin Sawhney.

As a writer and performer, Sawhney’s credentials are also extensive: having written for and performed in the hit BBC TV and Radio series Goodness Gracious Me as well as the award winning “Confluence” with Akram Khan, he has also written a new play – Einstein Tagore: The Bombmaker and the Poet – which is due for a 3 week run at London’s Barbican in 2015 with three major international actors.

Sawhney turned down an OBE in 2007 for ethical reasons.

OneZero is released on June 24th 2013 by Metropolis Recordings, sales and distribution by Cherry Red.

BOXSET: MRBOX1 / 5065001566400 SINGLE CD: MR1305 / 5065001566462